North East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN)

The work of Paul Merrick

Commissioned by the North East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN), this is one of eight films that will be exclusively launched on the site over the next eight weeks.

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The Northern Charter, 5th Floor Commercial Union House, 39 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle NE1 6QE

Day Release

‘Day Release’, an exhibition turned permanent installation at The Northern Charter, examines how idolatry can retain meaning as a historical framework of understanding and continue to influence contemporary image making. Review by Rebecca Senior

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Produced by Baltic

BALTIC Bites: Jesse Wine

Jesse Wine (born Chester, 1983) works mainly with ceramics and uses traditional techniques to explore process and chance.

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Aspen Art Museum, 637 East Hyman Avenue Aspen, Colorado 81611

David Hammons Yves Klein/Yves Klein David Hammons

An unprecedented coupling of two of the most significant artists of our time, David Hammons Yves Klein / Yves Klein David Hammons explores points of aesthetic harmony within two seemingly different practices.

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Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre, Nikolaj Plads 10, 1067 Copenhagen, Denmark

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen: being human being

Through performance and sculpture Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen’s exhibition explores the origins of the human race as we know it today.

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Nils Stærk, Ny Carlsberg vej 68, 1760 Copenhagen, Denmark

Darío Escobar: Unions and Intersections

For Escobar sports are signs of multinational brands and movements which have swept across the world and made any distinction between the local and the global impossible.

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Drop City Newcastle, 20 South Street 
off Forth Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PE

Ralf Brög: xf part 4: JB (canonic)

For its inaugural exhibition Drop City presents the fourth part in a series of works by Ralf Brög. Review by Tom Hopkin

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North East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN)

The work of Wolfgang Weileder

Commissioned by the North East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN), this is one of eight films that will be exclusively launched on the site over the next eight weeks.

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Rod Barton, 41-45 Consort Road, London SE15 3SS

Kenneth Alme: My Tarp Has Sprung a Leak

An impending tangent runs through the exhibition as a whole - is there anything in this day and age that one cannot categorise and find recycled in pop-culture? Review by William Davie

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Galerie Chez Valentin, 9 rue Saint-Gilles 75003 Paris

Nicolas Moulin: Steppterm

Steppterminal was conceived as an ensemble of hybrids between architectural fragment and autonomous sculpture. The series presents a set of ghost structures, without status or future, evoking a perpetual present—that of ruins, or unfinished construction, isolated in its own sovereign failure.

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A.E. Harris, 110 Northwood Street, Birmingham B3 1SZ

Fierce Festival, Tania El Khoury: Gardens Speak

The real human cost of any war is something that is nearly impossible to express. This is the intervention that El Khoury creates in ‘Gardens Speak.' Her work for Fierce Festival is reviewed by Phoebe Patey-Ferguson.

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Kayne Griffin Corcoran, 1201 South La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90019

Mark Handforth: Rough Dark Diamond

Mark Handforth twists mundane markers of modern life—light fixtures, roadway signs, motorcycles—into an evocative series of symbols and ciphers.

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UHArts, Museum of St Albans, Hatfield Road, St Albans, AL1 3RR

Emma Donaldson: Making Trouble

Bodily references are found everywhere within Donaldson’s work. She is interested in ideas of ‘body memory’ - how experiences and emotions can leave their trace on the physical. Review by Sacha Waldron

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