TarraWarra International 2026: System Release

TarraWarra International 2026: System Release (21 March – 5 July 2026) presents ten artists from Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia and Mexico who reach into the chaos of global precarity to create new systems of order across a wide range of media. The exhibition proposes a different understanding of order as a kind of friendship with chaos, presenting personal and collective strategies for making sense of a rapidly changing world.

Curated by Dr Emily Cormack (Aotearoa/New Zealand and Naarm/Melbourne), who was appointed Head of Exhibitions and Programs at TarraWarra in April 2025, the exhibition invites audiences to consider alternative systems of knowledge and ways of being, grounded in First Nations thinking, posthumanism, collective intelligence and more-than-human worldviews.

Participating artists: Daniel Boyd, Francis Carmody, Megan Cope, Jose Dávila, Alicia Frankovich, Marco Fusinato, Nikau Hindin, Nicholas Mangan, Dane Mitchell and Shannon Te Ao

About TarraWarra International:

Established in 2013, the TarraWarra International series supports Australian artists to present their work within a global context by exhibiting alongside leading contemporary practitioners from abroad. The initiative situates their practices within international conversations and expands opportunities for critical engagement with contemporary art. Each edition of TarraWarra International has explored key developments in contemporary practice, from relationships between the animate and inanimate to shifting experiences of temporality and speculative responses to the archive, including Animate/Inanimate (2013), Pierre Huyghe (2015), All that is solid… (2017) and The Tangible Trace (2019). Paused during and after the global pandemic, the program returns in 2026 with System Release, curated by Dr Emily Cormack; now alternating every two years with the TarraWarra Biennial, the series remains committed to rigorous curatorial research, ambitious new commissions and providing audiences with accessible, thought‑provoking encounters with major works by leading Australian and international artists.

Artwork: Marco Fusinato 02, DESASTRES dlce34aza7o1pjlcet7q.jpg, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and PALAS, Sydney