Renewed Viewpoint
A year in the Sonoran Desert is charted through billions of captured data points, illuminating the beauty and fragility of a well-known landscape.
Shaping Elements
Lachlan Turczan, one of this year’s Lumen Prize finalists, experiments with natural phenomena in order to shape multisensory installation artwork.
Latent Memories
Albarrán Cabrera’s photographs traverse luscious, light-drenched forests and lakes, where sunbeams dapple through tree branches and over the water.
Garden Up Close
Marine Lanier’s Le Jardin d’Hannibal series is set in one of Europe’s highest botanical gardens, home to a variety of plants from the largest mountains.
Evoking Paintings
Cristina Spagnolo showcases crisp photographic portraits and nature images inspired by the light, detail and form of art from the 1500s and 1600s.
Silent Interiors
Architecture is Satijn Panyigay’s subject of choice, creating brooding depictions of empty buildings and cinematically-lit homes under construction.
Constructing the Past:
Narrative, Memory & Julia Fullerton-Batten
Julia Fullerton-Batten constructs images that hover between historical record and myth, where light, costume and gesture carry the narrative.
The Timeless Power of the Portrait
This year’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize winners have been announced, featuring images that showcase character, history and context.
Behind the Camera
In the next installation of our MPB: The Next Shot series, filmmaker Xiona Li considers how the equipment we use influences our creative paths
Staged, Crafted & Constructed:
Expanded Photography
We bring you five contemporary artists who are experimenting with collage, photomontage and digital composition to expand what an image can be.
New Music Stage:
Talent & Discovery
We look back at the inaugural New Music Stage, which spotlighted ten bold emerging artists and audiences all-day access to live performances.
Surrealism in Focus:
Image-makers to Know
These five contemporary artists continue the rich tradition of Surrealism, creating photographs that give the movement a fresh and modern perspective.
Quiet Resistance
A new exhibition at New Art Exchange presents photographs by Heather Agyepong, who explores rest as an act of personal and political resistance.
The Future of Creativity
We look back at the 2025 Aesthetica Film Festival, packed with more than 300 films plus VR, games, podcasts and the inaugural New Music Stage.
Joel Meyerowitz:
Era-Defining Photography
Joel Meyerowitz wins Sony’s 2025 Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize, an award that recognises people who have shaped lens-based art.
Evocative Storytelling
Elina Brotherus creates ambiguous staged portraits, often documenting a solitary figure from behind as they look out at the sweeping Norwegian landscape.
Meet the Aesthetica Art Prize
Shortlist: Susanna Wallin
Susanna Wallin’s multi-media work asks questions about what we do with our time and what we can gain if we view the world from a new perspective.
For All At Last Return:
Oceans as Archive & Imagination
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art presents a major new group exhibition on our marine ecosystems, from near-shore and intertidal zones to coral reefs.
A Shared Vision
In the next installment of our MPB: The Next Shot series, filmmaker Hilary Powell shares the joy in passing on a camera to give it a new lease of life.
Lygia Clark:
Art as Experience
A new retrospective of pioneering artist Lygia Clark at the Kunsthaus Zürich features more than 120 original pieces alongside 50 participatory replicas.
Science/Fiction:
A Non-History of Plants
A new exhibition at Foto Arsenal Wien brings together over 40 artists who foreground plants and nature as protagonists in contemporary art.
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