GoGo Art Series x Melbourne Design Week 2026

Presenting Soft Synthetic by Lisa Meinesz

7 May – 17 June 2026

Soft Synthetic is a solo exhibition by Australian designer Lisa Meinesz, presented through an expanded iteration of the GoGo Art Series for Melbourne Design Week 2026.

Unfolding across a multi-part installation in GoGo Bar and the Projection Art Series, Soft Synthetic imagines a speculative ecosystem of organisms and the systems designed to sustain them. Spanning digital modelling and material fabrication, the project explores how design mediates care, control and biological adaptation in technologically supported futures.

Artwork Labels 

GoGo Wall Installation (left to right)

1. SS–UNIT/01, 2026, resin, acrylic, steel bracket, 60 (H) x 25 (W) x 15 (D) cm (irreg.), $950 
2. SS–UNIT/02, 2026, resin, acrylic, steel bracket, 60 (H) x 36 (W) x 17 (D) cm (irreg.), $950  
3. SS–UNIT/03, 2026, resin, acrylic, steel bracket, 60 (H) x 26 (W) x 12 (D) cm (irreg.), $950 
4. SS–UNIT/04, 2026, resin, acrylic, steel bracket, 60 (H) x 40 (W) x 10 (D) cm (irreg.), $950 
5. SS–UNIT/05, 2026, resin, acrylic, steel bracket, 60 (H) x 26 (W) x 20 (D) cm (irreg.), $950 
6. SS–UNIT/06, 2026, resin, acrylic, steel bracket, 60 (H) x 38 (W) x 10 (D) cm (irreg.), $950 

GoGo Window Installation (left to right)

1. External fixation study, 2026, mixed media sculpture, 60 (H) x 25 (W) x 15 (D) cm (irreg.), $3000
2. Signal, 2026, mixed media sculpture, 60 (H) x 25 (W) x 15 (D) cm (irreg.), $3000

Projection Art 

Soft Synthetic: digital entities, 2026, digital sculpture/ animation (no AI), 1 minute 30 seconds

For Sale Enquiries

Website: lisameinesz.com

Email: studio@lisameinesz.com

Instagram: @lisameinesz

About the Exhibition

Drawing from the logic of synthetic biology, Soft Synthetic imagines life not as something discovered, but as something stabilised, modified and maintained through designed infrastructures. These posthuman entities exist within support systems that extend care while simultaneously defining biological limits. The project asks how emerging bio-technologies reshape autonomy and whether optimisation and maintenance can ever be ethically neutral.

Positioning design as an active participant in biological futures, the exhibition considers how restorative, non-extractive systems might replace linear models of growth. Through closed-loop mechanical and material processes, it proposes systems that circulate and sustain rather than consume.

Ultimately, Soft Synthetic reflects on how future design practices may not only support life, but actively determine its form.

A limited-edition cocktail, created in collaboration between Lisa Meinesz and Chin Chin’s beverage team, will accompany the exhibition. Responding to the material and conceptual themes of Soft Synthetic, the drink extends the work into a sensory, consumable form.

Artist Bio

Specialising in the creation of speculative life forms, Lisa Meinesz is an Australian designer who digitally sculpts intricate creatures inspired by synthetic biology, soft robotics and material ecology. Her practice explores posthuman speculative biology, asking what kinds of beings might emerge once humans are no longer at the centre of the world. Working across digital and physical processes, Meinesz translates these entities into 3D printed sculptures, cast biomaterial works and sculptural assemblages constructed from recycled medical and motorbike components.These objects resemble future remnants or skins, shaped by technological residue, environmental pressure and biological adaptation.