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Joy Gregory: The Politics
of Beauty, Memory and Looking

Arnolfini’s landmark show brings together more than 150 of Gregory’s photographs, films, installations and mixed-media artworks spanning over four decades.

London Film Festival Expanded:
The New Grammar of Storytelling

The 70th BFI London Film Festival asks what a film festival can become when the screen is no longer a fixed surface but a space to enter, navigate and alter.

Helen Levitt: The
City as a Living Image

Helen Levitt captured the poetry of everyday street life through play, humour and fleeting moments. City at Play reveals the depth of her intuitive approach.

Cao Fei: Living
Inside the Future

Cao Fei presents her largest UK body of work to date, focusing on how A.I, automation and virtual life are not speculative but apart of everyday life.

Bristol Photo Festival:
An Expansive Programme

Bristol Photo Festival, the international biennial of contemporary photography, has announced the full programme for its third edition, Time Machine.

On the Cusp:
Female in Focus

The exhibition brings together the work of Laetitia Vançon and Giya Makondo-Wills, whose series are responding to this year’s theme of “On the Cusp.”

Ten Breakthrough Artists at
the Aesthetica New Music Stage

Ten of the UK and Ireland’s emerging voices have been announced for the New Music Stage at the BAFTA-qualifying Aesthetica Film Festival.

Cindy Sherman & Lorna Simpson:
Performance, Identity and Memory

Hauser & Wirth London’s two concurrent exhibitions spotlight the works of two iconic artists, placing Sherman and Simpson in direct artistic dialogue.

Pipilotti Rist:
30 Years of Video Art

Guggenheim Bilbao displays the two channel video installation Ever is Over All, three decades after it was premiered at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997.

Zanele Muholi’s
Powerful Visual Activism

For more than twenty years, the artist has dedicated their practice to making Black LGBTQIA+ people visible in South Africa and all around the world.

Nuanced Portraits of
India’s Female Bodybuilders

Foam Amsterdam’s exhibition questions stereotypes and preconceptions of what a woman could and should look like, and asks the viewer to think twice.

The Art of Eli Schläppi:
Abstraction and Lived Experience

Eli Schlappi’s paintings are enriched by many years of engagement with Chinese medicine, Daoist thought and East Asian calligraphic tradition.

Programme Announced:
Aesthetica Film Festival 2026

Aesthetica Film Festival returns to York, bringing together over 300 films and creative talent from across the global screen and media industries.

Fotografiska Tallinn Celebrates
Vivian Maier’s Rediscovered Archive

This new retrospective spotlights the photographic archive of Vivian Maier, who documented life in Chicago and New York throughout the 20th century.

Light & Magic: The Birth
of Art Photography

Tate Modern presents the first major exhibition to explore pictorialism as a global movement, bringing together over 200 rare prints by over 80 artists.

Visual Glitches: Images
from the Pages of Aesthetica

These five photographers, previously featured in Aesthetica Magazine, create works that play with the visual landscape in new and innovative ways.

Tacita Dean Champions the
Power of Analogue Filmmaking

The monumental installation, first produced for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2011 and now on view in LA, stands as her defining tribute to the medium.

America at 250:
A Photographic Portrait

Smithsonian invites us to consider what the next chapter of American image-making might look like, through the lens of projects from the 1970s.

“I Explore the Human Condition”:
In Conversation with Atong Atem

We caught up with the photographer ahead of a major retrospective opening at National Gallery of Victoria, her biggest exhibition in Australia to date.

What Does It Mean to
Build a Museum for the Future?

Four exhibitions unfold across Groninger Museum, placing contemporary art at the very centre of the institution, presenting a radical, experimental spirit.

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