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Artes Mundi 10

The biennial art prize for international activist artists celebrates its 10th birthday with seven nominations. The work of each artist will feature in the AM10 exhibition, which continues to February 2024 in five locations around the prize’s home nation of…
Alia Farid: ‘The vessel shapes speak of the different cultural and trade networks in the Arabian and Gulf peninsula’

The industrialisation of water infrastructure and its damaging environmental impacts underpin Alia Farid’s work. At the opening of Artes Mundi 10, she talks about hervast sculptures in the shape of water vessels that speak of different trades, cultures and eras
Rushdi Anwar: ‘My work is a reflection on the hypocrisy of politics and politicians’

At the opening of Artes Mundi 10, Anwar, a Kurdish-born artist who now divides his time between Thailand and Australia, discusses his work’s articulation of the violence and degradation brought about by divisive ideologies and colonialism
Carolina Caycedo: ‘There are struggles that are connected worldwide. Hopefully my work becomes a bridge between these struggles’

At the opening of Artes Mundi 10, Caycedo talks about her work exposing environmental abuses, racial injustice and celebrating acts of feminist and indigenous resistance
Reimag(in)ing the Victorians in Contemporary Art

This rigorously researched and curated, yet aesthetically delightful, exhibition forces the visitor to reckon with Oscar Wilde’s statement that the one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it
Ofelia Rodríguez: Talking in Dreams

Though she lived abroad for most of her life, her exuberant use of colour and fantastical visions show that Rodríguez maintained a persistent and complex dialogue with her Latin American and Caribbean heritage
Real Families: Stories of Change

Bringing together portraiture from modern painters and setting them against historic depictions, this exhibition looks at how the idea of family has transformed in the past 50 years
Olga Grotova – interview: ‘I started to think how soil and plants are sometimes the only witnesses’

In her east London studio, Olga Grotova talks about the ‘choreographic’ process and inspiration for dense, mysterious works bearing the imprints of plants and limbs, layered with soil and pigments to reveal hidden narratives and tales of trauma
José Parlá – interview: ‘I was experiencing flashbacks to my dreams from the coma, and I put that into these paintings’

Following a life-and-death experience, the New York-based Cuban artist explores different notions of reality in breathtaking paintings that capture the lights we all see in the dark
El Anatsui – interview: ‘My inspiration comes from things people have used – there are so many endless delights’

As his huge installation begins at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this month, the artist talks about African identity, authenticity and being inspired by your own environment