ADELAIDE.- The 2026 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Yield Strength assembles twenty-four leading Australian artists with works that reveal how materials, selfhood and society are tested - and transformed - under pressure.

Taking over multiple spaces at the Art Gallery of South Australia as well as partner venues Samstag Museum of Art and Adelaide Botanic Garden, the 2026 Adelaide Biennial showcases major new works across painting, sculpture, moving image, performance and installation.

To connect with his Yawuru ancestral land, Robert Andrew’s kinetic drawing machine uses digital technology to reinstate the contours of Country onto AGSA’s gallery walls. Mounted to an armature, a screen displays drone footage of Yawuru Country, twisting and moving with the coastline while charcoal is slowly dragged across the length of the wall, in a moving meditation on Country, history and language.

Nathan Beard reshapes his Thai inheritance through hyper realistic silicone casts of his hands and feet, clasping at durian fruits, pink orchids and 3D-printed Buddhas. Some hands flick backwards in the style of the fon lep fingernail dance; others magically stretch until the fingers become long ropes of flesh.

Within the Museum of Economic Botany at Adelaide Botanic Garden, Archie Moore creates a portrait of his father Stanley Moore in absentia through a series of objects cast in gold, in his major installation Remnants Of My Father, 2025. Mementoes of Stanley’s life fill wooden vitrines, infused with the metal that remained elusive to Stanley throughout his life.

As a vital component of the Adelaide Festival since 1990 and known for its risk taking and expansive vision, the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art has created career-defining opportunities for close to 500 artists and been experienced by more than 1.8 million visitors.