Scottish artist Jasleen Kaur wins 2024 Turner Prize

Scottish artist Jasleen Kaur won the Turner Prize on Tuesday, the most prestigious prize for visual arts in the United Kingdom, which celebrates its fortieth anniversary in 2024.
Scottish artist Jasleen Kaur won the Turner Prize on Tuesday, the most prestigious prize for visual arts in the United Kingdom, which celebrates its fortieth anniversary in 2024.

Kaur, 38, won the award worth 25,000 pounds (30,147 euros) at a gala held on Tuesday at the Tate Britain in London for animating everyday objects through sounds and music to talk about community and cultural heritage.

The Turner Prize jury praised Kaur's "considered" way of bringing together "the personal, the political and the spiritual" in her exhibition Alter Altar, choreographing a visual and aura experience that suggests

"solidarity and joy".

They also highlighted her ability to bring together different voices through "unexpected and playful" combinations of material, such as family photographs or a vintage Ford Escort covered with a rug.

Kaur's work beat out the other three finalists, Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson and Delaine Le Bas, who will each receive a prize of £10,000 (€12,057).

The 2024 Turner Prize jury was chaired by Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, alongside Wysing Arts Centre director Rosie Cooper; writer and curator Ekow Eshun, CEO of Japan House London, Sam Thorne and art historian Lydia Yee.

The exhibition of Kaur's works, along with those of the other three finalists, can be seen at Tate Britain in London until 15 February.

After the ceremony returned to the London museum six years later, Tate announced that next year the winner of the Turner Prize will be unveiled in the city of Bradford, as part of the celebrations of the British City of Culture 2025.

The Turner Prize, one of the best known in the visual arts worldwide, aims to promote public debate around new developments in contemporary British art since its creation in 1984, and has had winners such as Steve McQueen, Damien Hirst or, more recently, Jesse Darling.
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