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  • 2000 Red Bull cans stacked against a wall in a gallery setting.
  • 2000 Red Bull cans stacked against a wall in a gallery setting, with SMINT advertising signs lining the perpendicular wall.
  • Stacked soft drink bottles.
  • A person wearing a cap and looking off camera, in front of a wall of stacked Red Bull cans.
8 – 18 Oct

Red Bull 2000

  • Free
  • Art

Stefan Smith probes the boundary between high art and mass advertising in his latest exhibition, Red Bull 2000. At Melbourne’s Dark Horse Experiment, 2000 Red Bull cans span the gallery wall, while a monumental stainless steel and vinyl logo reflects both audience and brand like a shrine to commerce.

These familiar icons enter the sanctity of the white-wall gallery as a critique of consumerism and cultural power, provoking the question: is it art or advertising?

By reimagining everyday products as art, Smith continues a lineage that runs from Duchamp’s readymades and Warhol’s Pop Art to Cattelan’s notorious banana.

Opening Night: 10 October 2025, 6-9pm

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Date Times
Wed 8 Oct
  • 12pm - 5pm 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Thu 9 Oct
  • 12pm - 5pm 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Fri 10 Oct
  • 12pm - 5pm 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Sat 11 Oct
  • 12pm - 5pm 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Sun 12 Oct
  • 12pm - 5pm 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Tue 14 Oct
  • 10am - 3pm 10:00am - 3:00pm
Wed 15 Oct
  • 12pm - 5pm 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Thu 16 Oct
  • 12pm - 5pm 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Fri 17 Oct
  • 12pm - 5pm 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Sat 18 Oct
  • 12pm - 5pm 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Location

Dark Horse Experiment
400 Spencer St
West Melbourne 3003

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Price and bookings

This is a free event

Booking not required

Contact details

  • telephone number: 03 9328 5556
  • email address: info@theblenderstudios.com
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