Narratives In Analogue

Wim Wenders’ visual diary of instant snapshots from the 1960s – 1980s offers a glimpse into life on set that predates social media.

Digital Critique

I Was Raised on the Internet looks at a specific moment in time to explore the rapid cultural shifts the world has experienced since the millennium.

Multi-faceted Collections

Identities overlap and intersect: no one is defined solely by their race, gender, class or nationality, but rather by a combination of complex factors. This…

5 to See: This Weekend

Photography exhibitions opening at the start of June offer encounters with the natural environment, testing the limits of representation.

Unparalleled Portraiture

Celebrating 100 years since the birth of Irving Penn, an extensive retrospective of the photographer’s portfolio is presented at C/O Berlin.

10 to See: Degree Shows

In a fast-developing visual and digital world, graduates offer unique, forward-thinking perspectives on a globalised landscape.

A Changing Landscape

The first UK solo exhibition of German photographer, Olaf Otto Becker, opens at Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London. 

Cinematic Architecture

Openstudio Architects’ Swartberg House is the subject of a five-channel video installation at La Biennale di Venezia.

Influential Messages

Art Basel’s photography selection includes key voices, raising awareness of ongoing social, political and ecological questions.

An Enduring Legacy

Photographer Jean Molitor has been tracking the legacy of Bauhaus since 2009, capturing the movement’s bold aesthetic.

Uncanny Constructions

Exploring the timely boundary between truth and fiction, Thomas Wrede’s works offer a surreal reflection on the fidelity of photography.

Illuminating Cities

Sabine Weiss and Fred Herzog articulate the post-war urban landscape through a bold use of contrast, holding up a mirror to society.

Moving into Architecture

Fjordenhus, the first building realised by Olafur Eliasson and his architectural team, builds on a socially and conceptually responsive practice.

Visualising Systems

Mary Mattingly looks into the wider effects of mining and chemical cultivation, investigating supply chains through a critical approach.

Bold Observations

Combining strong geometric patterns, clean lines and bold colours, Leonardo Pucci’s body of work, documents the urban landscape.

Altered Topographies

During travels throughout Europe, the US, Asia and North Africa, Otto Reitsperger captured the sea illuminated only by moonlight.

Unreal Sequences

Chris Dorley-Brown’s hyperreal works capture the breadth of contemporary experience, documenting street corners in East London.

Redefining History

2018’s first Magnum Square Print Sale explores the theme of Freedom, investigating its definition and legacy through influential photographers.

Urban Landscapes

Museum of London brings together portraiture, documentary, conceptual photography and film to draw a striking portrait of the nocturnal city.

Linear Environments

Having worked as a freelance illustrator for years, Recchia now focuses on the banality of everyday life, looking at the forms of the urban environment. 

An Inspirational Journey

Emily Shur’s Super Extra Natural!, documents the American photographer’s time in Japan, offering personal reflections on a unique landscape.

Indelible Traces

Mark Ruwedel’s work demonstrates how geological, historical and political events have shaped the natural landscape.

5 to Read: This Month

This month’s publications offer surveys across a range of industries, from the changing face of architecture to fine art photography and installation.

Exploring Performativity

Cindy Sherman is one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. A new body of work is inspired by 1920s Hollywood cinema.

5 to See: This Weekend

How can photography make sense of the world? Shows running 2-3 June demonstrate the ways practitioners are engaging with timely ideas.

Capturing Individuality

Fashion photographer Gösta Peterson combined styled compositions with spontaneity, foregrounding the individuality of each subject.

Altered Geology

Landscapes After Ruskin at Grey Art Gallery, New York, explores how practitioners are making sense of the changing environment.

Aesthetica Issue 83 Available Now

The June / July edition of Aesthetica is available now. Issue 83, A New Way of Seeing, considers the intersection between the created and the real.

Intimate Narratives

Erica Nyholm’s body of work explores familial relationships, reflecting on defining moments from a female perspective.

Iconic Visuals

Between Art & Fashion: Photographs from the Collection of Carla Sozzani offers dialogues about the authenticity and autonomy of images.

Turrell: Infinite Vistas

Technological advances have altered our conception of space. James Turrell questions notions of materiality and physical location.

A Journey into Myth

For Joachim Hildebrand’s latest series, he travelled through the seven states of the American southwest – a visual journey through myth and reality.

New Approaches

Marking a departure from self representation, new works by Elina Brotherus offer a playful, performative approach inspired by Fluxus.

Stylised Composition

Works by Erwin Olaf address social issues, taboos and conventions through a highly curated approach, offering stylised visuals.

Facets of Reality

Victor Micoud’s La Cité Idéale focuses on the surroundings of Disneyland Paris, capturing the essence of this surreal neighbourhood.

Cinematic Storytelling

Translating personal experiences into hyperreal images, the renowned photographer Alex Prager is celebrated through a mid-career survey.

Singular Perspective

Using repeated patterns including colour, material and texture, Jon Setter organises details of landscapes as an abstracted expression of space.

Balanced Composition

Carolina Mizrahi is an art director, photographer and set designer whose cross-disciplinary practice traverses a line between fine art and commerce.

Into the Wilderness

Melancholy and, at times, tied to a Romantic sensibility, Isabella Ståhl’s images communicate the desire to return to the notion of home.

Shifting the Focus

A vision of the future, Evelyn Bencicova’s series Artificial Tears assesses what it means to exist within today’s increasingly factitious world.

Uncanny Performance

Michelle Cho & June Kim’s collaborative series look into the ideas of relativity in the everyday, inspired by vivid and structurally expansive architecture.

Elusive Sensibility

Ole Marius Joergensen creates narratives around the themes of identity, using empty topographies as spectres of unidentifiable emotions.

Reactive Architecture

Accessibility, sustainability and humanity take centre stage at Venice Biennale, pushing the literal and figurative boundaries of space.

Immersive Technology

Interactive garments transform our relationship with fashion and the environment as sustainability is linked with the individual experience.

Conscious Environments

Elena Mora offers an intriguing perspective on how set design can create an interdisciplinary stage for idea creation and collective aspiration.

A Photographic Journey

Inge Morath traversed the globe as a travel, portrait and reportage photographer, joining Magnum Photos in 1956.

Reshaping Urbanity

Anarchitect, a retrospective of Gordon Matta-Clark’s short but incendiary career, is currently on show at Jeu de Paume, Paris.

Contemporary Mythology

Photographs by Joachim Hildebrand, who is part of the 2018 Aesthetica Art Prize, investigate notions of the American dream.

Responsive Art Forms

The 21st Biennale of Sydney engages with communities around the globe, addressing timely themes of relocation and globalisation.

Eerie Minimalism

Mária Švarbová’s series, Swimming Pool, goes on display as part of this year’s edition of PHotoEspaña, Madrid.