GSL Projekt Novalisstrasse 7, 10115 Berlin

This Dust

This Dust, Installation view at GSL Projekt, 2015

In 'This Dust' fourteen artworks by nine artists come together to create a unique ‘laboratory of images’ that takes the viewer on a journey, interrogating the systems and logics that they use to structure the world. Review by Rene Kaiser

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Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN

Jerwood/FVU Awards: What Will They See of Me?

Installation view of Blood.  Produced as part of the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2015, What Will They See of Me?, on show at Jerwood Space

Beverley Knowles reviews two new commissions from the Jerwood/FVU Awards: What Will They See of Me. The works by Lucy Clout and Marianna Simnett explore the possibilities of womanhood in relation to narrative and identity.

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Vivid Projects, 16 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5RS

Ways of Something: 85 Artists, One Minute at a Time

 Ways of Something, Episode 2,  Min 12

‘Ways of Something’ brings a timely response to John Berger’s ground-breaking BBC documentary, in a post-internet era of selfies, webcams, and 3D rendering. The project, featuring 85 artists given 1 minute each, is reviewed by Cathy Wade.

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Bosse & Baum, 133 Copeland Road, London SE15 3SN

Luke Burton: Filigree Endings

Installation view

Through video installation and sculpture, Luke Burton muses on the place of the decorative within contemporary contexts. Helena Haimes reviews his solo exhibition 'Filigree Endings'.

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Drawing Room, Hofweg 6, 22085 Hamburg

Hayley Tompkins: Technicolor Hamburger

Technicolour Hamburger, Installation View

Drawing Room host the first solo exhibition of Glasgow-based artist Hayley Tompkins in Hamburg. The exhibition features recent works from her series Digital Light Pools alongside new objects.

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KARST, 22 George Place, Stonehouse, Plymouth PL13NY

Breakin’ Up Is Hard to Do

Grey Painting: Text version 39

Louisa Lee reviews 'Breakin' Up Is Hard to Do' and finds that, despite the suggested noise of the title and the show’s extensive components, the project space conveys a spectral silence.

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Ingleby Gallery, 15 Calton Road, Edinburgh EH8 8DL

ABJAD

Jane Bustin Tablet II, 2014

The desire to ‘represent’ abstraction, and even to endow it with a ‘protective’ quality, to uphold it against its detractors and promote its adaptive, unceasingly inventive potential, is a latent but generative implication of ‘ABJAD’. Review by Catherine Spencer

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The James Gallery, The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016 | e-flux 311 East Broadway New York, NY 10002

Specters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art

Anton Vidokle, This Is Cosmos, 2014, in “Specters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art” at The James Gallery, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Saturated with intense thoughts and concepts, the exhibition explores the present social and political reality of the situation in Russia, haunted by specters of its communist past. Review by Laura Herman

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David Zwirner, 24 Grafton Street, London W1S 4EZ

Luc Tuymans: The Shore

William Robertson

At the same time as being invited into the artist's space, we are kept at a distance. Belinda Seppings responds to Luc Tuymans' new exhibition at David Zwirner.

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B&Q, Gillingham and Guildhall Museum, Rochester & Big Screen, Waterfront Pumping Station, Chatham

Adam Chodzko: Great Expectations

Ark Eye

Comprising a video screened at multiple sites in neighbouring Medway towns, and a sculpture installed at B&Q, ‘Great Expectations’ imagines tools as sentient beings with their own perspectives on stories and histories. James Gormley reviews the project across various sites in Rochester, Gillingham and Chatham.

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Bernard Jacobson Gallery, 28 Duke Street, St. James's, London SW1Y 6AG

Robert Motherwell: A Centenary Survey of Major Works

Installation view, Bernard Jacobson Gallery

William Davie reviews the largest survey in London of Robert Motherwell's work since his 1978 retrospective at the Royal Academy. The exhibition not only marks what would have been Motherwell’s 100th birthday but the opening of Bernard Jacobson Gallery's new Mayfair space.

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