As several galleries celebrate birthdays, Hettie Judah speaks to Barbican Stories and directors of BALTIC, ICA, Midlands Art Centre and Yorkshire Sculpture Park about founding principles and future plans

In her triumphant survey exhibition at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, the artist continues her long-running exploration of women as generative, creative forces

Hettie Judah on five spirit mediums, political agitators, self-taught outsiders or surrealists that ‘bite back’ in Cecilia Alemani’s Venice exhibition

At MHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, the artist questions how cultural artefacts are transformed by their mode of presentation

On the Isle of Bute, the artist uses objects to expose the geology of the 18th-century Mount Stuart House and engage with the Scottish mansion's material history

As it's director celebrates two decades at the helm, can she continue to reinvent the 120-year-old institution?

Can Reiner Holzemer’s documentary finally lift the lid on the famously private designer? 

From storyboards to full-sized film sets, the artist’s show at Tim Van Laere, Antwerp, plays with cinematic techniques to make us believe in a constructed world

A new exhibition at London’s Wellcome Collection shows us why we should advocate for and defend the importance of ‘play’ – for our mental health as well as creativity

Riley’s paintings make a strong case for embodied encounters with art: glorious advocates for the gallery space itself

Cosmin Costinas’s curated section reveals the interconnected roles played by tradition, cultural exchange and imperialism

A new report highlights the key role commercial galleries must play in achieving gender parity in the arts

For her show in Grand-Hornu, the artist delves into the Mundaneum, a 19th-century utopian project to classify all human knowledge

Two UK exhibitions feature works in which the London-based artist engages with the British landscape

At Nottingham Contemporary, the artist reflects on intertwined histories of data and digging

The artist discusses her new show at The Hepworth Wakefield: ‘Ceramics for me is so personal: it’s so painful to produce sometimes’

The artist talks about butterflies, the politicization of artefacts and the lost cultural history of his Kosovar home city

‘It showed the power of placing something dumb and ugly next to something glorious’

Works by Andra Ursuta at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, jams together diverse references from health cults to 1980s pop culture memes

At Studio Voltaire, London, the artists have transformed the former chapel into a wild Wilde Gesamtkunstwerk