Facets of Reality

Victor Micoud’s La Cité Idéale focuses on the surroundings of Disneyland Paris, capturing the essence of this surreal neighbourhood.

Cinematic Storytelling

Translating personal experiences into hyperreal images, the renowned photographer Alex Prager is celebrated through a mid-career survey.

Singular Perspective

Using repeated patterns including colour, material and texture, Jon Setter organises details of landscapes as an abstracted expression of space.

Balanced Composition

Carolina Mizrahi is an art director, photographer and set designer whose cross-disciplinary practice traverses a line between fine art and commerce.

Into the Wilderness

Melancholy and, at times, tied to a Romantic sensibility, Isabella Ståhl’s images communicate the desire to return to the notion of home.

Shifting the Focus

A vision of the future, Evelyn Bencicova’s series Artificial Tears assesses what it means to exist within today’s increasingly factitious world.

Uncanny Performance

Michelle Cho & June Kim’s collaborative series look into the ideas of relativity in the everyday, inspired by vivid and structurally expansive architecture.

Elusive Sensibility

Ole Marius Joergensen creates narratives around the themes of identity, using empty topographies as spectres of unidentifiable emotions.

Reactive Architecture

Accessibility, sustainability and humanity take centre stage at Venice Biennale, pushing the literal and figurative boundaries of space.

Immersive Technology

Interactive garments transform our relationship with fashion and the environment as sustainability is linked with the individual experience.

Conscious Environments

Elena Mora offers an intriguing perspective on how set design can create an interdisciplinary stage for idea creation and collective aspiration.

A Photographic Journey

Inge Morath traversed the globe as a travel, portrait and reportage photographer, joining Magnum Photos in 1956.

Reshaping Urbanity

Anarchitect, a retrospective of Gordon Matta-Clark’s short but incendiary career, is currently on show at Jeu de Paume, Paris.

Contemporary Mythology

Photographs by Joachim Hildebrand, who is part of the 2018 Aesthetica Art Prize, investigate notions of the American dream.

Responsive Art Forms

The 21st Biennale of Sydney engages with communities around the globe, addressing timely themes of relocation and globalisation.

Eerie Minimalism

Mária Švarbová’s series, Swimming Pool, goes on display as part of this year’s edition of PHotoEspaña, Madrid. 

Future Innovators

Free Range offers viewers an interactive environment, providing the next generation of creatives with an expansive platform.

Cultural Heritage

This year’s edition of Kensington & Chelsea Art Weekend brings together galleries, public spaces and cultural institutions to celebrate creativity.

An Enduring Symbol

The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip explores the work of 19 photographers who are inspired by the open road.

Facilitating Change

The seventh edition of Beirut Design Week, entitled Design & The City, foregrounds how creative practice influences urban life.

Radiant Environments

Is light really limited to the ocular or can it be abstracted to gain shape and volume? That’s the gamble behind NONOTAK, a Paris-based collective.

Personal Observations

Gail Albert Halaban’s series, Out My Window, documents community life through a detached yet intimate lens.

Cinematographic Frames

Tacita Dean explores “landscape” in its broadest sense in show at the Royal Academy, London, building upon larger themes from the modern world.

Natural Formations

Experienced in architecture, fashion and design, Julia Körner combines formulae from the natural landscape with technological advancements. Having previously featured in Aesthetica, Körner returns with a…

5 to See: This Weekend

Moving towards the end of May, top shows and events investigate what it means to live in an increasingly globalised landscape.

Personal Architecture

Architects Houses, a new release from Princeton Architectural Press, brings together 30 leading designers to discuss their personal dwellings.

Platforms for Design

Denmark is widely considered to be a design capital. 3daysofdesign, Copenhagen, showcases new products and upcoming trends.

Geometric Abstraction

At Fondation Cartier’s Géométries Sud, Du Mexique à la Terre de Feu, Latin American art meets European Modernism in a cacophony of colour and texture.

Infinite Horizons

Technology has transformed all aspects of the everyday. Imagining the future, Athens Digital Arts Festival explores new media’s potential.

Silent Investigations

The Drake Equation, a series of images by Andrew Phelps and Paul Kranzler, investigates the National Radio Quiet Zone.

Playful Craftsmanship

Inspired by collaboration and craftsmanship, Hayche brings together timeless design with a vibrant colour palette that are rich in personality.

Visual Representations

The three artists selected for the Photography & Digital Art section of this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize show how image-making makes sense of the world.

Abstracted Objects

JUMBO NYC’s new furniture and lighting collection features playful shapes and exaggerated proportions.

Collective Voices

Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960—1985, examines the convergence between political and aesthetic upheaval during extraordinary decades.

Closing the Loop

For 3 Days of Design, Kvadrat demonstrates the possibilities of sustainable materials, offering a new model for creation and production.

Responsive Artwork

Next month, the inaugural Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art brings together artwork from the Baltic region and beyond.

A Cinematic Showcase

Video content is integrated into our culture. Aesthetica’s Artists’ Film Screenings offer a platform innovative and thought-provoking work.

Resonant Designs

Fashion and Textile Museum celebrates the work of Orla Kiely, highlighting the importance of colour in influencing a range of emotions.

Productive Archives

Looking at the techniques of darkroom photography, an exhibition at Harvard Art Museums comprises 90 printer’s proofs.

Urban Relocation

“The tree can be seen as a metaphor for migration.” A recent publication by Hatje Cantz tracks the work of Yan Wang Preston.

Future Greats: Moving Image

The endless possibilities of the visual narrative come to the fore in the Aesthetica Art Prize 2018’s shortlist for the field of Video & Performance.

Traversing Landscapes

Continually shifting in the face of change, fashion photographers are chroniclers of our times. A show at J. Paul Getty Museum exemplifies this.

Documenting Reality

Traversing rural and suburban landscapes, Alec Soth’s oeuvre documents contemporary realities, offering new perspectives on the everyday.

Changing Environments

The Aesthetica Art Prize looks into themes from digital worlds. Peter Davis’s shortlisted paintings assess people’s relationship with technology.

Imaginative Installation

From interactive spaces to emotive machines, this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize shortlist is rich in the possibilities of installation art.

5 to See: This Weekend

International art fairs, awards and solo shows opening 19-20 May highlight practitioners expanding the limits of invention.

Future Greats 2018 Winners

The winners have been announced for the 2018 Aesthetica Art Prize, an international showcase of innovative and contemporary artworks.

Aesthetica Art Prize Opens

The Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition opens at York Art Gallery, showcasing the next generation of talent through diverse subject matter and media.

Rethinking Tradition

Asking the question: Beautiful world, where are you?, Liverpool Biennial 2018 surveys the current social, political and environmental landscape.

Investigating Selfhood

A new exhibition at ICP explores representations of identity through work by female artists engaging with notions of the self.