Exhibition Reviews

At Tanya Leighton, Berlin, the artist’s labour-intensive portraits suggest an art historical fever dream

The collective’s retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada extends from foundational mail art to hard-hitting installations about HIV/AIDS

In celebration of the Inaugural Frieze Seoul, here are must-see shows right now to catch if you are still in Korea

The artist’s first show at White Cube, London, contains new paintings full of narratively ambiguous scenes derived from popular culture

From a group show of Ukrainian women artists at Fridman Gallery, NY to Cathy Lu’s ceramic garden at Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, these are the shows on our radar this month

At New Art Projects, London, the artist evokes visceral experiences of growing up queer in Britain under Section 28

Inspired by a cult Sci-Fi TV show, the artist’s first exhibition at Hot Wheels, Athens, warps the simulated/real dialectic

Nature and culture are inseparable in ‘Strike-Slip’, the artist’s first solo show at Bel Ami, Los Angeles

The first extensive exhibition of the self-taught artist’s work at Telfair Museums, Savannah, is filled with fact and fantasy inspired by his unconventional life at sea

At Gasworks, London, the artist explores the possibilities that come with rejecting forms imposed by outsiders and creating our own

The artist’s large-scale exhibition at the Walther Collection, Ulm, displays his skill for impersonation and adds depth to the genre of self-portraiture

At Stills Centre of Photography, Edinburgh, the artist holds the spirits of her absent subjects in the gallery, forcing us to commune with their stories

In collaboration with Voloshyn Gallery in Kyiv, this exhibition at Fridman Gallery foregrounds the Ukrainian women at the discursive frontiers of history

The artist and DJ’s first solo show at Tramway, Glasgow, is a stunning exploration of West African music

An exquisitely designed exhibition at Fondazione Prada brings together millennia of thought about thought itself

The second iteration of the Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art asks what art can do in an increasingly fraught political climate, but simply offers symbolic gestures

From Iris Touliatou’s architectural interventions at Grazer Kunstverein to a joy-filled edition of Biennale Gherdëina

A group show at Times Museum, Guangzhou, traces waterways in Southeast Asia and the cultures, communities and survival strategies forged in their wake

A group show at Singapore Art Museum’s new outpost invites viewers to discern the flows of capital in contemporary life and imagine more humane systems

The artist opens Xavier Hufkens redesigned St-Georges space with several recent bodies of painting, photography and sculpture