HMS Belfast, moored on the River Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge
Angela Kingston reviews a newly commissioned installation aboard HMS Belfast by Hew Locke, where she discovered ship's mannequins in Caribbean-style carnival masks and costumes. Could it be that something of the inner life of the crew, usually concealed within a culture of male repression and harsh discipline, is finding its way to the surface?
P/////AKT, Zeeburgerpad 53, 1019 AB Amsterdam
Teasingly titled ‘Sun room’, Dan Walwin’s exhibition channels the viewer through a semi-darkened space, within which watery flows are both depicted on screen and suggested by architectural interventions. Review by Maeve Connolly
Callicoon Fine Arts, 49 Delancey Street, New York, NY 10002
For Iranian brothers Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh and their compatriot Hesam Rahmanian who reside and practice in Dubai, spoof and satire become important tools of dynamism. Review by Bansie Vasvani
Tenderpixel, 8-10 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4HE
Helena Haimes finds two curatorial concerns at play in Things That Tumble Twice: one to do with duality and repetition, the other with mutability and decay.
Serpentine Sackler Gallery, Kensington Gardens, West Carriage Drive, London W2
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Sculptural forms are made from a combination of found objects, organic matter and a diverse range of materials. The exhibition is prolific. The space overflows. BOOMERANG is reviewed by Philomena Epps.
BOM | Birmingham Open Media, 1 Dudley Street, Birmingham, West Midlands B5 4EG
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Visitors must be willing to interact, ask questions, and get their hands dirty - not always metaphorically. Marianne Templeton reviews Birmingham Open Media's Live R&D laboratory, where art, science and technology meet.
TG, c/o PRIMARY, 33 Seely Road, Nottingham NG7 1NU
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Samuel Jeffery's white monochrome paintings are explored by Alice Gale-Feeny. In these she finds connections to landscape, Ben Nicholson and De Stijl.
NEW STUDIO, 4-17 Frederick Terrace, London, E8 4EW
A whitewashed studio in a former fabric-cutting factory was the setting for 'Marking Breath', a daylong performance by Danish artist Sophie Dupont.
The Royal Standard, Unit 3, Vauxhall Business Centre 131 Vauxhall Road, Liverpool L3 6BN UK
Group show 'External Machines' investigates the tension between ideas of constriction and relief - whether they be theoretical, physical, self-imposed or out of necessity.
Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP
Since 2009 Débora Delmar has called herself ‘Corp.' for corporation, extending her persona into a series of merchandising and artworks appropriating corporate imagery. Review by Francesca Laura Cavallo
The NewBridge Project, 16 Newbridge Street West, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 8AW
In this collaborative work, Amelia Bande, Deborah Bower, Annette Knol and Mat Fleming deliver an oscillating field of colour, form and text that mediates the subconscious and holds the viewer in a meditative state. Review by Tom Hopkin
Hauser & Wirth New York, 511 West 18th Street, New York NY 10011
Materiality, communication and the collapse of global and local spheres are combined in Subodh Gupta’s large-scale exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, New York. Review by Louisa Lee
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Avenida Abandoibarra, 2 48009 Bilbao, Spain
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Anneka French reviews a retrospective of Niki de Saint Phalle, finding that the best of the artist’s works draw deeply from the intensity of her personal experiences.
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London, E1 7QX, 16 April 2015
Claire Doherty, Director of Situations, and Magdalena Malm, Director of Public Art Agency Sweden, join Nato Thompson, Chief Curator of Creative Time, and artist Heather Morison to discuss the risks, delights and challenges of producing new progressive forms of public art.
