Venice Biennale: Nigerian Identity

The inaugural Nigerian Pavilion comes to the Venice Biennale featuring the work of three leading Nigerian artists and exploring themes of identity.

Seismic Visuals

Joel Meyerowitz: Towards Colour documents a seminal movement away from monochrome into the search for tonal complexity.

Digitalised Visions

Jane Gottlieb’s compositions are a saturated depiction of cities and nature, reworking recognisable locations into hallucinatory snapshots.

Future Now: Meet the Artists

Creatives from the 2017 Aesthetica Art Prize shortlist and longlist participate in a closing event at Future Now; hear from this year’s line-up.

Beyond Gender

This year’s Belfast Photo Festival challenges the colour binaries of pink and blue that are commonly assigned to newborns at birth.

Cultural Exchange

Culture Shifts: Global at Open Eye Gallery explores the dynamic urban landscapes of Liverpool and Hong Kong as the cities seek to redefine themselves.

HOME: Cinematic Ecologies

Sarah Perks (HOME, Manchester) delves into the various worlds of Artists’ Film, and the spaces in-between, ahead of a session at Future Now.

Global Discussions

Future Now illustrates Aesthetica’s commitment to promoting emerging artists, offering portfolio review sessions with influential organisations.

Diffusion: Visual Intervention

kennardphillipps dig into the surface of words and images to visualise the connection between the oppressed and the political elites of the everyday.

Emotional Resonance

Jean Davis paints abstracted figures placed in ambiguous settings. Her work focuses on themes of the impermanence of place and uncertainty of perceptions.

Photomonitor: Digital Landscapes

Ahead of a panel alongside Aesthetica, Corridor8 and Elephant Magazine, Christiane Monarchi expands on digitalised culture.

Transformative Museums

The finalists for Art Fund’s Museum of the Year have been announced including Tate Modern, The Hepworth and Sir John Soane’s Museum.

Uncanny Perspectives

Yuge Zhou is a Chinese born, Chicago-based artist whose video and installation works explore the complex interactions between humans and their environment.

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.

Frieze Sculpture: Exterior Forms

Ahead of Frieze New York, 5-7 May, the fair announces its plans for London’s largest outdoor exhibition, on view from 5 July.

Disseminated Compositions

Yeowoon Kim works with mobile art, presenting a new diagram of an image, alluding to imperfection whilst suggesting pixellation through the composition.

Future Now: Augmented Realities

Artists have always used technology to redefine their work. But there are more practitioners working with code rather than “making” today.

Turner Prize: Shortlisted Artists

Tate Britain reveals the Turner Prize shortlist for 2017: Hurvin Anderson, Andrea Büttner, Lubaina Himid and Rosalind Nashashibi.

Societal Divisions

This summer, Foam collates 120 works from the collection of The Gordon Parks Foundation into a comprehensive exhibition.

Sculptural Distortion

Conceptual artist Anna Fafaliou creates imaginary environments that call into question how we perceive, process and record daily materials.

Artangel: Spatial Identities

As part of the Future Now Symposium 2017, Laura Purseglove will discuss the importance of place and its role within contemporary art.

Unknown Territories

This summer the Barbican Centre celebrates the history and ingenuity of Science Fiction across the disciplines of art, design, film and literature.

Diffusion: Challenging Representation

Amak Mahmoodian is an Iranian photographer and curator whose work questions identity. Her latest series is on display at Diffusion Festival.

Future Now: Exchanging Ideas

The digital age has been transformative for the art world. The Future Now Symposium takes a broad view of the re-defined cultural ecosystem.

US Pavilion: Social Change

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: Biological Processes

Pamela Rosenkranz’s Slight Agitation is a newly commissioned, site-specific works presented in sequence within Fondazione Prada’s Cisterna.

Momentary Elegance

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.

Post-Industrial Malaise

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.

Photo London 2017: Highlights

Aesthetica list 10 highlights from Photo London 2017, from conversations, specially curated exhibitions and awards to site-specific commissions.

Frieze New York: Modern Complexities

This year sees Frieze New York host a collection of ambitious presentations from leading international contemporary and 20th century art galleries.

Romanticised Forms

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.

Scientific Encounters

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: Natural Intersections

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.

Conscious Expression

Italian self-taught painter Beddru embraces experimentation with non-traditional materials, such as thick, superposed Plexiglas panels.

Contemporary Systems

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.

Changing Perceptions

Jeffrey Luque’s Girl with Flowers series combines realist portraiture with extravagant detail, asking audiences to think more deeply about what they see.

Synthesised Identity

The processes of identity and image production are intertwined in Martine Syms’ practice, who exposes the public’s constant interaction with mass culture.

Timeless Youth

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.

Innovative Design

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: Challenging Representation

Cindy Sherman is an artist who has consistently refused to be the subject of acceptance, undermining the voyeur through re-invented compositions.

Celebrating Analogue

Has materiality gone out of style? Tony Chambers, Editor-in-Chief at Wallpaper* seeks to prove otherwise in a unique auction.

Global Imagination

The Sony World Photography Awards & Martin Parr – 2017 Exhibition showcases the 10 winners of the Open categories and the National Awards.

Changing Vocabularies

Over the past 30 years, New Zealand-based Judith Cordeaux has developed a vocabulary of pictorial motifs in her paintings.

Viva Arte: 10 to See

The 57th Venice Biennale, VIVA ARTE VIVA will feature 120 artists from 51 countries, as well as 85 National Participations in the Giardini Pavilions.

Spatial Linguistics

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.

Digital Living

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 Awards 2017: Winners Announced

A’ Design Award & Competition has announced the results of the 2016 / 2017 edition, including 1958 winners from 98 countries in 97 different disciplines.

Momentary Sculpture

The 2017 Skulptur Projekte exhibition gives more scope to performative approaches and reflects on the longevity of sculpture in the public realm.

Androgynous States

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: Multi-Dimensional Representation

documenta 14 and the National Museum of Contemporary Art collaborate on a programme that spans both both institutions and their founding cities.