Influential Messages
Art Basel’s photography selection includes key voices, raising awareness of ongoing social, political and ecological questions.
Art Basel’s photography selection includes key voices, raising awareness of ongoing social, political and ecological questions.
Photographer Jean Molitor has been tracking the legacy of Bauhaus since 2009, capturing the movement’s bold aesthetic.
Exploring the timely boundary between truth and fiction, Thomas Wrede’s works offer a surreal reflection on the fidelity of photography.
Fjordenhus, the first building realised by Olafur Eliasson and his architectural team, builds on a socially and conceptually responsive practice.
Mary Mattingly looks into the wider effects of mining and chemical cultivation, investigating supply chains through a critical approach.
Combining strong geometric patterns, clean lines and bold colours, Leonardo Pucci’s body of work, documents the urban landscape.
Chris Dorley-Brown’s hyperreal works capture the breadth of contemporary experience, documenting street corners in East London.
Museum of London brings together portraiture, documentary, conceptual photography and film to draw a striking portrait of the nocturnal city.
Having worked as a freelance illustrator for years, Recchia now focuses on the banality of everyday life, looking at the forms of the urban environment.
Emily Shur’s Super Extra Natural!, documents the American photographer’s time in Japan, offering personal reflections on a unique landscape.
Mark Ruwedel’s work demonstrates how geological, historical and political events have shaped the natural landscape.
Cindy Sherman is one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. A new body of work is inspired by 1920s Hollywood cinema.
How can photography make sense of the world? Shows running 2-3 June demonstrate the ways practitioners are engaging with timely ideas.
Fashion photographer Gösta Peterson combined styled compositions with spontaneity, foregrounding the individuality of each subject.
Landscapes After Ruskin at Grey Art Gallery, New York, explores how practitioners are making sense of the changing environment.
The June / July edition of Aesthetica is available now. Issue 83, A New Way of Seeing, considers the intersection between the created and the real.
Technological advances have altered our conception of space. James Turrell questions notions of materiality and physical location.
For Joachim Hildebrand’s latest series, he travelled through the seven states of the American southwest – a visual journey through myth and reality.
Marking a departure from self representation, new works by Elina Brotherus offer a playful, performative approach inspired by Fluxus.