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York Minster Talent Award:
Call for Applications

York Minster and Aesthetica have teamed up to launch two £10,000 commissions, recognising bold new voices in sound and contemporary art.

A Landmark Programme

The Goodwood Art Foundation opens to the public on 31 May 2025 with a clear objective: to establish itself as a serious UK centre for contemporary art.

Moments of Stillness

Photographer Thibault Drutel finds moment of deliberate stillness amid perpetual motion and business in Munich’s one hundred subway stations.

Revisiting Talent

C/O Berlin celebrates 20 years of the Talent Award with an exhibition of 14 remarkable documentary photographers who have received the award.

Feeling the Sound:
Barbican’s New Multisensory Show

“Are you listening?” asks the Barbican Centre in London, as it launches a huge exhibition that promises to transform the way we think about sound.

Belfast Photo Festival: 
Kazuaki Koseki

Kazuaki Koseki’s captivating photography reflects the ephemeral beauty of the brief moment when firefly populations light up local Japanese forests.

The Art of Power and Fragility:
Jasmina Cibic’s Political Landscapes

Jasmina Cibic’s new exhibition continues a career-long enquiry into power and political symbolism, asking viewers to rethink established narratives.

The City as Stage: 
Bradford 2025 in Full Motion

Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture continues this summer with line-up of public art, theatre, music, exhibitions, open-air cinema and community activity.

Culinary Experiments

Bulgarian artist Yuliy Vasilev’s playful creations take food photography in a new direction, imagining innovative scenarios and uses for everyday objects.

Blurring Reality

A new outdoor exhibition, hosted by Onassis Stegi, presents 25 artists who navigate the intricate relationship between creativity and technology.

Untold Stories 

International Month of Photojournalism celebrates the lens-based artists who shine a light on unseen stories and the people whose lives they affect.

Serpentine Pavilion 2025:
A Capsule in Time

For the 25th edition, Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum presents a contemplative, luminous structure that engages with light, air and time.

Sheffield DocFest:
The Power of Documentary

Sheffield DocFest is a crucible for bold ideas, daring storytelling, and international exchange. The annual festival returns this June for its 32nd iteration.

Dreamlike Visions

Erik Johansson is known for creating surreal, dreamlike photography. Now, the artist is sharing his art with the community by opening a new gallery.

Hidden Legacies

Eileen Grey is an overlooked figure in the world of architecture. Now, a new documentary spotlights her enduring influence upon the design world.

New Creatives:
Top Graduate Shows 2025

Introducing the artists of tomorrow. This summer, the UK’s art schools are spotlighting rising voices in visual culture. Here are five to add to your diary.

Planetary Creations

Photographer Katerina Belkina creates mysterious, otherworldly landscapes, inspired by humanity’s endless fascination with space exploration.

Seulgi Lee: A Geometry
of Language and Craft

Seulgi Lee’s unique artistic practice experiments with colour and form to challenge typical perceptions of language, cultural exchange and traditional crafts.

The Cinematic Art of Listening: 
2025 Listening Pitch Winners 

The winners of the 2025 Listening Pitch grant have been announced. The three films answer the question: what can we hear if we listen right now?

Tate Modern Turns 25:
A Quarter Century of Inspiration

Tate Modern celebrates its 25th anniversary, looking back at a quarter of a century of platforming bold, innovative contemporary art and creative voices.

Championing Talent: Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise

These awards, now open for entries, bring awareness to immigrants working in fashion-related fields, celebrating how their work enhances US culture.

Venice Architecture Biennale 2025

The 19th edition of this globally anticipated event opens, exploring the transformative power of interdisciplinary collaboration in the face of crisis.

Floral Inspirations

The Garden Museum presents a new perspective on Cecil Beaton’s illustrious career, shining a light on the influence of gardens and flowers on his artwork.

Powerful Storytelling

Fondazione Brescia Musei shows Joel Meyerowitz’s pioneering street photography, highlighting his innovative use of colour and rich urban portraits.

Rediscovering the Self

The Box Plymouth’s retrospective of Jyll Bradley highlights a varied and distinguished career that considers identity, light, nature and queerness.

Illuminating the Cosmos

For Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, experiential collective Marshmallow Laser Feast turns its visionary lens towards our place in the universe.

Aesthetica Art Prize:
Open For Entries

Submit to one of the UK’s most prestigious awards for creative talent, celebrating boundary-pushing work across a range of media. Win £10,000 & more.

Undiscovered Worlds

Rob Blanken’s abstract photography uncovers the hidden world of crystals, offering an insight into how the patterns are mirrored in the human body.

May’s Top Photography Shows

The top exhibitions to see this May bring emerging artists to the fore, spotlight overlooked creatives and offer new perspectives on well established names.

Lawrence Lek: A Dystopian
Vision of Tomorrow’s Mind

Lawrence Lek’s immersive installation presents a vision of the future where the boundaries between humans, machines and AI have been blurred.

A Stark Reality

Zed Nelson’s book, ‘The Anthropocene Illusion’, shines a light on the ways that humanity tries to recreate nature despite environmental destruction.

Visionary Installation

NSU Art Museum presents a collection of iconic duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work, highlighting their creative process and large-scale installations.

Ocean Futures

‘Beach of Dreams’ brings eight new commissions to coastal locations around the UK, working with communities to create art that celebrates the sea.

Celebrating Art and Nature

In a time of accelerating climate anxiety and ecological crisis, Kew Gardens invites us to pause, look closely and reconnect with the natural world.

Creative Discoveries

Photographer Nadia Attura transforms typical desert landscapes into surreal, dreamlike locations, inviting audiences to step into a technicolour paradise.

Memories of Home

Tate Modern’s new exhibition of Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s large-scale, fabric installations considers the question: is home is a place, an idea or a feeling?

New Architecture Books This Spring

These five new books, released this spring, reveal the history and people behind some of the world’s most iconic and ambitious architecture projects.

London Design Biennale:
5 Pavilions to Know

Hundreds of designers and changemakers come together from around the world to share ideas, confront challenges and inspire audiences via design.

Celebrating Excellence: Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025 

Art Fund announce the shortlist for Museum of the Year 2025: Beamish Museum, Compton Verney, Chapters, Golden Thread Gallery and Perth Museum.

Looking Closely

In a digital world that’s saturated by an endless flow of imagery, Fondazione Prada looks back and surveys typological photography in 20th-century Germany.

Beyond Stereotypes

Fotomuseum Den Haag’s latest display spotlights 26 pioneering Japanese women photographers, offering fresh perspectives on society and culture.

Larry Achiampong: A Powerful Voice

Larry Achiampong’s new book, ‘If It Don’t Exist, Build It’, reflects on a remarkable 20 years of artistic practice that examines class, gender and identity.

Viviane Sassen:
Evocative Photography

Comprising more than 50 photographs and spanning two decades of practice, this body of work traces a visual constellation of life, decay, memory and desire.

A Kaleidoscopic Triumph:
Liz West’s H.A.P.P.Y 

Liz West’s captivating exhibition turns Mercer Art Gallery into a playful, luminous realm of constantly shifting light, reflections and saturated colour.

Surreal Voyages

Horst Kistner’s meticulously staged photography transports viewers to a surreal world, where typical travel images are transformed into something new.

Turner Prize 2025:
Shortlist Announcement

Today, the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2025 have been announced: Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa. 

Legacy of Images

Photo London returns for the tenth year, showcasing the scope of today’s talent and inviting visitors to consider the future possibilities of lens-based art.

Yoko Ono: A Symphony
of Imagination

The exhibition of exhibitions is now on view at Berlin’s Gropius Bau, journeying through more than 200 artworks and six decades of experimentation.

Earth Day 2025: Artworks to Know

This World Earth Day, Aesthetica brings together ten works of art that are driving important conversations around environmental issues and climate crisis.

Shaping the Future

Mackenzie Calle’s photographic series reimagines NASA’s history, challenging queer exclusion and envisioning a future for LGBTQIA+ astronauts.

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