Influential Messages
Art Basel’s photography selection includes key voices, raising awareness of ongoing social, political and ecological questions.
Art Basel’s photography selection includes key voices, raising awareness of ongoing social, political and ecological questions.
The June / July edition of Aesthetica is available now. Issue 83, A New Way of Seeing, considers the intersection between the created and the real.
Video content is integrated into our culture. Aesthetica’s Artists’ Film Screenings offer a platform innovative and thought-provoking work.
Asking the question: Beautiful world, where are you?, Liverpool Biennial 2018 surveys the current social, political and environmental landscape.
A new piece by artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph, Fly Paper, opens The Stores’ new exhibition studios in Berlin.
Ahead of a panel discussion at Future Now, Jasmina Cibic explores how artists’ film is establishing itself as a standalone genre that reflects social attitudes.
Shortlisted artist Electra Lyhne-Gold questions the wider impact of advertising by fragmenting the language of publicity.
As part of the 2018 Aesthetica Art Prize shortlist, Kenji Ouellet’s I Am One offers new perspectives on individuality and uniqueness in the wider city.
Bridging the boundaries between art, culture and philosophy, HowTheLightGetsIn Festival makes sense of the world through a diverse progamme.
The Whitworth showcases its latest major moving image acquisition – Isaac Julien’s Ten Thousand Waves.
John Akomfrah’s environmentally conscious video installation, Purple, offers meaningful dialogues about climate change.
An exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, foregrounds six major works by video artist David Claerbout.
The New North and South network comes to The Tetley, hosting the first UK-based exhibitions of two Pakistani artists, Madiha Aijaz and Mahbub Jokhio.
Barren environments can offer fertile ground for creative endeavour. PHOTOFAIRS brings together practitioners investigating such locales.
Complex Systems, a video work by Desiree Dolron, explores the dichotomy between the individual and collective.
In 1960, a devastating earthquake destroyed much of the Moroccan city of Agadir. Yto Barrada addresses the process of reinvention .
In an accelerating landscape, fresh ways of understanding the world become important. Bloomberg New Contemporaries offers insight.
Conceptual artist He Xiangyu’s recent film, The Swim, captures the uncanny truths of the practitioner’s childhood home.
The term “soft power” is used to described how political rhetoric is deployed through culture. Jasmina Cibic examines this rhetoric.