Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art

Meet the Samstags: Artists and Benefactors

The American artist Gordon Samstag famously made one of the great cultural bequests benefitting the arts in this country, enabling large numbers of Australian visual artists to develop their skills and abilities internationally.

Friday 14 October 2016 to Friday 09 December 2016
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Quicksilver

Quicksilver: 25 Years of Samstag Scholarships celebrates the 25th anniversary of Gordon Samstag’s remarkable bequest, which led to establishment of the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships.

Friday 14 October 2016 to Friday 09 December 2016
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Art After Dark: Sympathy For The Devil: A World Premiere from South Australian sound artist, Christopher Williams

Soundstream brings an aural experience like no other with Sympathy for the Devil, a world premiere adaptation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1674) from sound artist Christopher Williams, to be presented at the Samstag Museum of Art.

Christopher Williams

Thursday 29 September 2016 to Thursday 29 September 2016
Art special_event in South Australia, Australia.

Experimenta Recharge

Samstag Museum is delighted to present Experimenta Recharge, the 6th International Biennial of Media Art. Featuring the work of artists who employ, critique and experiment with media and technology, the exhibition’s title – Recharge – looks to artistic practices inspired by and entangled with the past.

Friday 19 August 2016 to Friday 23 September 2016
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Mapping Australian Media Art National Experimental Art Forum

Experimenta Recharge artist Leisa Shelton brings her Mapping Australian Media Art project to a special Art After Dark event. Join Leisa at the Samstag to share your memories of media art that made an impact on you, contributing to a very special archive.

Leisa Shelton

Thursday 22 September 2016 to Thursday 22 September 2016
Art symposium in South Australia, Australia.

2 collections

Fleurieu Art Prize

In 2016 the Fleurieu Art Prize – the richest landscape art prize in the world – will relocate from its home on the beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia to the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art in Adelaide, where it will be presented to city audiences for the first time.

Ash Keating Vipoo Srivilasa Megan Walch Sam Leach Philip Wolfhagen Joan Ross Lionel Bawden Aida Tomescu Natasha Bieniek Andrew Browne John Kelly Valerie Sparks Brook Andrew Jill Orr Richard Lewer Noel Mc Kenna Geoff Newton Lionel Bawden Hayden Fowler Tim Silver Imants Tillers Ian North Narelle Autio Danie Mellor Baden Pailthorpe Baden Pailthorpe Rodney Pople Tony Albert Stephen Bush Tony Lloyd Ildiko Kovacs Hossein Valamanesh Janet Laurence William Mackinnon Alexander Mc Kenzie Gary Carsley James Tylor Jamie North Geoff Wilson Raymond Arnold Tok Basuki Clare Belfrage Julie Blyfield Thomas Buchanan Jacobus Capone James Darling + Lesley Forwood Ed Douglas Neil Frazer Holly Grace Neil Haddon Robert Hannaford Nicholas Harding Tim Johnson Jeffery Mincham Anna Platten Alex Seton Sam Shmith David Stephenson + Martin Walch Kylie Stillman Sera Waters Amy Joy Watson

Friday 03 June 2016 to Friday 29 July 2016
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Revealed3: someone’s and everyone’s

Our third and final instalment in Revealed, the Samstag Museum’s series of exhibitions that take the pulse of contemporary private collecting, focuses on contemporary jewellery.

Friday 03 June 2016 to Friday 29 July 2016
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Applications for the 2017 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship ARE NOW OPEN.

The University of South Australia offers the scholarships on behalf of the Trustee of the estate of Gordon Samstag, late of Naples, Florida USA.

Tuesday 21 June 2016 to Thursday 30 June 2016
Art opportunity in South Australia, Australia.

2 collections

2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object

Are artists the last magicians? Drawing inspiration from the ‘Wunderkammer’, those rooms or cabinets of wonder dedicated to the display of magical objects, the 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art champions the contemporary artist as conjuror.

Kate Rohde Chris Bond Heather B Swann Tarryn Gill Gareth Sansom Heather B. Swann Juz Kitson Robyn Stacey Hiromi Tango Danie Mellor Michael Zavros Clare Milledge Nell Jacqui Stockdale Abdul Rahman Abdullah Fiona Mc Monagle Tiger Yaltangki Glenn Barkley Pepai Jangala Carroll Louise Haselton Loongkoonan Tom Moore Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran Bluey Roberts Garry Stewart And Australian Dance Theatre Roy Wiggan

Saturday 27 February 2016 to Saturday 14 May 2016
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Fleurieu Food + Wine Art Prize

FLEURIEU FOOD + WINE ART PRIZE The 2016 Food + Wine Art Prize is a non-acquisitive prize for paintings on a theme of food and/or wine valued at $10,000.

Thursday 05 November 2015 to Wednesday 30 March 2016
Art opportunity in South Australia, Australia.

Archie Moore: Les Eaux d’Amoore

In this elegant and unusual exhibition, Queensland-based artist Archie Moore has devised a highly original way to explore themes of Aboriginal dispossession and the colonial past.

Archie Moore

Friday 09 October 2015 to Friday 04 December 2015
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Daniel Boyd: A Darker Shade of Dark #1– 4

A Darker Shade of Dark #1– 4 is a spectacularly immersive video installation and a compelling sensory experience not to be missed.

Daniel Boyd

Friday 09 October 2015 to Friday 04 December 2015
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Hossein Valamanesh: Char Soo

Hossein Valamanesh is noted for transcendental and enigmatic works of art that engage with Sufi philosophy, ephemerality, and the intersection of nature and culture. Born in Tehran in 1949, he immigrated to Australia in 1973. Since making his home in Adelaide, Valamanesh has become one of Australia’s foremost contemporary artists, at the same time developing an international profile.

Hossein Valamanesh

Friday 09 October 2015 to Friday 04 December 2015
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

2016 FLEURIEU ART PRIZE for Landscape

In 2016, the richest landscape art prize in the world – the Fleurieu Art Prize – will relocate from its home on the beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula, to the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, where it will be presented to city audiences for the first time.

Wednesday 05 August 2015 to Tuesday 01 December 2015
Art opportunity in South Australia, Australia.

Birth of the Cool

Birth of the Cool is a selection of works by four painters: David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Michael Johnson and Dick Watkins. It surveys the decade between 1963 and 1973.

David Aspden Dick Watkins Sydney Ball Michael Johnson

Friday 17 July 2015 to Friday 18 September 2015
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Geoff Wilson: Interrogated Landscape

Geoff Wilson: Interrogated Landscape recognises the lifetime achievement of an exceptional artist whose long career has, until now, remained largely uncelebrated in the public eye.

Geoff Wilson

Friday 17 July 2015 to Friday 18 September 2015
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Basil Sellers Art Prize 4

The celebrated Basil Sellers Art Prize supports artists whose work explores Australia’s obsession with sport and sporting culture in the broadest possible sense.

Rob Mc Haffie Richard Lewer Noel Mc Kenna Rob Mcleish Raquel Ormella Rob Mc Haffie Jenny Watson Shaun Gladwell Narelle Autio Gabrielle De Vietri Tony Albert William Mackinnon Khaled Sabsabi Zoë Croggon Ivan Durrant Fiona Mc Monagle Gerry Wedd

Friday 08 May 2015 to Friday 03 July 2015
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

2016 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship are now open

Each scholarship is intended to cover the reasonable costs for a period of twelve months overseas, and includes a tax-exempt stipend of US $45,000 plus return airfares, personal travel and medical insurance and institutional fees for one academic year, where these apply.

Monday 11 May 2015 to Tuesday 30 June 2015
Art opportunity in South Australia, Australia.

do it

Conceived by European curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and managed by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, do it (adelaide) will be the latest incarnation of this global art project.

Friday 13 February 2015 to Saturday 25 April 2015
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Luminous World – Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection and Luminous Cinema

Luminous World brings together contemporary paintings, objects and photographs from the Wesfarmers Collection, in a conversation about light. These works, acquired by Wesfarmers over three decades by some fifty leading Australian and New Zealand artists, are shared together for the first time with the Australian public.

Bill Henson Brook Andrew Rosemary Laing Susan Norrie Dale Frank Brian Blanchflower Paddy Bedford Timothy Cook Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Howard Taylor Fiona Pardington

Friday 17 October 2014 to Friday 05 December 2014
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

2014 OzAsia Festival at Samstag

Celebrate Asian culture during September and be part of the 2014 OzAsia Festival.

Saturday 02 August 2014 to Saturday 27 September 2014
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

ART AFTER DARK West End

Just in time to ward off the cold, please join us for a special evening to launch ART AFTER DARK West End.

Thursday 17 July 2014 to Thursday 17 July 2014
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Daniel Crooks

The Samstag Museum of Art and the Adelaide Film Festival continue their productive, ongoing cultural collaboration in 2013, presenting a selction of significant work by the internationally acclaimed, New Zealand-born and now Melbourne-based artist, Daniel Crooks.

Daniel Crooks

Thursday 10 October 2013 to Friday 20 December 2013
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion

The great themes of art and architecture are brought together in Vision in Motion, a major project by expatriate Australian artist Narelle Jubelin. Vision in Motion animates an Australian history of modernism, presenting a survey of Jubelin’s intricately sewn petit points of the past three decades, alongside newly commissioned works inspired by architecture and the built environment.

Narelle Jubelin

Friday 19 July 2013 to Friday 27 September 2013
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Revealed²: CollectorSpace

Building on the success of Revealed ¹: inside the private collections of South Australia, the Samstag Museum of Art presents the second exhibition in the three-part Revealed series.

Friday 19 July 2013 to Friday 20 September 2013
Art exhibition in Australia.

Simon Terrill: Crowd Theory Adelaide

Samstag’s Gallery 3 will play host to a selection of Simon Terrill’s spectacularly immersive images from the ‘Crowd Theory Adelaide’ performance event held in Victoria Square/Tarndanyangga on 27 February 2013.

Simon Terrill

Friday 03 May 2013 to Friday 05 July 2013
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

unDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial

This second National Indigenous Art Triennial, unDisclosed, features contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, whose daring exploration of new fields of practice and artistic vision, inform and redefine contemporary Indigenous art as we presently know it.

Danie Mellor

Friday 03 May 2013 to Friday 05 July 2013
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

unDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial

unDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial is a National Gallery of Australia exhibition, supported by Wesfarmers Arts and the Australian Government, in association with catalogue partners Queensland Indigenous Arts Marketing and Export Agency and media partner ABC local radio. Presented by the Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia in association with Come Out Festival 2013.

Friday 03 May 2013 to Friday 05 July 2013
Art exhibition in Australia.

Adelaide Festival 2013 Laurie Anderson, The Language of the Future Selected works 1971 – 2013

Pioneer of the 1970s downtown New York art scene, revered artist Laurie Anderson is set to astound and delight with an exhibition featuring her work as a visual artist, writer and musician.

Laurie Anderson

Friday 01 March 2013 to Friday 19 April 2013
Art exhibition in Australia.

Adelaide Festival 2013Laurie Anderson, The Language of the Future Selected works

Pioneer of the 1970s downtown New York art scene, revered artist Laurie Anderson is set to astound and delight with an exhibition featuring her work as a visual artist, writer and musician.

Laurie Anderson

Friday 01 March 2013 to Friday 19 April 2013
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

2 collections

Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart paintings 1940–2011

Smart is Australia’s iconic master of the urban vision – his works feature industrial wastelands and concrete streetscapes with precise attention to clean lines, composition and geometry.

Jeffrey Smart

Friday 12 October 2012 to Friday 14 December 2012
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Beyond the self: Contemporary portraiture from Asia

Beyond the self: Contemporary portraiture from Asia is a touring exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, presented by the Samstag Museum of Art and Adelaide Festival Centre’s 2012 OzAsia Festival.

Friday 03 August 2012 to Sunday 30 September 2012
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Irrational and Idyiosyncratic

Adelaide artists Khai Liew and Bruce Nuske collaborate to present Irrational and Idiosyncratic at the Samstag Museum of Art in August and September, an exhibition of works inspired by the 19th-century European response to all things oriental.

Friday 03 August 2012 to Sunday 30 September 2012
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

NOW and WHEN

NOW and WHEN: Australian Urbanism features spectacular architectural visions of Australia’s potential urban future in 2050 and beyond, along with ground-breaking 3D stereoscopic aerial views of three Australian urban landscapes of the present.

Friday 22 June 2012 to Sunday 22 July 2012
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Sidney Nolan: the Gallipoli seriesAn Australian War Memorial Travelling Exhibition

Sidney Nolan (1917–1992) was one of Australia’s most complex, innovative and prolific artists. In 1978 Nolan presented the Gallipoli series to the Australian War Memorial. These 252 drawings and paintings, completed over a twenty-year period, were donated by Nolan in memory of his brother Raymond, a soldier who died in a tragic accident just before the end of the Second World War.

Sidney Nolan

Friday 20 April 2012 to Friday 01 June 2012
Art exhibition in South Australia, Australia.

Triumph: Richard Grayson and Steve Wigg

Triumph was a spectacular collaborative project by South Australian artists, Richard Grayson and Steve Wigg, commissioned by the University of South Australia Art Museum in 1996 - it was the first occasion that the artists had worked together. Sixteen years later, the artists are reprising Triumph in a new site specific installation at the Samstag Museum.

Richard Grayson Steve Wigg

Friday 20 April 2012 to Friday 01 June 2012
Art exhibition in Australia.