States of Becoming

The Aesthetica Art Prize celebrates 20 years with a bold show of visionary practitioners working in film, photography, painting, sculpture and much more.

Vibrant Botanicals

Hyperreal plant pictures by Tom Leighton ask audiences to step onto another planet, which has been consumed by luminous, verdant undergrowth.

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.

Emotive Atmosphere

Vijay Sarathy’s evocative pieces respond to the artist’s life in the Himalayas and his own deeply personal relationship with its diverse landscape.

Staged Constructs

Jada and David are a creative duo who specialise in set design, creating M.C. Escher-esque spaces filled with explosive colours and optical illusion.

Shaping the Present

Laurence Philomène speaks about their approach to self-portraiture as part of Gen Z, a presentation supporting the next generation of lens-based art.

Fragile Seascapes

The Baltic Sea is suffering from unprecedented oxygen loss. Małgorzata Stankiewicz visualises this phenomenon through striking cyanotypes.

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.

Widline Cadet’s Biggest US
Exhibition Explores Migration

Rooted in photography and expanded through video, family snapshots, and installation, Cadet explores Black diasporic life through her lived experience.

Our Top Photography
Shows to Visit this Summer

These five exhibitions cast familiar photographs, locations and buildings in new light, asking audiences what happens when we change our perspective.

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Defines Home and Belonging

Tell Me Where Home Is gives a complex and nuanced portrait of migration, belonging and home in today’s increasingly unsettled sociopolitical climate.

John Baldessari: the Artist
Who Taught Images How to Think

The first major institutional Baldessari survey in South Florida brings together nearly 40 works
spanning five decades of an impressive career.

Five Images from the
Scottish Portrait Awards 2026

Over 180 contemporary photographers, from Orkney to Dumfries and Galloway and beyond, have been shortlisted for the Scottish Portrait Awards.

The Enduring Legacy of
Photographer Gordon Parks

An insightful new exhibition spotlights the work of Gordon Parks from the fascinating perspective of the family and friends of those he photographed.

Fotografiska Berlin Asks
How AI Is Shaping Our World

Photographer Carole Lampe asks whether we can tell the difference between what has been produced by an artist, and what has been made by AI.

Gothic Photography
at Martin Parr Foundation

With images spanning a period of more than 80 years Dark Tales explores the relationship between the Gothic and British documentary photography.

Abstract Photography from
the 2026 Aesthetica Art Prize

These five artists, featured in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2026, explore the possibilities of material, process and form to produce striking photographs.

POST and the Expanding Field
of Documentary Photography

This September, POST, Brighton’s new photography centre, will celebrate the contributions of women in documentary photography from around the world.

A Major Show Considers
the Ties Between Land and Sea

A bold new exhibition at Hastings Contemporary explores the fundamental connection between land and sea, and the vital role both play in sustaining life.

Dulwich Picture Gallery
Examines Life in Urban Spaces

Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography, brings together more than 100 landmark works by some of the 20th century’s most influential artists.