Paradise, Gender and Place

Yuki Kihara’s Australian premiere interrogates and dismantles gender roles and colonial legacies in the Pacific through vibrant and impactful photographs.

Atmospheric Stories

Dominik Podlipniak draws viewers into dark and mysterious narratives. The cinematic images centre around lone figures and flickering lights.

Important Details:
Baldwin Lee in Conversation

Baldwin Lee is regarded as one of the most remarkable photographers of the American South. Here, he speaks to Aesthetica about his new show.

Women Artists to Watch:
PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai

Asia Pacific’s largest photo-based fair highlights the work of emerging women photographers, spanning intimate portraiture and surreal still life shots.

Timeless Perceptions

Sarah Sze transforms the Guggenheim’s iconic architecture into a tool for timekeeping, meditating on how humanity marks the passage of time.

Narratives from the Crowd

Christopher Anderson’s close-up work is compelling for its striking tonal palette, which illuminates scenes with a distinctive foggy red and blue tint.

Influence and Legacy

This year’s edition of the Royal Photographic Society’s exhibition features a range of analogue and digital techniques, unpicking modern life.

Engaging with the Past

Award-winning Japanese artists Shiga Lieko and Takeuchi Kota draw on historical events and archival materials to examine the human condition.

Rendering the Everyday

Andreas Gefeller is interested in how photographic technology unlocks new perceptions of recognisable locations around the world.

A New Ecosystem

Chloé Milos Azzopardi, winner of the Aesthetica Editorial Award, tells a “futuristic fable” about how we can reconnect with the natural world.

Art Fairs to Attend this Spring

April marks the start of art, design and photography fair season. These events are staples in the creative calendar. Discover our round-up of five to know.

Design as Activism

The new Ai Weiwei exhibition at Design Museum comprises a 650,000 LEGO-brick painting – engaging with ideas of consumerism and production.

5 To See: Spring Exhibitions

Must-see exhibitions this Spring navigate the impact of the digital realm on portrayals, experiences and perceptions of the world.

Human Curiosity: The April / May Issue

As humans, we are always looking for something else, and it is this curiosity that makes us create. This issue is dedicated to the evolution of ideas.

Memory Investigated

Thomas Demand highlights the fiction beneath attempts to document the truth, questioning the power and responsibility behind art and its maker.

Intimacy and Curiosity

Amy Harrity distils subjects’ personal experiences into compositions that evoke honesty and clarity, capturing the diverse breadth of human emotion.

Glitched Landscapes

Vertical stripes transform serene coastlines into two-dimensional kaleidoscopes in Niall Staines’ natural seascapes, creating new order from chaos.

Devoted to the Screen

Summer Wagner’s “visual poems” depict figures fixed to the light of their phones. Fantasy and reality combine to hold a mirror up to life online.

Bold New Mythologies

Yannis Davy Guibinga evokes Gabonese folklore, science fiction and cultural astronomy in portraits rich with narrative and expansive bold backdrops.

Systems of Value

Reflection is a metaphor for cultural and financial value to conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas. Light bounces between mirrors in bright, endless loops.