Exchanging Ideas

At the heart of Future Now is the understanding that bringing artists together encourages discussion, our portfolio reviews reflect this.

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.

Global Discussions

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

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.

Frieze Sculpture: Exterior Forms

Ahead of Frieze New York, 5-7 May, the fair announces its plans for London’s largest outdoor exhibition, on view from 5 July.

Disseminated Compositions

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

Future Now: Augmented Realities

Artists have always used technology to redefine their work. But there are more practitioners working with code rather than “making” today.

Turner Prize: Shortlisted Artists

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

Sculptural Distortion

Conceptual artist Anna Fafaliou creates imaginary environments that call into question how we perceive, process and record daily materials.

Artangel: Spatial Identities

As part of the Future Now Symposium 2017, Laura Purseglove will discuss the importance of place and its role within contemporary art.

Unknown Territories

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

Pamela Rosenkranz: Biological Processes

Pamela Rosenkranz’s Slight Agitation is a newly commissioned, site-specific works presented in sequence within Fondazione Prada’s Cisterna.

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.

Contemporary Systems

Art Cologne is the oldest fair of its kind having started with just 18 galleries in 1967. Today around 200 commercial galleries come together each spring.

Celebrating Analogue

Has materiality gone out of style? Tony Chambers, Editor-in-Chief at Wallpaper* seeks to prove otherwise in a unique auction.

Viva Arte: 10 to See

The 57th Venice Biennale, VIVA ARTE VIVA will feature 120 artists from 51 countries, as well as 85 National Participations in the Giardini Pavilions.

Digital Living

The European Media Art Festival collates a diverse selection of artists and contributors under the title of Push: Living in the Hyper Information Age.

Momentary Sculpture

The 2017 Skulptur Projekte exhibition gives more scope to performative approaches and reflects on the longevity of sculpture in the public realm.

documenta 14: Multi-Dimensional Representation

documenta 14 and the National Museum of Contemporary Art collaborate on a programme that spans both both institutions and their founding cities.