Aesthetica Art Prize 2015 Interview: Artist Matt Parker

Inspired by soundscape artist R. Murray Schafer, shortlisted artist Matt Parker’s research investigates the ways in which sound and space influence both our individual and collective experiences.

Review of The Theatre of Painting, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires

The Museum of Modern Art is brimming with colour and kaleidoscopic shapes: The Theatre of Painting places works of modern and contemporary Argentine art alongside pieces by Sonia Delaunay.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery at Design Show Shanghai

For China’s biggest design fair, Carpenters Workshop Gallery will present work by Sebastian Brajkovic, Humberto & Fernando Campana, Ingrid Donat, Stuart Haygarth and Studio Drift.

Jason Rhoades: Organised Chaos in Aesthetica Magazine

Jason Rhoades, Four Roads at ICA Philadelphia was the artist’s first major show at an American museum. Now, for the first time in the UK, a major exhibition of work by Rhoades will open at BALTIC.

Interview with Exhibit Be Founder Brandan Odums

Exhibit Be is an artistic endeavour of epic proportions. Helmed by artist Brandan “BMike” Odums, it is an ode to how art disturbs the waters of our contentment without cornering us with guilt.

AAP 2015: Carolina Redondo

The Aesthetica Art Prize 2015 is a celebration of excellence in art from across the world. This year’s longlist includes Chilean artist Carolina Redondo.

Interview with Artist Magne Furuholmen, Exhibiting at Dovecot Studios

Dovecot Studios opens a new exhibition of work by Norwegian artist and musician Magne Furuholmen. We speak to Furuholmen about his move into tapestry and how Dovecot inspired the new work.

Guy Bourdin: Walking Legs

Walking Legs, is one of Parisian photographer Guy Bourdin’s most loved campaign series. The popular commission is on display at Michael Hoppen Gallery.

Ceramic Art London 2015, Henry Moore and Gulbenkian Galleries, RCA, London

The 11th edition of Ceramic Art London, the leading international showcase for contemporary ceramics, returns to London this year to take over the Royal College of Art with 80 ceramic artists.

Review of Sky Academy Arts Scholarships Showcase Event

Since 2011 Sky Academy Arts Scholarships have supported artists under 30 annually with a £30,000 bursary. Last year’s Scholars include artist James Lomax and dancer Eleesha Drennan.

Grace Schwindt, Site Gallery

Grace Schwindt’s Only a free individual can create a free society is a captivating feature-length film installation currently in place at Site Gallery, Sheffield and running until 28 February.

Review: Zhang Huan, Sydney Buddha, Carriageworks

Carriageworks is a fitting space to house the grand structures created by artist Zhang Huan in his current exhibition, Sydney Buddha. Viewers are greeted by two five-metre tall structures.

Victoria Miro, Art Basel HK

Victoria Miro will be showcasing a selection of international artists at Art Basel Hong Kong. The Hong Kong edition features a variety of galleries from Asia, Asia-Pacific and the rest of the world.

The Tell-Tale Heart, Chi Art Space, Hong Kong

The Tell-Tale Heart, a group exhibition curated by Pilar Corrias (London), Leo Xu Projects (Shanghai) and K11 Art Foundation, will open on 13 March to coincide with Art Basel’s Hong Kong fair.

Antonio Berni: Juanito y Ramona, MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Antonio Berni: Juanito y Ramona showcases more than 150 works of one of Argentina’s most acclaimed artists of the 20th century. Berni was a well-known public figure by the end of his life.

Mariano Pensotti: Cineastas

Argentine author and director, Mariano Pensotti, is best known for creating theatre that explores the tension between fiction and reality. The director is heralded as an important creative in Argentina.

Interview with Design Duo Foreign Policy, Speakers at ING Conference 2015

Yah-Leng and Arthur are the co-founders of Foreign Policy. Together, they are a think tank based in Singapore that realises and evolves brands with a creative and strategic deployment of ideas.

FORMAT15: EVIDENCE

The FORMAT biennale, one of the UK’s leading international contemporary festivals of photography, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and will bring together top contemporary photography.

History Is Now: 7 Artists Take On Britain, Hayward Gallery

Hayward Gallery has put on a brave set of displays curated by seven artists, who each look at elements of British history from 1945 to the present day. The central part of the exhibition is deeply political.

Adam Magyar: Kontinuum, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

Experimental video and still photography artist, Adam Magyar is now showing for the first time outside of Europe and Asia, with various works including new prints from the artist’s Urban Flow series.

Ricardo Brey: Fuel To The Fire, Museum of Art, Antwerp

This exhibition bridges the gap between the two figures Ricardo Brey sees within himself: the historical artist working at a critical time in Cuban art; and the artist who lives and works in Flanders.

Review of Bonalumi Sculptures, Mazzoleni Art

Mazzoleni Art, London, welcomes a retrospective of Italian artist Agostino Bonalumi’s work. The collection signifies an important step in reinforcing his reputation on the international art scene.

Kontinent Photography Awards

The Kontinent Photography Awards are now open for entries. The competition provides global recognition and new opportunities for artists.

Coates & Scarry: Vestige, Gallery 8, London

Artists Lisa Wright, Emma Vidal, Penny Byrne, Aaron Smith and Henry Hussey reference historical imagery and objects in a selection of new works, ranging photography to porcelain figurines.

Review: Guy Bourdin, Image Maker, Somerset House

From the glossy veneer of the pages of Vogue to the polished presentation of fine art, Alistair O’Neill and Shelly Verthime galvanise the work of Guy Bourdin within the galleries of Somerset House.

An evanescent fix, Vitrine Gallery, London

Four artists reconfigure and manipulate the conventional idea of photography using strange new processes and transforming traditional methods in a new group show at Vitrine, London.

Interview with Ashley Carr, Performer in Cirque Eloize

Performance group Cirque Eloize mixes acrobatics, juggling and German wheel performances. The company are due to tour the UK with their visually arresting and stylish production, Cirkopolis.

Barbara Kruger: Early Works, Skarstedt London

Presenting large-scale works from the 1980s, this exhibition surveys the beginning stages of influential American artist Barbara Kruger. Her black and white images are overlaid with bold captions.

Review of Luc Tuymans: The Shore, David Zwirner, London

Luc Tuymans returns to David Zwirner for the second time with a new body of work, The Shore. Drawing upon a diverse cross-section of subjects, Tuymans’ work silently glides from subject to subject.

Digital / Analogue Media- The Work of Kenneth Merrick

Based in Auckland New Zealand, Kenneth Merrick’s work orbits around drawing, painting and digital/analogue media. Over the past five years his works have featured in a variety of exhibitions.

Encounters, Art Basel

A sector of Art Basel’s Hong Kong show, this year’s edition of Encounters will present 20 large-scale projects by artists from a wide selection of countries including Indonesia, Germany and the U.S.

Age of Glamour, Fashion from the Fifties, Leeds

Exhibiting women’s fashions from the 1950s, Age of Glamour will open the now extensively refurbished Fashion Galleries at Lotherton Hall. This new, 21st century space features interactive technology.

Interview with Andrew Whaley, Writer of The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco

Andrew Whaley’s play, The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco transports the audience back to Zimbabwe in 1986. The piece focuses on Comrade Fiasco, who claims to be a freedom fighter.

Review of Mimmo Rotella, Robilant + Voena, London

In a career spanning more than 50 years, Mimmo Rotella experimented with a number of different working methods, trying to overcome traditional languages of expression and representation.

Andy Warhol & William Morris: Love is Enough, Modern Art Oxford

Curated by Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller, Love is Enough explores the relationship between two artists whose lives and artistic practices belonged to different centuries.

Brendan Stuart Burns: Gesture, Glimpse, Memory, Osborne Samuel

Recently awarded a Creative Wales Major Award by the Arts Council of Wales, internationally-renowned artist Brendan Stuart Burns presents his first solo show in London with intimate studies in oil.

Review of Daniel Silver: Rock Formations, Frith Street

The story behind the latest sculptures of Daniel Silver at Frith Street Gallery makes the work all the more compelling. It sounds like an old wives’ tale: Silver found ancient marble in a stone yard.

Bridget Riley: Prints 1962 – 2015, Sims Reed Gallery

This exhibition at Sims Reed offers an overview of the career of Bridget Riley, one of Britain’s most significant Postwar artists, taking a selection from the artist’s complete catalogue of prints.

Interview with Andy Holden of The Grubby Mitts

Acclaimed artist Andy Holden has teamed up with Roger Illingworth, Johnny Parry, John Blamey and James MacDowell to form an experimental band breaking the boundaries between art and music.

Sarah Sze at Victoria Miro

American artist Sarah Sze is known for large scale works that penetrate walls, hang from ceilings, delve into the ground, and stretch across museums.

Review of Art Rotterdam

Now in its 16th year and continuing to grow in both scale and ambition, Art Rotterdam is the international art fair that turns the circuit’s attention to up-and-coming talent. From 5-8 February.

Andi Schmied and Sofia Valiente: Jing Jin City and Miracle Village

Schmied and Valiente are photographers whose focus has consistently been the social space. Both artists spend time living in the locations that they photograph, yet their approaches are very different.

Iris Della Roca, The Little Black Gallery, London

The first major UK solo show of French photographer, Iris Della Roca, comprises a selection of prints taken throughout her six-year transatlantic series, which sees children born into poverty transform their lives through the lens of the camera.

Review of Sarah Gillespie: A Love as Old as Water, Beaux Arts, London

There is a tension in Sarah Gillespie’s work between an otherworldly stillness and the innate energy of nature. Landscapes, birds and insects are captured with a sense of detail that arrests the passing of time.

Review of Dorothy Annan and Trevor Tennant, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Housed within the Henry Moore Institute the visitor finds a retrospective exhibition dedicated to the interlacing professional practices of Dorothy Annan (1908-83) and Trevor Tennant (1908-80).

Review of India Art Fair

Unlike many juried art fairs in the West led by a committee that evaluates the quality of work being displayed, the India Art Fair has been indiscriminately open to galleries across the globe.

Isabelle Cornaro, Paysage avec poussin, South London Gallery, London

In a major two-part solo exhibition at South London Gallery and Spike Island, French artist Isabelle Cornaro presents a series of installations which explore the cultural heritage attached to objects.

Mary Ramsden: Swipe, Pilar Corrias, London

For her second solo exhibition, Mary Ramsden has created new abstract compositions that embed the tension between action and redaction, noise and quiet, attraction and repulsion.

Review of Julio Le Parc, Serpentine Sackler Gallery

Julio Le Parc’s solo show at Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2013 was a blockbuster that the French capital will remember for a long time. Now, the artist presents his first major UK exhibition in London.

Jason Rhoades, Four Roads, BALTIC, Gateshead

A student of Paul McCarthy, Jason Rhoades lived and worked in Los Angeles and built what he claimed was the world’s largest sculpture at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany in 1999.