Tag: Artes Mundi
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Artes Mundi 11 Prize and Exhibition
Against a background of divisive global politics and hysteria around migration, the six artists shortlisted for the 2025 Artes Mundi prize focus on the losses endured by displaced peoples, and the disempowerment arising from imposed colonial narratives. We review this…
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Jumana Emil Abboud – interview
‘We can be anything we want to be through the stories we can make and unmake’
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Anawana Haloba – interview
‘With everything that’s going on in the world, we talk about things, but we really don’t listen’
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Stepping Softly on the Earth
Twenty artists, mostly non-western and indigenous, consider how dam projects, diamond mining, monoculture and other human interventions have affected their lands and way of life
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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Artes Mundi 9
The six shortlisted artists for 2021 explore colonialism, environmental breakdown and contentious histories. All credit to this online offering, but to fully experience the power of these works, they need to be seen in person
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Prabhakar Pachpute – interview: ‘I juxtapose memories and what is happening in real life’
Prabhakar Pachpute talks about growing up in a coal-mining region in India, and how its associated landscape and characters have become his subject matter
