LONDON, ENGLAND.-The Barbican Art Gallery presents Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2005, on view through January 8, 2006. Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2005 showcases the best of young and emerging artists. Selected from over 3,000 entries by celebrated artists, Phil Collins, Jane and Louise Wilson and artist and curator Jeremy Akerman, the exhibition showcases the cream of British talent.

Featuring work by 35 selected artists, the exhibition includes a range of work from painting and sculpture to photography and film. Highlights include Beltran Obregon’s unique topographical photographs of Columbian prison courtyards and Mark Boulos’s documentary featuring a woman from Damascus who claims to have been visited by the Virgin Mary.