Showcasing outstanding and innovative artworks, the Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition features shortlisted pieces from artists in the following categories: Photographic and Digital; Three Dimensional Design and Sculpture; Painting and Drawing, and Video, Installation and Performance.
The opening of Art Basel Hong Kong on 15 May sees the return of the popular Absolut Art Bar, a collateral project that for the 4 days of the fair turns a cocktail bar into an art installation and vice versa.
Six practices, wildly diverse in culture, generation and medium, are united in their subject: our varying perceptions and measurements of time in the exhibition About Time, currently showing at Maddox Arts until 31 May.
Bill Viola is one of the leading international artists working in video art. For more than 30 years, Viola has been experimenting with tapes, installations, sound environments, electronic-music performances and TV productions.
The Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s is Ireland’s biggest festival seeing over 60, 000 people attend from all over the world. Running for over 50 years the event has attracted some of the most famous names in the arts including Jimi Hendrix.
New York-born contemporary artist Valerie Snobeck’s exhibition titled Le Monde, Le Continent, La France, Etc…, Etc…, La Rue de Bizerte, Moi is currently on display at the Simon Lee Gallery.
YIA Art Fair runs in Paris 23 – 26 October during FIAC. Founded in 2010 the event supports the emerging contemporary art scene. The fair seeks out unique venues to allow visitors to experience special spaces and this year the participants take over Carreau du Temple.
Jessica Zoob is a British contemporary artist who works from her Lewes home and studio. She exhibits regularly in and around London and has works in private collections worldwide.
Almost a decade after the publication of the infamous Abu Ghraib-tortured prisoner images taken during the Iraq war, mac will this month be exhibiting a first major solo show from newly elected Royal Academician Tim Shaw.
Samaris combine electronica and bold, percussive beats with haunting lyrics from 19th century Icelandic poems. The Icelandic trio, made up of Þórður Kári Steinþórsson, Áslaug Rún Magnúsdóttir and Jófríður Ákadóttir mix computerised sounds with clarinet and vocals.
Roth and Rainer together have worked in a variety of different media to create different products, including live performances, drawings and sound works. This new and exciting exhibition focuses on a large group of works on paper, unveiling some of Roth’s previously unseen work.
About a decade ago, it seemed Mark Titchner was popping up in every high-profile group show in London, and this exposure naturally led to his Turner Prize nomination in 2006.
Mark Manders’ Cose in corso is currently on display at Collezione Maramotti until 28 September. Bringing together found, reconstructed and reinvented objects, the exhibition is a kaleidoscopic series of organic constellations.
Having been selected from thousands of entrants to be part of the 100 longlist for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2013, Jurgen Winkler is a contemporary artist who experiments with form and sculpture to visualise human behaviour.
What does “science fiction” mean in the 21st century? A traditional definition is that it is writing, or other artistic works, that presuppose a technology, or an effect of technology, such as humanity has not yet experienced.
Visiting the New Museum’s lobby exhibition For Forgetting, a multimedia installation by artist Laure Prouvost, should not be done on an evening when the lobby also hosts a live band.
Kourtney Roy’s striking fashion photography is currently on the cover of Aesthetica. Roy began her career with the intention of becoming a painter. However, after taking a photography course she quickly found a passion for this art form.
Showing at the Suzanne Tarasieve Gallery Paris until 25 May, the work of Juergen Teller is, frankly speaking, one of the purest examples of how the stereotypical everlasting conflict between art and fashion could be resolved.
This year at the Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, there was a dizzyingly fascinating gathering of art galleries from around the world. China was the guest of honour, after Russia last year.
