REVIEW | Coming together, coming apart: Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
The Art Gallery of South Australia’s (AGSA) Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art has seen real competition over the past two decades, as other institutions have intermittently committed to recurring surveys of contemporary Australian art. The National, exhibited across the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum of Contemporary Art, Carriageworks and Campbelltown Arts Centre, and […]
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Finding Refuge in Inner Sanctum: The 18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Biennials, or biennales, are no mean feat—for curators, artists, host institutions, and audiences. The challenge lies in the delicate dance of marrying a cohesive curatorial theme with the artists selected, balancing the practical aspects of the gallery and potential installation constraints, navigating the artists’ intentions and amount of output realised, whilst considering how audiences will […]
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18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum
The notion of a contemporary art biennial as a site of refuge is appealing, if somewhat unexcepted, in our current climate. Biennials generally brim with curatorial concepts and statements, and often feature a near-overwhelming number of artworks. They are also spaces of social and political dialogue where commissioned artworks are presented to the public for […]
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