Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’art contemporain, avenue Conti - 58 320, Pougues-les-Eaux

Les ruses de l’intelligence

Gathering its artists under the title of a book by Marcel Détienne and Jean-Pierre Vernant about the Greek notion of cunning, metis, 'Les ruses de l’intelligence' does not try to offer a survey or vision of our socio-economic context. Rather, taking its cue from this notion of metis, it highlights a practical form of intelligence, the know-how and stratagems that call into question the established order.

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von Bartha, Kannenfeldplatz 6 CH–4056, Basel

John Wood and Paul Harrison: Some Things are Undesigned

Von Bartha presents an ambitious new exhibition by British artists John Wood and Paul Harrison, displaying the full range of their current practice; video, photography, drawing, and sculpture, in a unique maze-like setting of their own design. Though working across a number of mediums, Wood and Harrison’s works all share a common thread - that of everyday objects or experiences being subverted.

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David Dale Gallery & Studios, 161 Broad Street, Glasgow G40 2QR

France-Lise McGurn & Matthew Musgrave: Only with a light touch will you write well, freely and fast

Despite working primarily across painting, Mcgurn and Musgrave’s practices are congruous not through their shared medium, but through a commonality in processing subject, and the translation of narratives to the viewer.

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Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate, Kent CT9 1HG

Risk

The ‘Risk’ exhibition at Turner Contemporary explores the notion of risk as part of the creative process, intending to show us “what happens when art and risk collide”. Review by Philomena Epps

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Jerwood Visual Arts, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London SE1 0LN

Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015

Isabella Smith reviews the first exhibition of the new Jerwood/Photoworks Awards initiative, featuring works by Matthew Finn, Joanna Piotrowska, and Tereza Zelenkova.

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Kadist Foundation, Paris

Yan Xing in conversation with Xiaoyu Weng

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White Cube Bermondsey, 144 – 152 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3TQ

Robert Irwin: 2 x 2 x 2 x 2

In White Cube's North Galleries, Irwin has introduced tubes of coloured glass, echoes of fluorescent advertisements but paired down and stripped of commercial connotation. Niko Munz reviews

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Hauser & Wirth, 23 Savile Row, London W1S 2ET

Tetsumi Kudo

As you approach the sculptures that, from a distance look like mutated growths after a radioactive explosion, you distinguish plastic phalluses that spring from the soil like fungi. Review by Dominika Mackiewicz

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Grand Union, Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley St, Birmingham B5 5RS

Emma Hart: big MOUTH

big MOUTH actively questions the values of photography, just as it questions the making of objects through new works that draw from the nagging bodily anxieties of daily life. Review by Cathy Wade

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The Common Guild, 21 Woodlands Terrace, Glasgow, G3 6DF

Thomas Demand: Daily Show

Thomas Demand's latest solo exhibition includes new and recent works from his series ‘The Dailies’, presented in an installation devised specially for the particular nature of the spaces at The Common Guild.

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The Centre for Contemporary Art, 5 Kalisher St. Tel Aviv, 65257 Israel

Ohad Meromi: Resort

'Resort' is an interactive project for which Ohad Meromi has transformed Tel Aviv's CCA's lower gallery into a "black box" in which various events take place, incorporating theatre, dance, music and performance.

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The New Art Gallery Walsall, Gallery Square, Walsall WS2 8LG | Library of Birmingham, Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2ND

Mat Collishaw at The New Art Gallery Walsall and the Library of Birmingham

Mat Collishaw’s approach to art is filled with respect for the past. Victorian and Baroque cultures in particular are being constantly reiterated in his oeuvre, with the artist seemingly spellbound by their dubious character. Review by Dominika Mackiewicz

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Birmingham Open Media, 1 Dudley St, Birmingham B5 4EG

Fierce Festival, Davis Freeman: Karaoke(ART)

Karaoke(ART) activates video through invitation - for contemporary artists to reinterpret the available space of karaoke, to use it as they wish, to add, unbalance, distort or reveal truths that can be pulled from the undercurrents of their chosen song. Review by Cathy Wade.

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