Shortlist out for UK's largest contemporary art prize

Acclaimed British film-maker John Akomfrah OBE and celebrated welsh artist Bedwyr Williams are among the nominees for the seventh Artes Mundi.

The UK's largest contemporary art prize, which is held in Cardiff every two years, has a £40,000 prize.

The shortlist was selected from over 700 nominations, spanning 90 countries.

Seven of the world's most celebrated contemporary artists are up for the prize.

Award winning French-Algerian artist Neïl Beloufa, Lebanese visual artist and filmmaker Lamia Joreige, German filmmaker, visual artist, and author Hito Steyerl are on the shortlist.

Also up for the prize are Angolan multi-media and performance and spoken word artist Nastio Mosquito and Amy Franceschini from the award-winning Californian artist collective, FutureFarmers.

The winner will be announced in January 2017 following a four-month exhibition of works by the artists.

John Akomfrah, Handsworth Songs, (Still) 1986

Hito Steyerl, Adorno's Grey (Still), 2012

Bedwyr Williams, Curator Cadaver Cake, 2012, Performance, Grizedale Arts, Frieze Art Fair

Nastio Mosquito, S.E.F.A., 2014, Live Performance at Festival Belluard Bollwerk International (2014), Fribourg

Amy Francheschini / Futurefarmers, This is Not a Trojan Horse (in transit)

Lamia Joreige, Still from A Journey, Video, 41 minutes, 2006

Neïl Beloufa, Counting on People, installation views ICA, London, 2014