Art as Mechanism
The status of the gallery is in flux, demonstrating why arenas for discussion such as Future Now are vital to making sense of the art world.
The status of the gallery is in flux, demonstrating why arenas for discussion such as Future Now are vital to making sense of the art world.
Ahead of Frieze New York, 5-7 May, the fair announces its plans for London’s largest outdoor exhibition, on view from 5 July.
Yeowoon Kim works with mobile art, presenting a new diagram of an image, alluding to imperfection whilst suggesting pixellation through the composition.
Artists have always used technology to redefine their work. But there are more practitioners working with code rather than “making” today.
Tate Britain reveals the Turner Prize shortlist for 2017: Hurvin Anderson, Andrea Büttner, Lubaina Himid and Rosalind Nashashibi.
This summer, Foam collates 120 works from the collection of The Gordon Parks Foundation into a comprehensive exhibition.
Conceptual artist Anna Fafaliou creates imaginary environments that call into question how we perceive, process and record daily materials.
As part of the Future Now Symposium 2017, Laura Purseglove will discuss the importance of place and its role within contemporary art.
This summer the Barbican Centre celebrates the history and ingenuity of Science Fiction across the disciplines of art, design, film and literature.
Amak Mahmoodian is an Iranian photographer and curator whose work questions identity. Her latest series is on display at Diffusion Festival.
The digital age has been transformative for the art world. The Future Now Symposium takes a broad view of the re-defined cultural ecosystem.
The US Pavilion Exhibition, Tomorrow is Another Day, signals the debut of a six-year collaboration between Mark Bradford and Rio Terà dei Pensieri.
Pamela Rosenkranz’s Slight Agitation is a newly commissioned, site-specific works presented in sequence within Fondazione Prada’s Cisterna.
Award-winning artist Jasper Udink ten Cate combines his work as a chef and as an artist, specialising in food, tableware design, paintings and graphics.
Now Then: Chris Killip and the Making of In Flagrante provides an unmatched exploration of the artist’s process of capturing a region in decline.
Aesthetica list 10 highlights from Photo London 2017, from conversations, specially curated exhibitions and awards to site-specific commissions.
This year sees Frieze New York host a collection of ambitious presentations from leading international contemporary and 20th century art galleries.
Gary Plummer is inspired by his love of the outdoors with a focus is on forms and colours that interest him to create mixed media and collage art.
The studio platform hrm199, led by the acclaimed artist Haroon Mirza, is the winner of FACT and CERN’s COLLIDE International Award 2017.
Massimo Vitali considers the intersection of land and sea with works that portray the end of the terrestrial human habitat and the beginning of the aqueous.
Italian self-taught painter Beddru embraces experimentation with non-traditional materials, such as thick, superposed Plexiglas panels.
Art Cologne is the oldest fair of its kind having started with just 18 galleries in 1967. Today around 200 commercial galleries come together each spring.
Jeffrey Luque’s Girl with Flowers series combines realist portraiture with extravagant detail, asking audiences to think more deeply about what they see.
The processes of identity and image production are intertwined in Martine Syms’ practice, who exposes the public’s constant interaction with mass culture.
A gap of nearly 50 years is bridged by Michael Hoppen Gallery in new exhibition, Untethered, which celebrates the work of Joseph Szabo and Sian Davey.
One Year On at New Designers 2017 is a widely anticipated showcase of new creatives providing a unique opportunity to discover bold ideas, contemporary styles and product innovation.
Cindy Sherman is an artist who has consistently refused to be the subject of acceptance, undermining the voyeur through re-invented compositions.
Has materiality gone out of style? Tony Chambers, Editor-in-Chief at Wallpaper* seeks to prove otherwise in a unique auction.
The Sony World Photography Awards & Martin Parr – 2017 Exhibition showcases the 10 winners of the Open categories and the National Awards.
Over the past 30 years, New Zealand-based Judith Cordeaux has developed a vocabulary of pictorial motifs in her paintings.
The 57th Venice Biennale, VIVA ARTE VIVA will feature 120 artists from 51 countries, as well as 85 National Participations in the Giardini Pavilions.
Fabrica Director Liz Whitehead brings Ipek Duben’s multi-screen film installation THEY/ONLAR to to the Brighton-based gallery after seeing it at SALT, Istanbul.
The European Media Art Festival collates a diverse selection of artists and contributors under the title of Push: Living in the Hyper Information Age.
A’ Design Award & Competition has announced the results of the 2016 / 2017 edition, including 1958 winners from 98 countries in 97 different disciplines.
The 2017 Skulptur Projekte exhibition gives more scope to performative approaches and reflects on the longevity of sculpture in the public realm.
Reminiscent of fashion booths, the layout of the Hepworth’s latest show transports audiences into a labyrinth where the body and clothes are redefined.
documenta 14 and the National Museum of Contemporary Art collaborate on a programme that spans both both institutions and their founding cities.
Elger Esser’s current focus is on the countries of the near East; Morgenland was created during his travels in Lebanon, Egypt and Israel from 2004 to 2015.
Edinburgh Art Festival announces details of its 14th edition, including partner exhibitions and pop-up events by contemporary and modern artists.
The fifth Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition opens 26 May and continues until 10 September at York Art Gallery, showcasing the 16 shortlisted artists.
Representing Austria in their national pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale are two innovators in the field of sculpture: Brigitte Kowanz and Erwin Wurm.
The 33rd edition of the annual ICP Infinity Awards will once again celebrate outstanding achievements in visual culture on 24 April.
The National Gallery unveils The Caged Bird’s Song, a new tapestry by Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili created in collaboration with Dovecot Studios.
The Glasgow School Of Art presents a retrospective of Franki Raffles, drawing on three main bodies of work from the Edinburgh-based photographer.
Making Heimat, Germany. Arrival Country, Atlas of Refugee Housing takes stock of the various types of housing available in German arrival cities.
New York’s Rubin Museum of Art presents Henri Cartier-Bresson: India in Full Frame, to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Magnum Photos.
Art Beijing, opening on 29 April, brings an energetic selection of regional and international exhibitors to the fore for its 12th consecutive exhibition.
Viviane Sassen’s Of Mud and Lotus engages in a conversation on transformation, procreation and fecundity at Stevenson Gallery in Johannesburg.
Currently on view at Edel Assanti, London, is Gordon Cheung’s Unknown Knowns, taking inspiration from Donald Rumsfeld’s theory of knowledge.
The work of British artist Gillian Wearing and French photographer Claude Cahun are displayed together for the first time at the National Portrait Gallery.