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peruvian artist antonio paucar wins 11th artes mundi award 1234770121

Peruvian artist Antonio Paucar has won the 11th Artes Mundi Award, receiving £40,000 to support his performance, sculpture, and video practice rooted in Andean culture and his Peruvian heritage. The award ceremony took place on January 15 at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum in Cardiff, where a group exhibition of the six shortlisted artists runs through March 1. Paucar plans to use the prize money to convert his family's ancestral adobe home in the central highlands of Peru into a combined museum and art school, addressing the lack of such institutions in the region.

Artes Mundi 11 Prize and Exhibition

The six artists shortlisted for the 2025 Artes Mundi 11 prize present works addressing displacement, colonial trauma, and migration amid divisive global politics. The exhibition, held at the National Museum Cardiff and other Welsh venues, features Sancintya Mohini Simpson’s subversive Indian miniature-style paintings depicting the horrors of indentured labor, alongside works by Jumana Emil Abboud, Anawana Haloba, and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe. The prize, the UK’s largest cash award for an exhibition at £40,000, continues its evolution by offering solo presentations across multiple venues.

Home, belonging, displacement, community: Artes Mundi exhibitions open across Wales

The 11th edition of Artes Mundi, the UK's largest contemporary art prize, has opened across multiple venues in Wales, featuring six international shortlisted artists. The multi-venue format includes a group show at the National Museum Cardiff and solo presentations at Mostyn in Llandudno, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea, and Chapter Art Centre in Cardiff. Artists such as Jumana Emil Abboud, Antonio Paucar, Anawana Haloba, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Sancintya Mohini Simpson explore themes of home, belonging, displacement, and community through diverse media including sculpture, performance, painting, and text-based installation. The winner of the £40,000 prize will be announced on 15 January 2026.

New exhibition showcases 20 years of work by Welsh artist

Artist Anthony Shapland has opened a solo exhibition titled "Liar Liar" at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, just one month after the publication of his debut novel, "A Room Above a Shop." The show spans twenty years of his practice, featuring works in text, sculpture, books, print, audio, and film, with the earliest piece dating from 2005 and the most recent created within the last month. The exhibition blurs the lines between writing and visual art, drawing on hidden filmmaking techniques such as props, filters, light, and sound, while also exploring themes of rural queerness, passing, and the malleability of landscape. Key works include the films "A Setting" (2007), "A Sign," "FiftytwoSundays" (2018), "Between the Dog and the Wolf" (2019), "Centre A Sound not Meant to be Heard," and the new montage "Seven Starling" (2025).