Art Gallery of South Australia

Art Gallery of South Australia AGSA Kaurna yartangka yuwanthi. AGSA stands on Kaurna land. Opening Hours
The Gallery is open daily 10am to 5pm (closed 25 December).

Founded in 1881, the Art Gallery of South Australia is home to one of Australia's great art collections, housed in one of Adelaide's most beautiful buildings. Located at the heart of Adelaide's cultural boulevard, North Terrace, between the South Australian Museum and University of Adelaide. Admission
General admission to the Gallery is free. Charges apply for some exhibitions. Parking
Parking i

s available opposite the Gallery in the Wilson’s Carpark on North Terrace. Restaurant & Shop
The Restaurant is open every day from 10am to 4.30pm. To make a booking call 08 8232 4366. The Gallery Shop is open from 10am to 4.45pm every day. For enquiries call 08 8207 7029.

Throughout September, the team from Honeydripper have programmed a killer line up of vinyl-only DJs for Monet to Matisse...
02/09/2026

Throughout September, the team from Honeydripper have programmed a killer line up of vinyl-only DJs for Monet to Matisse Friday Nights, including Cruise, Sharni, Mehdi and Lenin.

Continue the night at Honeydripper and show your Monet to Matisse Friday Nights ticket for a free Half Time Orange Spritz 🍹

Just a reminder that First Fridays has been replaced by Monet to Matisse Friday Nights, which is on every Friday night throughout Monet to Matisse: Defying Tradition from 5.30-8.30pm. First Fridays will return to AGSA in December.

Book your tickets online: https://bit.ly/4yfA4UH

📸 1. Oisima, photo: Saige Prime. 2. Claude Monet, Water Lilies; photo: Meaghan Coles.

We are thrilled to announce Mark Feary as curator of the 2028 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.Aotearoa New Zealand-b...
01/09/2026

We are thrilled to announce Mark Feary as curator of the 2028 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art.

Aotearoa New Zealand-born curator Feary brings more than twenty years of curatorial experience across contemporary art centres, universities, museums and artist-led initiatives, including his current position as Artistic Director of Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, and former roles at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney; Artspace, Sydney; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne; and West Space, Melbourne.

Since 1990, conceived as part of the Adelaide Festival, the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art has created career-defining opportunities for close to 500 artists, and has been experienced by more than 2 million visitors.

The 2028 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art will be presented from 3 March – 4 June as part of the 2028 Adelaide Festival.

Photo: Tim Herbert

Dress code: Monet to Matisse 🪷 Make a date with Monet to Matisse this weekend and experience fifty-seven masterworks fro...
28/08/2026

Dress code: Monet to Matisse 🪷

Make a date with Monet to Matisse this weekend and experience fifty-seven masterworks from the Toledo Museum of Art’s world-renowned collection.

Until 8 November 2026. Book tickets online: https://bit.ly/4eo4bkp

📸 Preview Night looks, captured by Meaghan Coles.

Vale Yayoi Kusama, 1929–2026Few artists have captured the imagination of audiences around the world quite like Yayoi Kus...
28/08/2026

Vale Yayoi Kusama, 1929–2026

Few artists have captured the imagination of audiences around the world quite like Yayoi Kusama. Across more than seven decades, her paintings, sculptures and immersive installations transformed repetition into a language of infinity, inviting us to reconsider our sense of space, perception and self.

At AGSA, audiences experienced this extraordinary vision in 2022 with THE SPIRITS OF THE PUMPKINS DESCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS through a special partnership with the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), with thanks to the generosity of Gwinnett family. Inside the ‘infinity mirror room’, reflections, light and repetition created an otherworldly encounter.

Kusama’s distinctive vision and enduring ability to inspire wonder have left an indelible mark on contemporary art. Her work will continue to invite audiences into worlds where the infinite feels within reach.

📸 Saul Steed

We will always love you Dolly 💖 This photograph of two icons, Dolly Parton and Keith Haring, was taken by Andy Warhol on...
26/08/2026

We will always love you Dolly 💖

This photograph of two icons, Dolly Parton and Keith Haring, was taken by Andy Warhol on 17 August 1985 on a weekend in Los Angeles that he described as “the most exciting weekend of my life”. He attended Madonna and Sean Penn’s wedding, attended a dinner at Cher’s house, and visited Dolly Parton.

Warhol had been commissioned to make portrait paintings of Dolly Parton – for the portrait photo-shoot he took numerous polaroid photographs, as well as a small number of gelatin-silver photographs. The latter included casual shots such as this ‘fan moment’ for Warhol’s friend, the artist Keith Haring, with Parton.

This photo was featured in Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media, curated by Julie Robinson, at AGSA in 2023.

📸 Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Dolly Parton, 1985, Art Gallery of South Australia, © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. ARS/Copyright Agency

Come for Monet to Matisse, stay for Le Bar 🥂 Every Friday night, Monet to Matisse is open late with . Grab a drink and a...
25/08/2026

Come for Monet to Matisse, stay for Le Bar 🥂

Every Friday night, Monet to Matisse is open late with . Grab a drink and a snack downstairs at Le Bar, or head upstairs for oysters and charcuterie

During the day, complement your gallery experience with a long lunch The Bistro, or for something more relaxed, head to the pop-up Deli in the courtyard.

AGSA_eat is open daily from 10am-5pm, with Le Bar open late every Friday night till 8.30pm during Monet to Matisse.

📸 Meaghan Coles

23/08/2026

There is more to these spectacular Balinese doors than meets the eye 👀

As told by Rusty Kelty, Curator of Asian Art, the doors depict an extraordinary range of motifs and deities associated with Hinduism and Balinese art. They originated from a temple, likely dedicated to the metalsmith caste, whose secrets included the art of making magically charged keris daggers.

See them on display in Two Islands, One Thread: The Art and Cultures of Lombok & Bali until 11 October 2026. Free entry.

🚪 Indonesia, Temple doors, 1775-1850.

By the late nineteenth century, shifting social dynamics turned everyday people into the subject matter for portraits, a...
21/08/2026

By the late nineteenth century, shifting social dynamics turned everyday people into the subject matter for portraits, a practice traditionally reserved for the elite.

In addition to ‘traditional’ portraits, artists now embraced representations of a wide variety of people, highlighting social inequality and democratising artistic expression.

📍 See these works on display in Monet to Matisse: Defying Tradition until 8 November.

🎨 1. Jules Breton, The Shepherd’s Star, 1887. 2. Jean-François Millet, The Quarriers, 1846–47. 3. Berthe Morisot, In the Garden at Maurencourt, 1884. 4. Édouard Manet, Antonin Proust, 1880. 5. Frederick Frary Fursman, In the Garden, 1909.

19/08/2026

Director Jason Smith explores a rare Tudor portrait - Elizabeth I with prayer book - acquired to honour the centenary of Diana Ramsay’s birth.

Painted early in Elizabeth I’s reign, the portrait presents the young queen as a devout Protestant monarch, symbolising a new era of stability after years of religious and political upheaval.

📍 See it on display in Gallery 12

🎨 Unknown (British school), Elizabeth I with prayer book, c.1565, London

Discover a new display of woodcuts and linocuts by Australian women artists who flourished as printmakers during the int...
17/08/2026

Discover a new display of woodcuts and linocuts by Australian women artists who flourished as printmakers during the interwar period.

Relief printmaking was accessible enough to do at home, but its limitations became part of its appeal. Cutting into wood or lino encouraged artists to strip forms back, play with shapes and explore pattern - ideas that were central to the emergence of modernism.

These artists weren't just making prints. Many were teachers, collaborators and outspoken advocates for modern art at a time when new ideas faced fierce resistance in Australia. They shared ideas, exchanged techniques and taught one another, helping shape a new generation of Australian artists.

📍 See their works on display in Gallery 6. Free entry.

🎨 Margaret Preston, Fuchsias, 1928.

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