Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, No. 145, DLF South Court Mall, Shaheed Pankaj Juyal Marg, Saket District Centre, Saket, New Delhi, Delhi 110017, India
Arpita Singh: Six Decades of Painting
The Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts presents the first ever retrospective of one of India’s most significant female artists, Arpita Singh. Review by Pranamita Borgohain
Gasworks, 155 Vauxhall Street, London SE11 5RH
Pedro Neves Marques: It Bites Back
Through the in-depth analysis of virus warfare and the rising number of actions against queer bodies around the globe, the exhibition ‘It Bites Back’ draws on distinguishing power agents, such as hormones and fluids, as symbols for forces that reign in our everyday lives and which define the 21st century’s approach to biopolitics. Review by Alexandra Gamrot
Glenfeshie, Cairngorms National Park
Simone Kenyon: Into the Mountain
High in the Cairngorm Mountains, a remarkable artwork was performed over four days. ‘Into the Mountain’ is a unique response to ‘The Living Mountain’ (1977) by Nan Shepherd, a lyrical text describing a sensuous exploration of the Cairngorms. Through a rich fusion of dance, music, literature and walking, the performances invited audiences to explore more-than human connections with mountain environments and ecologies. Review by Anna Fleming
Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ
Oscar Murillo: Violent Amnesia
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” Oscar Murillo’s current exhibition at Kettle’s Yard starts with these words by John Donne. This quote is a testimony of the artist’s mourning for his friend, Nigerian curator and unique contributor to the art world, Okwui Enwezor, who died earlier this year. But it makes me think that if Murillo were an island, he would have been a floating island. Review by Gulnaz Can
Auto Italia, 44 Bonner Rd, London E2 9JS
Tender rip: An Interview with Anna McMahon and Spence Messih
Forming from a mutual relationship to language and the body, Anna McMahon and Spence Messih have curated an exhibition that explore ideas of non-conforming, shifting between texture and space to express the undefinable. Emma-Kate Wilson interviews the artists
Denmark Pavilion, Giardini, Venice, Italy
Venice Biennale 2019: Larissa Sansour: Heirloom
Danish-Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour’s project for the Danish Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale is comprised of two key elements: a sculptural installation comprising a large, dark orb; and a science-fiction film titled’ In Vitro’, depicting the relationship between two women after an ecological disaster has driven them to live underground. Review by Anna Souter
Copperfield Gallery, 6 Copperfield Street, London SE1 0EP
Alba Folgado in conversation with Marco Godoy
Alba Folgado speaks to artist Marco Godoy about his exhibition My we, your we, our we at Copperfield Gallery. His interest in the complexity of power relationships and the mechanisms that are used to perpetuate social divisions are made evident through the different works that one finds in the space.
Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Rd, London E3 5QZ
Mandy El-Sayegh: Cite Your Sources
Verbal language dominates and hits you like a wave; pages from the Financial Times are pasted up the gallery walls and underfoot; silk-screened advertising copy, schematics and Arabic calligraphy are layered on top of maps, passport-photocopies, grids and each other. Review by India Nielsen
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Krymsky Val, 9 строение 32, Moskva, Russia, 119049
Pavel Pepperstein: The Human as a Frame for the Landscape
The work of Pavel Pepperstein is, to western audiences, often impenetrable — not least because it often relies upon references to in-jokes and Russian-Language text. Pepperstein is interested in exploding-out historical moments and psychedelic experiences and picking through the debris. He’s called it “the spiritual backstage”. Review by Lucy Holt
Napoleon, 319 N 11th St, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
Lydia Rosenberg: The Complete Subject
There are several layers to Lydia Rosenberg’s highly conceptual, experimental exhibition ‘The Complete Subject’, currently on view at Napoleon, each relying upon people’s individual perceptions of meaning. What you get out of ‘The Complete Subject’ absolutely depends on your tolerance for this kind of self-perpetuating thought experiment. Review by Deborah Krieger
Cell Project Space, 258 Cambridge Heath Rd, London E2 9DA
Anna-Sophie Berger: A Failed Play
It is fitting that the accompanying exhibition text for ‘A Failed Play’, written by Anna Sophie-Berger herself, opens with a story that leaves out the play entirely. The focus is on everything but - Beckett’s declaration of it as a failure, his begrudging agreement to translate it for publication in English, and the fight that ensued over copyright following his death. Review by India Nielsen
Fondazione Merz, Via Limone, 24 10141 Torino
Solo da Bambini. Lina Fucà, Daniele Gaglianone, Paolo Leonardo
Solo Da Bambini (Only as a Child) is a complex, yet detailed and multifaceted exhibition about childhood - as understood from the points of view of both young people and their parents.
Marian Goodman Gallery, 5-8 Lower John Street, London W1F 9DY
Allan Sekula: Photography, A Wonderfully Inadequate Medium
‘Photography, A Wonderfully Inadequate Medium’ presents an extensive exhibition by the late American artist and writer Allan Sekula (1951-2013). While the title aims to highlight the medium’s aporias, the show extends across photography, performance, text, and video, contrasting photography’s material mediations with its claim to realism. Review by Hugh Nicholson
