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Meet the 2026 Aesthetica
Emerging Art Prize Winner: DIVA

We interviewed DIVA, a multimedia artist who was the recipient of this year’s Emerging Prize, for a film that explores artistic archives and cultural memory.

Reframing Black American
Life through the Magazine

Bold and Brilliant reveals how Black photography magazines reshaped a visual culture, making visible what was often excluded from mainstream media.

Brassaï’s Photographs Reveal
the Secrets of 20th Century Paris

A major presentation in Australia encompasses more than 150 of Brassaï’s “greatest achievements,” including atmospheric images of the city after dark.

Five Artists Ask Viewers
to See from New Perspectives

New immersive exhibition SENTIENTS invites visitors to surrender their human perspective and see the world through the eyes of other living beings.

Noguchi to Asawa
and the Politics of Design

Barnes Foundation’s show reconsiders 20th century art and design within the context of Japanese and Japanese American incarceration during WWII.

The Changing Landscape
of the Contemporary World

Doug Aitken transforms various mediums into an immersive digital environments that considers the intersection of identity, technology and landscape.

IMMA Explores Art and
Peace in Contemporary Europe

Technologies of Peace brings together researchers, artists, curators and renowned thinkers to examine one of the defining challenges of our time: peace.

Meet the 2026 Aesthetica Art
Prize Winner: Felipe Castelblanco

We spoke to this year’s winner about what it means to be recognised by the Prize, how the film was made and what’s next in his multidisciplinary career.

teamLab’s New Blueprint
for Digital Art Exhibitions

teamLab transforms their Tokyo museum into an environment where digital art and architecture redefines viewer experience and perception.

Emmanuelle Moureaux:
the Architecture of Attention

The celebrated artist transforms colour into an architectural medium, turning a busy Hong Kong thoroughfare into an immersive experience.

Darren Almond Captures the
World Under the Light of the Moon

This show takes a breathtaking nocturnal journey around the globe, capturing trees, mountains, glaciers and oceans in dreamlike long exposures.

A Major Show Spotlights
the Legacy of Geoffrey Bawa

The first retrospective of the architect in two decades brings together over 250 objects to tell a story rooted in landscape, climate and community.

Daniel Maliykar’s
Portrait of Afghanistan

This major new project is made up of 150 unseen documentary photographs of Afghanistan, created during a period of access that no longer exists.

Reimagining the Creative
Archive at the Design Museum

British artist Es Devlin’s first retrospective in Europe celebrates her 30-year creative practice across sculpture, stage design, music, language and light.

Fotografiska Celebrates
Thomas Billhardt’s Legacy

From Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, to dispatches from Vietnam and Cuba, Thomas Billhardt’s images capture a 20th century world in perpetual motion.

Launching Aesthetica’s
August/September 2026 Edition

A peek inside the most recent edition of our printed magazine. Discover artists who reflect the world around us, whilst offering new ways to understand it.

Helio Oiticica’s Radical
Approach to Installation Art

Goodwood Art Foundation has unveiled the first outdoor installation to be shown in Europe by the renowned Brazilian practitioner Hélio Oiticica.

Refik Anadol’s Latent City
Memory, Data & the Future

The opening exhibition at BRUSK, Refik Anadol’s Latent City transforms data into an immersive experience, exploring memory, data and AI.

Larry Achiampong Returns
to an Iconic Moving-Image Series

Larry Achiampong will present his the latest film in his iconic series Relic 4 as part of a bold exhibition at KARST gallery in Plymouth, opening this October.

Reimagining Archives:
Edinburgh Art Festival 2026

Edinburgh Art Festival 2026 presents a city-wide programme exploring photographic archives as living spaces of memory, identity and endless possibility.

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