20 h. ago Artist Rene Matić: 'I'm nominated for the Turner Prize but my gender is up for discussion'

Non-binary artist Rene Matić takes photographs that celebrate their trans friends, and once got a tattoo of a far right slogan they found on Pinterest. Now they’re one of youngest nominees ever for Britain’s prestigious art prize

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1 week ago 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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2 w. ago Dolls 'salvaged' from thrift shops, VHS tape sculptures and war trauma paintings: The four artists shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize are revealed

Announced today at Tate Britain - on what would have JMW Turner's 250th birthday - the shortlist has attracted criticism for failing to be revolutionary in the same way as previous years.

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2 w. ago 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 warsRemember when controversy was fun? If not, that’s because you’re too young. But back in the 1990s, my child, Britain got itself in hilarious knots about conceptual art, the readymade and whether a pickled shark or elephant dung can be art, with the Turner prize as battleground. It was a culture war but with laughs, because no one’s identity was at stake and it wasn’t like Brian Sewell was going to become prime minister and have Rachel Whiteread jailed.It is by embracing the earnestness of today’s high-stakes culture wars that the Turner prize has lost its edge, the art getting more careful as the ideologies loom larger. This year’s shortlist is the soppiest yet. Two of the artists nominated are painters. Painters, I ask you! This makes some sense of the shortlist announcement taking place on JMW Turner’s 250th birthday....

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2 w. ago Videotape sculptures and wartime paintings among Turner prize shortlist

Nnena Kalu, Mohammed Sami, Rene Matić and Zadie Xa have been nominated for £25,000 prizeAn artist who creates swirling sculptures out of fabric and old videocassette tape, and another who installed huge paintings evoking wartime trauma in the genteel rooms of Blenheim Palace, have been shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize.Nnena Kalu, a Scottish-born, London-based artist, and Mohammed Sami, who fled his native Iraq as a refugee, have been chosen alongside Rene Matić and Zadie Xa to compete for the contemporary art prize. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Turner Prize shortlist includes artist who uses ‘salvaged’ antique dolls in work

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

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3 w. ago Celebrity Big Brother 2025 LIVE: Second star is evicted in tense public vote

JoJo Siwa discussed her gender identity in the diary room, stating she feels a closest affinity with non-binary people

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