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A new film at The Showroom in London unravels a complex and vital history, but covers too much ground

BY Crystal Bennes |

From Yinka Shonibare's bizarre and dreamlike manifestations to a broad retrospective of Hiroshi Sugimoto, spanning decades of conceptually diverse projects on the uncanny 

 

BY frieze |

At White Cube Mason's Yard, the artist’s latest film is a Kafkaesque vision that may leave you pining for the exit

BY Tom Morton |

A group show at Pilar Corrias, London, unites work dealing with the natural world and humanity’s impact on it

BY Emily Steer |

From balletic sculptures to cyborg imagery, a group show at Gathering, London, delves into the vulnerability of our bodies

BY Sam Moore |

At Spike Island, Bristol, the artist captures the flux of queer existence in collages of gender non-conforming figures throughout time

BY Elizabeth Fullerton |

A sparse exhibition at David Zwirner, London, sees the artist embrace pointillism, but her subjects remain the same: beautiful men 

BY Ella Slater |

From a major Carrie Mae Weems survey in London to a city-wide Biennial in Liverpool 

BY frieze |

Khanyisile Mbongwa’s programme addresses the history of international slave trading that haunts its famous docks

BY Joe Bobowicz |

At Gasworks, London, the artist envisions a time when half the world’s population is living in a tropical climate 

BY Nevan Spier |

An exhibition of kaleidoscopic painting at Victoria Miro, London, is a celebration of free love and excess

BY Chloë Ashby |

A grotesque new group show at Sadie Coles HQ, London, addresses sexual power dynamics but tends toward outdated provocation

 

BY Thomas McMullan |

From an exhibition of Kaye Donachie’s chalky blue, purple and grey portraits to David Aruquipa Pérez’s photographic archive of Bolivian carnival culture

BY frieze |

At Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, the artist’s portraits play with the idea of cinematic dissolve to reframe female figures from history

BY Emily Steer |

At Phillida Reid, London, a series of elegant ink drawings prods at the art world’s social anxieties

BY Tom Morton |

At Auto Italia, London, David Aruquipa Pérezs photographic archive is an intergenerational and transcultural ode to street activism

BY Dylan Huw |

At Modern Art Oxford, the artist’s monumental new film examines 15 judges working in England and Wales 

BY Cathy Wade |

From Marguerite Humeau’s post-apocalyptic world of insects to Michael E. Smith’s unsettling assemblages 

 

BY frieze |

At White Cube, Bermondsey, the artist’s landscapes of objects reckon with ideas of existence and extinction

BY Reuben Esien |