The 4 artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2025 – Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa – work throughout an eclectic spectrum of supplies and mediums. This yr, themes from the religious to the political and private are thought-about, via portray, sculpture, pictures and set up.
An exhibition of the shortlisted artists’ work might be held at Cartwright Corridor Artwork Gallery in Bradford, from 27 September 2025 to 22 February 2026, as a part of Bradford 2025 Metropolis of Tradition. The jury, headed by Alex Farquharson, director, Tate Britain, and comprising Andrew Bonacina, unbiased curator; Sam Lackey, director, Liverpool Biennial; Priyesh Mistry, affiliate curator of Trendy and Up to date Initiatives, The Nationwide Gallery; and Habda Rashid, senior curator of Trendy and Up to date Artwork, Fitzwilliam Museum, will announce the winner on 9 December 2025.
Nnena Kalu
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of the Artist and ActionSpace)
Nnena Kalu, ‘Conversations’, Walker Artwork Gallery, set up view
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of the Artist and Walker Artwork Gallery, Liverpool. Photograph credit score: Pete Carr)
Nnena Kalu, ‘Hanging Sculpture 1 to 10’, set up view, 2024
(Picture credit score: Photograph courtesy of Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana. Photograph credit score: Ivan Erofeev)
Nnena Kalu’s installations are sculpturally chic, encompassing tightly packed, vibrant textiles and paper. By binding, layering and wrapping them in cellophane and tape, they grow to be cocoon-like when hung, a course of she repeats in a apply integral to her philosophy. The summary, meandering patterns make a vibrant foil to her concerns of the house her works command.
Kalu is nominated for her work, a part of the exhibitions ‘Conversations’, on the Walker Artwork Gallery in Liverpool, and ‘Hanging Sculpture 1 to 10’ at Manifesta 15, Barcelona.
Rene Matić
(Picture credit score: Photograph: Diana Pfammatter; Courtesy the Artist and Arcadia Missa, London)
Rene Matić, ‘AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH’, Set up view, CCA Berlin, 2024
(Picture credit score: Photograph: Diana Pfammatter/CCA Berlin)
Rene Matić, ‘AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH’, Set up view, CCA Berlin, 2024
(Picture credit score: Photographs: Diana Pfammatter/CCA Berlin)
Artist and author Matić intertwines private references all through works that contemplate broader themes of identification and belonging. Contemplating their household’s heritage, and their very own, they embody images of household and pals, showcased in frames which can be stacked, to precise moments of tenderness amidst turmoil. Matić additionally works with sound and set up to create an immersive surroundings that represents their expertise in the neighborhood.
Matić is nominated for his or her solo exhibition, ‘AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH’, at CCA Berlin.
Mohammed Sami
(Picture credit score: Photograph: Sarel Jansen)
Set up view, ‘Mohammed Sami, After the Storm’, Blenheim Artwork Basis, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, 9 July–6 October, 2024
(Picture credit score: Photographer: Tom Lindboe)
Set up view, ‘Mohammed Sami, After the Storm’, Blenheim Artwork Basis, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, 9 July–6 October, 2024
(Picture credit score: Photographer: Tom Lindboe)
Mohammed Sami is anxious with reminiscence and loss, topics he explores in evocative, large-scale work. Sami’s ambiguous works eschew the presence of individuals to focus as a substitute on landscapes and environments, their vacancy reiterating the absence of individuals and the dearth of reminiscence. In these ambiguous conditions, the human presence is clearly close to. By layers of patterns and hues, Sami attracts on his life in Baghdad through the Iraq Struggle, and, later, his time as a refugee in Sweden.
Sami is nominated for his solo exhibition ‘After the Storm’ at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire.
Zadie Xa
(Picture credit score: Photograph: Charles Duprat. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery)
Zadie Xa with Benito Mayor Vallejo, ‘Moonlit Confessions Throughout Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers All the things’, 2025. Set up view
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Sharjah Artwork Basis. Photograph: Danko Stjepanovic)
Xa works throughout mural, textile, sound and portray to create religious works that put the ocean as the main target, mixing cultures and references to create ethereal different worlds. Custom, folklore and tales mix in her set up at 2025’s Sharjah Biennial, which married bojagi patchwork and portray with a sculpture fabricated from over 650 brass wind chimes impressed by Korean shamanic ritual bells.
Xa is nominated for ‘Moonlit Confessions Throughout Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers All the things’, with Benito Mayor Vallejo, at Sharjah Biennial 16.
An exhibition of the shortlisted artists’ work might be held at Cartwright Corridor Artwork Gallery in Bradford, from 27 September 2025 to 22 February 2026, as a part of Bradford 2025 Metropolis of Tradition. The winner is introduced on 9 December 2025
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