Grimaldi Gavin, 27 Albermarle Street, London W1S 4DW

Clare Strand: Getting Better and Worse at the Same Time

Getting Better and Worse at the Same Time, installation photograph

Often engaging with photography's limitations rather than its unique capabilities, Clare Strand's ‘Getting Better and Worse at the Same Time’ employs kinetic machines, film and photographs to further explore her discordant relationship with the medium. Kathryn Lloyd reviews.

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Lodos gallery, García Icazbalceta #30, Colonia San Rafael, Mexico City, Mx. 06470

International Currency

International Currency, Installation View

Lodos Gallery present 'International Currency' - a group show featuring artists Scott Reeder, Cameron Rowland and Liam Gillick.

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Limoncello, 340-344 Kingsland Road, London E8 4DA

Santo Tolone: 37 Days Of Darkness

37 Days of Darkness, Installation View

Limoncello present a solo exhibition by Milan-based artist Santo Tolone which employs lighting effects and an audio script to characterise each art work on display.

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Peacock Visual Arts, 21 Castle Street, Aberdeen AB11 5BQ

Fiona Macdonald: Woodland Portrait Project

Fiona Macdonald, Woodland Portrait Project, installation view, Peacock Visual Arts, 2015

Fiona MacDonald acts as a master collaborator - her work is in alliance with nature, with self-organizing, intelligent organic systems and natural mineral processes, rather than totally created by her hand alone. Review by Giuseppe Marasco

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Metro Pictures, 519 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011

Nina Beier

Nina Beier, installation view, 2015, Metro Pictures New York

In her solo exhibition at Metro Pictures, Nina Beier collapses image and object, or causes each to haemorrhage within the other. Review by James Gormley

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

Jerwood Encounters: 3-Phase

Kelly Best, Velum, Jerwood Encounters: 3-Phase, 2015. Installation view, Jerwood Space, London

Kelly Best and Georgie Grace navigate the spaces that exist between digital and manual image-rendering at Jerwood Visual Arts. Review by Joseph Constable.

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Campoli Presti, 223 Cambridge Heath Rd, London E2 0EL

The Pleasure of the Text

Installation view, Kerstin Bratsch, Amy Sillman, Joan Snyder

Roland Barthes' seminal text provides some context for Campoli Presti's 'The Pleasure of the Text'. But as Laura Davidson finds, it is pleasing to find his ideas applied to objects that are not necessarily linked to theories of the internet and technology.

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The Curve, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS

Roman Signer: Slow Movement

Installation view

Slow Movement is a literal journey and a bridge between two moments in time and two sides of a practice. Theo Turpin reviews Roman Signer at the Barbican Centre.

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Space In Between, Unit 26 Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London, E8 4QN & Off-Site at SPACE, 129-131 Mare St, London E8 3RH

Freddy Dewe Mathews: Eternal Soup, Sudden Clarity

Eternal Soup, Sudden Clarity, Installation View at SPACE

Freddy Dewe Mathews’ solo exhibition ‘Eternal Soup, Sudden Clarity’ is a striking new body of work presented across two sites: SPACE and Space In Between at Regents Studios, which takes inspiration from the landscape of the Swiss Alps, the writing of Thomas Mann and Modernist design. Review by Lily Hall.

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Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsplatz 1 1070 Vienna, Austria

Destination Vienna 2015

Destination Vienna 2015, Installation View

'Destination Vienna 2015' is a synopsis of over 70 positions in contemporary art featured at both Kunsthalle Wien‘s locations at Karlsplatz and Museumsquartier.

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Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD

Christine Borland & Brody Condon: Circles of Focus

Christine Borland and Brody Condon, Hypostatis Circle - Turf kiln-fired polygons, Orkney Clay

There is a curious feeling of being a permitted observer, a guest who has unwittingly blundered into a study and begun to poke and pry into the collections of obscure information neatly organised in enigmatic order. Review by Alexander Storey Gordon

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Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP

Test Run: Performance in Public

Michael Smith, Baby Ikki, 1978.

‘Test Run: Performance in Public’ presents the works of seventeen artists, each with poetic, subversive, sometimes elegiac and often playful approaches to performance work. Review by Karl Musson

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