Aesthetica Magazine – The Art & Culture Magazine

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.

Contemporary Portraiture
from the Aesthetica Art Prize

These five photographers from the 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize longlist create images that explore modern ideas of representation, visibility and identity.

Nick Brandt:
Portraits of Precarity

The artist’s latest exhibition in Turin focuses on animals, environments and people devastated by climate change, photographed in striking tableaux.

Life on the Margins

A new exhibition features Donna Gottschalk’s documentation of queer life in the 1970s and 1980s, on display to audiences for the first time.

Faithe Yang:
Migration & Belonging

Faithe Yang explores queer intimacy and cross-cultural exchange, reinterpreting everyday gestures and relaxed scenes from an “othering” perspective.

Women by Women:
PhotoVogue Festival 2026

The event returns to Milan for its 10th anniversary in March, presenting a programme dedicated to the many perspectives that womanhood can encompass.

Ruth Asawa: A Defining Voice

A major retrospective at Guggenheim Bilbao includes Asawa’s best known suspended looped-wire sculptures and her nature-inspired tied-wire pieces.

Vivid Illuminations:
Five Light Installations to See

These five exhibitions transform everyday spaces into immersive experiences, using the fundamentals of light and colour to create something brand new.

Dana Lixenberg:
Quiet Observation

MEP’s exhibition weaves together a portrait of the USA, in which celebrities and lesser-known people are approached with equal levels of care and dignity.

Buildings That Care

V&A Dundee marks the 30th anniversary of Maggie’s, the cancer charity, with a show celebrating its thoughtful, nature-forward architecture design.

Unseen Communities

A new exhibition spotlights the previously unseen work of Joyce Edwards, whose compelling portraits captured life for people in 1970s London squats.

Scenes of Abstraction
from the Aesthetica Art Prize

We spotlight five talented artists, longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize, who play with materials, colour and form to create mesmerising abstract imagery.

Radical Architecture

A new book from gestalten reveals how Japanese home design can offer an alternative way of living, changing the everyday into something unexpected.

Catherine Opie:
Redefining Portraiture

National Portrait Gallery presents a retrospective of Catherine Opie, an artist whose career has redefined the social and political potential of the medium.

Martin Parr:
An Inimitable Figure

Isaac Blease, curator at the Martin Parr Foundation, discusses the gallery’s latest exhibition, which honours the remarkable legacy of its founder.

Time on Earth

At Fruitmarket in Edinburgh, Ilana Halperin seeks to make the vastness of geological time visible through sculpture, drawing and analogue photography.