Hauser & Wirth, 23 Savile Row, London W1S 2ET
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‘Maisons Fragiles’ introduces an exhibition that explores fragility as a transient yet malleable subject by using the perspective of artists whose work stretches over six decades. Review by Phoebe V. Bradford
Palais de Tokyo, 13 Avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris, France
Palais de Tokyo presents the first solo show in France of the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson whose singular work is a cross between performance and cinema, sculpture and opera, plein air painting and music. In a poetic and surprising manner, the exhibition portrays everyday desires, longing for the transcendent, blurring the boundary between mundane and sublime.
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Rue de la Régence, Regentschapsstraat 67, B-1000 Brussels
Jef Geys critiques and calls into question the authority of certain accepted practices (his own and those of others) including art criticism. Geys' latest series of works on view at Galerie Micheline Szwajcer affirms his radical independent position and develops an unprecedented approach to collective creativity, frequently generated by the participation of his immediate community.
Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3JL
Darbyshire’s work critically examines the language of design, sculpture and our relationship to lived environments. The artist explores the concept of collecting, not only in terms of an institutional critique, but also the way we amass objects for the home, shop or office and what these objects say about us.
Museum of Art and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York NY 10019
Patterson plays with an aesthetic of contrast: she takes bright colours, energetic patterns, opulent jewellery and fashion and juxtaposes them against subjects who have experienced some of the extreme violence definitive of our contemporary moment. Review by Rusty Van Riper
Space In Between, Unit 26 Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8 4QN
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The gallery space has been configured to suggest a stage or perhaps some kind of arena - a forum for the artists to collectively develop their work in dialogue with each other. Review by Will Gresson
White Rainbow, 47 Mortimer Street, London W1W 8HJ
Shigeo Anzaï’s ‘documentalist’ photographs capture the spirit of a key moment in Japanese art, at a confluence where a new emphasis on process and gesture was being echoed by an influx of international artists working in the same style. Review by Phoebe Cripps
Grundy Art Gallery, Queen Street, Blackpool, FY1 1PU
As a society we have a fetish for the singular, the best or the most perfect ... Review by Ben Roberts
Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London E1 7LS
Exploring the rooms I realised that every choice to sit and watch was a choice to not-watch somewhere else; I became a participant in one community while enacting isolation from others. Review by Betsy Porritt
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium
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Part of the first generation of Turkish artists considered to be globally active and nationally influential, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin is considered one of the most significant figures in the established contemporary art scene of Istanbul. The exhibition 'Democratic luxury' is a major retrospective of his practice, bringing together works produced between 1990 and 2015.
Annka Kultys Gallery, 472 Hackney Road, Unit 3, 1st Floor, London, E2 9EQ
Molly Soda's first sholo show outside the US features twenty recent works by the Detroit-based digital artist realised across a variety of digital platforms, including videos, gifs and NewHive.
The Hepworth Wakefield, Gallery Walk, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF1 5AW
As I move from one room to the next, small figures on plinths and papers migrate into the space I share with them, almost liberated from their state of latency to become bodies, space markers, creatures half submerged in their own dimension. Review by Francesca Cavallo
Centre of Ceramic Art, York Art Gallery, Exhibition Square, York YO1 7EW
Clare Twomey’s monumental installation, ‘Manifest: 10,000 Hours’, aids in establishing York Art Gallery as a leading centre for ceramics, and asks questions about how art and art institutions might serve differing, and emergent communities
NICC, Rue Lambert Crickx Straat, 1 1070 Brussels
Piero Bisello reflects on 'Pollination. Pansies.', a programme of artist talks and a film screening, that took place alongside Huseyin Oylum's ongoing exhibition 'Vitrine' at the NICC, Brussels.
