In the heart of Bruges’ vast museum quarter lies art gallery BRUSK, a brand new cultural landmark with international appeal and fascinating exhibitions.

As photography celebrates its bicentenary, Pinault Collection is hosting a major group exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce to mark the anniversary.

Inside the June / July issue of Aesthetica, artists, architects and photographers invite readers to engage with a slower, more attentive way of seeing.

The boundaries between self and organic world dissolve in Tamara Dean’s portraits, as the artist navigates bright bushes and towering treetops.

Frank Relle travels along Louisiana’s waterways, recording otherworldly images of cypresses by using an intricate lighting system rigged to his flatboat.

Renowned architect Kengo Kuma reflects upon a decade of structures, dedicated to renewing the bonds made between nature, people and places.

Svetlana Talanova makes her works by hand in the darkroom, using photosensitive paper to show how patterns can often recur across humans and plants.

Photomontages by Daniel Rose collide leaves and branches with geometric shapes, offering a fresh new perspective on the Japanese art form of ikebana.

Nuno Serrão’s minimalist images offer small parts of wider and complex narratives that are united by cinematic aesthetics and a sensitivity to the world.

A new exhibition as part of Rencontres d’Arles 2026 reassesses the long history of flowers in photography, from a contemporary viewpoint.

Street photographers offer an array of different perspectives on Tokyo, a global metropolis that is known for its blend of tradition and futurism.

Linda Burris Webster draws attention to various geopolitical concerns, tearing, twisting, cutting, crumpling and reshaping maps into sculptures.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents the first major museum exhibition to survey over four decades of work by the artist Mary Ellen Carroll.

Foam Amsterdam acknowledges an extraordinary wave of 30 image-makers shaping the future of lens-based art, as part of this year’s Foam Talent Award.

Hauser & Wirth Menorca presents Directionless, a group exhibition that begins from the premise that we are living in a moment of profound disorientation.

Aperture’s Josef Koudelka: Diaries offers their readers a rare glimpse into the mind and artistic process of one of the world’s more celebrated photographers.

Fotografiska Berlin spotlight’s Lee Shulman’s The Anonymous Project, one of the biggest archives of analogue amateur photography in the entire world.

Gagosian hosts the first ever presentation of Air Package in a Ceiling, a monumental installation conceived by Christo in 1968 but never realised.

Powerhouse, Australia’s largest museum group, is undertaking one of the world’s most significant museum projects, opening in Sydney in late 2026.

The celebrated photography festival returns for its 57th edition this summer, spanning archives, major monographic exhibitions and emerging scenes.

Internationally renowned artist and designer Es Devlin will present Library of the Four Winds this summer, a new public sculpture at Castle Howard.

Part of Oulu2026’s European Capital of Culture, Climate Clock is a public art trail that reflects on our relationship with nature and climate warming.

Huang Ziyue is part of a generation of artists grappling with the unstable and ever-shifting boundaries between selfhood and the digital world.

MoCP hosts the 11th edition of the Prix Pictet, which spotlights photographers who examine both the natural and metaphorical repercussions of a storm.

Saatchi Gallery’s major exhibition explores how the two most powerful phenomena in the sky have long inspired humanity’s creativity, curiosity and belief.

Vancouver Art Gallery’s ambitious new exhibition asks one major question: how do we face worsening ecological change with anything other than despair?

The artist transforms Tate Britain’s neo-classical Duveen Galleries into an immersive installation drawing on the legacy of 1960s African cinema.

This summer, we spotlight exciting talent emerging from the UK’s leading art schools, offering a glimpse of those set to shape the future of visual culture.

Artist Keni Li’s latest series, Fluid Memory: Wings, explores how our memory can be reconstructed through images, scent and objects. 

The winners of the 2026 Listening Pitch grant have been announced. The three films answer the question: what can we hear if we listen right now?

The programme for the hugely popular bi-annual event, which opens in October, has been officially announced. The theme for 2026 is “Time Machine.”

Huxley Parlour showcases the huge breadth of Joel Meyerowitz’ six-decade-long career, examining the artist’s ever-evolving approach to photography.

The international multi-disciplinary artist bridges art, architecture and science in his most ambitious exhibition, which opens at Haus der Kunst in July.

In her biggest European show to date, Cao Fei transforms Kunstmuseum Basel’s Gegenwart building into an immersive, city-like environment.

Bruce Munro’s iconic installation, Field of Light is one of Australia’s most beloved artworks. This year, Ayres Rock Resort is celebrating its tenth anniversary.

This year’s winning artist is Rene Matić, recognised for “raw and honest photographs” that “bring a story of Britain today to audiences outside the UK.” 

We spotlight our top international exhibitions to add to your list, each one addressing something truly urgent about our complex, contemporary moment.

These must-see shows place monumental names, like Henry Moore, Lynn Chadwick and Yayoi Kusama, in direct dialogue with the natural environment.

Here is Aesthetica’s run-down of national pavilions – paying attention to timely themes like connection, communication, ecology, identity and legacy.

V&A, London’s latest display features works by 40 artists from 25 countries from Asia Pacific region, celebrating 30 years of the Asia Pacific Triennial.

MoMA, New York examines modern architecture from the 1950s to the 1980s, placing it in the context of political independence across Western Africa.

How can ideas transform into a visuals? How does engineering and technology intersect with art? These questions are at the heart of Manlin Zhang’s practice.

Black Bricolage at MEP in Paris brings together photographs, notebooks and documents that bear witness to Black experiences in Europe and beyond.

The summer season at Fotografiska Tallinn begins with two exhibitions that celebrate the biggest names in photography, and the next generation.

KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival returns for its 14th edition, presenting exhibitions that explore the “in-between” spaces found in cities.

Museum für Fotografie, Berlin’s new exhibition is made up of more than 300 photographs, which showcase the influence of Female Bauhaus artists. 

Photo London marks an exciting milestone this May, by making a new home at Olympia in Kensington. Discover what’s new at this year’s photography fair.

Sainsbury Centre showcases work by artists Kalliopi Lemos, Marina Abramović and Gillian Wearing, who each reflect on the relentless passage of time.

The 2026 winner of the Max Mara Prize for Women is Yogyakarta-based artist Dian Suci, whose work was selected from an impressive shortlist of finalists.

John Baer: The Extraordinary Ordinary is a remarkable collection of images of postwar Europe and 1950s New York City, bursting with new-found optimism.