Towering mushrooms, polka-dot rooms and bright neon lights. Aesthetica rounds-up ten contemporary art experiences to visit this winter.

The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize showcases best in contemporary photography. The 2024 artists are now at the National Portrait Gallery.

From vibrant autumn leaves to obscured portraits, Aesthetica takes a look back at the remarkable photographers that made it onto this year’s covers.

Ekow Eshun curates photography by David Ụzọchukwu, responding to the parable: “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”

Nick Prideaux approaches taking pictures in a mindful way, catching fleeting and fragmented scenes as an ongoing thread of mini-vignettes.

Fresh lilacs are paired with zesty yellows, rich greens with blues and deep reds with tangerine orange in Teklan’s new interior design projects.

Anne Nobels presents a deeply personal set of photographs rooted in nature, that encourages viewers to open up to embracing vulnerability.

Dutch artist Popel Coumou builds 3D rooms by layering and positioning geometric shapes that are hand-cut out of paper and cardboard.

Leading designer Thomas Heatherwick looks back across 150 key projects, demonstrating the importance of hands-on collaborations.

Every day, we are reminded of the boundless power of creativity. Dive into our preview of the magazine and meet artists who demonstrate innovation.

Cody Cobb discusses his enigmatic approach to American landscape photography, considering his place within the genre’s changing narratives.

In a world dominated by post-production and AI tools, abstract and cameraless photographic techniques offer a chance to return to the real.

Guillaume Lavrut’s close-up compositions draw focus away from the busyness of everyday life, and towards the things we sometimes overlook.

Texture and reflection replace visual cues, as Luc Holper blurs the borderlines that usually separate recognisable and imaginary scenes.

Honey Long and Prue Stent are ones-to-watch. The Melbourne-based duo express the complex relationship between femininity and nature.

Charley Broyez and Laurent Kronental’s ‘Oasis City’ explore a dreamlike reality where architecture and the natural world are seamlessly intertwined.

The Jarman Award announces Aesthetica Alumnus Maryam Tafakory as the 2024 winner, her profound work addresses censorship in Iranian cinema.

Mark Armijo McKnight presents a collection of evocative, high-contrast photographs of bodies and landscapes at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Carlos Blanco’s oil paintings and sculptures offer a new perspective on Cubism, frequently shifting between the harmonious and chaotic.

Centre Pompidou celebrates an American photographer who did it all: from glimmering windowpanes in Chicago to off-the-cuff portraits.

The After Nature Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize, at C/O Berlin, is an annual award given to artists exploring new concepts of nature through the lens.

Liza Dracup explores the transformational potential of northern woodlands: blurring the lines between day and night, urban and rural, light and dark.

A connection with the land, and a pervading sense of Palestinian identity, runs throughout an intensely personal exhibition at Copenhagen Contemporary.

Visual artist Liz West’s latest installation brings the joys of the festive season to life with fluorescent light and colour illuminating King’s Cross.

Jem Southam is known for his images of the changing Cornish landscape, now his iconic book ‘The Red River’ is republished with a new introduction.

The leading art fair presents endless mirrored rooms, offices overflowing with paper, glimmering night skies and ecosystems teetering on the brink.

Yannis Davy Guibinga’s latest series is a meditation on the shared moments that define humanity – as told through the metaphor of a solar eclipse.

A new exhibition at Fotografiska Stockholm takes us beyond the surface of the Earth, asking the eternal question of where do we belong in space?

The annual art event returns to London’s Mall Galleries this month, showcasing small works of art by emerging and well-established creatives.

Nick Prideaux’s photography captures life’s ethereal, fleeting moments, reminding us of the beauty to be found in our ordinary, everyday lives.

The five new photobooks what it means to exist in the modern world, from the complexity of the mother daughter bond to the American Dream.

Paris Photo puts photography’s biggest names in conversation, from the dawn of the camera to the 21st century. Now, the global art fair returns.

Dorothea Lange described Consuelo Kanaga as “way ahead of her time” – now a new book traces the life and works of the pioneering photojournalist.

Trent Parke presents an impressionistic collection of black-and-white pictures, collated over 25 years, that document the buzz of the city at rush hour.

Sonia Boyce’s display at Whitechapel Gallery brings together seminal and rare projects that explore interaction, participation and improvisation.

Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star shares insights into curating the spectacular group show ‘Native America: In Translation’ at Blanton Museum of Art.

Light, colour and sound collide to mesmerising effect in a new immersive installation from Aesthetica Art Prize Alumnus Squidsoup.

Lilli Waters’ photographs reimagine the Greek mythological hero Orpheus as a woman, asking vital questions about how we view the female body.

The shortlisted artists in the 2025 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize explore ideas of national identity, family ties and migration.

Artist-led organisation For Freedoms presents their first comprehensive monograph, with over 550 signboards created between 2016 and 2023.

Discover the art, film, music and cultural moments that shaped the 1980s, a decade of rapid social transformation and technological development.

Artist Angelica Mesiti explores the relationship between humans, nature and the cosmos in a new installation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Artist and filmmaker Topher Campbell talks about the making of a show at Somerset House, which celebrates Black LGBTQ+ pioneers since the 1970s.

An exhibition at Museum Folkwang shows how hair is a lens through which to examine society, politics and everyday life; it can teach us something new.

The 14th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award features work that spotlights the oppression of women and girls living in Afghanistan.

Who were the great LGBTQIA+ photographers of the past? Zorian Claytons’ ‘Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography’ answers this question.

Digital artist Hayden Clay’s surreal and dreamy landscapes offers a stark warning about a future world overtaken by rising sea levels.

Artists in the 2024 LensCulture Black and White Awards celebrate what it means to be human, exploring our relationship the world around us.

Riar Rizaldi explores the relationship between science, fiction and technology through film in his debut UK solo exhibition at Gasworks, London.

“I am a movement artist. I started with painting, but I got stuck, I was at a dead end.” Pirelli HangarBicocca unveils a show for kinetic art pioneer Jean Tinguely.