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Surrealism in the
Contemporary World

A new exhibition at VISU Contemporary spotlights the women artists who are continuing the long tradition of Surrealism for the modern age.

You’re Not Alone:
A Cultural Icon in 360°

This spring, a new immersive experience dedicated to David Bowie is opening at London’s Lightroom, transporting viewers into his creative mind.

The Presence of Ice:
Sebastião Salgado’s Glaciers

A new collection of Sebastião Salgado’s photographs is dedicated to some of the planet’s most remote places, drawing attention to decline and melt.

Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2026

The 10th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women is a remarkable display of creativity, place and dialogue, acknowledging a vibrant art scene.

Couture as Creative Dialogue

The UK’s first exhibition on Elsa Schiaparelli spans the 1920s to today, celebrating the innovative designer’s influence and tracing its origins.

The Photography Show:
Contemporary Experimentation

This April, galleries from around the world come together as part of The Photography Show, taking place at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.

Five Images from
World Press Photo 2026

World Press Photo spotlights the photojournalists who capture familiar narratives and unspoken ones, broad perspectives and intimate insider views

Malta Biennale 2026:
An Expansive Programme

Malta Biennial returns for its second edition this spring. The event operates at the intersection of contemporary art and cultural heritage.

Senga Nengudi at Whitechapel:
A Dance of Form, Body and Space

Whitechapel Gallery presents a rare archival exhibition of the work and practice of pioneering American artist and educator Senga Nengudi.

The Poetics of Desire

Fotografiska Shanghai tracing the artist’s practice, spanning two decades through over 100 works that explore visual resistance and bodily narrative.

Angelica Mesiti: Traces in Time

Museum Tinguely in Basel presents five installations by Angelica Mesiti, who has worked between performance, sound and video since the early 2000s.

The Endurance of Brutalism

This new exhibition spotlights Scotland’s post-war modernist architecture, selected from Phipps’ photographs of 160 buildings across the country.

Art of Noise:
How Design Shapes Music

Cooper Hewitt in New York traces the history of music and design through an array of archival objects, including posters, album art and equipment.

Can Love Be A Photograph:
Forty Years of Inez & Vinoodh

Kunstmuseum Den Haag presents a major show celebrating the career of legendary photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

Martin Parr:
Defining Modern Life

Foam pays tribute to the legacy of photographer Martin Parr with a new exhibition, which brings together a selection of his most iconic works.

New Photobooks
Released this Spring

These five new publications spotlight some of the most prominent figures working in photography, alongside exciting emerging voices in the space.

Moment of Stillness

Tina Simakova is a master of natural light and minimal settings, using them to create atmospheric portraits rooted in intimacy and vulnerability.

Silent Tension

Chrissy Lush’s figures are often set within domestic and suburban environments, responding to external pressures located just outside the picture frame.

Radiant Horizons

Linda Westin brings methods from neuroscience into artworks. These pictures present forest canopies like portals into other worlds, where the skies glow.

Sights Reframed

In portraiture, Senay Berhe demonstrates a considered approach to framing and lighting, whilst also emphasising the depths of human emotion.

Building the Future

A new publication highlights BIG’s two-decades-long pursuit of innovative architectural forms that surprise, engage and transform the way we live.

A Legacy Visualised

West African symbolism, cinematic storytelling and personal history come together in a celebration of Côte d’Ivoire’s photographic landscape at ICP.

A Dark Waterway

Jane Fulton Alt has spent more than 40 years visiting a lake in northern Wisconsin, where the season for water lilies is as fleeting as the light.

Altered Landscapes:
The April / May Issue

In Aesthetica’s latest print edition, creatives explore how histories – whether personal, political or both – are written into the spaces we inhabit everyday.

Sculpting with Light

Harold Ross’s long exposure Night series, in which trees and clearings are bathed in a bright white glow, evokes a feeling of enchantment and mystery.

Histories Connected

Steve McQueen presents a powerful ensemble of multimedia works that explore the boundaries of imagination, memory, space and time.

Isamu Noguchi:
The Politics of Space

High Museum presents the artist’s first retrospective in over twenty five years, featuring nearly two hundred objects, many never or rarely exhibited.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Focus & Desire

Fotomuseum Winterthur presents the artist’s first major show in Switzerland, offering audiences the chance to witness his intimate portraits up close.

Ernesto Neto: Sensorial Experiences

Museum of Fine Art, Houston presents Ernesto Neto’s soaring crochet installation, that fills the gallery space with spiraling colour and movement.

Aesthetica Art Prize:
Celebrating 20 Years 

The Prize marks its 20th anniversary with four exhibitions across North Yorkshire galleries, bringing together fifty talented artists from previous editions.

5 Photographers from Circulation(s)

Since 2011, the festival has captured what matters most to young creatives through an open call. This year – marking the 16th edition – is no different.

Sense of Abstraction

Yasuhiro Ogawa, a leading figure in Japanese contemporary photography, has been documenting Kyoto for 10 years. The results are on view in Berlin.

Inta Ruka: Places Called Home

Latvian photographer Inta Ruka spent decades documenting the people and places of Riga, capturing the city in the process of massive transformation.

Enhanced Technologies

Fondazione Prada presents Dash, a new multimedia project devised by Chinese artist Cao Fei, which explores the emergence of “smart agriculture.”

Tish Murtha:
Documenting Community

Baltic presents an exhibition that brings together images by documentary photographer Tish Murtha, alongside brand new work by Kuba Ryniewicz.

Philosophical Creations:
Fashion Designer Yinghan Qian

Designer Yinghan Qian’s bold creations are inspired by ‘Zen’, asking how can fashion tell us something new and essential about the human condition?

The Art of Tomorrow:
New Museum Reopens

The Manhattan gallery welcomes back visitors after a 60,000-square-foot expansion, envisioned by Pritzker Prize-winning architecture firm OMA.

Art as Resistance

Fotografiska Stockholm present the work of artistic duo Atoosa Farahmand and Oscar Hagberg, who spotlight the lives of women and girls in Iran.

Lillian Bassman:
Bazaar and Beyond

The Met presents a major retrospective of designer Lillian Bassman, charting her course from design apprentice to art director and photographer.

Beneath the Surface

Phoebe Boswell is the latest artist to be part of Art on the Underground, with four large-scale artworks at Bethnal Green and Notting Hill Gate stations.

Sophie Calle:
Memory & Imagination

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents a major retrospective of Sophie Calle, one of the most influential and enduring voices in contemporary art.

Spotlighting the Next Generation

Foam Talent 2026 features 30 selected artists, from 22 countries, each of whom demonstrates an enduring commitment to visual storytelling.

Constructing Identity

The multidisciplinary work of British Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara invites us to confront the contemporary world in its beauty and complexity.

Art Paris 2026

Art Paris returns to the majestic setting of Grand Palais this April, with an exciting programme that welcomes 165 galleries from over 20 countries.

Deutsche Börse Photography
Foundation Prize 2026

Shortlisted artists, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka, Amak Mahmoodian and Rene Matić, are part of a show at The Photographers’ Gallery.

Intergenerational Dialogue

Center for Art and Advocacy places the photographs of Gordon Parks in dialogue with artist Beverly Price, revealing the enduring influence of the camera.

Precious Seronga:
Powerful Maximalism

Precious Seronga is an emerging Tanzanian artist whose new book, Afro Maximalism, “celebrates an aesthetic of excess, women of colour and African textiles.”

Reclaiming Space

Rania Matar collaborates with women and girls across Lebanon to create intimate portraits that explore the turbulent reality of life in the country.

Uncovering Hidden Meaning

In Jessie Li’s multidisciplinary work, everyday objects expand to become investigations into personal memory and community and family archives.

Imagining Alternative Futures

Barbican Immersive presents the first major UK solo exhibition experience created alongside BAFTA-nominated film maker and artist Liam Young.

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