BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead NE8 3BA
In continuity with her work of the past, the pieces forming this current survey exhibition at BALTIC demonstrate Achaintre’s ongoing interest in the primitive - its aesthetic qualities, visual references and associations. Review by Emma Warburton
Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX
‘Isle of Slingers’ draws together multiple strands of Stuart Whipps’ working practice, revealing his working method and showing an archive of information researched and compiled over a period of five years. Review by Rory Duckhouse
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX
The Whitechapel Gallery’s exhibition ‘Keith Sonnier: Light Works 1968-70’ brings together just four works from this early period in the artist’s career. We are taken from the gestural drawn line of neon, through to geometric compositions and large assemblages. Sacha Waldron reviews
#ArtistsCompute2016 Festival, Coventry
Jake Watts, Writer-in-Residence at #ArtistsCompute2016 Festival, reflects on the relationships between art production, digital technologies and the ascendancy of AI.
Berlin
Korakrit Arunanondchai and Alex Gvojic have created a site-specific video installation on the Blue-Star sightseeing boat of Reederei Riedel, the Berlin Biennale’s only itinerant venue, that travels up and down the Spree River throughout the period of the exhibition.
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Mannerheiminaukio 2, FIN-00100 Helsinki
Choi drops the viewer into a sequence of visions that connects the past and present, intertwines the natural with the synthetic, and speaks of life and death. Review by John Gayer
Pump House Gallery, Pleasure Garden Fountains, Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ
Near the large fountains in Battersea Park that are the remnants of the 1950s Festival of Britain, are the mirror pools and Scott’s latest work. Scott’s practice combines the physical and the explicitly bodily with the industrial and manufactured. Her concern with ‘Developer’ is the situating of the park in a former industrial heartland – how it came to be a place of pleasure within saltpetre works. Review by Betsy Porritt
Jeu de Paume, 1 Place de la Concorde, 75008 Paris, France
The titles of Guan Xiao's works at the Jeu de Paume indicate that transience and transformation are at stake. Judith Dean reviews the exhibition of video work.
LADA
This month for LADA Screens we are screening ‘Landfill’ by Curious and Andrew Kötting.
Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA
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Piers Masterson reviews Somerset House's tribute to Stanley Kubrick via an exhibition of artworks, film and music inspired by the filmmaker.
Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic
More Than Lovers, More Than Friends implodes the aggregate of divergent fields.
Treignac Project, 2 Rue Ignace Dumergue, 19260 Treignac, France
Kisses Sweeter Than Wine is an exhibition project that has been developed through ideas and imaginations of social and communal ecstasy, as both emancipatory and tragic. The exhibition features new work by Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh and Bea McMahon, presented alongside iterations of recent work by Melanie Bonajo, Philipp Kremer, and Megan Rooney.
S1 Artspace, The Scottish Queen, 21-24 South Street, Sheffield S2 5QX
With the tagline ‘part sculpture; part installation; all play’, the Assemble collective and Simon Terrill’s most recent iteration of ‘The Brutalist Playground’ at S1 Artspace in Sheffield, consciously expands the sculptural field whilst importing the social history of British post-war architecture. Review by Lara Eggleton
Braziers Park, Ipsden, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 6AN
Much of what is experienced at a festival is serendipitous, but Supernormal has an especial tendency towards cryptic timings and locations. Review by Oscar Gaynor
