Tate Britain has announced the shortlist for the Turner Prize 2025. In a fitting tribute on JMW Turner’s 250th birthday, the four nominated artists were unveiled: Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami, and Zadie Xa.
It is summer on the coast of Maine. Promise and Deceit set out to pick blueberries. As they traipse up a hill, Promise begins to tell her friend a story.
Situating the artist’s innermost musings alongside his animal subjects, Landers oscillates between humor and vulnerability, revealing the uncomfortable truths which underpin both the act of artmaking and the human condition.
Images always carry with them an intriguing ambiguity, something that feels familiar yet at the same time elusive: even before being worked on, the image exists as data, as a documentary trace of a reality already transformed into an archive.
Tate Britain officials today named Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami, and Zadie Xa as the four artists shortlisted for the forty-first annual Turner Prize.