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Nnena Kalu wins the Turner Prize 2025 in ‘seismic’ moment for award

The Glasgow-born, learning-disabled artist joins a prestigious list of recipients including Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen and Grayson Perry

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Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner

The closer you get to Kalu’s endless sinewy trails of old VHS tape, the harder it is to know where their forms stop and the space around them begins

The Guardian - UK

Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize

Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’

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Exhibition by artists shortlisted for Turner Prize unveiled in Bradford

The four shortlisted artists are Rene Matic, Nnena Kalu, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa, with the winner due to be announced at a ceremony in December.

Evening Standard

Turner prize 2025 review – puzzling banners, tinkling bells, burning landscapes and bum-like sculptures

There are calls for peace, intimations of violence, Korean folklore and spiralling vortices: everyone has a spiel but one artist stands out

The Guardian - UK

Mohammed Sami emerges as favourite in predictable Turner prize 2025 shortlist

The Turner prize is the world’s most prestigious award for contemporary art. Named after the renowned British painter J.M.W. Turner, the prize used to be a huge media affair. After it relaunched in 1991, it had a full live feature on Channel 4 (back in the day when most people…

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Who is shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2025? Check out the four artists

A guide to the artists nominated for the 2025 Turner Prize, with the exhibition taking place in Bradford this year...

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An irrelevant bourgeois ritual: this year’s Turner prize shortlist is the soppiest ever

Holy balls of wool! From pointless paintings to emotionless snapshots, the once-controversial award tiptoes too earnestly across the minefield of today’s culture wars

The Guardian - UK

Videotape sculptures and war trauma paintings make Turner prize shortlist

Nnena Kalu, Mohammed Sami, Rene Matić and Zadie Xa nominated for £25,000 contemporary art prize

The Guardian - UK

Turner Prize shortlist includes artist who uses ‘salvaged’ antique dolls in work

All four artists on the shortlist this year are London-based.

Evening Standard

'Turner's spirit of innovation is still alive': Shortlisted artists announced for 2025 Turner Prize

From huge paintings to complex installations, this year's shortlisted artists for the Turner Prize embrace the 250-year-old artist's ambition.

Euronews

Mohammed Sami review – phenomenal paintings send depth charges through Churchill’s home

The Baghdad-born artist’s paintings tell a counter story to the state rooms of the building – not of the glory of victory in battle, but of mess, pain and trauma

The Guardian - UK

Sprinklers And Drip Irrigation Help Iraqis beat Drought

After four years of drought, Iraqi farmer Mohammed Sami was about to abandon his father's parched land, but then a water-saving irrigation system revived his crops and his hopes.

International Business Times

Mohammed Sami: The Point 0; Giorgio Morandi: Masterpieces from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation – review

The masterly paintings of Baghdad-born Mohammed Sami conjure an ominous no man’s land. And vases conspire with jugs in the still lifes of Giorgio Morandi

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Our weekend arts and culture picks, from The Fabelmans to Happy Valley

Our critics and editors share their expert cultural picks for the next few days

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Our weekend arts and culture picks, from Happy Valley to Florence + The Machine

Our critics and editors share their expert cultural picks for the next few days

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Saddam Hussein mural painter creates a world of turmoil – Mohammed Sami review

Sami, a refugee from Iraq, learned his trade painting his country’s then leader. His disquieting works, full of tortured surfaces, feel like distillations of death and chaos

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