Gestural Vocabularies

Kishio Suga (b. 1944) at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, combines industrial and natural elements to question the uniformity of modular structures.

Žilvinas Kempinas: Kinetic Encounters

New York based Lithuanian artist Žilvinas Kempinas exhibition reflects upon natural phenomena such as light and air at Ikon gallery, Birmingham.

Sally Mann: Remembered Light

A body of black-and-white photographs inspired by Cy Twombly, and taken by renowned American Photographer Sally Mann between 1999 and 2012, are on display at Gagosian, New York.

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair: Celebrating Printmaking

Royal Arsenal is one of the most historical riverside locations in London and, this November, provides the setting for the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.

Ecology and Art

Created as a unique opportunity, Jerwood Open Forest is a charitable programme that creates commissioning projects for artists working in a forestry context.

Augmenting the Human Figure

The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics presents a variety of exhibits – objects, images, artworks – representing work from the late 19th century onwards.

Undermining Cultural Associations

Nahmad Projects’ newest exhibition explores the cultural complexities of sexuality, highlighting three artists’ historical and theoretical contexts.

Linear Constructions

Celebrated Brazilian artist Lygia Pape is a pioneering figure in the Neo-Concrete movement. Hauser & Wirth highlights the practitioner’s career.

Frieze Art Fair: Nostalgia and Discovery

With director Victoria Siddall describing this year’s fair as having a “sense of discovery”, Frieze London 2016 offered endless opportunities of exploration.

Dismantling Boundaries

Yinka Shonibare’s sixth solo show at Stephen Friedman displays the absence of the Dutch wax batik textiles for which the artist is known.

Personal and Collective Memory

Carmen Selma is a Spain-based painter. Memory is one of the fundamental pillars of her work. We talk to the artist about the influence of historical contexts.

Akram Zaatari: Decisive Acts

Akram Zaatari’s Letter to a Refusing Pilot draws on a myth recounted to the artist as a child, reflecting on the ambiguities and consequences of refusal.

Brighton Photo Biennial: Reshaping Image

For its seventh edition, the Brighton Photo Biennial brings together fashion and style photography to explore understandings of individual identity.

Agnes Martin: Nuance and Variation

Guggenheim dedicates its autumn show to the work of painter Agnes Martin, beginning with a showcase of early experiments dating back to the 1950s.

Relational Dualisms

before sleep at the end of love (description of a lullaby) is a contemporary opera devised by Sarah Hardie, performed at Bold Tendencies in London.

Hammer Projects: Investigating Contemporary Lebanon

In a Hammer Projects show, Beirut-based Marwa Arsanios investigates the state of contemporary Lebanon through the lens of its landfills.

Erwin Olaf: Documenting the Ruinart Crayères

Each year, the House of Ruinart highlights the work of one artist through a collaboration. This year internationally recognised Erwin Olaf was selected.

Sol LeWitt: Oblique Complex Forms

The prolific career of artist Sol LeWitt is poignantly marked in Paula Cooper Gallery’s current exhibition, illuminating a pioneering scope of the artist’s oeuvre.

Ronchini Gallery: Interpretation and Intervention

Ryan Steadman, American curator and art critic, introduces a new group exhibition that explores fragmented stories. Trust Issues opens at Ronchini Gallery, London.

Categorising Digital Images

A new, specially commissioned body of work from British artist Julie Cockburn is being showcased The Photographer’s Gallery, London.

Expressing the Unconscious

Moich Abrahams has been selected for numerous exhibitions including ICA, Hayward Gallery and Whitechapel. We talk to him about his practice.

Textural Abstraction

We talk to painter Carl Melegari’s about his exploration of form and colour through the physicality of paint and his upcoming show at Edgar Modern, Bath.

Bruce Nauman: Architectural Installation

Natural Light, Blue Light Room is at Blain Southern for the first time since 1971, one of the artist’s earliest built environments of disorientation.

Convergence of Activism and Performance

Celebrating the convergence of live art, activism and performance, SPILL Festival of Performance showcases international practitioners.

Joaquín Torres García: Latin American Modernism

Joaquín Torres García (1874-1949) is slowly claiming his place as a universal modern master whose work is alongside the key figures of 20th century art.

Ernesto Neto: Extravagant Installations

Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto returns to New York for the first time since 2012 to exhibit a solo collection of new works at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.

Celebrating Lisson Gallery’s Fifth Anniversary

Five / Fifty / Five Hundred marks the beginning of celebrations for the fifth Lisson Gallery anniversary in Milan, kicking off with a new group exhibition.

Frieze Masters 2016: New Discoveries across Art History

In conjunction with Frieze London 2016, the fifth edition of Frieze Masters takes place from 6 October until 9 October 2016. Find out about the fair.

Aesthetica Magazine at Frieze London

The 14th edition of Frieze London opens, showcasing work from over 160 galleries. Aesthetica makes an appearance as part of the Reading Room sessions.

Intersections and Historical Contexts

Ahead of her new show Circles are Slices of Spheres at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Rosie Morris talks to Aesthetica about collaboration and historical contexts.

Donna Huanca: Sensory Exploration

The Zabludowicz Collection, London, hosts the first UK solo exhibition by performance-based artist, Donna Huanca. alongside an interview at Frieze London.

Frieze Art Fair 2016: Gallery Highlights

Frieze Art Fair features more than 160 of the world’s leading galleries.. As one of the largest events of its kind this year, we list ten highlights from the 2016 event.

Highlighting Tradition in Modern Society

We catch up with Taylor Wessing 2016 shortlisted artist Kovi Konowiecki to talk about his work and the importance of the Art Prize in terms of career development.

Singapore Biennale 2016: An Atlas of Mirrors

The Singapore Biennale returns this month. An Atlas of Mirrors includes 62 artists, art collections and selected artworks divided into nine sub-themes.

The Other Art Fair: Future Ambition

Presenting 130 of the best emerging artists, handpicked by an influential selection committee The Other Art Fair returns to East London’s Old Truman Brewery on 6-9 October.

Examining Visual Languages

Jo McGonigal uses found and everyday materials, alongside the made, to closely examine the formal grammar of pictorial language. Her work is featured in the Aesthetica Art Prize Annual, Future Now.

Swab Art Fair 2016: Cultural Dynamics

Since its launch in 2006, Swab has become one of the most recognised international contemporary art fairs. This September, the event celebrates a decade of success.

Modern Frameworks

German-born Sebastian Weiss (b. 1971) lives and works in Hamburg, where, in 2013, he became a photo columnist for Architectural Digest Germany. Having studied constructional…

Pseudo Americana

Tom Blachford’s photography renders functional, man-made structures into strange dreams that fluctuate between reality and fantasy.

Spatial Dimensions

Slovakia-born Mária Švarbová completed her studies in conservation, restoration and archaeology before dedicating herself to photography in 2010.

Ethereal Movements

The inventive performance group return to Sadler’s Wells with an exploration into their own potential both physically and existentially.

Cinematic Retrospection

Joshua Jordan is an American fashion photographer who executes cinematic shoots of iconographic journeys with structural consideration.

Cyclical Installation

Included in the 2016-2017 Sydney International Art Series, MCA Australia launches Tatsuo Miyajima’s first major life survey in the Southern Hemisphere.

Enduring Foundations

The RIBA Stirling Prize: 20 includes every winner over the last 20 years, highlighting how buildings must move beyond functionality.

Visceral Uniformity

Slovakian artist Natalia Evelyn Bencicova (b. 1992) works mostly in digital photography and is currently studying at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Having…

Archaic Dereliction

Aurélien Villette (b. 1982) is a Parisian photographer fuelled by a desire to travel. Bringing to view more than 30 countries, the works are shaped…

Concrete Abstraction

Ben Thomas focuses on urban spaces. Having experimented with tilt-shift and kaleidoscopes, featured series Chroma I and Chroma II decode cities, highlighting colour and tonal flatness.

Dynamic Composition

High Museum explores the photographer’s investigative legacy through new works that see comparisons in networks of cables and patterns of life.

Towards Hyper-Reality

Somerset House constructs a brand new world for artistic pioneer Björk, whose quest for audience integration ventures beyond cultural peripheries.

Dialogues and Artistic Collaboration

The Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) continues in its efforts to introduce Korea’s vibrant contemporary art scene to the UK with its new exhibition, Riptide.