Artes Mundi 10
Artes Mundi Director Nigel Price writes about the groundbreaking artists exhibited for this year's very special iteration of the international prize.
“Artes Mundi 10” (AM10) is a watershed moment for the organisation. We celebrate the past 20 years of working with some of the most exceptional artistic voices of recent times and look ahead to ensuring we remain relevant for the next 20 years.
To mark this 20th anniversary, we for the first time collaborate with five venues across Wales. That Artes Mundi should have a genuine Wales-wide presence was an ambition of our founding chair, William Wilkins. Over the last two decades this has been fulfilled by one-off commissions, projects, partnerships, exhibitions and residencies. Now a distributed exhibition and public engagement programme, plus the associated Artes Mundi Prize, will be presented simultaneously across Wales.
AM10 continues our mission to work with artists who engage in varying ways in their practice with social realities and the “human condition” creating work and presentations that speak to some of the most urgent issues of our time in ways that resonate with us all. It comprises significant solo presentations of new and existing work by seven of the world’s most important international contemporary artists.
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