conceptual art
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Liisa Kruusmägi's deliciously rich, layered artworks
2017
Jill Sylvia confounds with her mind-boggling hand-cut paper art
2012
Benedict Morgan exposes the trickery of a photography set in his Tableware series with Lisa Jahovic
2018
“Wrap facts in fictions, and fictions in facts”: Metahaven on its ICA show, Version History
2018
Getting eggy with prolific and somewhat fascinating Swiss artist, Urs Fischer
2014
Guy Moorhouse / Airside
2007
Submit Saturdays: David Lynch, architecture and structuralist-inspired graphic design by Pouya Ahmadi
2016
What's On: Gilbert & George
2012
Andrea Ucini’s conceptual illustrations play with perspective
2017
In for a penny: This exhibition showcases 99 artists’ interpretation of the humble piggy bank
2025
Illustration: Gavin Potenza is infiltrating your brain (and that's a good thing)
2013
“More famous than famous”: Michael Craig-Martin on the changing nature of “ordinariness”
2019
Stephan Schmitz’s simple yet obscure illustrations play with our expectations
2015
Aliens, OAPs and brutalism inspire intricate hand drawn wallpapers by Angela Groundwater
2015
Jack Hudson and Lord Whitney create amazing series of imagined LP covers
2013
Nacho Alegre pays homage to the humble loaf of bread in this magnificent series
2012
Pouya Ahmadi hints to extreme opposites at the same time in his concept-driven design practice
2020
Philips de Pury: Photographs
2009
Lucas Hesse draws inspiration from outside the traditional graphic design canon
2018
Disappear into the Tate's fascinating vault-like Gallery of Lost Art
2012
The photographer bringing together beauty and boredom, James Tolich
2016
Unbelievable! Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen present Eyes as Big as Plates
2013
Paper clips, graphic activism and fried eggs: it's April Things
2018
Jan Hakon Erichsen is a balloon-destroying artist whose work you really shouldn't try at home
2019
Through otherworldly and surreal illustrations Jee-ook Choi strives for “unrealistic beauty”
2019
Rosa Rendl imbues gorgeous still life shots with conceptual ambivalence in her new show
2014
If You Could February Prints
2008
Illustrator Santiago Salvador shows us what life should REALLY be like
2012
ManvsMachine reveals its "conceptual" campaign for Nike Air Max Day
2016
A design proposal that sets out a perfect plot to rob five banks in LA? Sure thing
2013
Mike Perry sweeps into town with two nude shows!
2014
Still-lifes of flowers, but not as we know it from Thomas Hauser
2012
Art: A car within a car, wrapped around a car...Chris Labrooy's car gymnastics are a sight for stunned eyes
2014
Graphic Design: Ideas man Josh King has a weird and wonderful way of looking at the world
2013
Meet Ill-Studio’s General_Index, a subjective encyclopaedia of all human knowledge all in one place
2020
Alessandro Apai’s recent commissions tackle big ideas in a concise manner
2017
Alejandro Guijarro photographs blackboards used by the best quantum physicists for his Momentum series
2013
Illustrator Albert Tercero's satisfying portfolio of allegories and metaphors
2017
Things is back again! It goes away for six days and returns! Like a really slow (but creative) zombie
2012
Sarah Illenberger: Architectural Digest
2012
“Part-animal, part-household object”: Frédérique Rusch on her wonderfully cryptic illustrations
2019
Meet Henrik Franklin, illustrator, designer and creator of bizarre worlds
2013
Cleon Peterson's works continue to investigate the evil side of humanity
2017
Let Jonathan Latiano's incredible installations help your grapple with the big questions
2013
New William Blanchard show has wit and weirdness in equal measure
2012
The inner workings of Ori Toor's cerebral labyrinth for our World Mental Health Day takeover
2017
Quentin Lacombe constructs a personal cosmology blurring the boundaries of science and metaphor in Event Horizon
2018
The Weekender: Dream bathrooms, bear traps and a blob-fish. It's time for The Weekender.
2014
Exhibition: Radiohead artist Stanley Donwood produces a sensational Soho show
2013
Lars Beller Fjetland: Re-Turned
2012
Marlon Ilg looks back to his art school years for his innovative, type-led designs
2018
Jaw-droppingly beautiful installation work from Swiss studio Detektiv Bureau
2012
Photographer Tito Mouraz is back with a spooky series
2017
A self-combusting book and more from graphic designer Patrick Oltean
2016
Cheeky, cleverly-composed illustrations from Studio Takeuma
2015
Photography: Minaj in a fridge and Cassel table dancing? Thanks Frederike Helwig!
2013
Art: Who Wore It Better blog joins the conceptual dialogue about originality
2013
Five new projects from inside the vibrant mind of graphic designer Nejc Prah
2018
Mattis Dovier tracks the painful metamorphosis of man into machine in his new short
2016
Csilla Klenyánszki thinks in images, blurring perceptions of the familiar
2012
Amazingly detailed cathedral-like truck models created by Wim Delvoye
2012
You’ve got something on your face: Brest Brest Brest’s History and Chips series
2015
Debauched Zeitgiest by Carla Edwards
2008
All That's Gold Does Not Glitter
2011
Obituaries, PowerPoint and “sobbing super heroes”: Henrik Franklin’s latest zine
2017
Turning the Tables – NB Studio's theatrical manifesto about creativity
2016
Brooke DiDonato’s surreal portraits leave the viewer to fill in the gaps
2018
Gem Fletcher on Riposte's game-changing photoshoot with Ericka Hart
2017
Mainstudio's publications merge conceptual art, architecture and graphic design
2018
Photography: Elisa Noguera Lopez' latest Mousetrap series is a real beauty
2014
See Sophy Hollington's intricate works blown up to new heights
2019
Non Format: Even Your Friend
2010
Each of Max J. Marshall and Andrea Nguyen's photographs display an entire scientific theory
2012
Rod puppets in intricate felt sets profess The Need to Be Alone for Alain de Botton
2018
Spencer Murphy: Fallen Empire
2011
David Lynch's damn good new MIMA show explores his use of naming
2014
Fish-pineapple anyone? Amazing foodie combinations from Festina Lente collective
2012
Boris Camaca's eerie, otherworldly photographs are rooted in social criticism
2018
James Huyton's Resolutions illustrations are beautiful but guilt-ridden
2012
For Joakim Drescher, mistakes are an integral part of an illustration
2019
Richard Tuttle's Tate Modern's Turbine Hall piece has been unveiled
2014
Rob Lowe, better known as Supermundane, talks about his super minimal new show
2012
Building worlds through set design and manipulation, Joost Termeer’s photography work is a trip
2021
Artist and illustrator Jamie Johnson's gently surreal compositions
2016
Beccy Ridsdel: Art/Craft
2011
Photography duo Moos-Tang's elegant take on a nightmare scenario
2018
"I felt I saw the world with different eyes": Jaimy Gail on photographing the concept of normalcy
2019
Got a really dry brief and need something brilliant? Call Helsinki studio Werklig
2014
Graphic Design: A look at Geoff McFetridge's designs featured in Spike Jonze's Her
2014
Exclusive new work from Bompas & Parr headlines our latest Here profile
2012
Snozzcumbers and Frobscottle
2009
With a nifty book-binding technique, Naomi Prost-Kasbi combines theoretical concepts with thoughts and feelings
2022
Photographer Catarina Botelho composes beautiful, thought-provoking images
2012
What's On: Places, Strange and Quiet
2011
And the Lord said to Noah, "Let there be THINGS! – It'll be floody sound!" And it was good
2012
Photographer Kiran Master captures fake animals in their unnatural environment
2015
Dairy drinks and cigarettes meet in Lucas Reis' illustrative evocations of Japan
2018
"It is a world larger than Scunthorpe" – We Am The Kestrel's spectacular Dark Market
2012
Illustrator Lisk Feng’s “whimsical, loose and playful” work
2017
Tiago Galo’s graphic editorial illustrations communicate abstract concepts
2017
Bookshelf: Rafaël Rozendaal
2011
Art: Walead Beshty smashes glass boxes in the name of photographic experimentation
2014
Gustav Almestål's makes food oddly erotic in his O Gluttony! Divine gluttony! series for The Gourmand
2012
Gillian Wearing uses the public's work to examine privacy and individual vs collective experience
2016
Rob Bailey: Sea World
2011
As Found: Dutch Princes
2011
Dinnerware as Fish Aquarium
1991
Take a deep breath and enjoy Alban Grosdidier's Drowning project
2013
James Bollen discusses his stunning photographic project about J.G. Ballard
2014
Matt Lee: Presence of Absence
2011
Brittney Meyer's inspiration? Syrupy dance floors and flying burgers
2012
Office supplies sweat, struggle and stress in Philotheus Nisch’s recent series for Die Epilog
2019
Belén Segu’s fuzzy still life scenes are like flea market fever dreams
2025
Robbie Augspurger's suitably weird visuals for fake band Meat are inspired by cold cuts
2018
Illustration Sandwich
2008
Things is here showing off its brains, brawn and beauty all at once
2012
Delayed Gratification
2011
Illustrator Kate Prior works out “how the hell you draw air” for Wired Japan
2017
Dutch artist Ruth van Beek's uncanny, lifelike compositions
2018
Chelsea Hopper: Dead Tired
2011
Romain Segaud: Off the Wall
2012
Come and surrender yourself to the insane detail of Inus Pretorius' illustrations
2013
Some collaborative eye-candy here from severafrahm x Zoeppritz for Aesthetics Habitat
2013
Gustav Almestål dunks famous composers' busts in vats of beer!
2014
Gabriel Alcala's new book explores the nature of objects with giggle-inducing results
2017
Stefan Marx's first solo exhibition oscillates between the kind, the ironic and the absurd
2016
Vivienne Shao is an illustrator who injects fun and humour in to the topics close to her heart
2021
Doeller and Satter’s Pickle Factory posters brief is “the weirder the better”
2017
Bonkers but brilliant art direction here from Frederik Heyman
2012
“A moment of disturbance to reality”: artist Iman Raad on his latest work
2017
Annie Collinge shoots Julie Verhoeven with weird and wonderful results
2013
Chen Winner animates the musings of David Lynch and Charles Bukowski in this short film
2016
Digital artist Laurent Allard takes childhood objects and places them in “dark, solemn environments”
2021
Clever-clever and weird out of it's mind - the genius that is photo duo Gneborg
2012
Illustration: Few image makers evoke atmosphere as well as Kilian Eng
2014
Mogollon: Something is About to Happen
2011
Here's an oddly sinister new series from illustrator Eiko Ojala
2015
What if your household appliances came to life? Max Siedentopf imagines for department store Parco
2024
Antoine Orand transforms “beautiful ideas into melodies” through drawing
2019
Ulf Lundin: From Darkness
2011
Always and Talenthouse set you an unusual packaging challenge
2013
Keith Haring carpet? Wassily wallpaper? Hockney homewares? Jon Rafman's Brand New Paint Job!
2012
Content, concepts and collaborations form the basis of design studio Zoo's projects
2019
Daniel Vojtíšek disrupts his design process using small, distinctive details
2018
Andrew Lyman’s snaps create romantic stories for inanimate objects
2014
Takeshi Miyasaka is “interested in contours and shapes rather than objects”
2019
Stunning photographs and lovely ideas from our next Graduate Tristan Cluett
2014
Abstract and intense graphic design by Hagihara Takuya
2016
Jean Jullien's Nest is eggs-cellent and all other egg puns rolled into one
2012