18 Sep Who Are the Finalists for the Artes Mundi Prize 2024?

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Jumana Emil Abboud, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe are among six artists who will exhibit at venues around Wales from October.

Cardiff-based arts organisation Artes Mundi announced the six artists shortlisted for the biennial £40,000 prize and the venues in Wales where their work will be exhibited.

‘We are delighted to announce the six selected artists for AM11 who collectively speak imaginatively and with pressing eloquence to concerns within our contemporary world,’ said the director of Artes Mundis, Nigel Prince.

The Artes Mundi 11 nominees are Palestinian artist Jumana Emil Abboud, Zambian-born Anawana Haloba, Antonio Paucar from Peru, Californian artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Australian artist Sancintya Mohini Simpson, and Myanmar-born Sawangwongse Yawnghwe.

The winner will be announced during the accompanying biennial exhibition spread across five venues in Wales from 17 October 2025 to 22 February 2026.

National Museum Cardiff. Courtesy Artes Mundi.

‘Considering the fractious global politics we currently face, the jury noted particular strength in the selected artists’ stories, experiences and inherited memories as timely and necessary,’ the selection committee explained.

The winner will be chosen by curators Zoe Butt and Marie Helene Pereira, and the director of New York’s SculptureCenter, Sohrab Mohebbi.

For the first time, National Museum in Cardiff will host work by all six artists, with further solo presentations at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, in Aberystwyth, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, MOSTYN in Llandudno, and Chapter in Cardiff.

Since 2002, Artes Mundi has recognised artists who make work dealing with the human condition by providing support at crucial stages of their careers.

Its first award went to Chinese artist Xu Bing in 2004, per its original format. In 2015, the artist Theaster Gates remarkably split the prize with other shortlisted artists, while in 2021, the jury decided all six artists should receive the prize.

Last year’s winner was Taloi Havini with a video series, ‘Habitat’ (2007), that documents the impacts of mining on the landscape of her hometown of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. —[O]

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