Layered Portraiture
Muted settings enhance the purity and simplicity of Torres Balaguer’s compositions; figures emerge from the darkness through clean, silvery light.
Muted settings enhance the purity and simplicity of Torres Balaguer’s compositions; figures emerge from the darkness through clean, silvery light.
Installations that clear the air, light waves that reflect upon rising sea levels, a net that cleans up space junk: this is the work of Daan Roosegaarde.
The effects of ecological disaster loom large in the festival’s 50th edition, looking at the power of photography to alter perspectives and incite change.
Minimalism is timeless. It offers simplicity and stripped-back aesthetics; new buildings draw attention to design as a blank page full of possibility.
Letizia Le Fur translates painting methods into photography, balancing light and dark through a distinctly soft and inviting aesthetic.
Sanja Marušić creates worlds of irrationality and juxtaposition, drawing upon surrealist concepts and playful storytelling.
Through changing environments, Bethany Murray’s photographic compositions explore the female body and its larger place in constructing identity.
Perfect Darkness is a series by Henri Prestes, shot in secluded and isolated villages, highlighting moments of melancholy.
Eamonn Doyle has quickly moved from DJ to street photographer, documenting Dublin’s inhabitants through an anonymous, isolated lens.
Bauhaus is celebrated this year; at its centenary, the school continues to assert its legacy with classic aesthetics and collaborative sensibilities.
Lagos-based fashion brand Orange Culture is redefining the role of gender in clothing, with colourful, timeless pieces that defy categorisation.
William Bunce is a still-life photographer and director working across editorial and advertising and experiments with narrative and visual cohesion.
New York-based May Parlar is a photography and video artist creating visual narratives that centre around the notion of belonging and identity.
Matias Alonso Revelli’s works are awash with blues and oranges whilst experimenting with pixellation, moving the viewer into hallucinatory states.
Architizer calls upon the general public to define what makes a successful building – collaborations, ecological consideration and social appeal.
How can art make sense of the digital age? BALTIC investigates new possibilities offered by technology in relation to citizenship and activism.
François Aubret’s practice revolves around a series of clean, colourful works that document the hidden geometries of urban civilisation
Winter is a photographic series by German artist Uwe Langmann that depicts sweeping topographies blanketed by clean, white expanses of snow.
Six N. Five is a design studio that specialises in still life visuals and videos with a clean and modern aesthetic inspired by Edward Hopper.