Venice Biennale: Nigerian Identity

The inaugural Nigerian Pavilion comes to the Venice Biennale featuring the work of three leading Nigerian artists and exploring themes of identity.

Seismic Visuals

Joel Meyerowitz: Towards Colour documents a seminal movement away from monochrome into the search for tonal complexity.

Digitalised Visions

Jane Gottlieb’s compositions are a saturated depiction of cities and nature, reworking recognisable locations into hallucinatory snapshots.

Beyond Gender

This year’s Belfast Photo Festival challenges the colour binaries of pink and blue that are commonly assigned to newborns at birth.

Cultural Exchange

Culture Shifts: Global at Open Eye Gallery explores the dynamic urban landscapes of Liverpool and Hong Kong as the cities seek to redefine themselves.

Global Discussions

Future Now illustrates Aesthetica’s commitment to promoting emerging artists, offering portfolio review sessions with influential organisations.

Diffusion: Visual Intervention

kennardphillipps dig into the surface of words and images to visualise the connection between the oppressed and the political elites of the everyday.

Photomonitor: Digital Landscapes

Ahead of a panel alongside Aesthetica, Corridor8 and Elephant Magazine, Christiane Monarchi expands on digitalised culture.

Uncanny Perspectives

Yuge Zhou is a Chinese born, Chicago-based artist whose video and installation works explore the complex interactions between humans and their environment.

Art as Mechanism

The status of the gallery is in flux, demonstrating why arenas for discussion such as Future Now are vital to making sense of the art world.

Disseminated Compositions

Yeowoon Kim works with mobile art, presenting a new diagram of an image, alluding to imperfection whilst suggesting pixellation through the composition.

Turner Prize: Shortlisted Artists

Tate Britain reveals the Turner Prize shortlist for 2017: Hurvin Anderson, Andrea Büttner, Lubaina Himid and Rosalind Nashashibi.

Societal Divisions

This summer, Foam collates 120 works from the collection of The Gordon Parks Foundation into a comprehensive exhibition.

Unknown Territories

This summer the Barbican Centre celebrates the history and ingenuity of Science Fiction across the disciplines of art, design, film and literature.

Diffusion: Challenging Representation

Amak Mahmoodian is an Iranian photographer and curator whose work questions identity. Her latest series is on display at Diffusion Festival.

US Pavilion: Social Change

The US Pavilion Exhibition, Tomorrow is Another Day, signals the debut of a six-year collaboration between Mark Bradford and Rio Terà dei Pensieri.

Post-Industrial Malaise

Now Then: Chris Killip and the Making of In Flagrante provides an unmatched exploration of the artist’s process of capturing a region in decline.

Photo London 2017: Highlights

Aesthetica list 10 highlights from Photo London 2017, from conversations, specially curated exhibitions and awards to site-specific commissions.

Frieze New York: Modern Complexities

This year sees Frieze New York host a collection of ambitious presentations from leading international contemporary and 20th century art galleries.

Scientific Encounters

The studio platform hrm199, led by the acclaimed artist Haroon Mirza, is the winner of FACT and CERN’s COLLIDE International Award 2017.