October 6th 2012 Artes Mundi is an internationally focused arts organisation that identifies, recognises and supports contemporary visual artists who engage with social reality and lived experience. Artes Mundi is a research process that begins with an open call to nominate artists from anywhere in the world, leading to a biennial exhibition and prize selected from the nominations, concluding with commissions that arise from that process. The exhibition brings together a group of artists whose work stimulates debate about social and political themes. In 2010 Yael Bartana was the recipient of the £40,000 prize awarded during Artes Mundi 4.
