ABORA 4 | 4th Australian Biennale of Reductive Arts
Aaron Martin, Angharad Evans, Annelies Jahn, Anya Pesce, Beata Geyer, Belinda Yee, Billy Gruner, Brent Hallard, Chantal Grech, Chris Packer, Christine Dean, Cornelis Timmer, Deb Covell, Don Voisine, Elizabeth Day, Elizabeth Rankin, Elke Wohlfahrt, Gary Warner and Audrey Warner, Giles Ryder, Helen Shields, Isobel Johnston, Jamie Jude Smith, Jan Handel, Kate Galea, Kate Mackay, Kath O'Donnell, Kendal Heyes, Kyle Jenkins, Laurence Kimmel, Lisa Jones, Lisa Pang, Liz Shreeve, Louise Blyton, Louise Owen, Louise P Sloane, Luna Gui, Lynne Eastaway, Margaret Roberts, Mark Titmarsh, Marlene Sarroff, Merryn Trevethan, Neerja Chandna Peters, Nicole Ellis, Penny Coss, Peter de Lorenzo, Phong Le, Pia Larsen, PJ Hickman, Pollyxenia Joannou, Raymond Carter, Rolande Souliere, Sandra Curry, Sarah Fitzgerald, Sarah Keighery, Sarah Robson, Shelley Jardine, Sue Callanan, Susan Andrews, Suzan Shutan, Tarn McLean, Terri Brooks, Tilman, Tom Loveday, Yvette Hamilton
Curated by Beata Geyer
Wholespace | Opens on Sep 6 until Sep 28 | Fri, Sat & Sun
The Sydney exhibition of the 4th Australian Biennale of Reductive Art (ABORA 4), presented at Articulate project space, brings together artists whose practices engage with reductive and non-objective strategies as modes of critical and material inquiry.
4th Australian Biennale of Reductive Arts (ABORA 4)
Articulate project space, Sydney
6-28 September 2025
Curator Beata Geyer
The Sydney exhibition of the 4th Australian Biennale of Reductive Arts (ABORA 4), presented at Articulate project space, brings together artists whose practices engage with reductive and non-objective strategies as modes of critical and material inquiry.
While independently curated, the exhibition contributes to a broader national and international dialogue on the evolving language of abstraction and its place within contemporary visual culture.
Informed by the legacies of post-conceptual and post-formalist traditions, the works explore form as process, reduction as resistance, and abstraction as a space of perceptual and material experimentation. Rather than pursuing detachment or purity, the artists embrace ambiguity, resonance and the complexity of lived experience.
The exhibition highlights the strength of Sydney based practices, alongside a selection of interstate and international artists, whose work interrogates form, colour, surface, structure, repetition and spatial tension.
Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, sound, video and performance, these artists challenge the perceived neutrality of reductive art. Their practices reframe it as an active, responsive mode, attuned to presence, environment and the shifting thresholds between gesture and restraint.
Articulate project space, long committed to spatial and experimental practice, offers an ideal context for this inquiry. Here, reduction becomes a way to focus, sharpening attention, slowing perception and opening space for uncertainty. Works unfold through quiet insistence, shifting our engagement from looking to sensing, from object to condition.
This exhibition proposes reductive and non-objective approaches as essential and evolving modes of visual and critical engagement. These practices open a space for reflection, tension and possibility. In a world saturated with image and noise, they invite us to consider what remains, what endures, and what might emerge when less becomes more.
Beata Geyer
August 2025
Articulate project space, Sydney
6-28 September 2025
Curator Beata Geyer
The Sydney exhibition of the 4th Australian Biennale of Reductive Arts (ABORA 4), presented at Articulate project space, brings together artists whose practices engage with reductive and non-objective strategies as modes of critical and material inquiry.
While independently curated, the exhibition contributes to a broader national and international dialogue on the evolving language of abstraction and its place within contemporary visual culture.
Informed by the legacies of post-conceptual and post-formalist traditions, the works explore form as process, reduction as resistance, and abstraction as a space of perceptual and material experimentation. Rather than pursuing detachment or purity, the artists embrace ambiguity, resonance and the complexity of lived experience.
The exhibition highlights the strength of Sydney based practices, alongside a selection of interstate and international artists, whose work interrogates form, colour, surface, structure, repetition and spatial tension.
Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, sound, video and performance, these artists challenge the perceived neutrality of reductive art. Their practices reframe it as an active, responsive mode, attuned to presence, environment and the shifting thresholds between gesture and restraint.
Articulate project space, long committed to spatial and experimental practice, offers an ideal context for this inquiry. Here, reduction becomes a way to focus, sharpening attention, slowing perception and opening space for uncertainty. Works unfold through quiet insistence, shifting our engagement from looking to sensing, from object to condition.
This exhibition proposes reductive and non-objective approaches as essential and evolving modes of visual and critical engagement. These practices open a space for reflection, tension and possibility. In a world saturated with image and noise, they invite us to consider what remains, what endures, and what might emerge when less becomes more.
Beata Geyer
August 2025
Opening | Sat Sep 6, 3-5pm
Opening for the 4th Australian Biennale of Reductive Art (ABORA 4), bringing together 62 artists whose practices engage with reductive and non-objective strategies. Join us in the celebration!
Artists and Curator Talk 1st | Sun Sep 14, 2pm - 4pm
"Artists and Curator Talk Join us for a conversation about the ideas, process and context behind the current exhibition "
Artists and Curator Talk 2nd | Sun Sep 21, 2pm - 4pm
Artists and Curator Talk Join us for a conversation about the ideas, process and context behind the current exhibition
