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Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art presents the Uzbek film and installation artist’s first major solo museum exhibition in the United States.
We announce the 2026 Aesthetica Art Prize winners: Felipe Castelblanco and DIVA, who were announced at the opening of the exhibition at York Art Gallery.
The fourteen artists presented in this exhibition engage with visual phenomena that serve as vehicles for online communication, criticism and humour.
“I’m not interested in making very big things just for the sake of it.” Ai Weiwei takes over Aviva Studios with his signature politically charged installations.
Explore the impact of Pan-Africanism on art from the 1920s to the present, through over 250 works – from paintings and installations to posters and film.
Helter Skelter reveals a creative dialogue between the work of two prominent artists, Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince, brought together for the first time.
NGV presents an Australian major solo exhibition of Icelandic artist, Ragnar Kjartansson, one of the most renowned voices working in contemporary art today.
De la Warr Pavilion present a mid-career survey of work by Prem Sahib, looking back on 20 years of one of the most original practices in British art today.
These five photographers, featured in this year’s Prize, capture the natural world in unexpected ways, prompting audiences to look at the world anew.
Blindspot Gallery’s online exhibition pays tribute to a legendary photographer. The display showcases some of Parr’s most iconic series of everyday life.
The Institute of Contemporary Arts presents a new video and mixed-media installation by renowned interdisciplinary artist Elisa Giardina Papa.
This major solo exhibition of new and existing works by Amar Kanwar will transform Serpentine North into a meditative visual and sonic environment.
We spotlight five new releases that are coming to shelves this summer. Each publication investigates the most pressing topics in contemporary art.
Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now traces the Pop Art Movement’s decades-long relationship with the institution and its influence on artists working today.
MEP, Paris looks back at two hundred years of photography with an exhibition that takes viewers from A to Z celebrating art form’s incredible range.
This free, open-air exhibition brings a world bursting with kaleidoscopic colour and emotion to the streets of Soho, with large-scale images of blooming flowers.
We spoke to renowned artist Greg Girard ahead of a major retrospective opening at The Polygon Gallery, which celebrates 50 years of documentary work.
Photo Museum Ireland assembles a group of artists whose practices test the boundaries of what it means to produce a photograph in today’s digital age.
Five photographers from the Aesthetica Art Prize who evoke a haunting and tense atmosphere, where familiar scenes take on new, unexpected meaning.
