The biannual Artes Mundi prize awards artists working internationally whose work deals with social reality and lived experience and is the UK’s largest art prize at £40,000. Past winners include Theaster Gates, John Akomfrah, Yael Bartana and famously the most recent prize was awarded to all five nominees Firelei Báez, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Meiro Koizumi, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Prabhakar Pachpute and Carrie Mae Weems.
Now in its tenth edition the prize, which is based and exhibited around Wales, is headed up by Nigel Prince who has also curated this year’s exhibitions. This year’s artists Mounira Al Solh, Rushdi Anwar, Alia Farid, Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Taloi Havini, Carolina Caycedo and Naomi Rincón Gallardo are taking place in different venues across the country in a series of curated exhibitions rather than in one central location for the first time.
