Next Generation 2017: Reformed Archetypes

Olivia Lynch’s photography explores cyclical natures in relationships and traditional portrayals of female psychosis through rose-tinted images.

The Residency: Spontaneous Practices

Fact Not Fiction Films’ second documented artist in residence, Melody Park,  paints quickly without interpretation.

Identity Tropes

Stedelijk Amsterdam mounts a series of shows this year and next that explore different aspects of the theme migration.

Frieze: Global Footprints

The 15th edition of Frieze London takes place next month, an event with more than 160 galleries that showcases the ambitious visions of contemporaries.

Integral Expanse

Established in 1989, the Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta is involved in a multitude of projects worldwide. Its focus is on collaborative scenarios.

Imaginative Platforms

The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, returns to London as one of the leading fairs that promotes the discovery of emerging talent.

Momentary Lives

Only the Lonely offers a comprehensive survey of William Gedney’s documentary and street work, including his acclaimed series of rural Kentucky.

5 To See: This Weekend

8-10 September. Delving into shows that reflect upon creative methods as multi-disciplinary, reactive and revolutionary in their own times.

Next Generation 2017: Social Arenas

As part of Aesthetica’s collaboration with LCC, Nicola Muirhead is a British-Bermudian documentary photographer and visual storyteller.

Tonal Virtuosity

The diversity of Bruno Barbey’s imagery has shaped his reputation as a photo journalist. Fotografie Forum shows 100 photographs taken across the world.

The Residency: Scientific Approaches

Fact Not Fiction Film’s documentary explores artists in da Vinci residencies. Dr Suzi Morris, blurs the lines between viral landscapes and painting.

Transient Luminosity

Vancouver Art Gallery reflects upon Stephen Shore’s important body of images created during visits to Monet’s garden at Giverny between 1977 and 1982.

Composed Reality

Mirroring Life, a retrospective of the work of influential photographer André Kertész, comes to Foam Amsterdam this autumn.

Textured Expressions

Goldsmithing and textiles have inspired Germany-based Christina Pauls to combine these forms of design. We talk to the artist about her practice.

Categorical Environments

Launched to coincide with the museums’ centenary, IWM’s, London, Conflict Now features opinions of individuals who have worked in areas of conflict.

Digital Insights

Fly-Baden offers new experiences through the discovery of destinations. Using social media platforms to promote journeys into new landscapes, the destination looks towards the future…

Modernist Landscapes

Throughout his 60 year career Roberto Burle Marx designed 2,000 gardens around the world; he also discovered around 50 new plant species.

Urban Mutation

Centre Pompidou-Metz’s Japanese season features an exhibition that pays homage to key architects and urban developments in Japan from 1945 to today.

Channeling Discoveries

START returns to London’s Saatchi Gallery this September, showcasing emerging artists to offer collectors and enthusiasts contemporary expression.

Convivial Space

The 2017 edition of Maison & Objet will explore the theme Comfort Zone. François Bernard curates objects by leading brands in the Inspirations Space.

Naturalistic Inquiries

The Bowes Museum have two parallel exhibitions open this summer, both of which attempt to open up perspectives about nature and create an interactive museum…

Rediscovering Industries

Giant Year Gallery was established in 2012 by Solan Chiu, focusing on the promotion of local contemporary ceramic art at START Art Fair 2017.

Geometric Connections

Marietta Varga reframes our relationship with brutalist architecture. Her images draw attention to the playful nature of landmark buildings in the UK.

Cultural Topographies

Dieter Seitz leads viewers on a journey that begins in the original nomad’s land and ends in the cities of Kazakhstan, the homeland of today’s urban nomads.

Photofairs: New Canons

For the 2017 edition of PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai, the event has launched a new initiative, entitled Spotlight, that highlights the work of Ren Hang.

Complex Perspective

A new anthology, edited by Fiona Rogers and Max Houghton, champions the works of emerging female photographers and offers unforeseen points of view.

Transformative Environments

MFAH continues its series of grand-scale, immersive exhibitions with Pipilotti Rist: two mesmerising works newly acquired by the Museum.

Sustaining Practices

The first Artists Collecting Society (ACS) Studio prize offers a current student or recent graduate the opportunity to cover the costs of a studio in the UK.

Nomadic Darkness

Joel Meyerowitz draws inspiration from the hours of dusk; capturing the stark moments of darkness in neighbourhoods from the 1970s and 1980s.

Revolutionary Politics

Whitney Chadwick’s The Militant Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism concentrates on the crucial role of women in the surrealist movement.

Community Landmark

A new iconic landmark is revealed ahead of next month’s Chicago Architecture Biennial. The latest addition to the city is the El Centro facility; a Northeastern Illinois University satellite venue.

Creative Paths

Begin Anywhere: Paths of Mentorship and Collaboration represents a much needed enquiry into the realities of how creative people work.

Environmental Intrusion

Man-Made Landscapes sheds light on humankind’s exploitation of nature through images by Edward Burtynsky, Mishka Henner and Yvon Lambert.

Refined Sensibilities

Hans Hansen captures inanimate things. The objects in his images are isolated and illuminated; form, colour and materials are meticulously compared.

Glacial Visions

The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography hosts the first Russian show of the photographer and environmental activist Sebastian Copeland.

Synchronised Consciousness

If photographer Cig Harvey takes her inspiration from past and personal experiences. The first UK solo exhibition Harvey opens at Beetles + Huxley.

Technological Innovations

SITE Santa Fe opens the doors of its new building this October with Future Shock, a large-scale exhibition that articulates the profound impact of the…

Shifting Borders

I am you, you are too at the Walker Art Center explores troubling phenomena through a diverse range of works from the institution’s collection.

Pictorial Elegance

The legendary collector Carla Sozzani invites viewers to engage with her remarkable archive of photographs from both the 20th and 21st centuries.

AAP Exhibition: Last Chance

A platform for innovation, the Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition invites audiences to engage with captivating projects from leading artists.

Humanist Imagery

Bildhalle hosts the first solo show of work by René Burri since his passing. A vast selection of his complex gelatin silver and c-prints are on display.

Representing Dichotomies

At the heart of the new group show at Marian Goodman Gallery, Sunset Décor, is a story and an image, or rather two images.

Societal Fragmentation

To See or Not to Be brings together strategies for disappearance, dissolution and transformation. It first explores physical and mental disappearance.

Solitary Reverie

MACK launches a new edition of Sleeping by the Mississippi by Alec Soth to coincide with the first exhibition in London dedicated to the series.

Modernist Performance

A pioneering American opera, Four Saints in Three Acts (1934), is the focus of an exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, opening in October.

Anthropological Sensitivity

Bilad es Sudan, showing at Aperture Foundation New York following an initial run in Paris, represents the fruits of Claude Iverné second excursion.

Surrealist Tendencies

Through a sophisticated use of camera and post-production techniques, photographer Bastiaan Woudt gives a contemporary twist to the classical.

Cultural Investigations

With more than 110 galleries from 27 countries and works from over 500 artists, Viennacontemporary is the highlight of the Viennese autumn art season.

5 To See: This Weekend

25-27 August. This collection reveals the current state of equilibrium between reflection and foresight, demonstrating a dialogue with the past.

CWA: Last Chance

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is an international literary prize that celebrates poetry and short fiction. Enter by 31 August.