Tim Bowditch and Nick Rochowski will exhibit their project Hind Land in a solo show at The Front Room Gallery. The work grew out of an interest in the interplay between the M25 and local woodland.

Featuring 10 artists working over the past two thousand years, this exceptional exhibition visually investigates the theme of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s essay What is the Contemporary?

The 55th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale is entitled Il Palazzo Enciclopedico. Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, 88 National participants will be exhibiting in the city of Venice.

Tumbleweed! is the ideal example of making the simple things in life funny. The tumbleweed when given human characteristics and a fruitful life of adventure is shown to achieve tremendous things.

Karla Black constructs large-scale, site-specific sculptures using amorphous yet everyday materials—from dirt, chalk, and dough to the powders, sprays, and gooey substances we use to coat our bodies.

London-based Synthpop band Chapel Club has just released their second album Good Together. Aesthetica spoke to the group to find out more about their influences and what’s coming up in 2013.

Produced at the University of California by director Mark Nelson, The Jockstrap Raiders was awarded the Best Animation title at last year’s Aesthetica Short Film Festival. Submit your film by 31 May.

Opening to the public at the iconic City Factory venue on 31 May, Picturing Derry brings together, for the first time, some of the most iconic images of the troubles in the city in one exhibition.

Day Bowman has been selected out of only five UK artists to exhibit her work at this year’s NordArt exhibition in June. Her work as a painter lies on the axis of figuration and abstraction.

Set in the serene St Mungo’s Museum of Religious Life and Art, photographer Liz Hingley’s Under Gods: Stories from the Soho Road provides an honest assessment of true multi-culturalism.

Stephen J. Morgan’s The Other Side of Everything is a striking series of images, documenting familiar places that uncover the artist’s journey as a second generation Irish boy growing up in Birmingham.

Stephen Willats’ latest exhibit at Modern Art Oxford is a collection of works ranging from 1998-2013. Each work addresses his interest in the mediation of personal and interpersonal relationships.

Bob van Reeth, one of the most important postwar Belgian architects and the first Flemish Government Architect from 1999 to 2005, will be 70 this year. BOZAR and A+ look back on his rich career.

Linn Karen Forland’s Come to Heaven of Hearts depicts the inner world of an old woman. Full of surprising associations, it sets before us a rapturous scene of an old woman at the end of her life.

Curated by Domingo Milella and Bacarelli Botticelli, What is Contemporary? is open at Brancolini Grimaldi. The group show combines contemporary photography with works of art from the past.

Part of the official selection at ASFF 2012, 10 minute documentary Blind Encounter gives a captivating and inspiring account of a blind busker’s journey through coming to terms with losing his sight.

Hans Josephsohn died last year at the age of 92. An example of his legacy is exhibited at YSP. We are given to understand that throughout his career, he drew on a 30 000-year-old figurative tradition.

BAFTA award winning screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh’s Supermarket Girl was a huge success at ASFF 2012. The short film follows the blossoming friendship between two supermarket workers.

The Toulouse International Art Festival opens today. Promising to be a unique and inspiring event, this years festival is entitled Artist Comes First, which was also the artistic approach to the presentation.

With only one week left to register your short film for this year’s ASFF, we spoke to festival regular Thomas Guerrier about previous success, plans for the festival and what keeps him entering every year.