Artist Khaled Sabsabi has received a $100,000 grant from Creative Australia for a new exhibition, months after the agency reinstated him as the Venice Biennale representative for 2026 following his controversial axing.

The grant will allow the western Sydney-based artist to create a major new work for the Samstag Museum of Art in Adelaide. Details of the commission are under wraps, but it must be unveiled by the end of June 2027.

The announcement from Creative Australia makes no mention of the high-profile debacle that followed Sabsabi’s appointment to Venice , when he was sacked just days later.

Together with curator Michael Dagostino, Sabsabi was in February announced as Australia’s representative for the prestigious event. But the invitation was abruptly revoked after a series of

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