Documenting Reality

Traversing rural and suburban landscapes, Alec Soth’s oeuvre documents contemporary realities, offering new perspectives on the everyday.

Changing Environments

The Aesthetica Art Prize looks into themes from digital worlds. Peter Davis’s shortlisted paintings assess people’s relationship with technology.

Imaginative Installation

From interactive spaces to emotive machines, this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize shortlist is rich in the possibilities of installation art.

5 to See: This Weekend

International art fairs, awards and solo shows opening 19-20 May highlight practitioners expanding the limits of invention.

Future Greats 2018 Winners

The winners have been announced for the 2018 Aesthetica Art Prize, an international showcase of innovative and contemporary artworks.

Aesthetica Art Prize Opens

The Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition opens at York Art Gallery, showcasing the next generation of talent through diverse subject matter and media.

Rethinking Tradition

Asking the question: Beautiful world, where are you?, Liverpool Biennial 2018 surveys the current social, political and environmental landscape.

Investigating Selfhood

A new exhibition at ICP explores representations of identity through work by female artists engaging with notions of the self.

Contemplative Portraits

At Photo London 2018, Martin Asbaek Gallery, celebrates the work of four female practitioners, including Trine Søndergaard.

Investigating Architecture

An exhibition of Elina Brotherus’ series, Les Femmes de la Maison Carré, opens as part of Lumières nordiques,

Visual Stimulation

Exploring the relationship between light, colour and the human condition, Liz West produces installations which illuminate spaces with multi-coloured hues.

Facilitating Development

Acclaimed practitioners come together to create a new major fund, Artists for Artangel, in support of the arts commissioning agency.

Aesthetic Languages

BALTIC Curator of Exhibitions and Research, Alessandro Vincentelli, speaks about Jasmina Cibic’s latest exhibition, This Machine Builds Nations.

Practical Forms

Louis Poulsen Lighting’s iconic PH 5 lamp is reflects Danish designer Poul Henningsen’s dedication to form and function.

Balancing Representation

As part of Photo London 2018 at Somerset House, Huxley-Parlour, London, celebrates the work of females behind the lens.

Filmic Composition

Alex Prager’s cinematic photographs touch upon themes of voyeurism and alienation, examining life in a media-saturated society.

Structural Hybridity

Taking place at MoMA, Toward a Concrete Utopia explores the building design that was produced during the 45 years of former Yugoslavia’s existence.

A Bold Approach

Ethereal and dreamlike meets surreal and striking in the new Erik Madigan Heck exhibition at the Christopher Guye Galerie, Zurich.

Uncanny Locales

A new exhibition of work by Juno Calypso takes a surreal and unique location in Nevada, US, as its starting point.

5 to See: This Weekend

Shows running 12-13 May celebrate pioneering practitioners from the early 20th century up to the present day, offering responsive approaches.