Nnena Kalu: Meet the Turner Prize 2025 nominees | Tate
To create her sculptures, Glasgow-born artist Nnena Kalu begins with a loop, tube or structure that forms a base. Around these forms she wraps, folds and knots streams of repurposed fabric, rope, tape, cling film, paper and VHS tape. These brightly coloured lengths and strips come together to form bundles, sometimes resembling nests or cocoons. Finishing her works on site, Kalu responds to the space and character of where she is working.
Her drawings echo the sculptures, often consisting of powerful vortexes made with swirling, overlapping lines.
Kalu is nominated for the Turner Prize 2025 for her inclusion of Drawing 21 in the group exhibition Conversations at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and her works Hanging Sculpture 1-10. Barcelona at Manifesta 15, Barcelona.
See the Turner Prize exhibition on display at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford until 22 February 2026. The winner of the Turner Prize 2025 will be announced on 9 December.
See all nominees: https://bradford2025.co.uk/programme/turner-prize-2025/
Her drawings echo the sculptures, often consisting of powerful vortexes made with swirling, overlapping lines.
Kalu is nominated for the Turner Prize 2025 for her inclusion of Drawing 21 in the group exhibition Conversations at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and her works Hanging Sculpture 1-10. Barcelona at Manifesta 15, Barcelona.
See the Turner Prize exhibition on display at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford until 22 February 2026. The winner of the Turner Prize 2025 will be announced on 9 December.
See all nominees: https://bradford2025.co.uk/programme/turner-prize-2025/
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