The UK’s leading biennial exhibition and international contemporary art prize is delighted to announce exhibition details for its eleventh edition. Artes Mundi 11 with presenting partner Bagri Foundation (AM11) will feature six international contemporary visual artists and take place across Wales from 24 October 2025 to 1 March 2026.
- Artists shortlisted for Artes Mundi 11. Top row, from left: Jumana Emil Abboud (photo: Ai Iwane); Anawana Haloba (photo: Sello Majara); Kameelah Janan Rashid (photo: Kameelah Janan Rasheed). Bottom row, from left: Sancintya Mohini Simpson (photo: Sid Coombes (Sica Media)); Antonio Paucar (photo: Jorge Jaime Valdez); Sawangwongse Yawnghwe (photo: Alex Blanco).
Following the success of AM10, for a second time AM11 will be presented nationally at five venue partners, with Aberystwyth Arts Centre participating for the first time. The winner of the prestigious £40,000 Artes Mundi Prize – the UK’s largest contemporary art prize – will be announced during the exhibition run in January 2026.
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.
The solo presentation locations for AM11 are: Anawana Haloba and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth; Sancintya Mohini Simpson at Chapter, Cardiff; Kameelah Janan Rasheed at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; and Jumana Emil Abboud and Antonio Paucar at Mostyn, Llandudno.
As a vital platform of cultural exchange between the UK and global artistic communities centred on the ongoing examination of the ‘human condition’, Artes Mundi brings together a significant biennial exhibition of contemporary art from impactful international artists. AM11 continues its legacy of presenting exceptional work in Wales that engages with the pressing issues of our time.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed at Glynn Vivian, Swansea and National Museum Cardiff
b.1985 East Palo Alto, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA
For AM11, Kameelah Janan Rasheed will explore the poetics, politics and pleasures of communication through her multidisciplinary practice involving the relationships between written language, loss and fugitive meaning. Her work will involve an immersive graphic installation of new and existing prints, writing, drawings, banners, photographs and video that will infiltrate the atrium at Glynn Vivian occupying the ground floor space while reaching up into the mezzanine above. Describing herself as a learner, Rasheed will also contribute to the public programme of workshops and tours for schools, communities and families, an important aspect of her overall practice. At National Museum Cardiff, a related installation will be shown incorporating a similar range of media, linking both spaces through Rasheed’s response to the particularities and idiosyncrasies of the building’s architectures in relation to her interventions.
Ming Wong is the National Gallery’s 2025 Artist in Residence