Exhibition Kits

ACE’s Exhibition Kits are a free educational resource that supports learning through artist insights, artwork highlights, and curriculum-linked activities - perfect for use before, during, or after a gallery visit.

Rewriting Landscapes

17 October - 12 December 2025
Rewriting Landscapes brings together leading contemporary Aboriginal artists who reclaim and reframe the genre of landscape through photography and video.

'Rewriting Landscapes' Exhibition Kit
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A person lies on a sandy beach near the shoreline, connected to a long yellow cord leading to objects in the sand.
A person lies on a sandy beach near the shoreline, connected to a long yellow cord leading to objects in the sand.
Libby Harward (Ngugi), 'WARIBUL WAYIRA (hungry waterways)', 2020, Mulgumpin-Lake Carrurra. Digital film, 2.43sec. Courtesy of the artist.

Mark Valenzuela: Bantay-Salakay

2 August - 20 September 2025
In Bantay-Salakay, Valenzuela explores the offensive and defensive strategies embedded in our environments, and the role of power in determining whether these strategies represent resistance or oppression.

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Mark Valenzuela's studio (2025). Photography by Morgan Sette.

Push/Pull

3 May - 28 June 2025
Push/Pull is a program of live, experiential, post-object and otherwise “non-haveable” art, including tactile installation, short and durational performance works, lecture performance, re-enactments and responses to the archive, video, poetry, plants, food, voice, experimental sound and music.

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Candy pink stuffed textile chains stretch against a black metal grid background.
Candy pink stuffed textile chains stretch against a black metal grid background.
Shan Michaels' studio (2025), detail, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental. Photography by Sam Roberts.

Shared Skin

15 February - 12 April 2025
Shared Skin investigates how we define relationships and sketches a complex picture of what a family can be.

'Shared Skin' Exhibition Kit
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A group of 5 children stand in front of a row of tall, weathered stone spires in an outdoor setting. The children wear colourful hats and casual clothing, with trees and grass surrounding the scene.
A group of 5 children stand in front of a row of tall, weathered stone spires in an outdoor setting. The children wear colourful hats and casual clothing, with trees and grass surrounding the scene.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen, 'The Boat People', 2020. Single-channel video, 4K, Super 16mm transferred to digital, colour, 5.1 surround sound, 20 mins. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York.

Studios: 2024

9 November - 14 December 2024
Studios: 2024 is a group exhibition featuring new commissions by the 2024 ACE Studio Program artists.

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Carly Tarkari Dodd '1' (2024) linen and cotton yarn , 74 x 80 x 4cm. Courtesy the artist.

Justine Youssef: Somewhat Eternal

31 August - 19 October 2024
Justine Youssef’s Somewhat Eternal is a multi-sensory installation, encompassing video, textiles, text, scent.

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Justine Youssef, Somewhat Eternal (2023), three channel video (still), 11 minutes. Courtesy the artist.

Kaurna Women's Art Collective: Sisters of Lartelare

1 June - 10 August 2024
Fragments; a widening vision, poetically weaves together form and image interlacing memory with personal and ancestral histories.

'Kaurna Women's Art Collective: Sisters of Lartelare' Exhibition Kit
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Kaurna Womens Art Collective, Lartelare, detail of exhibition installation - Harts Mill, Port Adelaide, 2023. Courtesy the artists and OSCA.

Fragments; a widening vision

1 June - 10 August 2024
Fragments; a widening vision, poetically weaves together form and image interlacing memory with personal and ancestral histories.

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Close up of bronze cast xanthorrhoea grass tree spear. The tree spear sits on a wooden table. The sunlight highlights the detail.
Close up of bronze cast xanthorrhoea grass tree spear. The tree spear sits on a wooden table. The sunlight highlights the detail.
Lee Salomone's studio (2024). Photography by Peter Fong.

Entities: the Concepts and Post-Object Exhibitions

1 June - 10 August 2024
There has always been post-object art of some sort, and conceptual art as well, on some understanding of the term.

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Yucky

17 February - 4 May 2024
Yucky is a group exhibition that explores the personal and political complexities that exist as part of disabled experience.

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This is a close-up photo of me (Sam) releasing urine from my catheter into a yellow water balloon. I’m wearing blue pants faded to purple, a grey plaid shirt and brown leather sandals. My Dystonic hand is visible from the top left corner, pushing urine out of my catheter bag.
This is a close-up photo of me (Sam) releasing urine from my catheter into a yellow water balloon. I’m wearing blue pants faded to purple, a grey plaid shirt and brown leather sandals. My Dystonic hand is visible from the top left corner, pushing urine out of my catheter bag.
Sam Petersen, 'Wee', 2020, digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

The ACE education program is supported by the Department for Education.

Rewriting Landscapes
Bantay-Salakay
Push/Pull
Shared Skin
Studios: 2024
Somewhat Eternal
Sisters of Lartelare
Fragments; a widening vision
Entities
Yucky

ACErlu tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka inparrinthi. Kaurna miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlurlu tampinthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi. Ngadlurlu tampinthi purkana pukinangku, yalaka.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the Kaurna people are the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that they are of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today. We acknowledge Elders past and present.

ACErlu tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka inparrinthi. Kaurna miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlurlu tampinthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi. Ngadlurlu tampinthi purkana pukinangku, yalaka.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the Kaurna people are the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that they are of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today. We acknowledge Elders past and present.

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