Artes Mundi 5 call for artist nominations

19th April 2011

Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Artes Mundi reveals new developments in Prize.

Artes Mundi, the UK’s largest art prize, launches its global call for the nomination of artists on 19 April. The closing date for nominations is 26 June this year. Nominations are reviewed by two established international curators who select a shortlist of six artists for the biennial exhibition in 2012. One artist will receive the £40,000 Prize and all other shortlisted artists will receive a new award of £4,000 each.

The call for nominations begins an international research process that enables Artes Mundi to recognise and support contemporary visual artists whose work engages with social reality, lived experience and the human condition. It gives a platform to artists who are established in their country or region and are emerging internationally but who are under recognised in the UK. The two selectors will be announced during the nomination period, and the artist shortlist will be revealed this September.

Exhibition and Prize Move to Autumn Dates

Artes Mundi 5 will open in September 2012 and run for three months, moving from the spring dates of previous Artes Mundi exhibitions. Ben Borthwick, Artes Mundi’s new Chief Executive and Artistic Director, said:
 
“By moving Artes Mundi 5 to the autumn, it will join a group of headline events in the international visual arts calendar that also take place in the UK during that season, including the Turner Prize, Frieze Art Fair and Liverpool Biennial. This is the appropriate context in which Artes Mundi will celebrate its tenth anniversary.”

An international judging panel awards the Artes Mundi Prize midway through the exhibition in November 2012.

New Artes Mundi and Mostyn Partnership

Ben Borthwick, who joined Artes Mundi from Tate Modern last autumn, revealed that the organisation has formed a new long term partnership with Mostyn in Llandudno. In future, following each Artes Mundi cycle, one of the shortlisted artists will be invited to present a solo exhibition in Mostyn’s recently refurbished galleries the year after the Prize. He said:

“This partnership with Mostyn enables us to broaden the access of audiences in North Wales to Artes Mundi. It also deepens our ongoing support of artists: the Prize recognises exceptional achievement for an existing body of work, while this new opportunity to develop a solo exhibition demonstrates our commitment to the development of artists’ practices.”

Martin Barlow, Director of Mostyn, said:
 
“Artes Mundi working with galleries is a significant development for the visual arts in Wales. Mostyn looks forward to creating an exciting joint project with Artes Mundi for 2013 as the start of an important and evolving long-term collaboration.”

National Museum of Art

Artes Mundi 5 will be installed in almost 800 square metres of new contemporary art galleries at Wales’ National Museum of Art under the roof of National Museum Cardiff, reinforcing Artes Mundi’s longstanding partnership with the Museum. Ben Borthwick said:
 
“The National Museum of Art has created exceptionally beautiful spaces that sensitively combine a white cube aesthetic with the building’s various architectural histories. This is a clear statement of the role of contemporary art in the Museum’s vision and Artes Mundi is proud that the positive audience reaction to its first four exhibitions has contributed so much to the development of that vision over the last decade.”

Details of the Artes Mundi 5 nomination process is available at www.artesmundi.org or by calling +44 (0)29 2055 5300

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