Artes Mundi 11

Presenting Partner: Bagri Foundation

24 October 2025 – 1 March 2026

Chapter, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Mostyn, National Museum Cardiff, Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Overview

Artes Mundi 11 (AM11) with Presenting Partner: Bagri Foundation, will for the second time be presented across Wales at five nationwide venues, Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Aberystwyth; National Museum Cardiff and Chapter in Cardiff; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, and Mostyn in Llandudno, providing even greater opportunities for national and international audiences to experience the show. The AM11 exhibition will comprise significant solo presentations of new and existing work of six international contemporary artists.

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.

Jurors

Zoe Butt
Zoe Butt is a curator and writer, nurturing critical thinking and historically conscious artistic communities, fostering dialogue among cultures of the globalising souths. In 2022 she founded ‘in-tangible institute’, seeking a robust ecology for locally-responsive curatorial talent in Southeast Asia and is currently Lead Advisor (Southeast Asia and Oceania), Kadist Art Foundation.
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Zoe Butt
Sohrab Mohebbi
Sohrab Mohebbi is Director of SculptureCenter. Previously he served as the Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curator of the 58th Carnegie International. Mohebbi was SculptureCenter’s Curator-at-Large (2020-21), and Curator between 2018 and 2020.
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Sohrab Mohebbi
Marie Helene Pereira
Marie Helene Pereira is a Curator and cultural practitioner from Dakar, Senegal. She is Senior Curator (Performative practices) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany. Pereira is a member of RAW Material Company since its inception in 2011, and its previous Director of Programs (2019–22).
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Marie Helene Pereira

Artists

Jumana Emil AbboudNational Museum Cardiff, Mostyn
Jumana Emil Abboud draws on folklore, myths and storytelling to celebrate heritage and identify interconnectedness between different peoples through drawing, sculpture, video and performance. Central to her practice is an expanding body of works rooted in collaborative Water Divining workshops, which address ways in which local stories speak of place and survive changes in land use, occupation and dispossession centred on water sources.
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Jumana Emil Abboud. Photography Credit: Ai Iwane
Anawana HalobaAberystwyth Arts Centre, National Museum Cardiff
Anawana Haloba explores the positions of different societies within varied political, social, economic and cultural contexts, rooted in the ideological and post-independence framework of her home country of Zambia. Haloba’s artworks often begin as drafts of poetry which she uses as the basis to create sound works within performative installations.
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Anawana Haloba
Kameelah Janan RasheedGlynn Vivian Art Gallery, National Museum Cardiff
Kameelah Janan Rasheed (b. 1985) explores the poetics, politics, and pleasures of communication through her multidisciplinary practice involving the speculative relationships between written language, surrogacy, and desire. Her work spans immersive installations, public art, publications, performances, and video, with a focus on language as material and immaterial. Recent projects investigate reading and writing as transgressive, erotic acts of ingestion, immersion, enmeshment, and estrangement.
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Sancintya Mohini SimpsonDerek Williams Trust Artes Mundi Purchase Prize WinnerChapter, National Museum Cardiff
Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a descendant of indentured labourers sent from India to work on colonial sugar plantations in South Africa. Rooted in this familial background, her work navigates the complexities of migration, memory and trauma, addressing gaps and silences within the colonial archive. Her practice spans painting, video, poetry, and performance, reflecting on her maternal lineage through narratives and rituals.
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Sancintya Mohini Simpson
Antonio PaucarArtes Mundi Prize WinnerNational Museum Cardiff, Mostyn
Antonio Paucar creates a unique artistic language through performances, sculpture and related video. Drawing on his origins and the material culture of his indigenous Andean background, his practice poetically tackles contemporary conflicts faced by indigenous peoples and the ensuing environmental threats to place and home.
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Antonio Paucar
Sawangwongse YawnghweAberystwyth Arts Centre, National Museum Cardiff
Sawangwongse Yawnghwe (b. 1971) was born into the Yawnghwe royal family. His grandfather, Sao Shwe Thaik, was the first president of the Union of Burma (1948–62) after independence from Britain. Following a 1962 military coup Yawnghwe’s family was exiled, first to Thailand and then to Canada, where he grew up. He now lives and works in the Netherlands.
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Sawangwongse Yawnghwe

Installation images

Art installation with white horn-like sculptures, wooden objects, and a pot on a large organic wooden platform against a dark red wall.

An art installation with woven objects, cylindrical forms on bricks, a leaning dark mirror, and white horn-like sculptures arranged on a wooden floor against a red wall.

An art installation with a dark wooden column, two animal horns, and a speaker atop a brick stack, against a red wall.

Three people sit on stools in a dark room, facing illuminated bell-shaped objects.

Art gallery featuring a sculpture of woven cords supporting black, brown, and cream tufts, and a wall-mounted screen showing a video with headphones.

A video projected onto a wall in a dark room shows a person hanging upside down from a tree.

An art gallery featuring a wall-mounted screen with headphones showing a landscape, a large projection of a person spread-eagled in a circular frame, and a wooden bench.

An art exhibit featuring a monitor displaying a white coil, an oval black and white spiral rug, and a textured black double-ring wall sculpture.

A dark blue wall with white handwritten text and small objects on wooden shelves, complemented by two light wood round tables in the foreground displaying similar small objects.

A round wooden table with small golden objects and text on its white surface in the foreground, looking into a bright art gallery with white walls displaying diverse artworks, a screen, and dark bowls on wooden stands.

An art installation featuring a screen displaying a garden path with flowers and text, above a wooden bench and two wooden stools holding bowls.

An exhibition wall with twelve diverse mixed media artworks.

A modern art exhibition inside a grand hall featuring black text posters, a glowing digital display, and long black banners with text unfurling from the balcony.

An art exhibition featuring black banners with white text unrolling across a marble floor, stacks of grey posters, and a black-and-white video on a wall screen.

A black poster with white text listing phrases like "Rancid Riches" lies next to a tall stack of black posters, each printed with "THE ETERNAL OUTBURSTS."

An art installation with large black text on a white wall and smaller framed works on adjacent black walls.

A grid of 15 illustrative artworks showing a landscape's progression from pristine nature to industrial development and, finally, a devastating fire.

Three dark ceramic pots and piles of sugar cane ash, pottery shards, and sugar cane shavings on a black table, with a multi-panel landscape artwork on the wall.

A large screen in a dark room displays a vibrant field of green plants under a blue sky, with a dark bench placed below.

A simple illustration of a three-masted sailing ship on a textured blue background, pinned to a white surface.

A modern art gallery with white walls, a black floor, various paintings, and a garland of colorful flags with various patterns hanging from the ceiling

A large, intricate diagram drawn in white on a black background, mapping global historical and political connections with interconnected text and a prominent central triangle.

A modern art gallery displaying several large paintings combining grayscale photographic like images with colorful geometric patterns.

A large painting features a grayscale photo like image of a smiling woman, surrounded by a vibrant mosaic of red, white, and blue geometric patterns.

Prize

The winner of the Artes Mundi 11 Prize is artist Antonio Paucar (born 1973 Huancayo, Peru; lives and works in Berlin and Huancayo).

Antonio Paucar draws from his origins in Andean culture through rituals and interventions, his art tackles contemporary conflicts, the assassination of indigenous leaders, environmental threats, and surveillance technology. Paucar’s work establishes dialogues with Andean and indigenous knowledge, often in critical tension with Western culture, offering a multifaceted perspective. He has been exhibited worldwide, and his works are part of major international collections including at MoMA in New York the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen in Berlin, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sao Paulo, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Museo de Arte de Lima, and the Wrocław Contemporary Museum in Poland. He lives and works between Berlin, Germany, and Huancayo, Peru. Antonio Paucar is represented by Galerie Barbara Thumm and Ginsberg + Tzu.