LOCATIONS
ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 14 – 23 March 2020 1 June – 27 September 2020
CAMPBELLTOWN ARTS CENTRE 14 March – 23 March 2020 1 June – 4 October 2020
In 2020, the Biennale was exhibited in the vestibule, entrance lobby, Grand Court Galleries and Australian Galleries, in conversation with the collection, replacing works, covering works and intwining international First Nations narratives with those of the existing collection.
Located on the edge of Sydney, Campbelltown Arts Centre creates a secure platform for communities and artists to take risks and raise questions through the commissioning of new works. The NIRIN artists at C-A-C used powerful images, slogans, video and spatial experiences to document historical events that concern urgent messages of self-empowerment.
ARTSPACE
CARRIAGEWORKS
14 – 23 March 2020 1 June – 27 September 2020
7 August – 26 September 2020
Housed in the historic Gunnery building in Woolloomooloo, Sydney, Artspace is a former artists’ squat that is now a site for experimentation and advocacy. NIRIN at Artspace presented collectives and deep connections to collaboration.
AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 9 – 15 November 2020 (online) In a unique new collaboration with the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), a threeweek satellite exhibition of the Biennale of Sydney was scheduled to open in July. Following renewed stage 3 restrictions in Melbourne the exhibition, titled NIRIN NAARM, was adapted into an online presentation via the ACCA website from 9–15 November 2020.
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22nd Biennale of Sydney Exhibition Report
In line with decisions made by the National Cabinet, when museums and galleries re-opened the National Art School remained closed to the public and the works originally exhibited at the National Art School were relocated to Carriageworks. NIRIN at Carriageworks reflected on extinction, death, life, change and healing.
