The new National Museum of Art, which opened in Cardiff at the weekend, will host the prize exhibition in October 2012.
Michael Tooby, director of learning, programmes and development at the National Museum of Art, said it wanted the show to be on at the optimum time: “That is in the autumn, when schools and colleges are back, when there are other drivers for audiences from outside Cardiff getting there, with more links to other cultural initiatives such as new autumn programmes at the major performing arts venues.”
“We are aware that the opening coincides with Turner Prize, Frieze, Turbine Hall etc, but we are relaxed about that, seeing these as different and complementary,” he added.
Ben Borthwick, Artes Mundi’s chief executive and artistic director, said moving the prize from spring to autumn would put it in line with other events in the international visual arts calendar – including the Frieze Art Fair and Liverpool Biennial.
Artes Mundi is an international arts prize that supports contemporary visual artists who work on social and political themes. The biennial exhibition and £40,000 prize is the largest of its kind in the UK.
A shortlist of six artists for the biennial exhibition in 2012 will be announced in September this year. The exhibition will open in September 2012 and run for three months with an international judging panel awarding the Artes Mundi Prize midway in November 2012.
Artes Mundi has also announced a partnership with Mostyn gallery in Llandudno. One of the shortlisted artists will present a solo exhibition in Mostyn’s recently refurbished galleries in the year following the prize.
Borthwick said the partnership would enable the prize to broaden the access of audiences in North Wales to Artes Mundi: “It also deepens our ongoing support of artists: the Prize recognises exceptional achievement for an existing body of work, while this new opportunity to develop a solo exhibition demonstrates our commitment to the development of artists’ practices.”
The £6.5m National Museum of Art has 800 square metres of new contemporary art galleries and is housed in National Museum Wales, Cardiff.
Borthwick said: “The National Museum of Art has created exceptionally beautiful spaces. This is a clear statement of the role of contemporary art in the museum’s vision.”
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Michael Tooby, director of learning, programmes and development at the National Museum of Art, said it wanted the show to be on at the optimum time: “That is in the autumn, when schools and colleges are back, when there are other drivers for audiences from outside Cardiff getting there, with more links to other cultural initiatives such as new autumn programmes at the major performing arts venues.”
“We are aware that the opening coincides with Turner Prize, Frieze, Turbine Hall etc, but we are relaxed about that, seeing these as different and complementary,” he added.
Ben Borthwick, Artes Mundi’s chief executive and artistic director, said moving the prize from spring to autumn would put it in line with other events in the international visual arts calendar – including the Frieze Art Fair and Liverpool Biennial.
Artes Mundi is an international arts prize that supports contemporary visual artists who work on social and political themes. The biennial exhibition and £40,000 prize is the largest of its kind in the UK.
A shortlist of six artists for the biennial exhibition in 2012 will be announced in September this year. The exhibition will open in September 2012 and run for three months with an international judging panel awarding the Artes Mundi Prize midway in November 2012.
Artes Mundi has also announced a partnership with Mostyn gallery in Llandudno. One of the shortlisted artists will present a solo exhibition in Mostyn’s recently refurbished galleries in the year following the prize.
Borthwick said the partnership would enable the prize to broaden the access of audiences in North Wales to Artes Mundi: “It also deepens our ongoing support of artists: the Prize recognises exceptional achievement for an existing body of work, while this new opportunity to develop a solo exhibition demonstrates our commitment to the development of artists’ practices.”
The £6.5m National Museum of Art has 800 square metres of new contemporary art galleries and is housed in National Museum Wales, Cardiff.
Borthwick said: “The National Museum of Art has created exceptionally beautiful spaces. This is a clear statement of the role of contemporary art in the museum’s vision.”
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Artes Mundi international art prize