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Korea Herald
25-04-2025
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- Korea Herald
Korean Canadian artist Zadie Xa shortlisted for Turner Prize 2025
Korean Canadian artist Zadie Xa has been nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize this year for her presentation at Sharjah Biennial 16, the Tate announced Wednesday. Xa is among four nominees, alongside British artist Rene Matic, Iraqi artist Sami Mohammad and London-based artist Nnena Kalu. An exhibition of the nominated artists' works will be held at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford, England, from September this year to February 2026 as part of the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture celebrations. The winner will be announced Dec. 9 at an award ceremony in Bradford, a northern English county of West Yorkshire. The prize comes with a cash award of 25,000 pounds ($33,200). Xa, 42, is known for her powerful installations and paintings that interweave the stories of Korean shamanic rituals, myths and folklore. The presentation she was nominated for, 'Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything,' was created in collaboration with Benito Mayor Vallejo at Sharjah Biennial 16, encompassing the forms of mural, textiles, sound and painting. 'Her vibrant installation blended a soundscape with ethereal paintings, bojagi patchwork and an interactive sculpture of over 650 brass wind chimes inspired by Korean shamanic ritual bells. The jury felt that this cohesive work was a sophisticated development of Xa's reflective and enchanting practice,' according to the Tate. "Bojagi" is the Korea's traditional wrapping cloth. Kalu was nominated for her presentation as part of 'Conversations' at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England, and 'Hanging Sculpture 1 to 10' at Manifesta 15 in Barcelona, Spain. The artist makes cocoonlike shapes out of paper and textiles that are bound, layered and wrapped, the process of which is rooted in repeated gestures. Matic — who captures fleeting moments of joy in daily life and expressions of tenderness within a wider political context — was nominated for the solo exhibition, 'As Opposed to The Truth,' at CCA Berlin. Exploring memory and loss through art, Sami was recognized by the jury for his large-scale paintings that represent war and exile shown at the solo exhibition 'After the Storm' at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England.
New York Times
23-04-2025
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- New York Times
A Turner Prize Shortlist That J.M.W. Turner Might Have Appreciated
Mohammed Sami, an Iraqi painter who once created murals of Saddam Hussein, and Zadie Xa, a Canadian artist of Korean heritage, are among the nominees for this year's Turner Prize, the organizers of the prestigious British art award announced on Wednesday. The four artists in the running for the prize — including Nnena Kalu and Rene Matic — were revealed during a news conference at the Tate Britain museum in London on the 250th anniversary of the birth of J.M.W. Turner, the 19th-century painter for whom the prize is named. Alex Farquharson, Tate Britain's director and the chair of the prize jury, said that there were traces of Turner's art in some of the shortlisted artists' work, including in the 'sublime, swirling' compositions of Xa's murals and Sami's paintings of war-torn Iraq, which he called 'a new type of history painting.' Farquharson said that Turner himself might not have seen the similarities between the nominees' work and his own, but added, 'The language of contemporary art had expanded so much in the past 250 years.' Among this year nominees, Sami, 40, has the highest profile. In 2023, Sotheby's sold one of his paintings for more than $400,000, and he has a work on display in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Born in Baghdad, Sami left Iraq after the American-led invasion that toppled Hussein and was granted asylum in Sweden. He studied at the Belfast School of Art and at Goldsmiths, University of London, in Britain. Each artist — who must be British or working predominantly in Britain — is nominated for an exhibition held during the previous 12 months, and the Turner Prize judges selected Sami for 'After the Storm,' a solo show held at Blenheim Palace, a stately home in the English countryside. British art critics raved about that show when it opened last year: Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times, in London, said Sami's paintings were 'a shadowy mix of figuration and abstraction' that 'give their meanings slowly.' Nnena Kalu, 58, an artist with learning disabilities, received a nomination for a series of colorful sculptures made from fabric and videotape that she displayed at last year's Manifesta art biennial in Barcelona, where they hung from the ceiling of a disused power station. Zadie Xa, 41, made the shortlist for 'Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything,' an installation made with Benito Mayor Vallejo that is showing at the Sharjah Biennial 16 in the United Arab Emirates through June 15. The work combines large-format paintings, recorded sounds and an arrangement of 650 brass bells. The youngest nominated artist is Rene Matic, 27, for the show 'As Opposed to the Truth' at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Berlin. That exhibition included a collection of Black dolls that the artist found online and in thrift stores, as well photographs and a sound work. Founded in 1984, the Turner Prize is one of the art world's most respected awards: Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen and Lubaina Himid have all won it. The victor receives 25,000 pounds, or about $33,000, as well as a significant boost in profile. Last year's award went to Jasleen Kaur, whose installation work focused on her childhood growing up in a Scottish Sikh community. Other recent winners have included Jesse Darling and Veronica Ryan. A free exhibition of work by this year's nominees will open at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford, a city in northern England, on Sept. 27 and run through Feb. 22. The jury will announce the winner during a ceremony in the same city on Dec. 9.
BBC News
23-04-2025
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- BBC News
Turner Prize 2025: Four shortlisted artists named by Tate
A non-verbal neurodiverse artist, a former Iraqi refugee and one of the youngest ever nominees are among the artists shortlisted for this year's Turner Kalu, Mohammed Sami, Zadie Xa and Rene Matić - who at 27 is the second youngest artist to be nominated after Damien Hirst - are all in the running for the prestigious annual art prize, the Tate announced on exhibition of their work will be held at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery from September as part of Bradford's UK City of Culture winner, who will be awarded £25,000, will then be announced on 9 December at a ceremony in the West Yorkshire city. 'Extraordinary world-views' Alex Farquharson, director of Tate Britain and chair of the Turner Prize jury, said the shortlist "reflects the breadth of artistic practice today, from painting and sculpture to photography and installation".He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the artists, who are each guaranteed to receive £10,000, offer "extraordinary world-views that are very personal".Take a closer look at all four shortlisted artists and their work: Glasgow-born Nnena Kalu (above) has been a resident artist with Action Space, which supports artists with learning disabilities, for more than 25 creates large-scale swirling abstract drawings and sculpures made from colourful streams of repurposed fabrics and materials such as reels of VHS jury praised her "unique command of material, colour and gesture and her highly attuned responses to architectural space". Photographer, writer and poet Rene Matić, from Peterborough, is nominated for solo exhibition As Opposed To The Truth at CCA Berlin, which touches on the rise of right-wing populism and captures "fleeting moments of joy in daily life, and expressions of tenderness within a wider political context", according to Tate, using intimate photos of family and friends placed in an installation which also includes objects like the artist's collection of children's black dolls bought in second-hand work looks at themes including "the constructed self through the lens of rudeness" and rudeboy culture, a Jamaican jury said they were "struck by the artist's ability to express concerns around belonging and identity". Mohammed Sami hails from Baghdad and his work draws on his life and experiences during the Iraq war and as a refugee in artist is recognised for solo exhibition After the Storm at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, and the jury were impressed by his "powerful representation" of war and large-scale paintings explore memory and loss, layering patterns and colours to create "haunting, dreamlike scenes". Zadie Xa comes from Vancouver, Canada, and her work is inspired by her Korean heritage and the importance of shamanic paintings, murals, traditional patchwork textiles and 650 brass bells that make harmonised sound inspired by Korean shamanic ritual bells, Xa's work focuses on the sea as "a spiritual realm to explore traditions and folklore, speaking to a multitude of cultures".The jury felt the "vibrant installation" was a "sophisticated development" of Xa's work. 'Speaks to our audiences' Established in 1984, the prize is named after radical painter JMW Turner - who would have turned 250 on Wednesday - and is awarded each year to a British-based artist for an "outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work".Shanaz Gulzar, creative director Bradford UK City of Culture 2025, said it was "a huge honour and privilege" to bring the prize to the city that gave the world David Hockney."Bradford has produced some amazing artists, literary artists, visual artists, contemporary artists," she told Radio 4."And to have these four artists in Bradford, I think really speaks to how we're delivering our year so far, and it speaks to our audiences."Last year's prize was won by Jasleen Kaur, who used a vintage Ford Escort, worship bells and Irn-Bru to celebrate the Scottish Sikh ther previous winners have included Sir Anish Kapoor (1991), Damien Hirst (1995) and Sir Steve McQueen (1999).
