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Wysing Arts Centre, Fox Road, Bourn, Cambridge, CB23 2TX

The Practice of Theories

Andy Holden, The Dan Cox Library for the Unfinished Concept of Thingly Time, 2011

'Poly’ a new programme of exhibitions, residencies and events launched at Wysing Arts Centre last month with ‘The Practice of Theories’, a group exhibition which brings together a collection of works that attempt to communicate complex, and at times intangible, theories and ideas as concrete actions and forms. Review by Beth Bramich

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Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, C.P. 3000, Succursale H Montréal H3G 2T9

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: from here to ear v.19

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, View of the installation from here to ear – FreePort [No. 007]: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, 2014

Featuring seventy zebra finches on loan from a breeding farm in small town Quebec, Boursier-Mougenot's exhibition turns the gallery into an aviary, and the aviary into a concert hall. Review by Elizabeth Grant

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LADA

LADA Screens: Johanna Went

For this LADA Screens we are showing a film of Johanna Went’s seminal but rarely seen performance Knifeboxing, recorded at Club Lingerie in Los Angeles, California, 1984.

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Sprüth Magers, Oranienburger Straße 18, D-10178 Berlin

Dreaming Mirrors Dreaming Screens

Dreaming Mirrors Dreaming Screens, Installation View

Bringing together the practice of thirteen international artists, the exhibition 'Dreaming Mirrors Dreaming Screens' appeals to the intuitive mind and creativity beyond referential thinking. Departing from the artists´ production, it navigates through narratives in the realm of surrealist animation, abstraction and subjects of 'New Materialism' embracing the logic of the internet.

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KÖNIG GALERIE, 121, Alexandrinenstraße 118, 10969 Berlin, Germany

Tatiana Trouvé: From Alexandrinenstrasse to the Unnamed Path

From Alexandrinenstrasse to the Unnamed Path, Installation View

For her second exhibition at KÖNIG GALERIE, Tatiana Trouvé presents a new body of work which investigates ways to connect to the world and the things and symbols that populate it, by granting them new modes of existence and new regimes of intensity.

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The Hepworth Wakefield, Gallery Walk, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF1 5AW

The Rhubarb Triangle & Other Stories: Photographs by Martin Parr

Installation view of 'The Rhubarb Triangle & Other Stories: Photographs by Martin Parr' at The Hepworth Wakefield

Taking as its starting point the nearby countryside between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell, which is famous for producing early-forced rhubarb, this commission forms the nexus out of which a retrospective gesture emerges throughout the galleries. Review by Joseph Constable

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Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ

Pil and Galia Kollectiv

Progress Report from the Strategic Sanctuary for the Destruction of Free Will, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, 2016, courtesy Pump House Gallery.

Thomas Ellmer responds to an exhibition space dedicated to explorations of psychedelic and institutionalised medical treatments.

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