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The Biennale of Sydney announces further artists, project highlights and initial programming for its 2026 edition: Rememory being presented free to the public from 14 March to 14 June 2026.
With the Artistic program being led by internationally acclaimed curator Hoor Al Qasimi, the 25th Biennale of Sydney: Rememory takes its title from celebrated author Toni Morrison, exploring the intersection of memory and history as a means of revisiting, reconstructing, and reclaiming histories that have been erased or repressed. By engaging with Rememory, artists from across the world and within Australia reflect on their own roots while engaging with Sydney and its surrounding communities and histories, exploring global themes that connect us.
The edition will highlight marginalised narratives, share untold stories, and inspire audiences to rethink how memory shapes identity and belonging, amplifying stories from First Nations communities, and the divergent diasporas that shape Australia today. A dedicated program for children and young audiences will provide space and exploration for these stories to be passed on to the next generations.
Respected Yindjibarndi Elder Wendy Hubert expands her arts practice to create a large-scale native plant garden that celebrates ancestral knowledge at the Lewers: Penrith Regional Gallery. Focussing on native plants that are used for food, medicine, and ceremonial purposes, the garden will be a space for communities to gather, learn, and yarn.
Monica Rani-Rudhar presents a vibrant and poetic new multi-channel video installation exploring the colonial legacies of both trauma and resistance embodied in family stories, heirlooms and bloodlines. This work at the Lewers: Penrith Regional Gallery uses Rani-Rudhar’s personal history to interrogate the dual ideas of inheritance and intergenerational trauma.
About the Artists
Yindjibarndi Elder Wendy Hubert
Wendy Hubert is a respected Yindjibarndi Elder, cultural custodian, artist and linguist. Born at Red Hill Station on Guruma Country, Hubert lived at Red Hill Station, Minderoo Station and Onslow before settling in Roebourne. She began painting with Juluwarlu Art Group in 2019 and has become a dedicated artist known for her landscape paintings recounting scenes from her childhood and featuring important places on Yindjibarndi and Guruma Country. In a powerful testament to her artistic journey, Hubert reflects: “I know my Ngurra. I know its Laws. I am a Yindjibarndi Custodian, old now, but strong in my thinking and my life.” (2021)
Monica Rani-Rudhar
Monica Rani Rudhar is an artist based on Gadigal land, working across sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice explores the themes of longing and loss related to cultural identity, tracing intergenerational stories within her family to create space for imaginative possibilities. Born to Indian and Romanian migrant parents, her work is influenced by the forces of cultural conformity, essentialisation, and commodification within a settler colonial context. Rani Rudhar’s practice seeks to restore familial histories, traditions, and rituals that have been dispersed by the migration and displacement of her ancestors. Through her auto-ethnographic approach, she translates her family’s fragmented oral histories to reclaim narratives of relationships, resistance, and ritual. These stories intertwine, weaving a personal mythology that manifests their cultural fictions and futures in so-called Australia.
Image Credits:
Monica Rani Rudhar. Photograph: Jacquie Manning
Wendy Hubert. Courtesy of the artist and Juluwarlu. Photograph: Claire Martin. .
Previous works by the Artists
"The Biennale has always been a site for the most vital, urgent, and resonant art of its moment. Yet this edition feels especially present, even insistent—an irony, perhaps, as Rememory turns to the written, visual, and oral histories of culture, context, family, and country. I am deeply honoured to collaborate with such extraordinary artists, to accompany them in their processes, and to collectively honour Toni Morrison’s words. Together, we illuminate the overlooked and forgotten histories upon which the world is built."
Hoor Al Qasimi, Artistic Director, Biennale of Sydney
"Bold new commissions and dynamic programming across art, music, food, performance, talks, and workshops, will offer audiences experiences that sparks joy, deepen empathy, and ignite connection – an experience that will be as thought-provoking as it is unforgettable"
Barbara Moore, Chief Executive Officer, Biennale of Sydney
