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Nederlands Fotomuseum:
The Future of Artistic Curation

Nederlands Fotomuseum opens the doors to a new museum, inviting viewers to explore their 6.5 million item collection in new, intimate and innovative ways.

Felicità: Luigi Ghirri and
the Quiet Intelligence of Looking

A new show at Thomas Dane highlights overlooked and previously unseen photographs from Luigi Ghirri, reframing his practice as urgently contemporary.

Vacant Shorelines

Marie Dreezen’s The Bluest of Days is a standout photography collection in which sandy beaches, rendered in blue, are floodlit by spectral shapes.

Framing Structures

How nine photographers have shaped visions of Japan’s post-war architecture, whilst offering new and innovative suggestions for the genre’s future.

Oceanic Immersion

Striking underwater pictures feature in a brand new compendium dedicated to contemporary image-makers from across Australia and New Zealand.

Garden in Bloom

Experimenting with analogue cameras to capture dreamlike, sun-dappled pictures of plants, petals and leaves that seem to drift in and out of sharp focus.

Ethereal Landscape

Environmental art, photography and sculpture come together in Gjert Rognli’s images, which are inspired by the shifting seasons across northern Norway.

Urban Vignettes

Lotte Ekkel creates interesting crops of buildings and brings details into focus, harnessing natural light as a subject and guide when making pictures in the city.

Power of Nature

Portraits visualise the deep connection between bodies and nature, with subjects nestling within mossy forests and high up mountainous peaks.

Tales of Resilience

Michelle Piergoelam retells crucial Surinamese oral histories, which are rooted in hope, through atmospheric visual storytelling methodologies.

The Spaces We Inhabit:
The February / March Issue

Inside this edition, architecture, design and environmentalism converge, revealing how natural forms and human intention influence one another.

Stylised Constructs

Elena Paraskeva is a conceptual photographer who embraces Surrealism to construct thought provoking compositions in beauty and fine art.

From the Aesthetica Art
Prize: Playing with Light

These artists, longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2025, all work with light in their practice, using it to shape images, environments and experiences.

Jo Ractliffe:
Land as Witness

Jeu de Paume traces forty years of artistic creation, from the start of Jo Ractliffe’s career to her recent series, documenting South African landscapes.

Nan Goldin: Forty Years
of Unflinching Intimacy

Gagosian presents an exhibition of all 126
photographs from Nan Goldin’s genre-defining photobook The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.

Isaac Julien: Identity,
Memory & Imagination

Victoria Miro presents the world premiere of a five-screen installation of Isaac Julien’s acclaimed film installation All That Changes You. Metamorphosis.

The Music is Black: 
A British Story at V&A

V&A Museum East present a bold and multisensory celebration of the profound and enduring impact of Black artistry on British music, culture and beyond.

Meaningful Relationships

London-based artist Xinyi Liu explores the fragile relationship between inner experience and the external world, asking questions about intimacy.

Aïda Muluneh:
An Unparalleled Voice

The renowned artist presents a new series of work at Efie Gallery, featuring brand-new pieces that draw on African iconography, architecture and textiles.

Tracey Emin:
A Second Life

Tate Modern hosts a major retrospective of iconic Turner Prize-winning artist Tracey Emin, spotlighting her unparalleled influence on contemporary art.

Documenting
Contemporary Life

Two Temple Place’s latest exhibition brings mental health to the fore, positioning it as a universal experience that can shape creative expression.

Thresholds of Becoming:
40 Years of Transformation 

In 2026, esea contemporary celebrates 40 years, marking its evolution from a Chinese Visual Arts Festival to a National Portfolio Organisation.

Collectors in Conversation:
Louis Jacquier and Zhaobo Yang

What does it mean to be a collector in 2026? Jacquier and Yang reflect on their journeys into the art world, and reveal how they discover new talent.

Architecture as
Temporal Dialogue

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art brings together two architectural studio who are committed to exploring human, cultural and site-specific histories.

Reimagining the Art
of Being in a World in Flux

Fotografiska Tallinn explores the concept of “play” as a way to find joy, resilience, rebellion and connection in a contemporary world that is in constant flux.

Five New Photobooks to Read

We spotlight five exciting new photobooks released this Spring, exploring community connection, national architecture and Indigenous identities.

Prisoners of Love:
Sound, Poetry & Silence

Basel Abbas and Luanne Abou-Rahme explore the realities of global mass incarceration, asking how artistic expression continues under these conditions.

Between Words and Breath:
Gabrielle Goliath at MoMA PS1

The South African artist’s ongoing video installation is on display at MoMA PS1. The work explores the reverberations of global patriarchal violence.

AS IF: A Bold Convergence
of Image, Sound and Psyche

International Center for the Image brings together the work of Eamonn Doyle, Niall Sweeney, David Donohoe to explore image, sound and installation.

The Face of Music

Fotografiska Tallinn presents the work of Anton Corbijn, a photographer who has authentically documented music legends for more than 50 years.

From the Aesthetica Art
Prize: Artists on the Environment

Today, it’s more important than ever to consider our relationship with the environment. These five artists turn their attention to our vital and fragile climate.

PhotoBrussels 2026:
Resonant Photography

PhotoBrussels returns for its 10th edition with 52 exhibitions across galleries, art centres, home spaces and museums, taking place throughout the city.

Reframing History

International Center of Photography presents a new series that sees two artists put Côte d’Ivoire at the heart of their work, reimagining their shared history.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park:
Forward-Looking Curation

This winter, Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents a new programme, featuring three new outdoor sculptures, that balances historic engagement with innovation.

Gen Z: Shaping a
New Gaze at Photo Elysée

Photo Elysee presents the work of 66 artists born between the mid‑1990s and early 2010s, each navigating the currents of contemporary life.

Serpentine Pavilion 2026 Announced

The 25th edition of the Serpentine Pavilion has been announced, designed by Mexico City-based LANZA atelier and inspired by classic English architecture.

Expanded Histories

A new exhibition at Griffin Museum of Photography sees contemporary artists respond to the popular mythology of Manifest Destiny in American history.

From the Aesthetica Art Prize:
Between Reality and Imagination

We look back at the Aesthetica Art Prize long listed artists who photograph beyond the documentary, exploring the line between the real and fictional.

Graciela Iturbide:
Photography as Witness

C/O Berlin presents the work of Graciela Iturbide, a photographer who spend decades capturing the life of Indigenous communities across Mexico.

Between Land and Sea:
Tokyo Contemporary Art Award

The latest recipients of the prize are Oh Haji and Umeda Tetsuya, whose cross-disciplinary exhibition explores experiences of place, space and migration.

Richard Avedon:
More to the Picture

Forty years on from its creation, Gagosian presents Richard Avedon’s In The American West, a bold series helped to redefine contemporary portraiture.

Mrs. N’s Palace:
Louise Nevelson

Fifty years after her last exhibition in France and three decades following her death, Louise Nevelson returns to Europe at Centre Pompidou-Metz.

Portrait of Britain:
Winners Announced

January sees the UK’s high streets, rail stations and shopping centres transform into a national art gallery, as digital screens light up with faces.

A Lens on the Desert

Zhang Kechun captures tourists in the Gobi Desert – reminding viewers of the ever-encroaching ubiquity of human presence in even the most remote spaces.

Female. Focus. Photo Archives:
Reimagining Swiss Photography

This exhibition examines archives from 1900 to 1970, exploring how gender, social expectation and circumstance shaped practice and recognition.

From the Aesthetica
Art Prize: Surreal Scenes

Glitched landscapes. Paper fish. Echoes of René Magritte. These longlisted artists from the 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize create bold and surreal works.

This Year’s Must-See
Architecture Exhibitions

These five exhibitions spotlight the designers and buildings inspired by culture, history and ecology that profoundly shape how we live, heal and connect.

Expanding Narratives

Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena uses the camera to examine the most pressing social, urban and environmental problems across the globe.

Major Sculpture
Shows for the Season

These five exhibitions foreground the influential figures who have shaped what it means to create sculpture and those pushing boundaries today.

Emerging New Voices

New Contemporaries has announced the 26 artists selected for its 2026 edition, featuring creatives who are set to shape the very future of the industry.

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