Artes Mundi 10

Presenting Partner: Bagri Foundation

20 October 2023 – 25 February 2024

Chapter, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Mostyn, National Museum Cardiff, Oriel Davies Gallery

Overview

Artes Mundi 10, Presenting Partner: Bagri Foundation, will prove a watershed moment for Artes Mundi as we simultaneously celebrate the legacies of the past twenty years working with some of the most exceptional artistic voices of recent times while looking ahead to ensuring we remain relevant for the next twenty years.

To mark this 20th anniversary, the AM10 exhibition will for the first time be presented across Wales at five nationwide venues, National Museum Cardiff and Chapter in Cardiff; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, Oriel Davies Gallery in Newtown and Mostyn in Llandudno, providing even greater opportunities for national and international audiences to experience the show. The AM10 exhibition will comprise significant solo presentations of new and existing work by seven international contemporary artists.

Jurors

Katya García-Antón
Director and chief curator of the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)
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Katya García-Antón
Wanda Nanibush
Curator of Indigenous Art and co-head of the Indigenous & Canadian Art Department at Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.
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Wanda Nanibush
Gabi Ngcobo
Artist, curator and educator living in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Gabi Ngcobo

Artists

Mounira Al SolhDerek Williams Trust Artes Mundi Purchase Prize WinnerNational Museum Cardiff
Mounira Al Solh (b 1978, Lebanon, lives and works between Beirut and Amsterdam) has had exhibitions at Museumsquartier Osnabrück, Germany (2022); BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2022); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2020); Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2018); Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (2018); and The Art Institute Chicago (2018).She has also participated in group exhibitions including the Sharjah Biennial (2023); Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmengen, the Netherlands (2022); Busan Biennale (2022); ROZENSTRAAT, Amsterdam (2022); Musée National de Pablo Picasso–La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris, France (2020); Palais De Tokyo, Paris (2020); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2020); Carré d’Art Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes (2018); Documenta 14, Kassel and Athens (2017); Venice Biennale (2015); New Museum Triennial, New York (2012); Sharjah Biennial 9 (2009); and 11th International Istanbul Biennial (2009), among others.She is the winner of the ABN AMRO Art Award (2023); received the Uriôt Prize from the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2007); and the Black Magic Woman Award, Amsterdam (2007). She was also shortlisted for the Abraaj Group Art Prize, Dubai (2015) and nominated for the Volkskrant Award, Amsterdam (2009). Her video Rawane’s Song won the jury prize at Videobrasil (2007). She learned the double bass at the national conservatory of music in Lebanon, then studied painting at the Lebanese University in Beirut (1997–2001) and Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (2003–06). She was also a research resident at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2007–08).Mounira Al Solh is represented by Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg/Beirut and Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp.
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Mounira Al Solh
Rushdi AnwarNational Museum Cardiff
In his work, Rushdi Anwar (b 1971, Halabja, Kurdistan [Kurdistan-Iraq]) reflects on the sociopolitical issues that continue to mire the geopolitics of West Asia (historically known as “The Middle East”).Drawing on his personal experiences of displacement, conflict and trauma endured under Iraq’s colonial and ideological regimes, Anwar’s art references and generates discourse concerning the status of social equity – exploring its political, social and religious complexity via study of form and its materiality. Embracing installation, sculpture, painting, photography and video, his practice recalls the everyday plight of the thousands displaced currently suffering discrimination and persecution, while questioning the possibility of redemption and arguing for the collective necessity to attend with empathy as a social imperative. Anwar earned his PhD from RMIT University, Melbourne, and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the painting department at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. He has held solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Finland, France, Japan, Kurdistan, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, the US and Vietnam. Notable recent exhibitions include “Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present”, Sharjah (2023); “Art in Conflict”, Australian War Memorial touring exhibition, various venues, Australia (2022–24); “wHole”, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2022); “Now”, Esta Gallery at The Culture Factory, Sulaymaniyah (2022); “The Tides of the Century”, Ocean Flower Island Museum, Danzhou (2021); and “Escape Routes: Bangkok Art Biennale”, Bangkok (2020).Anwar currently lives between Chiang Mai, Thailand, and Melbourne, Australia.
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Rushdi Anwar
Carolina CaycedoChapter, Oriel Davies Gallery
Carolina Caycedo (b 1978, London) is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist living in Los Angeles.Her immense geographic multi media works are not merely art objects but gateways into larger discussions about how we treat each other and the world around us. Through her studio practice and fieldwork with communities impacted by large-scale infrastructure and other extraction projects, she invites viewers to consider the unsustainable pace of growth under capitalism and how we might embrace resistance and solidarity. Process and participation are central to Caycedo’s practice, and she contributes to the reconstruction of environmental and historical memory as a fundamental space for climate and social justice. Informed by Indigenous and feminist epistemologies, she confronts the role of the colonial gaze in the privatisation and dispossession of land and water.Recent solo museum exhibitions include “Land of Friends”, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2022–23); “Distressed Debt”, ICA San Diego (2022); “Projects: Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas”, MoMA, New York (2022); “From the Bottom of the River”, MCA Chicago (2020–21); “Cosmotarrayas”, ICA Boston (2020); “Wanaawna, Rio Hondo, and Other Spirits”, the Orange County Museum of Art (2019–20); and “Care Report”, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland (2019–20).Group exhibitions include “Thinking Historically in the Present”, Sharjah Biennial 15, UAE (2023); and Trondheim Kunsthall, Norway; “Territories of Waste”, Museum Tinguely, Basel; “Following Water”, Kunsthalle Bielefeld; “Back to Earth”, Serpentine Galleries, London; and “rīvus”, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, Australia (all 2022), among many others.Caycedo is a 2023 United States Artists fellow and 2023–24 Getty Research Institute Artist in Residence. She was a 2021–22 inaugural US Latinx Artist Fellow and a 2020–22 inaugural Borderlands Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University (ASU) and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.Carolina Caycedo is represented by Commonwealth and Council, LA and Instituto de Visión, Bogotá.
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Carolina Caycedo
Alia FaridNational Museum Cardiff
Alia Farid (b 1985) lives and works in Kuwait and Puerto Rico.Her work meditates on the intimacies of everyday objects that have been made, put to use, or operationalised by hand – mundane drinking vessels, manufacturing belts, family movies made on handheld cameras, artisanal tapestry – to excavate histories of loss and to forge pathways towards the rediscovery of shared personal connection. In material form, her works actualise conversations among people and the ecologies they inhabit in order to bring sublimated histories back to the surface, excavate material traces of the everyday, and evidence forms of creative expression that are often overlooked.She has had solo exhibitions in Kunsthalle Basel (2022); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri, (2022); Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam, (2020); and Portikus (Frankfurt am Main, (2019). Recent and upcoming group shows include participation in the Diriyah Biennale (2024), “Quite As It’s Kept”, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2022); 10th Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane (2021); “Afterglow”, Yokohama Triennale (2020); Sharjah Biennial 14: “Leaving the Echo Chamber”, UAE (2019), “Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2001” in MoMA PS1, New York (2019); 12th Gwangju Biennale: “Imagined Borders” (2018); 32nd Bienal de São Paulo: “Incerteza Viva” (2018). She has forthcoming solo exhibitions in 2023–24 at Chisenhale Gallery, London; Contemporary Art Museum Houston in partnership with Rivers Institute; CAC Passerelle, Brest; and the Detroit Institute of Arts.Alia Farid has a BFA from la Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico (San Juan), an MS from the Visual Arts Program in MIT (Cambridge) and an MA in Museum Studies and Critical Theory from the Programa d’Estudis Independents MACBA (Barcelona). She is the recipient of the 2023 Lise Wilhemsen Award and is a 2023–24 Radcliffe Institute Fellow.
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Alia Farid
Taloi HaviniArtes Mundi Prize WinnerMostyn, Chapter
Taloi Havini (b 1981, Nakas Tribe, Hakö people) was born in Arawa, Autonomous Region of Bougainville and is currently based in Brisbane, Australia.Her research practice is informed by her matrilineal ties to her land and communities in Bougainville. This manifests in works created using a range of media, including photography, audio and video, sculpture, immersive installation and print.She curates and collaborates across multi-art platforms using archives, working with communities, and developing commissions locally and internationally. Knowledge – production, transmission, inheritance, mapping and representation – are central themes in Havini’s work where she examines these in relation to land, architecture and place. Havini holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University. Solo exhibitions include “The Soul Expanding Ocean #1: Taloi Havini” (curated by Chus Martínez), Ocean Space, Campo San Lorenzo, Venice, a commission for the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2021); “Reclamation”, Artspace, Sydney (2020); “Habitat”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including “In the Heart of Another Country”, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2022); 17th Istanbul Biennial (2022); “A beast, a god, and a line”, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway (2020); Sharjah Biennial 13, UAE (2017); 3rd Aichi Triennial, Nagoya (2016); and 8th & 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2015 and 2018). Havini’s artwork is held in public and private collections including TBA21–Academy; Sharjah Art Foundation; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art; National Gallery of Victoria; and KADIST, San Francisco, CA, USA.Taloi Havini is represented by Silverlens, Manila and New York.
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Nguyễn Trinh ThiChapter, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Nguyễn Trinh Thi (b 1973, Hanoi) is a Hanoi-based filmmaker and artist.Traversing boundaries between film and video art, installation and performance, her practice currently explores the power of sound and listening, and the multiple relations between image, sound, and space, with ongoing interests in history, memory, representation, ecology, and the unknown.The works of Nguyễn Trinh Thi have been shown at international film festivals and exhibitions including the Asia Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art (APT9) in Brisbane; Sydney Biennale (2018); Jeu de Paume, Paris; the Lyon Biennale (2015); Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial (2014); and Singapore Biennale (2013). Most recently, in 2022, her mixed-media installation, And They Die A Natural Death, was exhibited at Documenta15 in Kassel, Germany (2022).
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Nguyễn Trinh Thi
Naomi Rincón GallardoChapter
Naomi Rincón Gallardo (b 1979) is a visual artist living and working between Mexico City and Oaxaca.From a decolonial-cuir perspective, her research-driven critical-mythical world-makings address the creation of counter-worlds in neocolonial settings. In her work she integrates her interests in theatre games, popular music, Mesoamerican cosmologies, speculative fiction, vernacular festivities and crafts, decolonial feminisms and queer of colour critique. She completed the PhD in Practice doctoral programme at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.Recent solo exhibitions include “Tzitzimime Trilogy”, la Casa Encendida Madrid (2023); “Una Trilogía de Cuevas (A Trilogy of Caves)”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (2020); “May Your Thunder Break the Sky”, Kunstraum Innsbruck (2020); “Heavy Blood”, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City (2019).Group exhibitions and performative screenings include: “Cosmovisions on Land and Entangled Futures”, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (2023–24); “Masquerades: Drawn to Metamorphosis”, MOMENTA Biennale de l’image, Montreal (2023); 59th Venice Biennale (2022); 34th Bienal de São Paulo (2021); 11th Berlin Biennale (2020).Naomi Rincón Gallardo is represented by Parallel Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Naomi Rincón Gallardo

Installation images

An art installation featuring a green, octagonal canopy on a rug, encircled by blue banners with embroidered Islamic patterns and calligraphy. A neon sign with Arabic script glows on the back wall.

An art gallery with blue patterned fabric hangings in the foreground and a colorful painting on a white wall.

A long row of colorful portrait drawings displayed on a dark blue shelf in an art gallery.

A gallery interior with a large, patterned light-colored textile draped from the ceiling, three framed textile artworks on a white wall, and a long gray bench on a red rug.

Three framed photographs depicting damaged church interiors and religious imagery are displayed against a large black and white image of a ruined building. Two open wooden chests sit in the foreground.

A gallery exhibit with rows of small black and white photographs on shelves, three text panels, and several open dark display boxes on black stands on a wooden floor.

Blue portrait on a blue wall, red portrait of a uniformed man on a red wall, and a document display case in an art gallery.

A bright art gallery with white walls and wood floor, featuring a black and white photo and a colorful illustration on the left wall, and a dark gramophone-like sculpture on a white pedestal on the right.

An art installation with large, draped fabric panels displaying abstract patterns and a large screen showing an underwater scene.

An art gallery featuring four colorful paintings on a white wall and a long, wavy table displaying books or papers on a wooden floor.

An art installation features large, colorful, rounded forms hanging overhead, dark textured panels to the left, and a video projection showing two bare-chested figures with raised hands on a large screen.

An art gallery with a light wooden floor, white walls, two colorful paintings, a "Greenham Common Peace Camp" textile banner, a white banner with numerous sketches, and a winding display table.

Plastic bottles littering ancient stone steps are projected large on a wall in a dark gallery space.

Light brown sculptures resembling bottles, jugs, and a jerry can labeled 'Lovely Gift From Blessed Land', in a gallery.

Oversized pale sculptures of a jug, a plastic bottle, and a jerrycan-like container in a modern art gallery.

A person sits on a bench in a dark room, watching a projected video of two people in water among reeds, with subtitles.

Suspended vulture puppet with a pink head, red neck, and black body.

Video art of a person with blue lips and elaborate headwear projected large in a dark gallery.

A gray wall displaying a scattered collection of small, colorful artworks, including various creatures and figures.

An art gallery features a large video projection of two costumed figures, with a small red object hanging in a dimly lit corner.

Corner of a gallery space with two walls, each displaying a horizontal row of small landscape photographs.

Three illuminated screens in a dark room display images of overgrown industrial ruins, viewed by two silhouetted figures.

Three angled panels against a black background each show a patterned purple-brown surface, a small blue object, and a patch of clear bubble wrap.

Modern cafe with people at tables, a wall mural of people walking in water, and three digital art screens showing colorful coral and sea anemones.

Dimly lit room with projected leaf patterns on walls and ceiling, a black counter with glowing plants, and hanging yellow objects.

A small green plant is brightly lit by two spotlights within a dark, angular enclosure. Large leaf shadows are cast on the background wall.

Two people view an immersive art installation with large leaf shadows projected onto the walls and ceiling, and subtle yellow objects hanging from above.

A dark room with large, overlapping plant shadows covering the walls, and a yellow cord hanging from the ceiling.

Prize

The winner of the Artes Mundi 10 Prize is multidisciplinary artist Taloi Havini (born Bougainville, Nakas/Hakö tribe; lives and works in Australia).

Taloi Havini employs a research practice informed by her matrilineal ties to her land and communities in Bougainville. This manifests in works created using a range of media including photography, audio–video, sculpture, immersive installation and print. She curates and collaborates across multi-art platforms using archives, working with communities and developing commissions locally and internationally. Knowledge—production, transmission, inheritance, mapping and representation are central themes in Havini’s work where she examines these in relation to land, architecture and place.