# UK’s largest arts prize is open for nominations

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/05/07/uks-largest-arts-prize-is-open-for-nominations/
- Published: 2013-05-07T14:52:21+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Artes Mundi, the UK’s largest arts prize, is calling for nominations of artists 
from around the world for its next edition, Artes Mundi 6.

The [Artes Mundi](http://www.artesmundi.org) international exhibition and prize 
supports contemporary visual artists whose work “engages with social reality, lived
experience and the human condition”.

One artist will receive a prize of £40,000, with all other shortlisted artists receiving
£2,000 each. Between five to seven artists will be invited to take part in the biennial
exhibition in 2014.

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Artes Mundi is based in Wales and the 17-week biennial exhibition will take place
from 25 October 2014 at Wales’s National Museum of Art under the roof of National
Museum Cardiff. The Artes Mundi prize will be awarded halfway through the exhibition.

In 2012 Mexican artist Teresa Margolles was awarded the prize for Artes Mundi 5.
Previous winners were Xu Bing (2004), Eija-Liisa Ahtila (2006), NS Harsha (2008)
and Yael Bartana (2010).

David Thorp, Associate Director of Artes Mundi said: “the prize is a large one by
UK standards.  It is designed to allow the winner, at an important stage in their
career, the freedom to develop substantial new work or the time to reflect their
practice and move it forward”.

The **closing date for nominations is 28 June 2013**.

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