Jameel Prize: Moving Images
Finalists
Marrim Akashi Sani
Jawa El Khash
Alia Farid
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian
Khandakar Ohida
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji
Zahra Malkani
Curated by Rachel Dedman
30 November 2025 - 16 March 2026, V&A South Kensington, London, UK
Jameel Prize: Moving Images is organised by the V&A in collaboration with Art Jameel.
The exhibition toured to Cartwright Hall, Bradford, as part of its year as City of Culture,
April-August 2025, and will be on show at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, from November 2025-May 2026.
Marrim Akashi Sani
Jawa El Khash
Alia Farid
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian
Khandakar Ohida
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji
Zahra Malkani
Curated by Rachel Dedman
30 November 2025 - 16 March 2026, V&A South Kensington, London, UK
Jameel Prize: Moving Images is organised by the V&A in collaboration with Art Jameel.
The exhibition toured to Cartwright Hall, Bradford, as part of its year as City of Culture,
April-August 2025, and will be on show at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, from November 2025-May 2026.
The Jameel Prize is the V&A’s award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic culture, history, society and ideas. This seventh edition is devoted to moving image and digital media, and the exhibition brings together the work of seven finalists who were selected by a jury from over 300 submissions. Their diverse practices span film, photography, animation, sound, sculpture and virtual reality. In a series of intimate, immersive encounters, the works in Jameel Prize: Moving Images engage with issues relating to identity, history and community.
Water and ecology are recurring themes in this year’s exhibition. Several artists explore the relationship between landscape and spiritual traditions, and the ways industrialisation is destroying the environment and altering the social fabric of the Middle East and South Asia. Others address the writing of history by examining the destruction of monuments and by forging alternative approaches to museums and collections. Reflecting the enduring power of the hand-made alongside digital technology, the exhibition presents artists as storytellers.
Watch the films made about our artists by Other Cinemas here.
