On the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, Sarah E. James considers the artist's idiosyncratic abstractions

Combining archival material with contemporary art, an exhibition at Dresden’s Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau highlights the activist’s connection with the GDR

At MMK Frankfurt, a retrospective housed in a group exhibition mirrors the artist's rejection of conventional classifications

A major retrospective at Dresden’s Albertinum sheds new light on the artist’s relationship with his hometown

A survey of Germany’s unification events, from David Hasselhoff to Hito Steyerl

From international newspapers to the artist’s personal image archive, an exhibition at K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, examines the mass of information and its impact on agency

In curator Susanne Pfeffer’s latest, ‘Museum’ speaks to our moment of funding scandals, museum protests and social media outrage

Kasper reflects on a world in which everyone is a critic, every space a studio

A rare view of Laurie Parsons’s work at Germany’s Museum Abteiberg provides space to reflect on art and social engagement

A retrospective at Städel Museum, Frankfurt, sheds new light on the op artist's experimental styles 

Various venues, Folkestone, UK

Images for a different future: recent projects examine the projected desires of the German Democratic Republic’s lost socialist culture

From his early Dada and Surrealist photomontages to his later New York fashion shoots, Erwin Blumenfeld insistently parodied objects of desire

Harry Pye selects interesting but under-exposed artists to take part in an exhibition series at L-13