Embracing New Disciplines

On the cusp of the RA’s 250th anniversary, From Life takes an inquisitive look at the tradition and its ongoing relationship with artists today.

Unbroken Horizons

Murray Fredericks views the sublime landscape as a medium, using mirrors to build surreal, mesmerising compositions

Nostalgic Surroundings

Part of a generation racked by hyperactivity, Tina Barney captures the details of north eastern, suburban America.

Fragmented Environments

Robert Irwin’s new immersive installation plays with notions of place by responding to the architectural forms of Sprüth Magers, Berlin‘s modernist gallery space. The exhibition…

5 to See: This Weekend

Exhibitions running 20-21 January offer viewers the opportunity to reflect on the modern world, building platforms for introspection.

Associative Compositions

The work of 19th century visionaries is the starting point for a new show at Foam, Amsterdam, which links photography’s inception with the modern day.

Unreal Chronicles

Cristina de Middel blends traditional documentary photography with fresh conceptual ideas.

Serene Minimalism

Living in a village by the sea near Lisbon, Tesera Freitas started out as a designer with a camera. Her works offers a place where fantasy meet aesthetics.

Universal Incoherence

In 1921, influential poet T.S Eliot spent time in Margate. A new show draws connections between The Waste Land and visual arts.

Cultural Intricacies

Candida Höfer investigates Mexico’s architectural and urban spaces, capturing the façades, floors and interiors of public structures.

Visionary Altitudes

Jeffrey Milstein’s aerial photographs provide new perspectives on the urban landscape through geometry, colour and form.

Uncanny Interiors

Ann Shelton’s body of work occupies the space between documentary and conceptual photography, investigating collective histories.

Contemporary Assertions

This Synthetic Moment brings together a diverse selection of artists using photography as a means to assert a strong sense of identity.

Vibrant Approaches

In an accelerating landscape, fresh ways of understanding the world become important. Bloomberg New Contemporaries offers insight.

Uninhabited Meaning

Gerry Johansson’s images are devoid of human presence, yet reflect the lives of individuals in fresh and revealing ways.

Cultural Possibilities

A new exhibition questions how India’s past, present and future are represented from a female perspective.

Exhibitions of Change

YSP has consistently positioned itself within the arena of creative social change, a notion continued in a collection that, quite simply, makes a difference.

Uncovering Realities

Conceptual artist He Xiangyu’s recent film, The Swim, captures the uncanny truths of the practitioner’s childhood home.

Complex Representations

In an age of gratuitous image editing and fake news, it is hard to distinguish artificiality from reality. Alex Prager investigates this confusion.

Institutional Deception

A site-specific installation by Christopher Page transforms the gallery space through a series of illusions.