Aesthetica Magazine – The Art & Culture Magazine

Renewed Viewpoint

A year in the Sonoran Desert is charted through billions of captured data points, illuminating the beauty and fragility of a well-known landscape.

Shaping Elements

Lachlan Turczan, one of this year’s Lumen Prize finalists, experiments with natural phenomena in order to shape multisensory installation artwork.

Latent Memories

Albarrán Cabrera’s photographs traverse luscious, light-drenched forests and lakes, where sunbeams dapple through tree branches and over the water.

Garden Up Close

Marine Lanier’s Le Jardin d’Hannibal series is set in one of Europe’s highest botanical gardens, home to a variety of plants from the largest mountains.

Evoking Paintings

Cristina Spagnolo showcases crisp photographic portraits and nature images inspired by the light, detail and form of art from the 1500s and 1600s.

Silent Interiors

Architecture is Satijn Panyigay’s subject of choice, creating brooding depictions of empty buildings and cinematically-lit homes under construction.

Cosmic Exploration

Fotografiska Tallinn’s latest exhibition features 14 acclaimed artists who are grappling with questions around who experiences space, how and why.

Saodat Ismailova: Suspended States

Melted into the Sun, opening at BALTIC, is a meditation on thresholds, transitions and the suspended state where history and myth converge.

Abstracted Visions:
Photographers to Know

Spotlighting five contemporary creatives, previously featured in Aesthetica, who are using microscopes, mirrors, paper and more to reimagine photography.

Technological Worlds:
Ayoung Kim at MoMA PS1

Three acclaimed video installations are being shown together for the first time in New York, using video game engines to hold up a mirror to the gig economy.

Memory, Emotion and Craft

We’re excited to release the first film in the MPB: The Next Shot series. Filmmaker Andi Hampton shares the story of how cameras shape his practice.

Joy Gregory:
A Major Retrospective

Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey is a landmark show that brings together 250 works encompassing photography, film, installation and textile works.

MPB: The Next Shot
Creative Legacies

Today we’re announcing the four filmmakers who are part of MPB: The Next Shot, a project which sees creatives share the stories behind their cameras.

Documenting a Nation

The Zofia Rydet show at The Photographers’ Gallery in London offers a documentary portrait of domestic life in Poland, unparalleled in ambition or scale.

Jennie Baptiste:
Rhythm and Roots

Somerset House presents the biggest exhibition of Baptiste’s work to date, rightfully placing her within the canon of pioneering 20th century photography.

Virtual Worldbuilding: Digital Visions by Peiyan Xu

Peiyan Xu investigates the relationship between information systems and human perception, exploring the impact of the digital age on cognition.

Meet the Aesthetica Art
Prize Shortlist: Stephen Johnston

Contemporary artist Stephen Johnston continues the rich tradition of memento mori, with paintings that focus on food and flowers decomposing in jars.

This Season:
Installation Art to See

These shows – spanning New York to Kyoto, Lisbon to London – invite viewers to step inside immersive worlds where light and sound take on physical form.

Images from PAN Amsterdam 2025

We spotlight five photographers whose work is on show at PAN Amsterdam, the leading art fair which is returning to the Dutch capital from 2-9 November.