It's designed to provoke, to make you think and to fully engage with art.

So it perhaps came as no surprise that an exhibit at MONA sparked a legal challenge about what is considered discrimination, and now a subsequent appeal against a ruling that an installation - known as the Ladies Lounge - did indeed discriminate against men.

MONA closed the Ladies Lounge in May after the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal upheld a complaint by a man who was refused entry to the space.