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Technological Worlds:
Ayoung Kim at MoMA PS1

Three acclaimed video installations are being shown together for the first time in New York, using video game engines to hold up a mirror to the gig economy.

Memory, Emotion and Craft

We’re excited to release the first film in the MPB: The Next Shot series. Filmmaker Andi Hampton shares the story of how cameras shape his practice.

Meet the Aesthetica Art
Prize Shortlist: Rayvenn D’Clark

Artist Rayvenn D’Clark creates sculptural works that reframe the Black body, reclaim agency over representation and push against colonial narratives

Abstracted Visions:
Photographers to Know

Spotlighting five contemporary creatives, previously featured in Aesthetica, who are using microscopes, mirrors, paper and more to reimagine photography.

Joy Gregory:
A Major Retrospective

Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey  is a landmark show that brings together 250 works encompassing photography, film, installation and textile works.

MPB: The Next Shot
Creative Legacies

Today we’re announcing the four filmmakers who are part of MPB: The Next Shot, a project which sees creatives share the stories behind their cameras.

Experiments in Neon

The artistic duo Rob and Nick Carter, exhibiting at Connaught Village Art Month, share a singular aim: to use technology to reimagine the canon.

Documenting a Nation

The Zofia Rydet show at The Photographers’ Gallery in London offers a documentary portrait of domestic life in Poland, unparalleled in ambition or scale. 

Jennie Baptiste:
Rhythm and Roots

Somerset House presents the biggest exhibition of Baptiste’s work to date, rightfully placing her within the canon of pioneering 20th century photography.

Virtual Worldbuilding: Digital Visions by Peiyan Xu

Peiyan Xu investigates the relationship between information systems and human perception, exploring the impact of the digital age on cognition.

Meet the Aesthetica Art
Prize Shortlist: Stephen Johnston

Contemporary artist Stephen Johnston continues the rich tradition of memento mori, with paintings that focus on food and flowers decomposing in jars.

Expressions of Identity

In His Own Image, presented as part of Connaught Village Art Month, considers the representation of Black masculinity in dominant cultural narratives.

This Season:
Installation Art to See

These shows – spanning New York to Kyoto, Lisbon to London – invite viewers to step inside immersive worlds where light and sound take on physical form.

Images from PAN Amsterdam 2025

We spotlight five photographers whose work is on show at PAN Amsterdam, the leading art fair which is returning to the Dutch capital from 2-9 November.

Stepping Into Colour

M+ in Hong Kong foregrounds the contribution of women to the history of installation art, featuring 20th century works alongside new commissions.

Speculative Futures:
Feminist Realities

Poulomi Basu is a compelling voice in contemporary visual culture, interrogating structures of power, exclusion and gender-based violence.

Objects, Memory and Meaning

In London, Connaught Village Art Month presents work by three artists exploring concepts of nostalgia and memory, through sculpture and installation.

Meet the Aesthetica Art
Prize Shortlist: Ellie Davies

Ellie Davies has been photographing wild places since 2007. Her shortlisted series captures volumes of water that roll, roar and tumble downstream.

The Deutsche Börse Photography
Foundation Prize Shortlist 2026

Amak Mahmoodian, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Rene Matić and Weronika Gęsicka have been recognised for their significant contributions to the medium.

Meet Five Photographers
Reimagining the Landscape

Discover five contemporary artists who experiment with colour, light and physical interventions to offer fresh photographic perspectives on wild places.

The Serious Play
of Graciela Iturbide

ICP’s exhibition confirms Iturbide as one of the most significant photographers of her generation, with 200 images that navigate culture, ritual and ideation.

Jeff Wall: Master of
the Photographic Tableau

A new show highlights Jeff Wall’s monumental approach, which imbues photography with a feeling most commonly associated with painting and cinema.

When Objects Dream:
Man Ray at The Met in New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art stages the first major exhibition dedicated to one of Man Ray’s most significant contributions to his field: the rayograph.

Stories in Sound: Celebrating
Five Years of Listening Pitch 

The Listening Pitch has funded and commissioned 10 remarkable films. Each one asks the important question: what happens when we truly listen?

British Textile Biennial:
Past Meets Future

British Textile Biennial takes place in venues right across Lancashire, celebrating the region’s rich textile history and looking to the future of design.

Paris Photo 2025:
Innovative Curation

Paris Photo returns this November for its 28th edition with a diverse and dynamic programme, featuring 220 exhibitors from 33 countries.

Erwin Olaf: A Retrospective
of Light, Shadow & Identity

The Stedelijk Museum honours a landmark artist, whose visually perfect images simultaneously confronted difficult and uncomfortable realities.

Diane Arbus:
A Constellation of Influence

The retrospective at Berlin’s Gropius Bau presents images that resonate – confirming Arbus’ enduring power and legacy in the photographic canon.

Staged Ambiguity

Gregory Crewdson’s eerie and elaborately staged photographs of suburban American are part of an extensive new retrospective at Kunstmuseum.

Lee Miller: Vision, Fearlessness
and the Power of Photography

Tate Britain’s new retrospective offers the most comprehensive survey of her work ever staged in the UK, presenting 230 prints – many never before seen.

Home, Industry, Photography:
Foto/Industria Returns to Bologna

The Photography Biennial of Industry and Work marks its seventh edition, exploring the intersections of capitalism, labour, technology and visual culture.

This Weekend at Frieze London

The annual fair opens in Regent’s Park. 2025’s edition is a testament to the its enduring influence, featuring more than 280 galleries from 45 countries,

Tradition Meets Innovation:
The Design of Qichao An

Award-winning graphic designer and creative director Qichao An creates intricate artworks that seamlessly blend Eastern and Western aesthetics.

Embracing the Unknown

Antonia Luxem’s film and multidisciplinary work explores dreams, considering how our sleeping moments can help us see reality from a new angle.

Expanding the Canon

David Benjamin Sherry’s saturated, monochrome photographs of Antarctica highlight the devastating impact of climate change on the region’s ice.

William Kentridge:
The Pull of Gravity

William Kentridge’s monumental sculptures take over Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which presents over 40 works in bronze, steel, paper and plaster.

The Body as Ritual

Marina Abramović reframes desire, ritual and spirituality in a new exhibition at Aviva Studios, combining traditions and folklore from the Balkans.

Art in the Everyday
at Connaught Village

This October, a dynamic art programme offers a new perspective on the London district – best-known for its tree-lined streets and pastel-coloured houses.

Dan Flavin: Illuminating Space

Green, blue, yellow and pink tubes run the length of Lenbachhaus Munich’s ceiling, bathing the entire space – including its visitors – in mesmerising colour.

10 Exhibitions for
Black History Month 2025

Discover 10 key exhibitions showcasing powerful works that explore identity, history and culture through the lens of Black artists and photographers.

Launching the Official
Aesthetica Film Festival Trailer

Get a first glimpse of the 300 short, feature and VR films screening at this year’s Aesthetica Film Festival, which returns to York for five days this November.

Images to Engage the Mind

Fotostiftung Schweiz presents the work of Roger Humbert, whose 70-year career ranged from analogue experiments to digital light compositions.

Where Film Meets Music

Aesthetica Film Festival launches the UK’s first national New Music Stage, featuring 10 talented artists, each with fresh energy and a bold new sound.

Eleanor Antin:
Revolutionary Practice

Eleanor Antin is known for multidisciplinary art, in which she took on a range of personas, each one questioning gender, class, identity and history.

Urgent Dialogues

PHOTOCLIMAT has a distinct focus on grassroots action, focusing on the charities and organisations working for justice, progress and responsibility.

Fragments of Resilience:
Helga Vockenhuber at The Pantheon

In September, one of Rome’s iconic architectural marvels was temporarily transformed by a monumental sculpture: a twisting crown of thorns.

Historic Resonance

Carnegie Museum of Art presents the work of 60 Black photojournalists, who captured both iconic figures and everyday life between 1945 and 1984.

LagosPhoto Biennial 2025: The Expanding Horizons of Photography

LagosPhoto Biennial 2025 explores the theme of ‘incarceration,’ asking how images can expose, resist and reimagine modern systems of confinement.

Playful Disruption

Staged scenes from Margeaux Walter are built on location, taking everyday household objects out of their usual context to create an uncanny effect.

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.

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