Lighting up Space

“My ambition is, in a sense, to make you see a little bit more tomorrow than you saw today.” A new show brings the minimalist spirit of Robert Irwin to Berlin.

Between Analogue and Virtual

BIENALSUR – the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South – creates a network of associative collaboration around the globe.

Playing with Perception

Thomas Demand’s work may, at first glance, appear to show empty, mundane interiors. These are, in fact, highly politically charged locations.

Feast for the Senses

New Era brings together the many strands of American artist Doug Aitken’s creative output from the 1990s to the present day.

Portraits Through Time

John Madu plays with time. He is best known for bright figurative paintings: symbolic portraits which look to the past, present and future.

Colour and Movement

Anna Huix’s works are bright, energetic and full of motion. Figures twist, bend and stretch – creating unexpected shapes and silhouettes.

Cultural Documentary

Patrick Wack’s new monograph, DUST, explores whether China’s 21st century push westward mirrors events in America 200 years ago.

Fragile Future

Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta are interested in using light and technology to refresh audiences’ ideas of the natural world.

Altered States

Exploded paintings. Shattered flowers. Fragmented images. In a new series, Ori Gersht draws on postcards from renowned galleries worldwide.

5 to See: Winter Light Shows

This festive season, London is aglow with immersive and interactive artworks: from mist-filled rooms to giant tree-like sculptures.

Gifts for Art Lovers

10 gift ideas for culture lovers this season. 2021’s list includes gallery memberships, photobooks, subscriptions and camera accessories.

The 2022 Creative Writing Award Winners

The winners have been announced for the 2022 award, including one winner in poetry and one in short fiction, each receiving £2,500 prize money.

Contemporary Surrealism

Nearly 100 years since its inception, artists continue to be inspired by Surrealism. From dreamworlds to suburbia, these images show what it looks like today.

Graphic Murmurations

Søren Solkær captures the extraordinary phenomenon of starling murmurations, the mass collective swell and flight of thousands of birds.

Galvanise:
The December/January Issue

This issue of Aesthetica is dedicated to perseverance, resilience and determination. In the face of anything, we have power to change.

Ecological Disturbance

Ingrid Weyland’s collage compositions tap into the age of Anthropocentrism, with human hands literally altering ecosystems from the inside out.

Satirical Photomontage

Harriet Moutsopoulos (aka Lexicon Love) creates digital collages that manipulate the origins of images, unsettling the viewer.

Worlds Transformed

Karen Constine subverts the LA landscape using an infrared camera. Deserted suburban streets are transfigured into surreal planes.

Acts of Preservation

David Benjamin Sherry’s large-format images, shot in hyperreal monochrome, depict sites that were threatened during Trump’s administration.

From the Orchard

William Mullan and Andrea A. Trabucco-Campos offer highly stylised portraits of apples: the fruit that has long symbolised knowledge and power.