Presenting partner Bagri Foundation
October 24, 2025–March 1, 2026
Cathays Park
Cardiff Cardiff CF10 3NP
United Kingdom
The UK’s leading biennial exhibition and international contemporary art prize is delighted to announce the launch of its eleventh edition continuing its mission to stimulate dialogue and debate, internationally and locally, that develops a greater understanding of ourselves, of others, and of the relations between familiar and distant cultures.
Artes Mundi 11 (AM11), with Presenting Partner: Bagri Foundation, features six international contemporary visual artists and takes place across Wales from October 24, 2025 to March 1, 2026.
Centred on the continuing examination of the ‘human condition’, this edition includes a group exhibition at the National Museum Cardiff including all six artists acting as a focal point, augmented by solo presentations of work by 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.
These series of exhibitions include ambitious new productions representing the fundamental core of each artist’s practice. The interplay between the artists, their individual presentations and the locations, use personal histories and inherited memories to tell stories that have been long silenced. We are asked to bear witness to our past, examining the effects that continue to underscore our lives. Rooted in personal histories, language and storytelling, artists examine issues of belonging, loss, memory and migration with consequent trauma and environmental cost.
The winner of the prestigious GBP 40,000 Artes Mundi Prize—the UK’s largest contemporary art prize—and, in partnership with Amgueddfa Cymru, the Derek Williams Trust Artes Mundi Purchase Prize, will be announced at an award reception at the National Museum Cardiff on January 15, 2026.
Previous winners of the Artes Mundi Prize are Taloi Havini (2024), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2019), John Akomfrah (2017), Theaster Gates (2015), Teresa Margolles (2013), Yael Bartana (2010), N S Harsha (2008), Eija-Liisa Ahtila (2006), and Xu Bing (2004).
