The Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual is a celebration of outstanding poetry and short fiction, which promises to inspire you after reading. This collection unites established and emerging literary talent from across the world.
Spencer Finch has on the wall of his studio a postcard of a watercolour by Turner. Impressed by its dynamic of figuration and abstraction, Finch seems always to have had Turner in mind with his own manipulations of the elements.
This summer the Lisson Gallery collaborates with Berengo Studio to present an exhibition that coincides with the occasion of the 14th International Architecture Biennale in Venice.
This summer the Camden Arts Centre dedicates all of its galleries and gardens to a large-scale, major exhibition of work by Shelagh Wakely. One of the UK’s most influential artists, the exhibition provides the rare opportunity to experience the ephemeral magic of Wakely’s work.
Ai Weiwei is a master craftsman. His work in porcelain, marble and wood, in particular, is astonishingly comparable in vision and execution to the design talents of Leonardo Da Vinci.
American Artist Cecil Eci’Am Gresham works predominately with painting and mixed media art, but also has a distinct digital photography style, unconventional bold imagery. We speak with him about his ongoing practice.
For the first time in the UK, 40 modern prints from Danny Lyon’s The Bikeriders will be showcased at ATLAS Gallery. Lyon immersed himself into the culture of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Club from 1963 to 1967 and these images are an iconic representation of that time.
Frieze Art Fair brings together over 160 of the world’s leading contemporary galleries. This year, for the first time, Frieze introduces Live, a showcase for performance-based installations dispersed throughout the fair.
The vote to decide whether Scotland becomes an independent nation takes place on 18 September 2014. Four Scottish photographers are brought together to present their distinctive perspectives on a nation in the midst of intense debate.
This June, the Royal Geographical Society displays a selection of contemporary, creative, resonant and original works by photographers and filmmakers as part of the Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year Award.
German artist Sybille Neumeyer stunned judges with Song for the Last Queen in the Aesthetica Art Prize, a beautiful light installation comprised of 7,614 bees collected from a naturally collapsed beehive framed within vials of honey.
Synesthesia is a combination of digital innovation and timeless fashion. Teaming up with Fred Perry for the SS14 campaign, the website is an exploration of synesthesia, when one sensory response induces a sensation in another.
Leeds Art Gallery presents its new sculpture collection in Narrating Objects. The display is designed to explore the relationship between sculpture and narrative, unlocking the stories that surround key works.
Back for its second year after popular success in 2014, Art Everywhere is a large scale project to get work on display around the UK using poster sites as places to see amazing art.
Shortlisted with Alberto García-Alix, Jochen Lempert and Lorna Simpson for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize was photographer Richard Mosse, who deservingly took home this year’s prize.
The Aesthetica Art Prize is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world and offers artists the opportunity to showcase their work to wider audiences and further their involvement in the international art world.
The Aesthetica Art Prize exhibition presents eight shortlisted artists contributing outstanding works to contemporary art and will continue to run until 22 June showcasing artistic talent from around the world in a ground-breaking group show.
Alex Prager presents photographs from her highly acclaimed series, Face in the Crowd, at The Arts Club this summer. In this Prager draws from the language of cinema to create large-scale, epic photographs of crowds.
Referred to as the “Olympics of the art world”, Art Basel returns to the Swiss city for its 44th year. With additional events in Miami and Hong Kong, Basel is where it all began for what is the most important art fair organiser in the world.
Nina Fowler has been shortlisted for prizes including The Jerwood Drawing, The BP Portrait and Longlisted for the The Aesthetica Art Prize. She is represented by Galerie Dukan and her work is included in private and public collections in Europe, the USA and Asia.
There are those that argue that talent is not innate. Rather, it is the ironclad will to keep on practising in the face of impossibilities. Then there are others who garner talent by being born talent adjacent. Musician Tunday Akintan is lucky in both ways.
VOLTA10 returns to Basel from 16-21 June. This year the vibrant art fair has teamed up with GalleryLOG to produce a number of inspiring videos that take a closer look at the work produced by a number of artists appearing at VOLTA.
The art of Pierre Soulages, on display at Dominique Lévy Gallery and Galerie Perrotin, exists in another world and defies description. Pierre Soulages is a “proposal about post-war abstract expressionism” according to the exhibition organisers.
VOLTA10 returns to Basel from 16-21 June. This year the vibrant art fair has teamed up with GalleryLOG to produce a number of inspiring videos that take a closer look at the work produced by a number of artists appearing at VOLTA.
Aesthetica is inviting visitors to cast their vote for the Aesthetica Art Prize People’s Choice Award. The exhibition, housed at York St Mary’s – York Art Gallery’s contemporary art space, runs until 22 June and presents the work of eight shortlisted artists.
Tallulah Rendall is not a woman for half-measures. Having shed her six-piece band, the songstress stands feet astride, juggling acrobatic vocals, loop pedals and guitars in a tumult of folk fury.
Continuing their interest in bringing together old and new technologies to reinterpret information and its uses, South Kiosk gallery takes the chronovisor, a device that allegedly allows its user to browse through history, as the point of departure.
VOLTA10 returns to Basel from 16-21 June. This year the vibrant art fair has teamed up with GalleryLOG to produce a number of inspiring videos that take a closer look at the work produced by a number of artists appearing at VOLTA.
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov had set their Strange City under the glass-and-steel passages of Grand Palais. Commissioned by the Monumenta, the exhibition proposes a double total installation.
Throughout the summer and autumn, the Serpentine Galleries will once again present Park Nights, an annual series of live art events, incorporating poetry, music, film, literature and performance. It takes place on selected Friday evenings in the Serpentine Pavilion 2014.
The works of a familiar face from the recent past are paying London a visit to mark the centenary anniversary of their creator’s birth. Despite his initial training as an architectural draughtsman, Lynn Chadwick is known today as a sculptor.
Rapidly becoming not only a central part of the Edinburgh Festival’s programme but a vital creative hub for the city’s all-year-round cultural scene, Summerhall unveils its strongest line-up to date.
Main Prize winner Sybille Neumeyer presents her mesmerising installation, Song For the Last Queen, within the group exhibition that also features Student Prize Winner Harriet Lewars.
Born in 1986 in St Petersburg, photographer Uldus Bakhtiozina has long been impacted by her Russian heritage. Working on a new book that explores the fairy tales of pagan Russia, Bakhtiozina looks for the stories behind the image.
As curator of a new Hayward Touring exhibition, artist Jeremy Deller, who represented Britain in last year’s Venice Biennale, takes a look at the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British popular culture and its persisting influence at the Laing Art Gallery.
The 14th Architecture Biennale is this year being curated by Dutch architect and theorist Rem Koolhaas, who has chosen the title Fundamentals. A total of 65 countries are exhibiting in the historic pavilions spread across the Giardini, the Arsenale, and the city of Venice.
The title of the exhibition exploring artist Hilma af Klint at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark is perfectly fitting, referring to both the core of her practice and her role as an artist.
Hauser & Wirth presents an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles based artist, Sterling Ruby. Possessed of a profound material sensibility, Ruby’s art speaks in a language inspired by sub-cultural phenomena ranging from urban gangs, and prison systems, to craft and the history of quilt-making.
START art fair is limited to 44 young galleries showcasing artists from around the world. It offers exhibitors a global platform to display their artists’ work at an important stage in their development.
Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago illuminates how the ideas at the heart of Mexican Surrealist Frida Kahlo’s paintings still resonate with contemporary artists around the world.
This solo exhibition by Paris-based Lebanese painter Walid El Masri reflects a departure from the artist’s ongoing Chair series. In this work an inanimate object provided a point of entry for meditative contemplations on life.
The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is open for entries, presenting a fantastic opportunity for established and emerging writers to showcase their poetry and short fiction to international audiences.
Quirkism II, ran throughout May at Ovada, Oxford. The exhibition showcased analytical and confessional works by a number of artists that are at once challenging and exciting.
GRAD: Gallery for Russian Arts and Design is a pioneering institution bringing new insights into Russian art, design and culture. This summer GRAD presents Work and Play Behind the Iron Curtain, an exhibition examining the changing face of Soviet design from the 1917 Revolutions to Perestroika.
This exhibition introduces four international artists to the UK for the first time: Ruby Oyinyechi Amanze, Douglas Rodrigo Rada, Helo Sanvoy and Shoshanna Weinberger have all exhibited frequently across the globe and this summer will present their work in London at Tiwani Contemporary.
This year PHotoEspaña will focus on Spanish photography, highlighting the rich energy and diversity offered by photographers across the generations. Now in its 17th edition, the festival is an extensive affair, showcasing 440 artists.
To add to its two existing locations, Skarstedt opened a new gallery space on the 8 May. Situated in the heart of Chelsea in New York, this gallery joins another on New York’s Upper East Side and one in London, UK.
For this new solo exhibition, Durham has created an installation that covers the entire gallery space of Parasol unit foundation. The ground floor display is a vivid explosion of industrialisation.
Istanbul’s Galeri Zilberman small but effective exhibition of Rosen’s work is well-timed; particularly so because Rosen’s close following of Istanbul’s Gezi Park protests of summer 2013 has provided the inspiration for the centrepiece to the show.
The series of art talks at the Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition concludes with a discussion led by Mark Doyle, Head of Collector Development North for the Contemporary Art Society.
