Expansive Movements

Where are we marching? The future of protest is a day of debate running alongside IWM’s radical exhibition, Fighting for Peace.

Supporting Diversity

Dundee Contemporary Arts, MIMA, MOSTYN, Nottingham Contemporary, The Hepworth and Turner Contemporary are shortlisted for Freelands.

Transformative Materiality

Robi Walters’ practice encompasses a re-examination of collage. Utilising bright colours and overlapping textures, each piece finds beauty in everyday materials.

Vernacular Metropolis

Michael Wolf’s weighted depictions of globalisation and growth come into question in Life in Cities, another exhibition at the 2017 Rencontres d’Arles.

Compassionate Documentation

Neil Libbert has been working as a street photographer for nearly 60 years; Michael Hoppen Gallery offers an opportunity to see the full range of accumulated works. 

Hallucinatory Compositions

Karine Laval: Reflections looks into the hazy, lucid memories of summer, re-appropriating analogue compositions.

Gestural Adolescence

Nelli Palomäki’s photography seeks to find new ways to interpret highly classical monochrome portraiture. Shared explores the complex theme of siblinghood,

Visualised Activism

Since last year’s presidential election, Richard Misrach (b. 1949) has been travelling around California, Arizona and Nevada, documenting occasions when people have done just that.

Cinematic Disposition

Devotional Document (Part I), at Nottingham Contemporary is Wu Tsang’s first solo show in the UK, evoking performative states of impossibility.

Visual Landscape

Annina Roescheisen’s What Are You Fishing For? immerses into the union between a young man and woman, exploring intimate contrasts.

Interconnective Locales

Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985 is a groundbreaking exhibition about design dialogues between the two states.

Collective Depths

Ancient futures is the theme of this summer’s Primavera, an annual event at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

Material Remains

Virtually invisible at times and yet all pervasive, dust is the somewhat unlikely focus of a new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.

Evolutionary Influence

Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age brings together a myriad of works showcasing an unprecedented talent that has brought fictitious ideas to life.

Interrelating Composition

In Lennette Newell’s Ani-human series, the gap between humans and animals is diminished, along with hierarchies imposed by digital technology.

Connective Topographies

The sixth edition of the Yokohama Triennale, Islands, Constellations and Galapagos, invites thematic connections across a variety of emotional concepts.

Innovative Platforms

The five finalists of the ING Unseen Talent Award 2017 have been announced; an accolade set up to circulate the work of European practitioners.

Investigative Practices

Perpignan plays host to the 29th Visa Pour L’Image, International Festival of Photojournalism, in September, re-instating the essential role of the lens.

Correcting Oppression

Hammer Museum offers the vision of over 100 radical Latin American women artists, ranging from established figures to those whose output is largely unknown.

Discursive Framework

Athens Photo Festival’s 30th anniversary celebrations include an exploration of critical issues and the ongoing shifts in dialogue with the past. 

AAP: Digital Living

Dr Cadence Kinsey, (University of York), investigates the relationship between art and technology in the next Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition talk.

Cross-Cultural Networks

Longer Ways to Go presents photographs from the the Center for Creative Photography made of, from, on, and in the roads that criss-cross America.

Subverting Homogenity

Nordic Delights discusses the region as a topography in its own right, as well as each country’s different art scenes from the 1990s onwards. 

Hyperreal Psyche

Viviane Sassen’s work frees fashion photography from static precision, focusing instead on a performative, almost theatrical element.

Subjective Environments

André Lichtenberg’s practice explores contemporary landscape photography, combining childhood memories, sensory visualisation and digital collage.

Geometric Transformation

London-based artist Nina Baxter produces abstract paintings that focus on the interaction of colour, drawing inspiration from landscape and architecture.

5 To See: This Weekend

Our 5 To See for 30 June – 2 July invites us to reach out to those around us; Susan Hefuna’s performance looks at locality; Otobong Nkanga explores the land.

Centro Botín: Cultural Expansion

Fundación Botín’s new Centro Botín building is a curious combination of grandeur and subtlety, designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano.

Artificial Worlds

Signe Pierce’s Faux Realities brings together 30 photographs that showcase an innovative vision for a highly-saturated, hyperreal world.

Interior Reflection

Kristina Varaksina’s newest series Where do I belong? is inspired by this sense of detachment and isolation evoked by dual-identities.

Cellular Construction

Lumen is an interactive installation by Jenny Sabin Studio, winner of MoMA’s, New York, annual Young Architects Program

Psychological Geographies

Presenting a series of open-ended propositions, Parafin Gallery challenges the viewer to re-examine daily environments by altering a sense of familiarity.

AAP: Visual Horizons, Eleanor Clayton

As part of the Aesthetica Art Prize Call for Entries, we shine a spotlight on members of our dynamic Jury. Eleanor Clayton is a Curator at The Hepworth.

Immersive City

Manchester International Festival celebrates the heart and creativity of the city with 18 days of innovative programming. 29 June – 16 July.

PCA: Intimate Compositions

Maciej Krzyminski’s graduate series Seven Trees explores themes of memory and nostalgia, utilising delicate composition and minimalist arrangements.

Social Canopy

The 2017 Serpentine Pavilion has been designed by Diébédo Francis Kéré. Hailing from Burkina Faso, Kéré is the 17th architect to accept the commission.

AAP: Sculpture Today

Artist and Lecturer in Sculpture at York St John University, Dr Joanna Sperryn-Jones discusses the state of contemporary sculpture.

NMWA: International Commemoration

The 30th anniversary of National Museum of Women in the Arts includes a year-long programme that re-instates the vision to showcase underrepresented figures.

Industrialised Setting

Open Plan presents an ambitious range of media from 49 artists, providing a sensitive reflection on Bath’s industrial history and the concept of change.

AAP: Aesthetic Ventures, Reyahn King

Our Art Prize is judged by industry experts. Chief Executive of York Museums Trust Reyahn King was part of the panel that selected the 2017 winner.

5 To See: This Weekend

For 23-25 June, we take our first transatlantic trip of the summer season. Gagosian presents Carsten Höller’s playful sculptures, whilst MAC pays tribute to Olafur Eliasson’s environmentally-linked practice.

CWA: Literary Talent

The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is now open for entries for its 11th year. Each year, 60 finalists are selected by a panel of literary experts for publication.

Cultural Destinations

From institutions to emerging locations, the Leading Culture Destinations Awards recognises the impact of exhibitions, architecture and sustainable projects.

AAP: Creative Avenues, Whitney Hintz

The Aesthetica Art Prize is open for entries for its 2017/18 edition. Whitney Hintz, Curator of the Hiscox Collection formed part of our Jury in 2017.

Emerging Movements

Cynthia Corbett, founder of the Young Masters Art Prize discusses this year’s entries and thematic connections across works from the shortlist.

Influencing Exchange

The Korea/UK season kickstarts a year of cultural dialogues between two countries. 20 institutions across play host to a sequence of creative events.

Imaginary Narratives

Winner of the Prix Découverte des Amis du Palais de Tokyo, Hayoun Kwon presents audiences with a world inspired by the factual and fictional memories.

Allusive Identities

The centrepiece of the latest exhibition by Roni Horn is the photographic opus The Selected Gifts, a collection of 67 images documenting presents from 41 years.

Identity Politics

More than 60 photographs by the South African visual activist photographer Zanele Muholi will on display at Autograph ABP, London, this summer.

Ethereal Contexts

Coming Clean is a searingly honest series of self-portraits taken by the renowned photographer Graham McIndoe, exploring the world of substance abuse.