27 Feb - 08 Jun
Art Gallery of South Australia / Samstag Museum of Art / Adelaide Botanic Garden
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Art Gallery of South Australia | Open daily from 10am - 5pm
Samstag Museum of Art | Tue - Sat, 10am - 5pm
Adelaide Botanic Garden | Open daily 10am - 4pm
Yield Strength reveals how materials, selfhood and society are tested – and transformed – under pressure. Twenty-four artists push their mediums to build visual complexity or contort them to convey the curious side of existence. The exhibition fosters intimacy through layered viewing experiences across the Art Gallery of South Australia, Samstag Museum of Art and Adelaide Botanic Garden.
The 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art features new works by Robert Andrew, Nathan Beard, Lauren Burrow, Francis Carmody, Mark Maurangi Carrol, Milminyina Dhamarrandji, Matthew Teapot Djipurrtjun, George Egerton-Warburton, Prudence Flint, Brian Fuata, d harding, Matthew Harris, Helen Johnson, Kirtika Kain, Jennifer Mathews, Archie Moore, Josina Pumani, Julie Nangala Robertson, Erika Scott, Joel Sherwood Spring, Charlie Sofo, John Spiteri, Isadora Vaughan and Emmaline Zanelli.
The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art remains the pre-eminent and longest-standing survey of contemporary Australian art. As a vital component of Adelaide Festival since 1990, the 19th Adelaide Biennial builds on its reputation and commitment to supporting and celebrating innovative and ambitious visual art practices.
Image: Brian Fuata, born Aotearoa New Zealand 1978, Errantucation (mist opportunities), 2021 / Performance improvisations commissioned for ‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT10). QAGOMA, Brisbane, 2021. © The artist courtesy of artist and Sumer; photo: C Callistemon, QAGOMA
Presented in association with the Adelaide Festival, with generous support received from the Art Gallery of South Australia Biennial Ambassadors Program and Principal Donor The Balnaves Foundation. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body and by the Visual Art, Craft and Design Framework, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.
