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Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State

The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, a project of the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), is the nation’s longest-running curated survey of contemporary Australian art. The Biennial is part of the Adelaide Festival, and since its inception in 1990 has exhibited nearly 500 artists to over one million visitors.

It is a major exhibition for AGSA, which describes each iteration as “responding to a different theme or premise, acting as the register of the new, the enduring and the urgent issues of our time.” The curatorial

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