Exhibition Reviews

At François Ghebaly, New York, the Iraqi artist’s cartoonish creations reckon with trauma and transformation

At Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, the artist brings together five decades of work exploring gender mutability and a sustained fascination with Asian cultural forms

At Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, the artist’s sculptures grant everyday detritus improbable permanence as packaging and object converge with relic-like reverence

At Gratin, New York, her self-portraits mine trad wife tropes, subvert fatphobic stereotypes and pose questions about class

At NYU Abu Dhabi, the artist’s architectural models and research-driven collages reframe Arab modernity, treating the archive as a contested, living terrain

A blockbuster exhibition at NGV Melbourne pairs two of the 20th century’s most influential fashion designers. But do such singular iconoclasts belong together?

In her debut UK institutional exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield, the artist presents diaphanous congregations engaged in acts that resist easy interpretation 

At Modern Art’s new space, the artist unveils paintings of isolated film stills, presented as evidence yet marked by omission

At Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, three artists turn to the socialist female service class to explore nostalgia as a feminist issue rather than a retro aesthetic

For his first institutional exhibition, at Deurle’s Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, the artist presents energetic, hand-worked canvases, joyfully probing paint’s physical limits

At Greene Naftali, New York, the artist’s canvases underscore the difference between prompting and painting

The Museum of Mexico City group exhibition highlights artists using aesthetics to hold their governments accountable

A survey of her paintings at Turner Contemporary, Margate, shows the consistency of her vision but reveals nothing new about the nonagenarian artist

At Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, the artist’s survey blends playful performance and video art with subtly political, participatory installations

At Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, a thoughtful pairing of historical artefacts and contemporary works reveals how faith, cultural belonging and queer identity intersect in unexpected ways

At Tanya Leighton, Berlin, the artist’s monumental paintings fuse musical notation, self-portraiture and colour-field intensity

At Hollybush Gardens, London, the Turner Prize winner works with commonplace items to reveal how histories and narratives are constructed, circulated and socialised

At King’s Leap, New York, the artist presents erotic sculptures that evoke cages, safes and battering rams

At Dundee Contemporary Arts, the artist turns geology, myth and agricultural memory into a sculptural landscape that exposes the urgencies embedded in Tayside’s terrain

Working at the threshold of disappearance, the artist’s paintings at Indipendenza, Rome, depict bodies flickering between presence and phantasm