For the first time in 25 years, an exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary artistic production by women from mainland China.

Photographer Farah Al Qasimi is inspired by domestic-set horror movies of the 1970s and 1980s, using them as a jumping-off point for her work.

A major show demonstrates Kwame Brathwaite’s legacy in portraying “the essence of Black experience, as a feeling, drive and an emotion.”

On first glance, Theo Deproost’s Lost In Time appears to be a collection of impressive landscape shots. The reality is much more, and it’s deeply intriguing.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Karni Arieli launched an Instagram account, collecting refreshingly candid and aesthetically rich images of motherhood.

Polly Apfelbaum’s latest London show, comprising rugs and ceramics, can be seen as a wider retelling of how we value and share the stories of women in art.

Times Square is a fitting location for Ryan Muchen Wang, a visual artist and filmmaker interested in what it means for us to move, travel and transition.

From the Russia-Ukraine War to Iranian homes and the legacies of colonialism, this year’s projects respond to the theme “Agents of Change”

The loss of language is the starting point for Italian Senegalese artist Adji Dieye’s latest video, Aphasia, set in locations across Dakar.

16 contemporary photographers pay tribute to the fragility, beauty and adaptability of ecosystems at Fotografiska Stockholm.

Dawn Eagleton’s street photographs are painterly: condensation, rain, smears and reflections coalesce to obscure, abstract and conceal each subject.

Anastasia Samoylova considers 17 cities from a critical and aesthetic perspective, focusing on the proliferation of images in urban areas.

The 13th edition of Circulation(s) brings together emerging photographers from across Europe, recording moments of unity and resilience.

Ann Veronica Janssens’ retrospective at Pirelli HangarBicocca challenges the nature of sculpture and installation through light, form and space.

What does the future of photography look like? Five emerging artists shortlisted for the Photo London x Hahnemühle Student Award offer new perspectives.

David van Dartel’s works are fragile, gentle and tender. They depict characters in European countries – from Scotland to Portugal and France to Spain.

Discover five images from the Aesthetica archives that amplify environmental issues, from plastic waste to shrinking glaciers and deforestation.

Roberto Pavic’s pictures of Lapland create a sense of having arrived on an alien planet; a place populated by towering, cone-shaped snow creatures.

Maryam Wahid explores identity as a young British Pakistani woman, looking at topics of memory and belonging in her solo exhibition Zaibunissa.

City-dwellers may resonate with the works of Dave Heath, who documented urban isolation and yearning for connection in post-war America.

The Mike Nelson exhibition at Hayward Gallery plays with fiction and truth. The artist constructs a disorienting narrative of distorted, uncanny realities.

Gábor Molnár’s digital collection evokes wooden building blocks – featuring an arrangement of shapes within architectural spaces and natural landscapes.

Oliviero Toscani is known for pushing against the mainstream of fashion photography. Ahead of his exhibition, the artist speaks to Aesthetica.

Yuki Kihara’s Australian premiere interrogates and dismantles gender roles and colonial legacies in the Pacific through vibrant and impactful photographs.

Dominik Podlipniak draws viewers into dark and mysterious narratives. The cinematic images centre around lone figures and flickering lights.

Baldwin Lee is regarded as one of the most remarkable photographers of the American South. Here, he speaks to Aesthetica about his new show.

Asia Pacific’s largest photo-based fair highlights the work of emerging women photographers, spanning intimate portraiture and surreal still life shots.

Sarah Sze transforms the Guggenheim’s iconic architecture into a tool for timekeeping, meditating on how humanity marks the passage of time.

Christopher Anderson’s close-up work is compelling for its striking tonal palette, which illuminates scenes with a distinctive foggy red and blue tint.

This year’s edition of the Royal Photographic Society’s exhibition features a range of analogue and digital techniques, unpicking modern life.

Award-winning Japanese artists Shiga Lieko and Takeuchi Kota draw on historical events and archival materials to examine the human condition.

Andreas Gefeller is interested in how photographic technology unlocks new perceptions of recognisable locations around the world.

Chloé Milos Azzopardi, winner of the Aesthetica Editorial Award, tells a “futuristic fable” about how we can reconnect with the natural world.

April marks the start of art, design and photography fair season. These events are staples in the creative calendar. Discover our round-up of five to know.

Emma Kalff is an American visual artist based in Colorado. A classically trained oil painter, she layers multiple scenes to create surreal collages. A road trip across the USA inspired a series of works that resulted in her first solo exhibition.

Dr. Omar Kholeif’s new book occupies a place where creativity, politics and activism coalesce, made possible by vast networks of cables connecting us.

The new Ai Weiwei exhibition at Design Museum comprises a 650,000 LEGO-brick painting – engaging with ideas of consumerism and production.

Serbia-born Iliya Fonlamov Francisković is a figurative painter, predominantly inspired by the belief that human beings and the world in which we live are the most beautiful creations, whilst art exists to preserve beauty in its original form.

Must-see exhibitions this Spring navigate the impact of the digital realm on portrayals, experiences and perceptions of the world.

Hew Locke’s large-scale installation at Baltic looks to the past, present and future, bringing people together in an age of social and political divide.

As humans, we are always looking for something else, and it is this curiosity that makes us create. This issue is dedicated to the evolution of ideas.

Thomas Demand highlights the fiction beneath attempts to document the truth, questioning the power and responsibility behind art and its maker.

Amy Harrity distils subjects’ personal experiences into compositions that evoke honesty and clarity, capturing the diverse breadth of human emotion.

Vertical stripes transform serene coastlines into two-dimensional kaleidoscopes in Niall Staines’ natural seascapes, creating new order from chaos.

Summer Wagner’s “visual poems” depict figures fixed to the light of their phones. Fantasy and reality combine to hold a mirror up to life online.

Vibrant landscapes, mysterious, lively figures and pulsing colour palettes collide in Sanja Marušić’s portraits, debating the body and female identity.

Yannis Davy Guibinga evokes Gabonese folklore, science fiction and cultural astronomy in portraits rich with narrative and expansive bold backdrops.

Reflection is a metaphor for cultural and financial value to conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas. Light bounces between mirrors in bright, endless loops.

Federica Belli’s minimalist portraits become an effective visual language to communicate and understand questions about humanity’s future.

Gareth Iwan Jones’ fascination with woodland ecocystems inspired enchanting scenes that document the beauty and mystery of forests.