5 to See: Helsinki Biennial
Featuring 41 artists from Finland and around the world, this year’s festival is titled The Same Sea, responding to the theme of interconnectedness.
Featuring 41 artists from Finland and around the world, this year’s festival is titled The Same Sea, responding to the theme of interconnectedness.
“Photography is integrated into contemporary experience to such an extent that we consume the world through it.” A new book outlines 50 artists.
The Art Museum in Modern Times is a richly researched book that transports us through the history of today’s contemporary galleries.
Rohina Hoffman’s portraits – created during the pandemic – pay homage to food and family, encouraging us to pause, reflect and give thanks.
We Change the World considers how art and design can inspire positive social change, with a particular focus on modern Australian society.
From figurative to abstract, photorealistic to surreal, discover five works from the 2021 prize – showcasing innovative ideas and technical skill.
Myths have captivated audiences for millennia. But what is their relevance in today’s world? Mazzi Francesco is inspired by the ancient world.
Youth Rising in the UK 1981-2021 brings together photographs which offer a window on scenes of romance, empathy, protest and pain.
Swiss photographer Ernst A. Heiniger presented familiar objects and scenes anew – observing the world from innovative, unpredictable perspectives.
Nick Prideaux’s images distil moments of beauty from the everyday – from sun drenched scenery and seascapes to legs tangled up in sheets.
Brian Lomas’ Small Shops invites us on a tour of a lost cityscape: a world of hand-daubed signage, antique cash registers and family-run businesses.
Never has it been more important to consider our relationship with the natural world. Artists from our 2021 longlist bring the landscape into focus.
Graphic designer Yuliya Pylypko has crafted a publication aimed at involving a young Ukrainian audience in artistic heritage.
Elmgreen & Dragset’s new installation asks more questions than it answers, as part of Copenhagen Contemporary’s exhibition The Art of Sport.
Butterflies encircle faces. Orange balloons float in mid-air. Deep blue leaves engulf bodies. Fares Micue is a self-taught conceptual photographer.
Christopher Thomas captures merry-go-rounds, ice cream cones, bubble gum machines, circus tents and ferris wheels within desolate landscapes.
Signs and Symbols: Issue 102 considers the difference between “looking” and “seeing” –
how we view ourselves and the world around us.
The current Yinka Shonibare retrospective in Salzburg highlights the artist’s engagement with colonial brutality and post-colonial identity.
Eliza Bourner is a lens-based artist capturing cinematic self portraits of postmodern living; alienation, loneliness and unease.