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Sydney biennale

March 2024

  • Sana Shahmuradova Tanska in her studio in Kyiv during electricity shortages

    Amid air raids and electricity shortages, a Ukrainian artist paints the Russian invasion

  • Work by Murni (wall) and, in the foreground, the ‘fashion activism’ of Pacific Sisters at the the Art Gallery of NSW during the 2024 Biennale of Sydney

    Australian arts in focus
    Sydney Biennale 2024: Armageddon is met with joy and subversion in epic art feast

May 2022

  • Myall Creek Annual Memorial Danceground 2021. Image supplied

    ‘Not calling a massacre a massacre is ridiculous’: a model of truth-telling at Myall Creek

    Some teachers aren’t comfortable talking about Australia’s violent frontier wars. Victims’ descendants say it’s time to step up

March 2022

  • Barkandji man, Badger Bates, premiering his work of a Ngatji (Rainbow Serpent) for the 2022 Biennale in Sydney at the Barangaroo Cutaway, NSW, Australia

    Badger Bates: ‘I feel like I’m very lucky, even though I’m no millionaire’

  • Left to Right: Nicole Foreshew, YIRUNG BILA (SKY HEAVEN RIVER), 2022 (detail). Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the Australia Council for the Arts. Courtesy the artist; Cave Urban, Flow, 2022 (detail). Courtesy the artists; Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Fishbone IV, 2019-2022 (detail). Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous assistance from SAHA Association. Courtesy the artist & Green Art Gallery, Dubai; and Ana Barboza and Rafael Freyre, Water ecosystem, 2019-2022 (detail). Courtesy the artists & Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima. Installation view, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, rīvus, 2022, The Cutaway at Barangaroo. Photography: Document Photography.

    Sydney biennale 2022: amid floods arrives art with an urgent climate message

May 2020

  • Gomeroi artist Barbara McGrady poses during the 22nd Biennale of Sydney media launch, 9 April 2019

    Old knowledge for the new normal
    Coronavirus and culture: 'Our ancestors are always watching'

    Sydney Biennale artist and photographer Barbara McGrady captures life through a black lens, representing not only her 70 years, but 60,000 years of culture

April 2020

  • Brigid Delaney dances at Mr McClelland’s Finishing School – a Zoom party.

    The good place
    Arts in lockdown: I curated my own three-day online festival. Now it’s over, and I am wrecked

    From Fleabag to a nightclub, from a biennale to the ballet, Brigid Delaney’s personal IsoFest took her all around the world on her laptop – but it wasn’t the same

February 2020

  • Artist Karla Dickens.

    ‘Meth Kelly’ and colonial monsters: Australia's biggest art shows get Indigenous rewrite

    White history and heroes are ripe for satire at this year’s Biennale of Sydney and Adelaide Biennial
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