Artes Mundi 2

11 February – 18 March 2006

National Museum Cardiff

Three large video projections in a dark room: a harbor, a woman's face, and a woman standing in a living room. — Eija Liisa Ahtila, Artes Mundi 2

Overview

Taking place in 2006 the second edition, Artes Mundi 2, continued to celebrate visual culture from across the world. Nominations were received from more than 60 countries worldwide. Eight artists were shortlisted for the second Artes Mundi Prize.

Winner of the Artes Mundi 2 Prize was Finnish artist, Eija-Liisa Ahtila.

Jurors

Paolo Colombo
Curator, MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome
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Paolo Colombo. Photo credit: Federica Tondato
Thelma Golden
Deputy Director, Exhibitions and Programs, The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York
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Thelma Golden
Gerardo Mosquera
Independent curator and art critic, Havana
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Gerardo Mosquera
Jenni Spencer-Davies
Curator, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
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Jenni Spencer-Davies

Selectors

Deepak Ananth
Independent curator and Lecturer in Art History at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Caen
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Deepak Ananth
Ivo Mesquita
Curator for Projeto Octógono, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo and Visting Professor, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
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Ivo Mesquita

Artists

Eija-Liisa AhtilaArtes Mundi Prize WinnerDerek Williams Trust Artes Mundi Purchase Prize Winner
Since the early 1990s Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s films and photographs have told stories of human relationships and elementary emotions that lie beneath these concerns: love, anger, jealousy, sexuality and vulnerability.
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Thomas Demand
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Mauricio Dias & Walter RiedwegDerek Williams Trust Artes Mundi Purchase Prize Winner
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Leandro Erlich
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Subodah Gupta
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Sue Williams
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Wu Chi-Tsung
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Installation images

Art gallery interior featuring a large painting of a seated figure beside a corner wall covered in a collage of small sketches.

Art gallery installation featuring a yellow car roof submerged in the dark floor on the left and shelves of stainless steel kitchenware mounted on the back white wall.

A dark corridor with dappled light projected onto the floor leading toward a pagoda-style entryway.

A multi-panel video art installation projecting scenes across an angled blue wall inside a dark gallery space with surround sound speakers.

Spacious art gallery room with herringbone parquet floors displaying three large, colorful contemporary paintings on pale blue walls.

Art gallery interior featuring a hanging mechanical sculpture in the center, a circular glowing projection on the left wall, and four dark vertical artworks in a row on the right wall.

A large, panoramic photograph of a sunlit, misty forest displayed on a blue gallery wall above herringbone wood flooring.

Contemporary art gallery installation featuring the top half of a yellow taxi sinking into the black floor and, in the background, a large wall display of organized stainless steel kitchenware.

A contemporary art gallery featuring video installations and digital portraits displayed across multiple screens mounted along a dark grey wall.

Gallery room featuring a multi-screen video installation on colorful partition walls with two rectangular viewing benches on the dark floor.

Art installation featuring a brass bicycle laden with metal milk cans in a gallery with white walls and a dark floor.

A multi-screen video installation in a gallery featuring projected scenes of a woman in a red shirt on colored walls.

Art gallery exhibition displaying a row of landscape photographs along a white wall and a suspended light projector casting a circular golden projection on an adjacent wall.

An empty gallery room with light-colored herringbone hardwood floors, dark gray walls, and light wood trim along the baseboards and upper molding beneath a high white ceiling. Large rectangular photographs hang on the left and right walls, and an open doorway at the far end reveals another brightly lit room beyond.

Gallery installation featuring large video screens displaying portrait interviews on a dark gray wall, set in a spacious room with parquet flooring.

Large contemporary painting of a dark-haired woman in a purple dress sitting on a red bed, displayed next to a row of small framed artworks in a gallery with parquet flooring.

Prize

In 2006 Eija-Liisa Ahtila was chosen as the winner of Artes Mundi Prize 2.

Since the early 1990s Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s films and photographs have told stories of human relationships and elementary emotions that lie beneath these concerns: love, anger, jealousy, sexuality and vulnerability.

Overview

Winner of the Artes Mundi 2 Prize was Finnish artist, Eija-Liisa Ahtila.