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Samstag Museum of Art

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8302 0870

Address: 55 North Terrace 5000 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: www.unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum

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25.01.2022 In the latest episode of ON ART, artist and filmmaker Amos Gebhardt speaks with writer and dancer Adolfo Aranjuez about Amos's new moving image installation 'Small acts of resistance', now showing at Samstag.

24.01.2022 Strange Ways is the first major survey exhibition of Samstag Scholar Anne Wallace, and includes works from the early 1990s through to the current day. Born and raised in Brisbane in the 1970s and now based in Melbourne, Wallace’s highly accomplished figurative paintings are as much about the textual as the pictorial. Wallace has an uncanny ability to tap into shared psyches, drawing upon the language of pop culture to combine the familiar with the unfamiliar. The moments conj...ured capture a tension between the real and the imagined; there is sexual and social confusion, vulnerability and violence, alienation and loneliness, feelings of the abject, and fantasies of power and revenge. Spanning three decades and bringing together works from public and private collections, this is the most comprehensive survey of Wallace’s practice to date. 16 Oct / 28 Nov 2020 Strange Ways is a QUT Art Museum touring exhibition, accompanied by a major publication featuring new essays by Gillian Brown, Curator at Samstag, Francis Plagne and Vanessa Van Ooyen. All photos: Sam Noonan

23.01.2022 Amos Gebhardt: Small acts of resistance Against a backdrop of social and ecological precarity, witness the way that a reliance on kinship and community has the capacity to bring about small but vital acts of resistance. A trained filmmaker with experience in cinematography, Gebhardt brings together portraiture, dance and song to celebrate an existence outside of normativity.... Evoking the grandeur of the Renaissance triptych, 'Small acts of resistance' unfolds across three screens, each act, each gesture, underscoring the importance of interconnectivity. Showing at Samstag until 28 November 2020. Created through the South Australian Film Corporation and SALA Festival commission.

22.01.2022 Refined, mesmerising and psychologically complex, the artworks in Samstag’s Spring Season engage with the present moment, look back to the past and remind us of the rich and varied practices of artists living and connected to South Australia. Anne Wallace: Strange Ways Amos Gebhardt: Small acts of resistance Kirsten Coelho: Ithaca... 16 October 28 November Photos: Sia Duff

21.01.2022 This week's reading recommendation: 'Small acts of resistance' digital catalogue featuring new essays by Isobel Parker Philip, Senior Curator of Australian Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales; and Adolfo Aranjuez, editor, writer and dancer in Naarm, Melbourne. Read on: www.unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum

18.01.2022 UPDATE / Samstag is closed until further notice in accordance with newly increased COVID-19 restrictions. We will continue to share elements from our current exhibitions, so stay tuned. Amos Gebhardt: Small acts of resistance... Kirsten Coelho: Ithaca Anne Wallace: Strange Ways Stay safe, South Australia. Photos: Sam Noonan.

14.01.2022 Sink into a comfortable seat at The Mercury for the black and white film noir classic, Laura (1944). We are screening Laura to accompany Anne Wallace: Strange Ways, now showing at Samstag. Tickets are free, but RSVP is essential.

13.01.2022 "Amos Gebhardt’s 'Small acts of resistance' opens us up to the possibility of reimagining our relationship to the world and each other in ways that engage us emotionally and through the senses." Anne O'Hehir writes the feature for the latest issue for Artlink Magazine.

12.01.2022 Samstag is delighted to announce the 2021 Adelaide//International, four exhibitions that encourage us to imagine new ways of being, presented for the Adelaide Festival. The 2021 Adelaide// International views the future as an unmade shared space. In its preceding year a global pandemic has made clear the myriad of ways in which we are connected or distanced from others around the world. This experience, shared on an unprecedented scale, will inevitably colour our view of art ...and how we view it. With the world paused, the question is: when we resume, where to from here? To continue, or to reinvent? Fayen d’Evie (AUS), Taloi Havini (AUS/Autonomous Region of Bouganville), Jesse Jones (IRE, pictured), James Tylor (AUS). Opening 26 February, 2021. Read on: bit.ly/37un5Uj

11.01.2022 Small acts of resistance is a new three-channel moving image work by artist and filmmaker Amos Gebhardt. Against a backdrop of social and ecological precarity, we witness kinship and community bringing about small but vital acts of resistance. Evoking the grandeur of the Renaissance triptych, Small acts of resistance unfolds across three screens from the migration of the crabs of Christmas Island to the communal lives of urban flying foxes, from the ballroom collective Hous...e of Slé to a chosen family surrounding a newborn with tenderness and love. Each act, each gesture, underscores the importance of interconnectivity. A trained filmmaker with experience in cinematography, Gebhardt brings together portraiture, dance and song to celebrate an existence outside of normativity. 16 Oct / 28 Nov 2020 Small acts of resistance was created through the South Australian Film Corporation and South Australian Living Artists Festival’s inaugural Artist in Residence commission, and is presented as part of the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. All photos: Sam Noonan

03.01.2022 "Drawing upon passing scenes from life, and filled with allusions to pop culture, Anne Wallace’s realist paintings deliver images that flitter between intimate and suspenseful. Reminiscent of those moments when lived experience feels tinged with the cinematic, Wallace’s three-decade practice is a glance into personhood, womanhood, glamour and desire." Art Guide Australia

01.01.2022 Kirsten Coelho has long been fascinated by The Odyssey. Dated 900-700 BC and attributed to the Ancient Greek poet Homer, the epic details Odysseus’s ten-year journey home to the island of Ithaca following the events of the Trojan War. For Coelho, when Odysseus’s eventual return is marked by the discovery that Ithaca is not as he remembered it, the tale unfolds as an exploration of home as an elusive concept, abstracted by time and the inevitability of change. Born in Copenhag...en, Coelho moved to North America as a child, before immigrating to Australia with her family. Revisiting her previous countries of residence as an adult proved the relatability of Odysseus’s experience. Drawing on the physicality of Grecian ceramics, Coelho reflects on Odysseus’s journey through a series of serene, graceful ceramic vessels of soft white porcelain. Coelho’s ideas around home run in parallel to her investigation of the ruin. As a ceramicist, Coelho is all too aware of the lifespan of material culture, impacted the passage of time and the influences of its environment. Inspired by Grecian and Roman artefacts and architectural ruins (columns, statues and plinths) she deploys the ruin as metaphor for the possibilities of change. 16 Oct / 28 Nov 2020