Artes Mundi 4

11 March – 6 June 2010

National Museum Cardiff

Overview

From fresco and drawing to photography and film, Artes Mundi 4 in 2010 explored different worlds and experiences through contemporary art. More than 500 nominations were received from over 80 countries from which the eight shortlisted artists were chosen.

Jurors

Eugenio Dittborn
Artist, Chile
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Eugenio Dittborn
Hannah Firth
Curator and Head of Visual Arts, Chapter, Cardiff
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Hannah Firth
Sarat Maharaj
Professor of Visual Art & Knowledge Systems, Lund University & the Malmo Art Academies, Sweden
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Sarat Maharaj
Adam Szymczyk
Director, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
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Adam Szymczyk
Octavio Zaya
Independent curator and writer
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Octavio Zaya

Selectors

Viktor Misiano
Independent curator and writer
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Viktor Misiano
Levent Calikoğlu
Chief Curator, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
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Artists

Yael BartanaArtes Mundi Prize Winner
Yael Bartana was the winner of the Artes Mundi 4 Prize.Bartana uses photography, moving image, sound and installation to create complex visualisations that encompass documentary, simulation and reenactment to examine the relationship of the individual within societal structures.
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Fernando Bryce
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Ergin Çavuşoğlu
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Olga ChernyshevaDerek Williams Trust Artes Mundi Purchase Prize Winner
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Chen Chieh-Jen
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Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev
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Adrian Paci
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Installation images

A dark screening room featuring a wooden bench facing a large video projection of several people looking upward.

Video art installation in an art gallery featuring a large projection of a man holding a coconut and an adjacent room with a small monitor and headphones.

Art gallery installation featuring a wall-mounted video screen with headphones, two wooden stools, and stacks of posters on a herringbone floor.

An art gallery corner featuring rows of framed, vintage newspaper and magazine pages displayed across two white walls above herringbone parquet wood flooring.

Art gallery with parquet floors and white walls lined with a grid of numerous small framed documents and prints.

Art gallery installation featuring two large curved video screens displaying illuminated night scenes on a parquet wood floor.

Gallery exhibition space with large projection screens displaying nighttime street scenes.

Two modern light-wood stools on a parquet floor in a dimly lit gallery, facing two large backlit photo panels depicting people near vehicles at night.

A wooden bench sitting on a herringbone floor in a dimly lit museum gallery, facing a projection on a black wall of a person threading a sewing machine.

A dimly lit gallery room with a wooden bench facing a wall-projected video installation of a woman being interviewed, displaying English and Chinese subtitles.

Museum gallery featuring a wooden bench facing a wall projection of the title card for Chen Chieh-jen’s 2003 film, Factory.

Two rows of small, framed watercolor sketches hung along a white gallery wall in an art exhibition.

A row of nine small, backlit black-and-white photographs mounted along a dark gray gallery wall above a parquet floor.

A museum gallery featuring an ancient carved marble urn in the foreground beside a white wall displaying twelve small, framed artworks arranged in two neat rows.

Three unframed photographs hanging on a salmon-colored wall featuring trucks, drivers, and mechanics

Gallery exhibition featuring large color photographs mounted on warm terracotta-orange walls with herringbone wood floors.

A multi-panel video art installation in a dark gallery room, displaying a sequence of five screens showing a green military-style flatbed truck carrying cargo along a rural road.

Freestanding brick wall installation in an art gallery, braced from behind with a wooden beam, featuring a grid of painted panels depicting people and scenes in muted tones on a herringbone parquet floor.

Gallery installation with a film projector mechanism in an open cabinet on the left and a large projection of a sunlit tree in a field on the right wall.

Prize

Yael Bartana was the winner of the Artes Mundi 4 Prize.

Bartana uses photography, moving image, sound and installation to create complex visualisations that encompass documentary, simulation and reenactment to examine the relationship of the individual within societal structures.