Artes Mundi 3 Jury
The Judges for Artes Mundi 3 are Xu Bing, Jack Persekian, Tuula Arkio and David Alston.
The Artes Mundi 3 Prize, worth £40,000, will be awarded on 24 April 2008.
Xu Bing , artist and the new vice president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, is most well known for his iconic Book from the Sky, which is arguably one of China’s most important works of art of the 20 th century. Xu Bing returns to Artes Mundi as a judge after winning the inaugural Artes Mundi Prize in 2004 for his haunting installation Where does the dust itself collect (2004).
Jack Persekian is a curator and writer and was Director of the Middle East’s prestigious Sharjah Biennale in 2007.
Tuula Arkio is a freelance curator and writer and is the former General Director of the National Art Galleries, Helsinki.
David Alston is Arts Director of Arts Council Wales and a curator. He was Keeper of Art at the National Museum and Galleries of Wales in Cardiff for four years during the 1990’s