
Exhibition preview·Middlesbrough
Turner Prize 2026 show opens at Middlesbrough's Mima with four shortlisted artists
The 2026 Turner Prize exhibition has opened at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, featuring shortlisted artists Tanoa Sasraku, Marguerite Humeau, Simeon Barclay and Kira Freije. Tate Britain's director called the show a cross-section of British visual art, with works addressing ecology, precarity, oil geopolitics and northern deindustrialisation.
The latest Turner Prize exhibition opened to press at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, part of Teesside University in northeast England. The four nominated artists were each recognised for a solo exhibition from the past year: Tanoa Sasraku's Morale Patch, Marguerite Humeau's Torches, plus presentations by Simeon Barclay and Kira Freije. Sasraku's display explores the instruments and organisations behind extractivism, including paperweights containing crude oil on a chequered floor meant to suggest water and desert. Humeau builds sculptural compositions from natural materials such as beeswax, 150-year-old walnut and ancient yeast cultures. The show runs from 26 September 2026 to 29 March 2027.


