Southbank Centre presents an exhibition that asks what freedom means, featuring works produced alongside community across the country.

A new exhibition at Pace Gallery spotlights Emmet Gowin’s family portraits, taken of his wife and her extended relatives across a thirty year period.

Photo Elysée pays tribute to writer, photographer and traveller Ella Maillart with an exhibition that reflects on her time in Central Asia in the 1930s.

We share five exhibitions from around the world, on display this March. Each one celebrates experimental photography in all its bold and innovative forms.

Barbican Immersive presents the first major UK solo exhibition experience created alongside BAFTA-nominated film maker and artist Liam Young.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo presents a major solo exhibition of Tada Minami, a pioneering abstract artist who worked in postwar Japan.

The artist is recognised for paving new ground by using the camera for visual activism, claiming visibility for Black queer people in South Africa.

We select 10 shows and events to attend this March, celebrating the remarkable contribution of women and girls to the field of contemporary art.

Swiss artist Carol Bove’s first museum survey invites visitors into a dynamic environment in dialogue with Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic architecture.

Asia’s leading fair highlights how both emerging talents and established brands are continuing to be informed by centuries-old design techniques.

Selecting five standout images from one of the most anticipated photography announcements of the year, the 2026 Professional competition of the SWPA.

Getty Center spotlights the photographers who used the lens to celebrate a distinctly Black culture and community, and advance the struggle for civil rights.

Kunstmuseum Den Haag presents a major show celebrating the career of legendary photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

Wellcome Collection presents the very first major museum show solely dedicated to the experience, stereotypes, challenges and joys of the aging process.

This month, we are celebrating five years of exceptional storytelling in collaboration with Audible, producing ten powerful film about sound.

The Design Museum presents work by designer Simone Brewster, exploring her ability to challenge cultural ideas of what is beautiful and valuable.

At New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Peggy Weil transforms ice and rock cores into scrolling video portraits, making the pace of climate change visible.

Grammars of Light brings together the practices of three artists that transform Astrup Fearnley Museet with immersive and experimental light installations.

These five photographers from the 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize longlist create images that explore modern ideas of representation, visibility and identity.

Phoenix Art Museum presents a major exhibition of photographer Cara Romero, who shines a light on Indigenous culture, history and knowledge.

Julian Charrière’s impressive multimedia works, on display at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, combine art, nature and science to explore the world of water.

The artist’s latest exhibition in Turin focuses on animals, environments and people devastated by climate change, photographed in striking tableaux.

A new exhibition features Donna Gottschalk’s documentation of queer life in the 1970s and 1980s, on display to audiences for the first time.

Faithe Yang explores queer intimacy and cross-cultural exchange, reinterpreting everyday gestures and relaxed scenes from an “othering” perspective.

The event returns to Milan for its 10th anniversary in March, presenting a programme dedicated to the many perspectives that womanhood can encompass.

A major retrospective at Guggenheim Bilbao includes Asawa’s best known suspended looped-wire sculptures and her nature-inspired tied-wire pieces.

The artist employs blurring as a visual motif across painting and photography, using it as a conceptual tool to depict architecture, figures and flowers.

These five exhibitions transform everyday spaces into immersive experiences, using the fundamentals of light and colour to create something brand new.

V&A Dundee marks the 30th anniversary of Maggie’s, the cancer charity, with a show celebrating its thoughtful, nature-forward architecture design.

A new exhibition spotlights the previously unseen work of Joyce Edwards, whose compelling portraits captured life for people in 1970s London squats.

We spotlight five talented artists, longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize, who play with materials, colour and form to create mesmerising abstract imagery.

A new book from gestalten reveals how Japanese home design can offer an alternative way of living, changing the everyday into something unexpected.

MEP’s exhibition weaves together a portrait of the USA, in which celebrities and lesser-known people are approached with equal levels of care and dignity.

National Portrait Gallery presents a retrospective of Catherine Opie, an artist whose career has redefined the social and political potential of the medium.

Isaac Blease, curator at the Martin Parr Foundation, discusses the gallery’s latest exhibition, which honours the remarkable legacy of its founder.

Designer Rong Jia’s work demonstrates how design can function as communication, storytelling and social engagement in contemporary society.

At Fruitmarket in Edinburgh, Ilana Halperin seeks to make the vastness of geological time visible through sculpture, drawing and analogue photography.

The shortlists for the Sony World Photography Award Open Competition has been announced, spanning architecture, portraiture, travel and nature.

Alison Jacques Gallery presents a celebration of the Gordon Parks Foundation’s 20th anniversary, showcasing the artist’s socially conscious images.

MASS MoCA’s latest exhibition grapples with the rapidly advancing digital innovations that are reshaping daily life, through the lens of 12 artists.

Photo Elysée presents the work of Salvatore Vitale, who explores the human cost behind the gig economy and how communities resist the system.

The Museum of Contemporary Photography a marks its 50th anniversary, with a show that reflects on the shifting role of photography in modern society.

These documentary shows bring together legendary names and new talent, with exclusive exhibitions happening across Europe throughout 2026.

Jes Chen is an interdisciplinary artist and curator whose works explore the emotional relationship between human beings and AI systems.

The artist is one of the pioneering practitioners of the New Ink Movement, creating intricate works that question power, authorship and visibility.

A new publication from Aperture spotlights the Texas African American Photography Archives, an record of 20th century American life for Black communities.

Kristján Maack has devoted his career to capturing Iceland’s dramatic landscapes. His breathtaking shots are now at Reykjavík Museum of Photography.

Harold “Doc” Edgerton was a pioneer of high-speed imaging who made it possible to see what the human eye cannot, developing innovative flash technologies.

The five longlisted artists treat sculptural form as a way to examine systems — economic, social and institutional — that shape daily contemporary life.

A new photography exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum explores the human body in the context of movement, ageing, self-expression and identity.