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Turner prize

June 2026

  • Black metal railings frame a purple-lit gallery space with illuminated text on the back wall

    Simeon Barclay review – shut out by the gates of a drab modern Britain

    Farewell Sweet Innocence references cinema, football, music and Windrush – it’s about trying to fit in, but always falling short, even as a Turner-nominated artist

May 2026

  • Image of people lit by infrared in a club in various. states of extreme dress

    Peterborough artist Rene Matić wins Deutsche Börse photography prize

    Photographer recognised for Berlin exhibition that documented queer love, nationalism and subcultures

April 2026

  • Turner Prize 2026NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE. CAN ONLY BE USED IN CONTEXT ON THE TURNER PRIZE 2026 Undated handout photo issued by Tate Britain of Kira Freije, who uses metal, fabric and found materials to create sculptures, who has been shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize. The winner will be announced on December 10, 2026 at an award ceremony at MIMA. Issue date: Thursday April 23, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Robin Bernstein/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Turner prize shortlist for 2026 announced by Tate Britain

  • Morale Patch by Tanoa Sasraku, shortlisted for Turner Prize 2026 at Tate Britain

    double quotation markPlaying it too safe? This year’s Turner prize nominees lack the anger – and joy – of previous years

    Eddy Frankel

March 2026

  • Angela de la Cruz's Shutter (Red), a sculptural painting with undulating red strips

    Angela de la Cruz review – wonky chairs and busted pianos are monuments to resilience

    The Spanish artist’s oeuvre is full of objects that look broken but are still powering on – much as she has since she suffered a disabling stroke

December 2025

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    double quotation markNnena Kalu’s triumph for neurodivergent art has rattled a few cages. So let me put those carping critics right

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    The artist’s winning Turner prize entry has been hailed for its life and energy, but to some dissenting voices its challenge to the status quo is hard to stomach, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Nnena Kalu.

    The Guardian view on Nnena Kalu’s historic Turner prize win: breaking a glass ceiling

    Editorial: The UK art world is finally becoming more inclusive. But greater support must be given to the organisations that enable disabled artists to flourish

    • ‘Nnena Kalu was ready for this – nobody else was’: how her Turner prize victory shook the art world

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

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

September 2025

  • Nnela Kalu. Turner Prize 2025. Cartwright Hall Art Gallery. Bradford. Photograph by David Levene 19/9/25

    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

August 2025

  • A member of staff walks past Bridget Riley’s Concerto I and II at Tate Britain in London

    Reframing the debate over Tate attendances and exhibitions

    Letters: Tate director, Maria Balshaw, responds to reports of a decline in visitor numbers. Catherine Bliss is unimpressed by recent offerings at the galleries

May 2025

  • Thrills and swirls … Kalu at work.

    ‘Her need to make is off the scale’: why Nnena Kalu’s Turner prize nomination is a watershed moment for art

  • Playwright and muse … Travis Alabanza by Matiç who has been nominated for the Turner prize.

    ‘Each shot feels like a private performance’: Rene Matić, the Turner shortlist’s only photographer

April 2025

  • Jonathan Jones

    double quotation markAn irrelevant bourgeois ritual: this year’s Turner prize shortlist is the soppiest ever

    Jonathan Jones
    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
  • Nnena Kalu building a sculpture using pink fabric

    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
  • ‘I was playing the banjo when everyone else was playing the guitar’ … Wright at the Camden Art Centre.

    ‘It’s torture!’ Turner-winning artist Richard Wright on obliterating his painstaking works

    He hand-painted 47,000 stars on the Rijksmuseum’s ceiling and drew 1,000 perfect circles, one a day. Ahead of his major London show, he explains why he often paints over his work afterwards

March 2025

  • Lubaina Himid

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Artist Lubaina Himid: ‘The YBAs were wired into selling art. We had no idea that was how to do it’

    The pioneering Turner prize winner on being ignored for years, representing the UK at next year’s Venice Biennale, and the joys of Preston

December 2024

  • Mother and child singing in a car

    Brief letters
    How we got hooked on Horrible Histories

  • Jasleen Kaur making her acceptance speech.

    Jasleen Kaur wins the Turner prize 2024

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