Events at the Samstag Museum of Art. For further information 08 8302 0870 or samstagmuseum@unisa.edu.au

• Launch of 2012 exhibition program
  5pm Friday 10 February 2012
  
  In association with Visual Art Educators of SA (VAESA), the Samstag Museum will present an exclusive preview of the 2012 program to art educators. The event will include a special presentation by Victoria Lynn, curator of Adelaide International 2012: Restless. Refreshments will be served.
  All welcome, RSVP T 08 8302 0870
  
  
• Divertimento – Four movements for voices, whistles and strings
  Thursday 1 March 7pm
  
  Divertimento is a premiere performance by Swedish artist Annika Larson and French Cellist Augustin Maurs. Traditionally the Divertimento is a light and entertaining composition and often used to accompany banquets and other social events. This performance is presented as part of Adelaide International 2012: Restless and celebrates the opening launch of the exhibition
  RSVP essential T 08 8302 0870
  
  
• “Into Cosmos” Artists’ Week Symposium
  Friday 2 March –Monday 5 March
  Banquet Room, Adelaide Festival Centre
  
  Cosmos refers to the realm of imaginary possibilities and the systems by which we make sense of our place in the world. The broad themes of the Adelaide Festival – faith, emotion, mystery, universe – are taken as starting points for reflection on how art is engaged in the making of cosmology.
  Participants in this FREE symposium include leading international critics, scholars, artists and curators, as well as artists drawn from the exhibitions that form part of the Adelaide Festival Visual Arts Program.
  Convenors: Victoria Lynn and Nikos Papastergiadis. Associate: Lucy Guster
  
  The University of South Australia is a major partner of the 2012 Adelaide Festival, and presenting partner of the Adelaide International and Artists’ Week.

 

 

Current exhibition

Image: Simon Terrill, Swarm (detail) 2005, type C print 180 x 230 cm, Samstag Collection, University of South Australia, image © the artist

Samstag Museum events and activities are designed to complement the exhibitions program by providing opportunities for exploring the arts and discovering new communities and worlds of interest.

Listen to artists, curators and leading visual arts professionals talk about their work, issues and exhibition at the Samstag Museum.

Bookings essential: T 08 8302 0870
samstagmuseum@unisa.edu.au

All events will be held in the Samstag Museum, Hawke Building, UniSA City West campus, unless otherwise stated.

All welcome.