October 24, 2025–March 1, 2026
The UK’s leading biennial exhibition and international contemporary art prize is delighted to announce exhibition details for its eleventh edition, Artes Mundi 11 with presenting partner Bagri Foundation (AM11), taking place from October 24, 2025 to March 1, 2026 and featuring six international contemporary visual artists. 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 in January 2026. Following the success of AM10, for a second time AM11 will be presented nationally at five venue partners across Wales, with Aberystwyth Arts Centre participating for the first time.
All artists will be represented in a group presentation at National Museum Cardiff, acting as a central focal hub including ambitious new productions and major museum loans that speak to the fundamental core of each artist’s practice. The group show will allow thematic dialogue to be revealed between each artist, rooted in personal histories and storytelling that examine issues of loss, memory, and migration with consequent trauma and environmental cost. This will be augmented by in-depth solo exhibitions across the country.
The solo presentation locations for AM11 are: Anawana Haloba and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth; Sancintya Mohini Simpson at Chapter, Cardiff; Kameelah Janan Rasheed at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; and Jumana Emil Abboud and Antonio Paucar at Mostyn, Llandudno.
As a vital platform of cultural exchange between the UK and global artistic communities centred on the ongoing examination of the “human condition,” Artes Mundi brings together a significant biennial exhibition of contemporary art from impactful international artists. AM11 continues its legacy of presenting exceptional work in Wales that engages with the pressing issues of our time.
