fiebach minninger, Venloer Str. 26 50672, Cologne, Germany

TRANSITION

The exhibition ‘TRANSITION’ deals with delineating the terms figuration and abstraction that still function as opposing binaries.

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British Pavilion, Viale Giardini Pubblici, 30122 Venezia, Italy

Venice Biennale 2015 - Sarah Lucas: I SCREAM DADDIO

The heavily political and theoretical tone of this year’s Biennale makes Lucas’ work seem even brasher and somehow at odds with the other, sometimes earnest and frequently socially engaged, works on display. Review by Will Gresson

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Romanian Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Sestiere Castello, 30122 Venice

Venice Biennale 2015 - Adrian Ghenie: Darwin’s Room

In his solo exhibition ‘Darwin's Room’ presented at Venice, Ghenie intriguingly takes the mode of inhabiting historical characters in order to reflect upon the difficult and often traumatic underpinnings of local histories. Review by Giuseppe Marasco

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Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, NY 10065

Philippe Parreno: H {N)Y P N(Y} OSIS

This being a trademark Philippe Parreno production, visitors are constantly compelled to experience the physicality of the exhibition and its components, and to cognitively soak in its sounds and images. Review by Arthur Ivan Bravo

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The Sunday Painter, 1st Floor, 12-16 Blenheim Grove, London SE15 4QL

The Spirit of the Staircase

The exhibition title derives from a French term conjured up by eighteenth-century art critic Denis Diderot to describe the occasion when a person is left speechless upon hearing something, and only later thinks of a response. Review by Sam Johnson

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Pace London, 6 Burlington Gardens, London W1S 3ET

Yto Barrada: Faux Guide

Pulling across the contemporary oscillation between curator and artist, Faux Guide amalgamates a mass of objects, many of which are simulations of a history fabricated in recent years. Review by Laura Davidson

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Frith Street Gallery, Soho Square, 60 Frith Street, London W1D 3JJ

Fiona Tan: Ghost Dwellings

The detailed construction of a fictive domestic space within which to show three videos suggests a recently abandoned interior, one whose occupant might return at any moment. Fiona Tan's exhibition is reviewed by David Price.

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Pace, 6 Burlington Gardens, London, W1S 3ET

Signal Failure

Drawing inspiration from Agnes Martin’s oeuvre, 'Signal Failure' looks to emerging artists whose work resists the fast-pace of mass media culture and the ever-expanding proliferation of digital imagery.

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The Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DF

Phyllida Barlow: set

Barlow’s sculptures coalesce as performative actions realised in material form: prop and propped, balancing and collapsing, folded for unfolding, solid for dropping. Review by Alexander Hetherington

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Hauser & Wirth Somerset Durslade Farm, Dropping Lane, Bruton, Somerset BA10 0NL

Jenny Holzer: Softer Targets

‘Softer Targets’ is a major solo exhibition by Jenny Holzer, featuring new work and a selection of significant pieces drawn from over three decades of the artist’s career.

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OSR Projects, Old School Room, Church Street West, Coker, Somerset BA22 9BD

Weather Station (Part I)

There are scratches on the surface of the world. These manifested in the titular ‘Weather Station’: a semi-transparent, spherical ‘zorb’ recently anchored by ropes to a makeshift platform outside OSR Projects. Review by Rowan Lear

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Live Art Development Agency

LADA Screens #1

A Glimpse Inside the Grotto (2014) ­ a film about the work of Shaun Caton by Julius G. Beltrame and Robert S. Pugh. Available to view online between 15 and 29 July 2015.

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Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, City Library and Arts Centre, Fawcett Street, Sunderland SR1 1RE

Cornelia Baltes: Turner

A silhouette of a modest dining chair. A bulbous blue form. The nominal outline of a bird. Cornelia Baltes' new paintings play games with images. Text by George Vasey

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White Cube at Glyndebourne, Glyndebourne Festival, East Sussex BN8 5UU

Georg Baselitz

The longer you look, the more you imagine these disembodied limbs could spring to life, whirring like a possessed wheel to the music that informed them. Helena Haimes reviews Georg Baselitz at Glyndebourne.

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