Kudlila season

Friday 20 June — Friday 26 September 2025

Frank Bauer

Samstag Gallery 1 (lower level)

Designer, jeweller, silversmith and artist: over a career spanning 45 years, German-born, Adelaide-based Frank Bauer’s cross-disciplinary practice is hallmarked by exceptional quality and a breadth of skill. His process begins with the hand — first drawing then progressing to handling, touching, making in his workshop — and results in works that bear human nature first and foremost in mind. A former lecturer at the University of South Australia’s School of Design, who has exhibited in Europe and Australia, his work is held in major museums around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Berlin’s Bauhaus Archive, the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.

Focussing on the sculptural nature of Bauer’s practice, this major exhibition of metal and light works considers matters of movement, longevity, repetition and change — both in an artist’s long career and, more broadly, in our everyday.

North Terrace: worlds in relief

Samstag Galleries 2 & 3 (upper level)

Andrew Burrell / Allison Chhorn / Louise Haselton / the ArtHitects (Gary Carsley and Renjie Teoh) / with poetry by Natalie Harkin

As the city’s cultural boulevard, North Terrace is emblematic of Tarntanya/Adelaide’s founding on Kaurna Yarta and the conduct of colonial relations today. In this suite of new works, curated by Jasmin Stephens, artists from South Australia, New South Wales and Singapore respond to the city’s environs and the world views that they convey. The exhibition draws upon Narungga poet/activist Natalie Harkin’s text Cultural Precinct, written in 2014. Harkin’s refrain …these limestone walls… haunts this exhibition in which the artists cast a critical eye over North Terrace’s familiar and lesser-known aspects. Invoking histories of sculpture, moving image and design, the exhibition draws on the collection of the University of South Australia Architecture Museum.