Tenth-anniversary edition
October 20, 2023–February 25, 2024
With presenting partner the Bagri Foundation, Artes Mundi 10 (AM10), the UK’s leading biennial exhibition and international contemporary art prize, will for the first time present seven international contemporary visual artists across five venue partners in Wales for its tenth anniversary edition. Taking place from October 20, 2023 to February 25, 2024, the winner of the prestigious 40,000 GBP Artes Mundi Prize—the UK’s largest contemporary art prize—will be announced during the exhibition run.
AM10 will see each artist present a major solo project, including new productions, unseen works and several UK premieres. Some artists are presenting across multiple venues, whilst every artist will have work at a location in Cardiff.
The artist exhibition locations for AM10 are: Mounira Al Solh, Rushdi Anwar and Alia Farid at National Museum Cardiff (one of the Amgueddfa Cymru—Museum Wales family of museums); Nguyễn Trinh Thi at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea and Chapter, Cardiff; Taloi Havini at Mostyn, Llandudno and Chapter, Cardiff; Carolina Caycedo at Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown and Chapter, Cardiff; and Naomi Rincón Gallardo at Chapter, Cardiff.
Nigel Prince, Director of Artes Mundi, said: “AM10 promises to be a stimulating and thoughtful series of presentations. Working with each artist and our venue partners, we are able to present a series of in-depth shows that collectively address issues surrounding land use, territory and displacement through histories of environmental change, conflict and enforced migration, conditions that that speak to us all today.”
As an important arbiter of cultural exchange between the UK and international communities, Artes Mundi has built a reputation for bringing together art by some of the most relevant artistic voices engaging with urgent topics of our time. Past editions have seen Artes Mundi work with artists at crucial stages of their careers, often being their first introduction to UK audiences, with many now established figures on the world stage, including Dineo Seshee Bopape, Prabhakar Pachpute, Ragnar Kjartansson, Theaster Gates, John Akomfrah, Teresa Margolles, Xu Bing, and Tania Bruguera.
Images: [1] Alia Farid, In Lieu of What Is. Installation view, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 2022. [2] Nguyễn Trinh Thi, And They Die a Natural Death, 2022. Installation view, documenta 15, Rondell, Kassel, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Nguyen Anh-Tuan. [3] Carolina Caycedo, Fuel to Fire (still), 2023. Video, color, sound. Commissioned by Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present. Courtesy of the artist. © Carolina Caycedo. [4] Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Verses of Filth (chamarra) (still), 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Parallel Oaxaca. [5] Taloi Havini, Habitat, 2018–19. HD, colour, black and white, 5.1 surround sound, 10:33 minutes. Installation view, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Zan Wimberley. [6] Mounira Al Solh, I strongly believe in our right to be frivolous, 2014–ongoing. Mixed-media drawing on legal paper, 35 x 22 cm each. Installation view, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2022. Courtesy of Rob Harris, the artist, and Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut/Hamburg. [7] Rushdi Anwar, We have found in the ashes what we lost in the fire, 2018. Mixed medium embedded within wooden box. 12 boxes, 32.5 x 22.5 x 9 cm each (one edition). Installation dimensions variable.
