Exhibition Reviews

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

At the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, ‘The Great Camouflage’ takes a frustrated but hopeful tone

Rooted in communal settings now slipping into decline, the artist’s films at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, warn of our growing inability to inhabit shared environments

At Gallery 1957, Accra, his monumental afrogallonist sheets and sensory installations illuminate a region’s history of mourning, migration and resilience

At The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, the artist’s video reckons with environmental engineering in the American West

At the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, the award-winning installation honours the past, present and future of First Nations Australians

For ‘Fantastica’, five curators stage tensions between solitary display, collective authorship and an image culture on the brink of overload

The inaugural exhibition at Space ZeroOne, New York, sketches the contours of an ambitious curatorial vision

Eschewing conventional retrospective models at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, the exhibition raises enduring questions of legacy and loss

Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath channel private and social longing, curating a show that shines most when engaging with the Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s collection

At Sadie Coles HQ’s new Savile Row gallery, the artist’s subjects gather in smoke-filled bars and boxing rings, their gazes unwavering, their power unmistakable

At DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, a two-artist show about inheritance opts for connection over closure

At Centro Botín, Santander, an expansive installation traces coastal histories, echoing the losses wrought by extraction, commerce and industry

Uniting 50 female artists across the MENA region, ‘Horizon in Their Hands’ explores how craft became a form of artistic liberation

Her retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago highlights politically transformative relationships between Black women

At Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, the work follows an Irish Nigerian driver’s extraordinary night-time trip through the streets of both cities

Bernardo José de Souza’s exhibition turns outer space inwards, building an environment where desire resists the pull of power

‘The Three-Legged Cat’ reimagines the biennial format as a site of slow repair, touching on resilience and futurity

The hit-and-miss retrospective at Fondation Beyeler is a shallow reflection of the ‘Infinity Rooms' artist's depths

At the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, a themeless biennial engages with local realities of gentrification and loss