Five Exhibitions for August
Our top picks for August are a vital reminder that art is a tool for advocacy and activism, featuring artists who say something urgent about our current world.
Our top picks for August are a vital reminder that art is a tool for advocacy and activism, featuring artists who say something urgent about our current world.
In Bristol, Arnolfini opens Dana Awartani: Standing by the Ruins, a deeply resonant exhibition that brings together new and existing works from the artist.
The Royal Photographic Society’s annual exhibition returns for its 166th edition, spotlighting works that are both visually stunning and culturally important.
Stedelijk Museum invites audiences to reconnect with the environment, exploring magical, natural phenomena through innovative new technologies.
Photographer Sian Davey began transforming her garden in 2020, it has since become the backdrop to dozens of portraits of her friends and neighbours.
This issue explores the power of stillness and reflection, spotlighting artists whose work creates space for nuance, complexity and bold new ideas.
The Wellcome Photography Prize Exhibition, now in its 28th year, brings together thought-provoking stories of health, science and human experience.
Huxley Parlour brings together the works of Ilse Bing, Kati Horna and Dora Maar, three of the most influential avant-garde artists of the 20th century.
The 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize shortlist comprises 25 international artists who propose creative responses to the most pressing issues facing humanity today.
Photographer Sujata Setia’s powerful portraits are made in collaboration with South Asian women who have personal experience of domestic violence.
Andy Goldsworthy is one of the most influential British artists working today. A new retrospective celebrates his remarkable fifty-year career.
Discover standout photographs – portraiture, architecture and more – from the current edition of PHotoEspaña. This year’s festival theme is After All.
Kew Gardens hosts their first-ever outdoor digital art display. Marshmallow Laser Feast’s installation fuses scientific research with bold, poetic visuals.
The acclaimed artist presents his most abstract work to date, transforming Basel’s Schaulager with radiant light, changing colours and deep bass frequencies.
M+ Gallery’s façade is one of the largest media screens in the world. This summer, it plays host to the work of renowned photographer Greg Girard.
Paz Errázuriz documented what life was like for marginalised people under the Chilean dictatorship. Now, MK Gallery showcases her powerful work.
Huis Marseille, the first photography museum in Amsterdam, celebrates a quarter-century of curatorial innovation with a survey of its collection.
New York’s MoMA PS1 presents 14 artists grappling with waste and accumulation – through installation, assemblage, painting, video and performance.
The Photographers’ Gallery showcases the work of Dennis Morris, who captured the essence of sound and the soul of the Black British experience.
