An Enduring Legacy
Photographer Jean Molitor has been tracking the legacy of Bauhaus since 2009, capturing the movement’s bold aesthetic.
Photographer Jean Molitor has been tracking the legacy of Bauhaus since 2009, capturing the movement’s bold aesthetic.
Exploring the timely boundary between truth and fiction, Thomas Wrede’s works offer a surreal reflection on the fidelity of photography.
Sabine Weiss and Fred Herzog articulate the post-war urban landscape through a bold use of contrast, holding up a mirror to society.
Fjordenhus, the first building realised by Olafur Eliasson and his architectural team, builds on a socially and conceptually responsive practice.
Mary Mattingly looks into the wider effects of mining and chemical cultivation, investigating supply chains through a critical approach.
Combining strong geometric patterns, clean lines and bold colours, Leonardo Pucci’s body of work, documents the urban landscape.
During travels throughout Europe, the US, Asia and North Africa, Otto Reitsperger captured the sea illuminated only by moonlight.
Chris Dorley-Brown’s hyperreal works capture the breadth of contemporary experience, documenting street corners in East London.
2018’s first Magnum Square Print Sale explores the theme of Freedom, investigating its definition and legacy through influential photographers.
Museum of London brings together portraiture, documentary, conceptual photography and film to draw a striking portrait of the nocturnal city.
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.
Emily Shur’s Super Extra Natural!, documents the American photographer’s time in Japan, offering personal reflections on a unique landscape.
Mark Ruwedel’s work demonstrates how geological, historical and political events have shaped the natural landscape.
This month’s publications offer surveys across a range of industries, from the changing face of architecture to fine art photography and installation.
Cindy Sherman is one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. A new body of work is inspired by 1920s Hollywood cinema.
How can photography make sense of the world? Shows running 2-3 June demonstrate the ways practitioners are engaging with timely ideas.
Fashion photographer Gösta Peterson combined styled compositions with spontaneity, foregrounding the individuality of each subject.
Landscapes After Ruskin at Grey Art Gallery, New York, explores how practitioners are making sense of the changing environment.
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.
Erica Nyholm’s body of work explores familial relationships, reflecting on defining moments from a female perspective.
Between Art & Fashion: Photographs from the Collection of Carla Sozzani offers dialogues about the authenticity and autonomy of images.
Technological advances have altered our conception of space. James Turrell questions notions of materiality and physical location.
For Joachim Hildebrand’s latest series, he travelled through the seven states of the American southwest – a visual journey through myth and reality.
Marking a departure from self representation, new works by Elina Brotherus offer a playful, performative approach inspired by Fluxus.
Works by Erwin Olaf address social issues, taboos and conventions through a highly curated approach, offering stylised visuals.
Victor Micoud’s La Cité Idéale focuses on the surroundings of Disneyland Paris, capturing the essence of this surreal neighbourhood.
Translating personal experiences into hyperreal images, the renowned photographer Alex Prager is celebrated through a mid-career survey.
Using repeated patterns including colour, material and texture, Jon Setter organises details of landscapes as an abstracted expression of space.
Carolina Mizrahi is an art director, photographer and set designer whose cross-disciplinary practice traverses a line between fine art and commerce.
Melancholy and, at times, tied to a Romantic sensibility, Isabella Ståhl’s images communicate the desire to return to the notion of home.
A vision of the future, Evelyn Bencicova’s series Artificial Tears assesses what it means to exist within today’s increasingly factitious world.
Michelle Cho & June Kim’s collaborative series look into the ideas of relativity in the everyday, inspired by vivid and structurally expansive architecture.
Ole Marius Joergensen creates narratives around the themes of identity, using empty topographies as spectres of unidentifiable emotions.
Accessibility, sustainability and humanity take centre stage at Venice Biennale, pushing the literal and figurative boundaries of space.
Interactive garments transform our relationship with fashion and the environment as sustainability is linked with the individual experience.
Elena Mora offers an intriguing perspective on how set design can create an interdisciplinary stage for idea creation and collective aspiration.
Inge Morath traversed the globe as a travel, portrait and reportage photographer, joining Magnum Photos in 1956.
Anarchitect, a retrospective of Gordon Matta-Clark’s short but incendiary career, is currently on show at Jeu de Paume, Paris.
Photographs by Joachim Hildebrand, who is part of the 2018 Aesthetica Art Prize, investigate notions of the American dream.
The 21st Biennale of Sydney engages with communities around the globe, addressing timely themes of relocation and globalisation.
Mária Švarbová’s series, Swimming Pool, goes on display as part of this year’s edition of PHotoEspaña, Madrid.
Free Range offers viewers an interactive environment, providing the next generation of creatives with an expansive platform.
This year’s edition of Kensington & Chelsea Art Weekend brings together galleries, public spaces and cultural institutions to celebrate creativity.
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip explores the work of 19 photographers who are inspired by the open road.
The seventh edition of Beirut Design Week, entitled Design & The City, foregrounds how creative practice influences urban life.
Is light really limited to the ocular or can it be abstracted to gain shape and volume? That’s the gamble behind NONOTAK, a Paris-based collective.
Gail Albert Halaban’s series, Out My Window, documents community life through a detached yet intimate lens.
Tacita Dean explores “landscape” in its broadest sense in show at the Royal Academy, London, building upon larger themes from the modern world.
Experienced in architecture, fashion and design, Julia Körner combines formulae from the natural landscape with technological advancements. Having previously featured in Aesthetica, Körner returns with a…
Moving towards the end of May, top shows and events investigate what it means to live in an increasingly globalised landscape.