Aesthetica Art Prize 2018 Shortlist

The Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of emerging and established artists. The 12 shortlisted works define a new vocabulary for life in the 21st century. 

Realigning Representation

Addressing issues of exposure, Whitechapel Gallery in partnership with Collezione Maramotti present the annual Max Mara Art Prize for Women.

5 to See: This Weekend

The selection for 17-18 March celebrates the past, present and future of creative practice through performance, installation and images.

Forgotten Narratives

Surrounded by a tumultuous climate, Turkish-born photographer Fatma Bucak channels her Kurdish history through an exhibition at Fondazione Merz.

Examinations of Beauty

Juno Calypso invites viewers to become participants in an immersive installation, escaping from reality and into a cyber landscape based on western ideals.

Cataloguing Performance

To celebrate the impact of an influential institution, Whitechapel Gallery, London, has opened its doors to the first exhibition tracing Performa’s history.

Science and Art: New Solutions

Somewhere in Between at Wellcome Collection offers a collaborative examination of the human condition, bringing together science and art.

Hypnotic Melodies

Co-commissioned by National Museum Cardiff and Artes Mundi, Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Sky in a Room takes place over a five-week period.

Chronicling Resistance

In 1960, a devastating earthquake destroyed much of the Moroccan city of Agadir. Yto Barrada addresses the process of reinvention .

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.

Meaningful Deconstruction

The term “soft power” is used to described how political rhetoric is deployed through culture. Jasmina Cibic examines this rhetoric.

Webb-Ellis: Universal Languages

Notions of what it means to be human are constantly shifting. Multidisciplinary AAP artists Webb-Ellis discuss their recent, constantly evolving, projects.

Connective Practices

Katia Kameli’s multidisciplinary, site-specific artwork ties in to an ongoing mission to support refugees and migrants in Newcastle.

Disrupted Chronologies

Throughout April, experimental practitioners spent two weeks living and practicing in Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Sculptural Exchange

Mesonya/ is Katinka Bock’s exhibition of new sculptures made for Siobhan Davies Studios. This is the first of three Traces Commission projects.

Aesthetica Issue 79 Available Now

The October / November issue looks at practitioners who are responding to the current global situation in intelligent and meaningful ways.

Frieze: Global Footprints

The 15th edition of Frieze London takes place next month, an event with more than 160 galleries that showcases the ambitious visions of contemporaries.

AAP Exhibition: Last Chance

A platform for innovation, the Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition invites audiences to engage with captivating projects from leading artists.

Modernist Performance

A pioneering American opera, Four Saints in Three Acts (1934), is the focus of an exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, opening in October.

AAP: Last Week

Hosted by Aesthetica Magazine, the Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world. Submit by 31 August.