Migrating Modernism. The Architecture of Harry Seidler

SMAC Venice (San Marco Art Centre), Venice, 2025

1/13 Harry & Penelope Seidler House, Killara, Sydney, Australia, Photo Max Dupain, 1968 © Penelope Seidler
2/13 Julian Rose House, Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia 1954. Architect Harry Seidler. Photo Max Dupain, © Penelope Seidler
3/13 Rose Seidler House, Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia, 1950. Mural and architect Harry Seidler. Mural © Penelope Seidler
4/13 Theo van Doesburg, Space-time construction #3, 1923, drawing in graphite and black ink, with black, white, grey, red, blue and yellow gouache. Sheet 44.0 (h) x 31.0 (w) cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Donated through theAustralian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Penelope Seidler AM in memory of Harry Seidler AC 2010. This work is in the public domain.
5/13 Julian Rose House, Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia 1954. Architect Harry Seidler. Photo Max Dupain, © Penelope Seidler
6/13 Installation views from “Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler” with photograph by Katherine Lu, SMAC Venice (San Marco Art Centre), Venice, 2025. Photo: Enrico Fiorese.
7/13 Installation views from “Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler” with artworks by Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt and photograph by Eric Sierens, SMAC Venice (San Marco Art Centre), Venice, 2025. Photo: Enrico Fiorese.
8/13 Installation views from “Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler” with artwork by Penelope Seidler and photograph by Max Dupain, SMAC Venice (San Marco Art Centre), Venice, 2025. Photo: Enrico Fiorese.
9/13 Installation views from “Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler” with photographs by Max Dupain and David Moore, SMAC Venice (San Marco Art Centre), Venice, 2025. Photo: Enrico Fiorese.
10/13 Installation views from “Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler” with drawing by Pier Luigi Nervi and photograph by Max Dupain, SMAC Venice (San Marco Art Centre), Venice, 2025. Photo: Enrico Fiorese.
11/13 Installation views from “Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler”, SMAC Venice (San Marco Art Centre), Venice, 2025. Photo: Enrico Fiorese.
12/13 Installation views from “Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler” with artworks by Joseph Albers, SMAC Venice (San Marco Art Centre), Venice, 2025. Photo: Enrico Fiorese.
13/13 Installation views from “Migrating Modernism. The architecture of Harry Seidler” with artwork by Frank Stella and photograph by Max Dupain, SMAC Venice (San Marco Art Centre), Venice, 2025. Photo: Enrico Fiorese.

Migrating Modernism. The Architecture of Harry Seidler presents the extraordinary personal history and built work of Austrian-born Australian architect Harry Seidler (Vienna, 1923 – Sydney, 2006). One of two exhibitions inaugurating SMAC Venice, the show was curated by Ann Stephen and Paolo Stracchi from the University of Sydney's Chau Chak Wing Museum (CCWM), with Nikolaus Hirsch as curatorial advisor, and organised in partnership with CCWM. Opening on 9 May 2025 to coincide with the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the exhibition ran until 20 July 2025.

D.H.office was responsible for the production of the exhibition in Venice, providing full exhibition management services across the inaugural programme of SMAC Venice.

Migrating Modernism: the Architecture of Harry Seidler
Harry Seidler
SMAC Venice (co-organised with Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney)
SMAC Venice (San Marco Art Centre)
Exhibitions
Venice
2025