Turner Prize exhibition opens in Middlesbrough as four artists go on show
Works by Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau and Tanoa Sasraku are on display at MIMA until March; the winner is announced on 10 December.
The Turner Prize 2026 exhibition opened at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art on 26 September, putting the work of the four shortlisted artists on public view until 29 March 2027.
The shortlisted artists are Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau and Tanoa Sasraku. The winner will be announced at an award ceremony in December, on 10 December, when one of the four will take British contemporary art’s best-known prize.
The staging at MIMA, which is part of Teesside University, continues the prize’s recent habit of travelling beyond the capital. Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson called the exhibition “a fascinating cross-section of the visual arts in Britain today”, noting the artists’ engagement with “ecological thought, human precarity, the geopolitics of oil, and the lived experience of deindustrialisation in the North of England”.
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For visitors, the exhibition is the first chance to see the four practices side by side and to weigh the judges’ choice before December’s announcement. Entry details and opening hours are published by the gallery.
The Turner Prize has a long record of argument, which is rather the point. Middlesbrough now gets three months of it.
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