Facets of Reality
Victor Micoud’s La Cité Idéale focuses on the surroundings of Disneyland Paris, capturing the essence of this surreal neighbourhood.
Victor Micoud’s La Cité Idéale focuses on the surroundings of Disneyland Paris, capturing the essence of this surreal neighbourhood.
Translating personal experiences into hyperreal images, the renowned photographer Alex Prager is celebrated through a mid-career survey.
Using repeated patterns including colour, material and texture, Jon Setter organises details of landscapes as an abstracted expression of space.
Carolina Mizrahi is an art director, photographer and set designer whose cross-disciplinary practice traverses a line between fine art and commerce.
Melancholy and, at times, tied to a Romantic sensibility, Isabella Ståhl’s images communicate the desire to return to the notion of home.
A vision of the future, Evelyn Bencicova’s series Artificial Tears assesses what it means to exist within today’s increasingly factitious world.
Michelle Cho & June Kim’s collaborative series look into the ideas of relativity in the everyday, inspired by vivid and structurally expansive architecture.
Ole Marius Joergensen creates narratives around the themes of identity, using empty topographies as spectres of unidentifiable emotions.
Accessibility, sustainability and humanity take centre stage at Venice Biennale, pushing the literal and figurative boundaries of space.
Interactive garments transform our relationship with fashion and the environment as sustainability is linked with the individual experience.
Elena Mora offers an intriguing perspective on how set design can create an interdisciplinary stage for idea creation and collective aspiration.
Inge Morath traversed the globe as a travel, portrait and reportage photographer, joining Magnum Photos in 1956.
Anarchitect, a retrospective of Gordon Matta-Clark’s short but incendiary career, is currently on show at Jeu de Paume, Paris.
Photographs by Joachim Hildebrand, who is part of the 2018 Aesthetica Art Prize, investigate notions of the American dream.
The 21st Biennale of Sydney engages with communities around the globe, addressing timely themes of relocation and globalisation.
Mária Švarbová’s series, Swimming Pool, goes on display as part of this year’s edition of PHotoEspaña, Madrid.
Free Range offers viewers an interactive environment, providing the next generation of creatives with an expansive platform.
This year’s edition of Kensington & Chelsea Art Weekend brings together galleries, public spaces and cultural institutions to celebrate creativity.
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip explores the work of 19 photographers who are inspired by the open road.
The seventh edition of Beirut Design Week, entitled Design & The City, foregrounds how creative practice influences urban life.
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.
Gail Albert Halaban’s series, Out My Window, documents community life through a detached yet intimate lens.
Tacita Dean explores “landscape” in its broadest sense in show at the Royal Academy, London, building upon larger themes from the modern world.
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…
Moving towards the end of May, top shows and events investigate what it means to live in an increasingly globalised landscape.
Architects Houses, a new release from Princeton Architectural Press, brings together 30 leading designers to discuss their personal dwellings.
Denmark is widely considered to be a design capital. 3daysofdesign, Copenhagen, showcases new products and upcoming trends.
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.
Technology has transformed all aspects of the everyday. Imagining the future, Athens Digital Arts Festival explores new media’s potential.
The Drake Equation, a series of images by Andrew Phelps and Paul Kranzler, investigates the National Radio Quiet Zone.
Inspired by collaboration and craftsmanship, Hayche brings together timeless design with a vibrant colour palette that are rich in personality.
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.
JUMBO NYC’s new furniture and lighting collection features playful shapes and exaggerated proportions.
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960—1985, examines the convergence between political and aesthetic upheaval during extraordinary decades.
For 3 Days of Design, Kvadrat demonstrates the possibilities of sustainable materials, offering a new model for creation and production.
Next month, the inaugural Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art brings together artwork from the Baltic region and beyond.
Video content is integrated into our culture. Aesthetica’s Artists’ Film Screenings offer a platform innovative and thought-provoking work.
Fashion and Textile Museum celebrates the work of Orla Kiely, highlighting the importance of colour in influencing a range of emotions.
Looking at the techniques of darkroom photography, an exhibition at Harvard Art Museums comprises 90 printer’s proofs.
“The tree can be seen as a metaphor for migration.” A recent publication by Hatje Cantz tracks the work of Yan Wang Preston.
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.
Continually shifting in the face of change, fashion photographers are chroniclers of our times. A show at J. Paul Getty Museum exemplifies this.
Traversing rural and suburban landscapes, Alec Soth’s oeuvre documents contemporary realities, offering new perspectives on the everyday.
The Aesthetica Art Prize looks into themes from digital worlds. Peter Davis’s shortlisted paintings assess people’s relationship with technology.
From interactive spaces to emotive machines, this year’s Aesthetica Art Prize shortlist is rich in the possibilities of installation art.
International art fairs, awards and solo shows opening 19-20 May highlight practitioners expanding the limits of invention.
The winners have been announced for the 2018 Aesthetica Art Prize, an international showcase of innovative and contemporary artworks.
The Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition opens at York Art Gallery, showcasing the next generation of talent through diverse subject matter and media.
Asking the question: Beautiful world, where are you?, Liverpool Biennial 2018 surveys the current social, political and environmental landscape.
A new exhibition at ICP explores representations of identity through work by female artists engaging with notions of the self.