Contemporary Assertions
This Synthetic Moment brings together a diverse selection of artists using photography as a means to assert a strong sense of identity.
This Synthetic Moment brings together a diverse selection of artists using photography as a means to assert a strong sense of identity.
In an accelerating landscape, fresh ways of understanding the world become important. Bloomberg New Contemporaries offers insight.
Gerry Johansson’s images are devoid of human presence, yet reflect the lives of individuals in fresh and revealing ways.
A new exhibition questions how India’s past, present and future are represented from a female perspective.
YSP has consistently positioned itself within the arena of creative social change, a notion continued in a collection that, quite simply, makes a difference.
Conceptual artist He Xiangyu’s recent film, The Swim, captures the uncanny truths of the practitioner’s childhood home.
In an age of gratuitous image editing and fake news, it is hard to distinguish artificiality from reality. Alex Prager investigates this confusion.
A site-specific installation by Christopher Page transforms the gallery space through a series of illusions.
Visionary artist Gordon Parks gave a voice to the under-represented through photography, words and music.
Theo Simpson combines materials, processes and technologies from the past and present to open up fresh dialogues.
The way society consumes information is shifting. MACK foregrounds the enduring conceptual importance and materiality of their volumes.
Valérie Belin is interested in artificiality and reality, questioning the construction of ideals by abstracting the human form.
Notions of incarceration impact individuals on a global scale. Prison Nation, a new exhibition at Aperture Foundation, examines the relationship between art and imprisonment, investigating…
Public museums are cathedrals of knowledge. Jason Larkin highlights the visual presentation of war and conflict in such institutions.
Façades are designed to conceal hidden realities. Exhibitions running 13-14 January construct and dissect exteriors to investigate such illusions.
Brassaï’s evocative body of work examines daily life in Paris. His images of the nocturnal landscape make meaningful use of light.
White Cube showcases Andreas Gursky’s Rückblick. The artist’s monumental photographic work critically examines the impact of capitalism.
The term “soft power” is used to described how political rhetoric is deployed through culture. Jasmina Cibic examines this rhetoric.
An exhibition of immersive work by Do Ho Suh at Smithsonian, Washington, invites viewers to reflect on notions of home.
