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Through Our Eyes:
Sámi Art and Culture

Somerset House’s latest show is the very first group exhibition of Sámi artists in the UK. They are the only recognised Indigenous people based in Europe.

A Vivid Landscape

In Sanja Marušić’s self-portraits, the artist interacts with an array of structural forms, from bright red metal columns to yellow grid-like environments.

Building a Mystery

Each of Jan Pypers’ cinematic images starts with scale miniatures of swimming pools, gardens and buildings, carefully constructed inside the studio.

Designing a Residence

Looking at the past, present and future of houses produced by and for architects around the world, spanning from mid-century to the contemporary.

Powerful Colourways

A major vertical garden in Madrid is transformed, as colours blend into one another, weaving and swirling from the top to the bottom of each frame.

Collective Experience

From major stadium shows to intimate sketches, the Design Museum traces three decades’ work by Es Devlin, dedicated to bringing people together.

Material Playgrounds

The role of light and colour comes to the fore in Sabine Marcelis’ latest exhibition, foregrounding luminous objects and mesmerising installations.

Botanical Observation

The concept of stillness is at the heart of Sergiy Barchuk’s work, capturing crisp images of plants, where each frond and stem is brought into focus.

Aerial Viewpoint

Considering the world from the perspective of the cockpit, capturing the illuminated networks and patterns of sprawling cities 10,000 metres below.

Figures In Motion

Danielle Kwaaitaal directs swimmers underwater, producing sculptural and choreographed pictures where models hover, float and dance in the deep.

The October / November
Issue of Aesthetica is Here

Discover what’s inside the latest edition, World of Possibility, which considers the relationship between the built environment and imagination.

Five International
Sculpture Exhibitions to Visit

We spotlight five major shows that bring sculpture to the fore, demonstrating what can be done with materials when you venture beyond the obvious.

Charlotte Perriand:
A Modern Trailblazer

The designer left an indelible mark on modernism, revolutionising the way spaces were conceived. Fundació Joan Miró celebrates this legacy.

Tate Britain Looks Back
at the 1990s Cultural Legacy

Tate Britain will stage the first major exhibition to navigate The 90s: Art and Fashion, a decade that was characterised by its creativity and rebellious spirit.

Capturing the Streets
from a New Perspective

These five photographers from the Aesthetica Archive take architecture as their artistic subject, documenting modern urban life in in new ways.

Radical Listening: When Art
Leaves the Gallery & Enters the City

Aesthetica Film Festival’s Radical Listening, with Audible, features three brand new commissions by Steve Messam, Being Now Here and Squidsoup.

Sarah Maple Explores the
Personal, Political and Powerful

Museum Arnhem’s multidisciplinary presentation showcases Maple’s exploration of free expression in relation to cultural identity, religion and gender.

Meet the Artists
Reinventing Food Photography

The five photographers, previously featured in Aesthetica Magazine, use food in innovate ways to consider how we consume in our throwaway society.

Jessica Backhaus Speaks
the Language of Abstraction

Five years ago, the Berlin-based photographer took her first steps towards total abstraction. Now, her latest book presents the culmination of the process.

Our Top Five New
Photobook Releases

We spotlight publications set to hit shelves this autumn, each one considering the creative figures and questions that define contemporary art.

Marshmallow Laser Feast
and the Limits of Perception

MIT Museum blends contemporary art with science and history to explore how technologies, senses, and media co-evolve to bring the oceans into clear view.

Challenging Traditional
Representations at FOMU

Leonard Pongo has spent the past 10 years travelling the Democratic Republic of Congo, creating work inspired by its traditions, mythologies and culture.

Cécile Lobert: Abstract Expressionism for the 21st Century

Cécile Lobert’s paintings emerge from a rapid-fire process, characterised by spontaneity, with each mark reflecting a raw emotional response.

Sam Taylor-Johnson:
The Self and the Portrait

Rizzoli publishes definitive monograph on the internationally acclaimed photographer turned Hollywood filmmaker, spotlighting her portraits.

Baff Akoto Asks:
Who Gets Remembered?

The exhibition explores memory, grief, justice and the voices of Black and immigrant Britons affected by deaths following police contact since 1969.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Unveils their Autumn Display

YSP presents five bronzes in its historic 18th century Formal Garden, bringing together works by artists exploring metamorphosis, mythology and the body.

Joy Gregory: The Politics
of Beauty, Memory & Looking

Arnolfini’s landmark show brings together more than 150 of Gregory’s photographs, films, installations and mixed-media artworks spanning over four decades.

London Film Festival Expanded:
The New Grammar of Storytelling

The 70th BFI London Film Festival asks what a film festival can become when the screen is no longer a fixed surface but a space to enter, navigate and alter.

Helen Levitt Captures
the City as a Living Image

Helen Levitt captured the poetry of everyday street life through play, humour and fleeting moments. City at Play reveals the depth of her intuitive approach.

Cao Fei Offers Alternative
Visions of the Near Future

Cao Fei presents her largest UK body of work to date, focusing on how AI, automation and virtual life are not speculative but a part of everyday life.

Bristol Photo Festival:
An Expansive Programme

Bristol Photo Festival, the international biennial of contemporary photography, has announced the full programme for its third edition, Time Machine.

On the Cusp:
Female in Focus

The exhibition brings together the work of Laetitia Vançon and Giya Makondo-Wills, whose series are responding to this year’s theme of “On the Cusp.”

Ten Breakthrough Artists at
the Aesthetica New Music Stage

Ten of the UK and Ireland’s emerging voices have been announced for the New Music Stage at the BAFTA-qualifying Aesthetica Film Festival.

Pipilotti Rist:
30 Years of Video Art

Guggenheim Bilbao displays the two channel video installation Ever is Over All, three decades after it was premiered at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997.

Zanele Muholi’s
Powerful Visual Activism

For more than twenty years, the artist has dedicated their practice to making Black LGBTQIA+ people visible in South Africa and all around the world.

Nuanced Portraits of
India’s Female Bodybuilders

Foam Amsterdam’s exhibition questions stereotypes and preconceptions of what a woman could and should look like, and asks the viewer to think twice.

The Art of Eli Schläppi:
Abstraction and Lived Experience

Eli Schlappi’s paintings are enriched by many years of engagement with Chinese medicine, Daoist thought and East Asian calligraphic tradition.

Programme Announced:
Aesthetica Film Festival 2026

Aesthetica Film Festival returns to York, bringing together over 300 films and creative talent from across the global screen and media industries.

Fotografiska Tallinn Celebrates
Vivian Maier’s Rediscovered Archive

This new retrospective spotlights the photographic archive of Vivian Maier, who documented life in Chicago and New York throughout the 20th century.

Cindy Sherman & Lorna Simpson:
Performance, Identity and Memory

Hauser & Wirth London’s two concurrent exhibitions spotlight the works of two iconic artists, placing Sherman and Simpson in direct artistic dialogue.

Light & Magic: The Birth
of Art Photography

Tate Modern presents the first major exhibition to explore pictorialism as a global movement, bringing together over 200 rare prints by over 80 artists.

Visual Glitches: Images
from the Pages of Aesthetica

These five photographers, previously featured in Aesthetica Magazine, create works that play with the visual landscape in new and innovative ways.

Tacita Dean Champions the
Power of Analogue Filmmaking

The monumental installation, first produced for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2011 and now on view in LA, stands as her defining tribute to the medium.

America at 250:
A Photographic Portrait

Smithsonian invites us to consider what the next chapter of American image-making might look like, through the lens of projects from the 1970s.

“I Explore the Human Condition”:
In Conversation with Atong Atem

We caught up with the photographer ahead of a major retrospective opening at National Gallery of Victoria, her biggest exhibition in Australia to date.

What Does It Mean to
Build a Museum for the Future?

Four exhibitions unfold across Groninger Museum, placing contemporary art at the very centre of the institution, presenting a radical, experimental spirit.

Artists Bear Witness
to the Environmental Crisis

A major exhibition opens in Cornwall this autumn, exploring humanity’s relationship with the natural world, from prehistoric times and into the future.

Family, Memory and Power:
Carrie Mae Weems at C/O Berlin

This extensive retrospective foregrounds a hugely influential artist whose genre-defying practice looks at femininity, history, race and systems of control.

Bodies, Energy and
the Unwritten Archive

The Hammer Museum at UCLA announces its full Fall 2026 exhibition lineup, featuring five exhibitions by celebrated artists hailing from around the world.

Street Photography
Exhibitions this Autumn

We spotlight five exhibitions, on display around the world, that look back at the rich history of street photography and consider its future possibilities.

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