Sadie Coles HQ, 62 Kingly Street, London W1B 5QN

Wilhelm Sasnal

Installation view, Wilhelm Sasnal, Sadie Coles HQ

Wilhelm Sasnal's exhibition of new paintings allows the viewer to reflect upon a jigsawed version of reality, there within the gallery space. William Davie reviews the Polish artist's new exhibition.

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Breese Little, Ground Floor Gallery, 30b Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DU

Promise of Palm Trees

Promise of Palm Trees, installation view

The exhibition title acts as an analogy to current practices in painting - palm trees, the icon of a destination which cannot be easily reached and the readable image which is frequently obscured or chased into abstraction. Louisa Lee reviews 'Promise of Palm Trees' at Breese Little.

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

Michael Mulvihill: The Means and the Instruments

Michael Mulvihill, The Means and the Instruments, installation view NGCA Project Space (2015)

'The Means and the Instruments’ charts the key political junctures in history of the late 1970’s and early 80’s when the Cold War and threat of World War III were at their most heightened. Review by C.B

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Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Church Lane, Carmarthen SA31 1LH

Thin Place

Thin Place, installation view at Oriel Myrddin, 2015

On encountering a thin place, rarely does a visual sign alert its presence. Instead there’s a peculiar, instinctual, bodily sense: a prickling awareness that cannot be described but is there nonetheless. Review by Rowan Lear

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90036

Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe, Untilled, 2011-12

In search of what the artist has termed a “non-knowledge zone,” Huyghe approaches an existing system—such as an institution, a situation, or an area of knowledge—and creates a speculative proposition: a “what could be.”

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Carroll / Fletcher, 56 - 57 Eastcastle St, London W1W 8EQ

Helen Carmel Benigson: Anxious, Stressful, Insomnia Fat

Installation view, Anxious, Stressful, Insomnia Fat

Benigson's exhibition is an investigation into a paranoid state of mind bordering on hysteria. It's a condition that contemporary culture offers to its women and traps them within. 'Anxious, Stressful, Insomnia Fat' is reviewed by Beverley Knowles.

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Space In Between, Unit 26 (2nd Floor), Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London, E8 4QN

Edit/Undo

Installation view, Space in Between

Space In Between presents ‘Edit/Undo’, a group exhibition exploring the different narratives daily life plays out in relation to the digital world. Featuring works by Damon Zucconi, Leo Fitzmaurice, Paul Flannery and Alastair Levy, the exhibition is reviewed by Phoebe V. Bradford.

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Seventeen, 270-276 Kingsland Road, London E8 4DG

David Conroy

Installation view, Seventeen

Laura Davidson finds the descriptions of David Conroy's work read like a drunken Amazon Wishlist: a pair of men’s Mr Hare leather shoes, Lancome Youth Activating Concentrate, lighters, a dehydrated Big Mac and Quarter Pounder, an empty bottle of Becks Blue and a pair of black Levi 501s.

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Galerie Marian Goodman, 79 Rue Du Temple, 75003 Paris

Rineke Dijkstra

Installation View

Marian Goodman Gallery Paris is pleased to present the third exhibition of works by Rineke Dijkstra. The exhibition will feature two new videos Marianna (The Fairy Doll) and The Gymschool, St Petersburg, both filmed in Russia and commissioned by Manifesta (European Biennial of Contemporary art) for its last edition in 2014.

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