Exhibitions and Collections

An extraordinary range of changing exhibitions!

We invite you to experience Adelaide Festival Centre’s free year-round exhibitions.

Throughout the year we’ll be presenting a rich and wide-ranging ongoing curated visual and performing arts exhibition program, dynamic digital media, and associated programs featuring Adelaide Festival Centre’s significant permanent Works of Art Collection and Performing Arts Collection.

Our new QBE Galleries in the Festival Theatre foyer are open Monday to Saturday plus Festival Theatre performance times. Our outdoor media screens feature a curated program of local, national and international moving image works 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

OzAsia Festival Visual Arts

Experience a diverse range of international artists as part of this year's OzAsia Festival. Enter the creative realms of photography, installations and cultural demonstrations.

Female Archetypes

From Eliza Doolittle to Stella Kowalski, Female Archetypes exhibition explores famous female characters and costumes of the stage.

Yvonne East: Art & Object

Yvonne East: Art & Object is an exhibition of artwork that East originally created after being inspired by the fabrics, textures and stories of objects held by Performing Arts Collection at Adelaide Festival Centre.

Space and Place: from the Works of Art Collection

Over Summer view works of art chosen from Adelaide Festival Centre’s Works of Art Collection that reflect on the theme Space and Place.

60 Years of Adelaide Festival - A Retrospective

Celebrate Adelaide Festival’s 60th birthday with an exhibition that highlights the many directors, performers and people who have shaped this festival over the years.

2020 Adelaide Parklands Art Prize

Exhibiting since 2014, this biennial series of the prestigious Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize will again take place in 2020.

Open Call: Video Art + Digital Media

Adelaide Festival Centre is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) from video and media artists across the globe to submit works for inclusion in our year-round media screens program.