{{Short description|Art gallery in Adelaide, South Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} [[File:Hawke Building, UniSA.jpg|thumb|The [[Hawke Building]] on [[North Terrace, Adelaide]] at Adelaide University City Campus West]] '''Samstag Museum of Art''', also known as '''Samstag Museum''' or simply '''Samstag''', is a contemporary art museum in [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]]. Part of [[Adelaide University]], the museum is open to the public and has free admission.
The museum was opened in October 2007 as the '''Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art''', in the [[Hawke Building]] of the City West campus of the [[University of South Australia]], which is now part of Adelaide University. The gallery had existed in previous incarnations from about 1977, with several names and locations over the next 30 years. In 1991, with the establishment of the University of South Australia, the gallery was renamed the '''University of South Australia Art Museum''', relocating to City West in 1998. Following the merger between the University of South Australia and the [[University of Adelaide]], Samstag became part of the newly-established Adelaide University.
==History and description== An art museum was opened in about 1977 as the College Gallery of the [[South Australian College of Advanced Education]] at its [[Underdale, South Australia|Underdale]] campus. In 1991, with the establishment of the University of South Australia, the gallery was renamed the University of South Australia Art Museum, relocating to City West in 1998.<ref name=about>{{cite web |title= About|url= https://www.unisa.edu.au/Business-community/samstag-museum/About/|website= University of South Australia. Samstag Museum|access-date=21 August 2019 }}</ref>{{update inline|date=January 2026}} Following the merger between the University of South Australian and the University of Adelaide, Samstag became part of the newly established Adelaide University.{{cn|date=January 2026}}
The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art was opened in the Hawke Building of the City West campus of the University of South Australia in October 2007. It is now referred to as Samstag Museum of Art, Samstag Museum and, simply, Samstag.<ref name=about/>
The museum was named in honour of Anne & Gordon Samstag, "two distinguished American benefactors to Australian culture, whose remarkable bequest provides opportunities for Australian artists to study overseas".<ref name=about/> Gordon Samstag was an American artist who taught at the [[South Australian School of Art]] from 1961 to 1970.<ref name=Samstag>{{cite web|url=http://www.unisa.edu.au/Business-community/Samstag-Museum/|title=The University of South Australia: Home|website=Unisa.edu.au|accessdate=21 September 2018}}</ref> Born in New York on 21 June 1906, he was educated at the New York Art Students League and the [[Académie Colarossi]] in Paris. His art is widely displayed in the US, including murals in now heritage-listed buildings in [[United States Post Office (Scarsdale, New York)|Scarsdale, New York]] and [[List of United States post office murals|Reidsville, North Carolina]]. The Samstags moved to Florida in 1976, where Anne died in 1987, and Gordon in 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unisa.edu.au/Business-community/Samstag-Museum/Samstag-Scholarships/The-Samstag-story/|title=The University of South Australia: Home|website=Unisa.edu.au|accessdate=21 September 2018}}</ref>
The museum presents [[contemporary visual art]] in a series of changing exhibitions, as well as art of the past that has still has relevance, catering for a broad range of interests. The museum also manages and develops the University of South Australia Art Collection.<ref name=about/>
==Major exhibitions==
===Adelaide//International series=== {{main|Adelaide International (art exhibition)}} The Samstag was host to a series of three [[Adelaide International (art exhibition)|Adelaide International]] art exhibitions in partnership with the [[Adelaide Festival of Arts]], between 2010 and 2014.<ref name=intl>{{cite web|url=https://www.unisa.edu.au/siteassets/episerver-6-files/global/samstag/exhibitions/2019/samstag-museum-of-art_2019-adelaide-international_catalogue.pdf|publisher=University of South Australia. Samstag Museum|title=2019 Adelaide//International|access-date=21 August 2019|archive-date=6 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406054858/https://www.unisa.edu.au/siteassets/episerver-6-files/global/samstag/exhibitions/2019/samstag-museum-of-art_2019-adelaide-international_catalogue.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2019, as a continuation of the Adelaide International, but differing in concept and without the partnership of the Festival, the Samstag started a new cycle of three consecutive "Adelaide//International" exhibitions, for the 2019, 2020 and 2021 Adelaide Festivals.<ref name=intl/>
====2019==== The ''2019 Adelaide//International'' featured the work of four artists: [[Brook Andrew]] and [[Eugenia Lim]] from Australia, [[Lisa Reihana]] from [[New Zealand]] and [[Ming Wong]] from [[Singapore]], exploring the effect of [[colonisation]] on [[indigenous culture]].<ref name=intl/>
===2020=== The 2020 exhibition centred around an installation called ''Somewhere Other'' by [[John Wardle (architect)|John Wardle Architects]] in collaboration with [[Natasha Johns-Messenger]]. It was Australia's entry in the 2018 [[Venice Architecture Biennale]]. It also features work by Belgian artist [[David Claerbout]], [[Brad Darkson]], [[Zoë Croggon]], [[Helen Grogan]] and [[Georgia Saxelby]].<ref name=ar2020>{{cite web | first= Jane|last= Llewellyn|title=Adelaide//International maps the juncture of art and architecture | website=The Adelaide Review | date=17 March 2020 | url=https://www.adelaidereview.com.au/arts/visual-arts/2020/03/17/adelaide-international-maps-the-juncture-of-art-and-architecture/ | access-date=4 April 2020}}</ref> Due to run from 28 February to 12 June,<ref>{{cite web| title=What's on| website=Samstag| url=https://unisa.edu.au/Business-community/samstag-museum/whats-on/| publisher=University of South Australia| access-date=4 April 2020| archive-date=26 March 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326120349/https://www.unisa.edu.au/Business-community/samstag-museum/whats-on/| url-status=dead}}</ref> the exhibition was cut short by the closure of the Samstag in March 2020 owing to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Australia]].<ref>{{cite web | title=COVID19 | website=Samstag | publisher=University of South Australia | url=https://unisa.edu.au/Business-community/samstag-museum/events/2020/covid19/ | access-date=4 April 2020 | archive-date=31 March 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200331150444/https://unisa.edu.au/Business-community/samstag-museum/events/2020/covid19/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>
===Individual exhibitions=== ====2013: Laurie Anderson==== In 2013, director of the Festival David Sefton partnered with the Samstag to create an individual project of his own, entitled ''Laurie Anderson: Language of the Future, selected works 1971-2013'', featuring the work of [[Laurie Anderson]], who also performed her ''Duets on Ice'' outside the Samstag on opening night.<ref name=intl/>
====2019: Anzac Day==== On [[Anzac Day]] 2019, two exhibitions were launched at the Samstag: ''For Country, For Nation'', looking at the experiences of [[Indigenous Australians]] during [[World War I]], and ''Reality in flames: modern Australian art and the Second World War'', a separate exhibition featuring the work of modernists, including [[Nora Heysen]], [[Sidney Nolan]] and [[Albert Tucker (artist)|Albert Tucker]] in their response to [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite news|publisher=InDaily|url=https://indaily.com.au/arts-and-culture/2019/04/16/australias-forgotten-heroes-they-were-fighting-two-wars/|title=Australia's forgotten heroes: 'They were fighting two wars'|first=Suzie|last=Keen|access-date=21 August 2019}}</ref>
====2024: Archie Moore==== ''Dwelling (Adelaide Issue)'', an installation by [[Archie Moore (artist)|Archie Moore]], whose work is represented in the [[Australian pavilion]] at the [[60th Venice Biennale|2024 Venice Biennale]], was created in collaboration with filmmaker [[Molly Reynolds (director)|Molly Reynolds]] under the auspices of the [[Adelaide Film Festival]]. The exhibition, which runs from 11 October 2024 until 29 November 2024, is the fifth iteration of the work ''Dwelling'', based on memories of Moore's childhood bedroom.<ref name=foster2024>{{cite web |first=Farrin |last=Foster|title=Memories blur and blend in Archie Moore’s immersive ‘Dwelling’ |website=InReview |date=24 October 2024 |url=https://inreview.com.au/inreview/visual-art/2024/10/24/memories-blur-and-blend-in-archie-moores-immersive-dwelling/ |access-date=30 October 2024}}</ref>
==Samstag scholarships== The Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships were established in 1991 through a bequest from the Samstags' estate. "Each scholarship includes, for twelve months of overseas study, a tax-exempt stipend equivalent to {{USD|48,000}}, plus return airfares and institutional fees."<ref name=Samstag/> From zero to a dozen scholarships have been awarded each year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unisa.edu.au/Business-community/Samstag-Museum/Samstag-Scholarships/The-Samstag-alumni/|title=The University of South Australia: Home|website=Unisa.edu.au|accessdate=21 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unisa.edu.au/Business-community/samstag-museum/Samstag-Scholarships/|title=Samstag scholarships|website=University of South Australia. Samstag Museum|access-date=21 August 2019 }}</ref>
Past recipients include [[Megan Walch]] (1994), [[John Kelly (artist)|John Kelly]] (1995), and [[Darren Siwes]] (2002), [[Ruth Marshall]], [[Rozalind Drummond]], [[Susan Fereday]], [[Kathy Temin]], [[Julie Gough]], [[Nicholas Folland]], [[Shaun Gladwell]], [[Monte Masi]], [[Sasha Grbich]] and [[Darren Siwes]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wolfe |first1=Ross |last2=DeLong |first2=Lea Rosson |title=The Samstag legacy : an artist's bequest |date=2016 |publisher=Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia |location=Adelaide, South Australia |isbn=9780994335081 |page=328 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/231516137 |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The University of South Australia: Home |url=https://www.unisa.edu.au/Business-community/Samstag-Museum/Samstag-Scholarships/The-Samstag-alumni/ |website=www.unisa.edu.au |language=en-AU}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.unisa.edu.au/Business-community/Samstag-Museum/ Official website]
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