State of Transcendence

Anastasia Cazabon is a photographer and filmmaker based in Berlin, whose featured images are inspired by cultural narratives and the subjective experience.

Hidden Narratives

Returning to the midwest as a spectral, indefinable subject, Eric Ogden’s compositions centre around palpable psychological histories.

Aesthetica Issue 81 Available Now

The new issue, Beyond the Horizon, pays homage to the power of the individual, demonstrating how what makes us special is our ability to innovate.

Empirical Landscapes

Sallie Harrison’s series Geometric Los Angeles is a celebration of the city and a discovery of a multi-dimensional culture.

Cultural Perspectives

A new book published by Prestel delves into the recontextualisation of images, considering how photography creates layers of understanding.

Presenting the Unknown

Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy’s Façades is an intriguing conceptual series that focuses on the ever-imposing nature of superficiality and visual preconception.

Distinct Geometry

Sydney-born George Byrne creates collage-like images that depict landscapes as painterly abstractions, utilising the process of reduction.

Charting Individualism

Deeply influenced by modernist canons, Emre Yunus Uzun, an emerging designer, looks to the future of production through material integrity.

A New Design World

Nectar’s Home and Living Seasonal Style Guide  poses intriguing questions about e-commerce and trending ideas as pillars of accessible design.

Collective Action

WaterAid’s participatory photo project in Tombohuaun, Sierra Leone, documents life in the jungle.

Examining Urban Terrains

A rare collection of vintage prints by Daido Moriyama are at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, celebrating a view into lesser-known city streets.

Virtual Fabrication

Michael Reisch’s practice occupies the space between realism and digital transformation, expanding the boundaries of photography .

Innovative Principles

Design in the Digital Age at High Museum, Atlanta, offers the first comprehensive overview of Joris Laarman, exploring the very notion of craftsmanship.

Metropolitan Development

Werner Bischof’s photos explore topical dichotomies, from industrial development and poverty to modernity and tradition.

Investigating Chronologies

The 2018 edition of India Art Fair foregrounds contemporary art from South Asia, offering insights into the region’s thriving cultural scene.

Expanded Platforms

City of Oslo announces its first public art biennial, curated by Eva González-Sancho and Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk.

Expanded Viewpoints

A major touring exhibition draws a diverse and fragmented portrait of Israel and the West Bank, highlighting the complex nature of the region.

Shared Environments

Suki Dhanda is interested in ethnicity, people and place. A new body of work at Plymouth College of Art highlights the changing landscape of the city.

Forging Representation

Hot Metal Modern: Design in Pittsburgh and Beyond situates the locale as a major design centre, foregrounding female practitioners.

Hypnotic Melodies

Co-commissioned by National Museum Cardiff and Artes Mundi, Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Sky in a Room takes place over a five-week period.

Conceptual Developments

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, celebrates the Düsseldorfer Photoschule; photographers who studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher.

Meaningful Fiction

Norwegian photographer Anja Niemi investigates notions of selfhood through self-conscious imagery, creating a playful yet powerful critique.

A Poignant Retelling

A new, timely exhibition at ICP, New York,  explores a dark period of American history by examining themes of imprisonment .

5 to See: This Weekend

Systems define the human experience. Exhibitions running 27-28 January inspect a range of contemporary structures.

Unheralded Contributions

Jeu de Paume sheds light on Raoul Hausmann’s photographic oeuvre, unearthing a collection of overlooked avant-garde work.

Dissolving Binaries

The Photographers’ Gallery, London, provides an intimate glimpse into a pocketed history of cross-dressing, and those that lived through it.

Spatial Encounters

Serge Alain Nitegeka’s practice engages with how manipulations of colour and volume influence the experience and understanding of space.

Photographic Mastery

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, showcases a point of innovative transformation for one of America’s greatest colour photographers: Stephen Shore.

The Physical Façade

The relationships between individuals and their bodies is complex. An exhibition examines this through the lens of 13 female photographers.

Decorative Histories

Perrotin Tokyo offer a new exhibition of recent paintings by the American artist Hernan Bas; Insects from Abroad delves into a new, visual vocabulary.

Visionary Creativity

Objects on display at Collect 2018 range from small innovative pieces to monumental installations, engaging with contemporary issues.

Exploring Resistance

A Universal History of Infamy, an ongoing multisite show, presents an examination of the relationship between Latin America and the wider US.

Expanded Perspectives

The seventh edition of Duesseldorf Photo Weekend celebrates the past, present and future of the medium.

Demographic Insights

Moldova is the focus of a new exhibition at Fotografiska, Stockholm, which presents the work of award-winning photo-journalist Åsa Sjöström.

Urban Iconographies

Natalie Christensen’s 25-year career as a psychotherapist informs her practice as an artist; each image reflects deeper conceptual thoughts.

Cultural Synthesis

Büro Ole Scheeren’s Guardian Art Centre, Beijing, is an hybrid institution that combines culture with public functions.

Familiar Unreality

Celebrating the quotidian, the works in an exhibition at EMMA possess an uncanny, otherworldly quality.

Global Intersections

Terminus, a recent series by Mark Steinmetz, examines the pubic and private moments that occur within and around aerodromes.

Chronicling Resistance

In 1960, a devastating earthquake destroyed much of the Moroccan city of Agadir. Yto Barrada addresses the process of reinvention .

Architectural Repetitions

A retrospective of works by Michael Wolf comes to Fotomuseum Den Haag. The exhibition provides an overview of a unique oeuvre,

Embracing New Disciplines

On the cusp of the RA’s 250th anniversary, From Life takes an inquisitive look at the tradition and its ongoing relationship with artists today.

Unbroken Horizons

Murray Fredericks views the sublime landscape as a medium, using mirrors to build surreal, mesmerising compositions

Nostalgic Surroundings

Part of a generation racked by hyperactivity, Tina Barney captures the details of north eastern, suburban America.

Fragmented Environments

Robert Irwin’s new immersive installation plays with notions of place by responding to the architectural forms of Sprüth Magers, Berlin‘s modernist gallery space. The exhibition…

5 to See: This Weekend

Exhibitions running 20-21 January offer viewers the opportunity to reflect on the modern world, building platforms for introspection.

Associative Compositions

The work of 19th century visionaries is the starting point for a new show at Foam, Amsterdam, which links photography’s inception with the modern day.

Unreal Chronicles

Cristina de Middel blends traditional documentary photography with fresh conceptual ideas.

Serene Minimalism

Living in a village by the sea near Lisbon, Tesera Freitas started out as a designer with a camera. Her works offers a place where fantasy meet aesthetics.

Universal Incoherence

In 1921, influential poet T.S Eliot spent time in Margate. A new show draws connections between The Waste Land and visual arts.

Cultural Intricacies

Candida Höfer investigates Mexico’s architectural and urban spaces, capturing the façades, floors and interiors of public structures.