2026 Adelaide Biennial Media Portal

The 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Yield Strength reveals how materials, selfhood and society are tested - and transformed - under pressure. Twenty-four artists push the boundaries of their mediums to build visual complexity, or contort them to convey the curious side of existence. Remaining attentive to aesthetic details and receptive to the intricacies of life, the exhibition will foster intimacy through layered viewing experiences across the Art Gallery of South Australia as well as partner venues Samstag Museum of Art and Adelaide Botanic Garden.

Curator Ellie Buttrose explains, ‘The 2026 Adelaide Biennial foregrounds how bodily experience and intellectual wonder are intimately entwined in the experience of art. Yield Strength reflects the diversity of artistic practice across the continent, from finely layered paintings to delicately stratified sculptures and entangled relations compiled in videos'.

Curator

Ellie Buttrose is Curator of Contemporary Australian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, and was the curator of kith and kin by Archie Moore in the Australia Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.

Artists

The 2026 Adelaide Biennial 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.

Key Dates

Exhibition Season | 27 Feb – 8 June 2026
Media Preview | 26 Feb 2026, 11am
Vernissage | 26 Feb - 1 Mar 2026

Social Media

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Media Contact

Elisabeth Alexander, Head of Communications, Art Gallery of South Australia
Alexander.Elisabeth@artgallery.sa.gov.au | +61 8 7085 1618 | +61 404 934 779

Presented in association with the Adelaide Festival, and 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.