There is an extraordinary power in the image. It arrests, provokes, seduces and confesses. Photography, once the preserve of specialists and shuttered darkrooms, is now ubiquitous.

Nicola Lees, director of the Aspen Art Museum, tells Apollo how the ‘Serpentine in the mountains’ is turning artists into leaders.

“Without companionship, the life in the bed is no different than a corpse.”

“A lot of my making process is trying to create a ‘new’ vocabulary, outside of the words, systems, and structures we are handed to operate within.”

Absa Group, in partnership with the South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA), proudly presents “Echoes of Innocence”, a solo exhibition by Nigerian artist Emmanuel Idowu, one of the 2023 Absa L’Atelier Ambassador Award winners. 

Soshiro Matsubara’s exhibition ‘Sleeves of Desire’ explores the nuances between different forms of desire and their relation to the ‘Other’ as an entity outside the personal realm, separated through time and space.

Is destruction or disruption the only way to break free from standardized structures? In 1912, psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein proposed a radical idea: destruction is not the opposite of creation, but its very engine.

MK Gallery continues its compelling run of exhibitions with the first UK retrospective of Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz—a long overdue survey of one of Latin America’s most fearless and humanist image-makers.

The Artist's Exhibit "Signifiers" is on View at Gallery Blue Door Through July 25th.

Aselection of paintings by French artist Geoffroy Pithon. Pithon graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD-Paris) in 2012 where he specialized in graphic design.

“I grew up in the magical realist tradition, not only in terms of literature and painting but as a school of thought and culture,” Christian Ruiz Berman says.

Hew Hood presents – Song For The End Of The World, the debut solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Rosa Sittig-Bell (b. 2001, Seattle) .

The Royal Academy has revealed the Summer Exhibition 2025 prize winners- The Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition is a unique celebration of contemporary art and architecture, providing a vital platform and support for the artistic community.

On the sun-drenched island of Menorca, Hauser & Wirth mounts Cindy Sherman. The Women, the artist’s long-awaited solo return to Spain.

With a wide range of media, site-specific works, installations, performances, films, actions and new productions, the debut edition of Basement Art Assembly Biennial (BAAB), Issue 00 opens in Rome on September 10, 2025 (preview on September 9).