London Film Festival (4-15 October)
Artists’ film is an area of growing importance at the London Film Festival, with the Experimenta strand in particular dedicated to celebrating and showcasing the best in the field.
Folkestone Triennial, various locations
Folkestone Triennial is a story within a story. It beckons the visitor to open the book of Folkestone with its historical tales of Roman Villas, bustling ports, French connections and abandoned trade routes. Beyond chapters of the past, it's also a place actively grappling with its identity and future. Review by Jillian Knipe
The Ferens Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Square, Hull, HU1 3RA
The Turner Prize will be presented at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull for the first time, with an exhibition of work by this year's shortlisted artists: Hurvin Anderson, Andrea Büttner, Lubaina Himid and Rosalind Nashashibi.
Grand Union, 19 Minerva Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5RS
Weaving in and out of sweaty bodies with a collection of singing, dancing, vaping and harp playing are Susie Green and Rory Pilgrim (together The Brilliant State.) The audience track both artists around the space (being careful not to get tangled in the trailing rope of ‘Slow Burn’ as Pilgrim and Green tenderly dress and undress each other to a mixture of choral, dance and pop music. Review by Amy Jones
The Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market St, Edinburgh EH1 1DF
Leirner’s works frequently organise and repurpose slight ephemera into a surprising coalescence. Whilst the career-wide spectrum of activity on display successfully demonstrates the consistent concerns within her oeuvre, the volume of works within this cross-section seems at odds with their essential simplicity, which at times is perhaps diluted in the two satiated galleries. Review by Nathan Anthony
Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL
Stephen Sutcliffe’s exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery opens a moving image season showcasing recent work by three highly-regarded practitioners noted for the referential density of their work, through an ever-closing margin between documentary and fiction and manifested through exuberant styles. Review by Alex Hetherington
Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London, SE1 0LN
This wide scope has been a cornerstone of the project since it was founded in 1994. The longest running and largest annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK, it has developed a reputation for celebrating the considerable diversity that exists within contemporary drawing practice. As the 2017 iteration shows, it is also a platform that highlights the value of drawing in both an artistic practice and within communities. Review by Kaitlyn Kane
The Koppel Project Hive, 26 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2AT
‘The Hive Mind’ is a group exhibition consisting of sculpture, painting, video and print work by new and established artists, that probes the question of connectivity in an increasingly dysfunctional and meaningless reality. Review by Evie Ward
Thomas Dane Gallery 3 Duke Street St James's London SW1Y 6BN
‘Naming Rights’ is a unique exhibition that discloses the arcane mechanisms of an artist run project space, converting the gallery into a place for artistic research and experimentation. The result is a distinctive presentation of works by international artists. Review by Fiorella Lanni
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield WF4 4JX
Asked to curate a show from the collection by Yorkshire Sculpture Park as part of the National Partner scheme, Rana Begum has selected works for display that she says ‘have a soul’, an audaciously subjective criteria with which to curate an exhibition. Review by Jessie Bond
