Aesthetica Issue 81 Available Now

The new issue, Beyond the Horizon, pays homage to the power of the individual, demonstrating how what makes us special is our ability to innovate.

Spatial Encounters

Serge Alain Nitegeka’s practice engages with how manipulations of colour and volume influence the experience and understanding of space.

Chronicling Resistance

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

Fragmented Environments

Robert Irwin’s new immersive installation plays with notions of place by responding to the architectural forms of Sprüth Magers, Berlin‘s modernist gallery space. The exhibition…

5 to See: This Weekend

Exhibitions running 20-21 January offer viewers the opportunity to reflect on the modern world, building platforms for introspection.

Complex Representations

In an age of gratuitous image editing and fake news, it is hard to distinguish artificiality from reality. Alex Prager investigates this confusion.

5 to See: This Weekend

Structures define the everyday human experience. The selection for 6-7 December examines the varied manifestations of the term.

Renumerated Layers

A recently opened exhibition of Monika Sosnowska at Hauser & Wirth, London, titled Structural Exercises, examines underlying layers of buildings.

Being There: New Associations

Straddling the physical and the digital, modern life is increasingly hard to pin down. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art explores what it means to be alive today.

Hypnotic Synthesis

Marguerite Humeau’s Echoes transfigure Tate Britain’s gallery space into a mesmerising yellow environment. that combines sound and sculpture.

Fluorescent Materiality

Alex Da Corte’s BAD LAND transforms the architectural space of Josh Lilley Gallery, London, into a colourful three-dimensional film set.

Unearthing Connections

Concertina is a collection of structures by Richard Wentworth and Apparata that explore the social potential of art spaces and transform the gallery.

Cultural Showground

SCOPE Miami Beach is recognised worldwide for its forward-thinking approach and focus on emerging practitioners and galleries. 

Seminal Installations

At YSP, Wakefield, the Underground Gallery and its external concourse are entirely re-characterised by Alfredo Jaar’s seminal installations.

5 to See: This Weekend

28-29 October. This week’s selection explores the wider, experiential concept of space through a multitude of different mediums.

Disrupted Chronologies

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

Perceptive Interventions

Nathan Coley’s The Same For Everyone is playful yet profound, foregrounding Danish values whilst evoking the beguiling lights of a fairground.

5 To See: This Weekend

21-22 October. This week’s selections question realities and re-establish norms through photography, installation and new design.

Global Reflections

The role of artists in representing contemporary conflict and the global response to 9/11 is examined at Imperial War Museum, London.

Iconic Movements

After a 20-month, £3.8 million redevelopment, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, opens Pioneers of Pop, a show focusing on the work of Richard Hamilton.