EU Reviews

From a major retrospective by Renée Green to Małgorzata Mirga-Tas's patchwork quilts, these are the best exhibitions of the year

A joint retrospective at KW Institute for Contemporary Art and daadgalerie, Berlin, displays the US-based artist’s critical passion for the artefacts she uncovers

The artist’s retrospective at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, considers how smells can speak to discourses around capital, class and colonization

At Bonner Kunstverein, the late Filipino artist’s first European retrospective is a poetic tribute to an oeuvre, which refuses to be categorized

The artist’s survey exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, explores Spanish cultural and socio-political practices and how collective belonging is intertwined with cultural production

The 19th edition curated by Eoin Dara sees artists pen love letters in Ireland through conversations about cruising, gender and the internet

The best shows to see this winter – from the George Michael-inspired TULCA Festival in Galway to an archive exhibition of Phyllis Christopher’s photographs in Birmingham

To mark the opening of the 54th edition of the fair, we’ve put together a guide to the best shows in the Rheinland

For her exhibition at Balice Hertling, the artist gives new life and meaning to items found discarded on the streets of Paris

At Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, the Berlin-based artist presents a series of painted false idylls

Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah and Omsk Social Club, the 7th edition of the Biennale highlights the African diaspora and imagines new worlds

From Martin Margiela’s underwhelming solo exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, to a tech-savvy edition of the Athens Biennale, here's European shows on everyone's radar 

At Lafayette Anticipations, the famed fashion designer achieves little in translating his much-lauded tactics of defamiliarization into art

At Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, the late Russian artist’s paintings of faces consider what it means to be human

The group show ‘Extra Worlding’ tries to revive the political core of utopian thinking

For her first solo exhibition at Berlin’s Guido W. Baudach, the artist finds the concealed connections between Dubai and Berlin, relaying both places’ urban histories

From Ruth Novaczek's fragmentary films at Kunstverein Gartenhaus, Vienna, to Rosa Barba's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe inspired installation at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, here are five shows not to be missed. 

At Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, the two artists find common ground in sculptures, drawings, paintings and prints that evoke the unknown

Based on visits to this unique archaeological site, the artist's new series of ceramic sculptures mine the past to remind us of the fragility of the present

In her forth exhibition at dépendance, Brussels, the artist's slick images of oil fields reflect our petroleum-fulled dreams and desires