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The National
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The National
Turner Prize shortlist includes Iraqi artist Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa's work at Sharjah Biennial
The shortlist for this year's Turner Prize has significant regional representation, with an artist from Iraq and work from the Sharjah Biennial both nominated for the prestigious award. Mohammed Sami has been shortlisted for After the Storm, his solo exhibition at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England. The Iraqi painter is known for his sprawling, vibrant scenes that are often devoid of human presence. His depictions of empty dining tables and bedrooms serve as poignant representations of exile, showing how everyday objects trigger memories and feelings of loss. His work springs from his own experiences as a refugee. After the Storm ran at Blenheim Palace between July and October 2024. Sami produced a new series of works for his solo exhibition, blending personal history with that of Blenheim Palace, which was built in the early 18th century. The castle was presented by Queen Anne to the First Duke of Marlborough after this victory at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. It is the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough and was where Winston Churchill was born. As such, the castle is a monument to military triumph. The castle is filled with portraits and narrative artworks, themes contrasted in Sami's work, which allude to absence and the consequences of war. A presentation from the 2025 Sharjah Biennial has also been nominated for the Turner Prize. The work was created by Korean-Canadian artist Zadie Xa, in collaboration with Spanish artist Benito Mayor Vallejo. It features several disparate elements, including a chandelier-like piece that takes cues from wind chimes made from seashells and rattles from Korean shamanic traditions. It comprises more than 1,000 brass bells that are arranged in the shape of a conch shell. The artwork is part of a room-filling installation called Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything. One of the highlights is a mixed-media artwork that features a surreal scene that visualises the title of the presentation, with whales swimming atop an arid landscape. Other shortlisted artists include Scottish multimedia artist Nnena Kalu, who has been nominated for her installations at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and Manifesta 15 in Barcelona. The vibrant sculptures are made of disparate materials, including paper, textiles, cellophane and tape. Finally, Rene Matic is in the running for As Opposed to The Truth, a solo exhibition at CCA Berlin. The exhibition by the UK artist presents personal photographs alongside installations and sound. Works by all four shortlisted artists will be presented in an exhibition at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford from September 27 to February 22. The winner of the annual prize will be announced during a ceremony in Bradford on December 9. The first place winner will receive £25,000 ($33,334), whereas runners-up will be awarded £10,000 each. Last year's winner of the prize was Jasleen Kaur. The UK artist famously called for a ceasefire in Gaza as she accepted the prestigious art award at a ceremony in London. The annual Turner Prize, named after the landscape painter J M W Turner, is awarded every other year at the Tate Britain. Venues outside London host the award-winning ceremony during alternate iterations.
The Herald Scotland
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Glasgow-born autistic artist Nnena Kalu shortlisted for Turner prize
She creates large-scale abstract sculptures and drawings that hang down from the wall or ceiling, made from colourful streams of repurposed fabric, rope, parcel tape, cling film, paper and reels of VHS tape. Kalu, a resident artist at ActionSpace's studio, which supports learning disabled artists across London, at Studio Voltaire, is supported by Charlotte Hollinshead, her artist's assistant. Kalu is unable to articulate complex thoughts verbally, so Hollinshead speaks on her behalf, and provides her with colourful streams of repurposed fabric, rope, parcel tape, cling film, paper and reels of VHS tape to create her art. She is nominated for her installation Hanging Sculpture 1-10, which Manifesta 15 Barcelona commissioned her to create at a disused power station, and her presentation in Conversations, a group exhibition at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Mohammed Sami's After the Storm at Blenheim Palace (Image: Tom Lindboe/Blenheim Palace) The works contain 10 large brightly coloured sculptures that hung among the grey concrete pillars of the industrial site, and a work in pen, graphite and chalk pen on two pieces of paper. She was commended for 'her unique command of material, colour and gesture and her highly attuned responses to architectural space'. Also nominated are Peterborough artist Rene Matic and fellow London-based artists Mohammed Sami, who first moved to Sweden after leaving Iraq, and Canada-born Zadie Xa. Matic, 27, was praised by the jury for expressing 'concerns around belonging and identity, conveying broader experiences of a young generation and their community through an intimate and compelling body of work'. READ MORE: Their work looks at themes including 'the constructed self through the lens of rudeness', which they have taken from rudeboy culture, a Jamaican subculture in the UK. It includes personal photographs of family and friends in stacked frames, paired with sound, banners, and an installation at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Berlin, Germany. They also have an ongoing collection called Restoration, which focuses on 'antique black dolls salvaged by the artist' and a flag quoting political leaders who called for 'no place for violence' in the wake of the attempted assassination of US President Donald Trump. Xa, 41, who studied at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver and the Royal College of Art in London, is influenced by her Korean background and its 'spiritual rituals, shamanism, folk traditions and textile practices'. Rene Matic's work in Berlin (Image: Diana Pfammatter/CCA Berlin) She is nominated for Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything (2025), which was created with Spanish artist Benito Mayor Vallejo and shown at the United Arab Emirates' Sharjah Biennial. It has a sound element inspired by Salpuri, a Korean exorcism dance, and a mobile sculpture inspired by seashell wind chimes and Korean shamanic rattles, which has 650 brass bells that make harmonised sounds. Painter Sami, 40, born in Baghdad, has studied at the Belfast School of Art and Goldsmiths College, London. He says: 'My paintings seek to capture the state of confusion that occurs because of the cut thread between reality and the imagination; between war narrated and war witnessed.' Sami was given the nod for After the Storm: Mohammed Sami at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, which has 14 paintings that respond to the history of Sir Winston Churchill's birthplace, and contain 'hints and references to conflict in Iraq'. The paintings do not have human figures, while one shows the 'shadow of a helicopter blade over a table and empty chairs', and another appears to suggest body bags. An exhibition of works will be held at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery from September 27 2025 to February 22 2026 during the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture celebrations. The winner will be announced on December 9 2025 at an award ceremony in Bradford. Last year, Scottish artist Jasleen Kaur - also from Glasgow - who put a doily on a car, won the prestigious art prize, which awards £25,000 to its winner and £10,000 to the other shortlisted artists. Previous recipients include sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor (1991), artist Damien Hirst (1995), and filmmaker Sir Steve McQueen (1999).
Telegraph
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
The 2025 Turner Prize shortlist has been announced – and there's one clear favourite
Last year, when the Turner Prize turned 40, there were calls for it to be retired. While they were excessive – the 2024 edition was hardly egregious, and I relished the energy provided by the winner, Jasleen Kaur – there is a legitimate sense that the annual, £25,000 award is in the doldrums of a midlife crisis, and nowadays attracts mostly lukewarm enthusiasm, or, worse, indifference. This year's shortlist – announced on April 23, the 250th birthday of the radical British artist, JMW Turner (after whom the prize is named) – may not allay such concerns. It's respectable and hard to fault, rather than controversial. And, with four artists nominated for far-flung shows and presentations in Barcelona, Sharjah, Berlin, and (unusually, for an award supposedly celebrating contemporary art's cutting edge) at Blenheim Palace, the 18th-century Oxfordshire seat of the Dukes of Marlborough, I worry that it may reflect a view you often hear these days: that London's pre-eminence as an international centre for contemporary art has dissipated. Chosen for After the Storm, a first-rate show at Blenheim dealing with war's spectral repercussions, the 40-year-old, Iraqi-born, London-based painter Mohammed Sami is the frontrunner; he'd be a popular winner, too, given that, as an artist, he so clearly operates within the tradition of Western European painting. His inclusion this year also makes up for the fact that he was short-changed last time around, when he should have been nominated for another brilliant solo exhibition, at Camden Art Centre in 2023. When, though, push comes to shove, and it's time to select a winner, will he seem like an unduly conservative choice to the curators on the jury, who may pride themselves on being more avant-garde in their tastes? The surreal paintings of the 41-year-old Canadian-born Zadie Xa – who also produces fabric pieces inspired by the patchwork aesthetic of traditional Korean textiles, in homage to her heritage – are less sad and wistful, and, in a sense, more 'now'. As a 'nonverbal' artist, the 58-year-old Glaswegian-born Nnena Kalu – nominated for an installation of exuberant suspended sculptures at a biennial in Barcelona, as well as a presentation of swirling graphic works that were shown in Liverpool – will attract attention. She also extends a trend since the prize was expanded in 2017 (to include artists over the age of 50) to nominate older, and previously overlooked, black female artists – including two, in Lubaina Himid and Veronica Ryan, who went on to win. Yet, it would be unfair to describe Kalu's inclusion as a box-ticking exercise, given the bold, beguiling energy of her work. Which leaves 27-year-old Rene Matić, who's about to open a show of new work at London's Arcadia Missa gallery. They (Matić's preferred pronoun) were a rare ray of excellence and hope illuminating Tate Britain's otherwise benighted rehang of its permanent display in 2023. While their photography may be in thrall to that of a former Turner Prize-winner, Wolfgang Tillmans, it has a mesmerising, frisky informality, and electrifying grasp of the effects of colour. I'll be delighted if they carry off the prize, if Sami doesn't bag it.
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Exclusive NCIS Sneak Peek: Is [Spoiler] a Better Rapper Than LL Cool J's Sam?
Momma said this NCIS sneak peak will knock you out. This Monday at 9/8c, NCIS: Los Angeles vet LL Cool J brings Special Agent Sam Hanna back to D.C. when he guest-stars on the NCIS mothership. More from TVLine The Neighborhood Stages 2 Broke Girls Reunion - and Brings Back Character We Haven't Seen Since Season 1 Ghosts' Asher Grodman Talks Trevor's Big Familial Surprise: 'I'm Thrilled We're Flying With This' Ghosts First Look: Superstore Vet Ben Feldman Can See Spirits, Too! (Exclusive) In Season 22's antepenultimate episode, 'After the Storm,' when a trio of combat vets are found murdered in a D.C. motel room, the NCIS team tracks down a suspect who refuses to talk to anyone but Sam Hanna. While Sam is visiting, as revealed to Parker (Gary Cole) in the exclusive clip above, he apparently will make time for a Saturday-night 'karaoke date' with Jimmy (Brian Dietzen) and his daughter Victoria. Wait, Sam Hanna has pipes? Is his speciality by chance rap, akin to that five-time Grammy Awards host? And will Parker be let in on all of this karaoke fun? Press play above for all of those answers! Leading out of Todd's visit airing April 21, NCIS on April 28 will air 'Irreconcilable Differences,' in which McGee's (Sean Murray) career and credibility are on the line when he investigates Deputy Director LaRoche (Seamus Dever) for corruption, and Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) and Knight (Katrina Law) receive surprising news. Then on May 5, in the already-renewed procedural's Season 22 finale, 'Nexus,' as NCIS investigates a connection between the titular cartel and Parker's longtime nemesis, mob boss Carla Marino (returning guest star Rebecca De Mornay), the team uncovers a high-stakes plot involving stolen nuclear material. 'With time running out, Parker is forced into an uneasy alliance that could determine the fate of the operation,' the synopsis teases, 'and his own future.'Best of TVLine Summer TV Calendar: Your Guide to 85+ Season and Series Premieres Classic Christmas Movies Guide: Where to Watch It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, Elf, Die Hard and Others What's New on Netflix in June
