2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Yield Strength
Bold new commissions and thought-provoking public programming combine in an immersive showcase of artists pushing the limits of material and meaning.
Experience the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Yield Strength, curated by Ellie Buttrose.
Artists across the continent push, pull and test materials to explore what it means to be connected; to each other and to the world.
Discover art that questions limits, resilience and transformation.
Discover a series of free talks and performances across the Art Gallery of South Australia, Samstag Museum of Art and Adelaide Botanic Garden.
Yield Strength Exhibition
Friday, February 27 to Monday, June 8
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.
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Thursday, February 26
Opening Night
6pm-8pm, free entry
Celebrate the launch of Yield Strength on the forecourt of the Art Gallery of South Australia. All welcome.
Artist Party
8pm til late
The Cloisters, Adelaide University. $150 general admission; $130 AGSA Foundation Donors/Contemporary Collector. Book online at agsa.sa.gov.au
Push past the limits at the official Yield Strength after party, featuring DJ sets from Brigitte and Pia, with drinks and nibbles all night by Africola.
Friday, February 27
Talks & Performance
Samstag Museum of Art
11am – The Critic Lecture: Keynote speaker Professor Daniel Browning with a response by Tristen Harwood in partnership with University Art Museums Australia and Memo Review.
2pm – Artist talks with Milminyina Dhamarrandji and Isadora Vaughan.
2.30pm – Panel discussion: Why biennials need critics. Featuring Susie Anderson (First Nations managing editor, Blue Art Magazine), Sam Beard (head editor, Dispatch Review), Robert Leonard (director of IMA and editor, Town Hall) and Paris Lettau (editor-in-chief, Memo Magazine).
3.30pm – Performance by artist Brian Fuata.
Saturday, February 28
Talks & Performance
Adelaide Botanic Garden, Museum of Economic Botany
11am – Artist talks with Archie Moore and Robert Andrew.
Art Gallery of South Australia
2pm – Artist talks with Kirtika Kain and Francis Carmody
2.30pm – Panel discussion: Why curators need biennials. Featuring José Da Silva (director of UNSW Galleries and curator 2024 Adelaide Biennial) and Bruce Johnson McLean (Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain First Nations curatorial fellow for the Biennale of Sydney), Mikala Tai (curator and strategist in Australian and Asian art) and Kyle Weise (curator, UQ Art Museum).
3.30pm – Performance by artist Brian Fuata.
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