Exhibition Reviews

At Soft Opening, London, Hendrickje Schimmel challenges linear constructs of creation and usage by manipulating end-of-life materials

At Gagosian, New York, paintings that blend surrealism and social realism depict the disaffection of modern workers

At Layr, Vienna, a group exhibition reminds viewers of the culture-crossing and nonconformist possibilities of artworks

At W-galería, the artist collaborates with Guaraní weavers in a decolonial project of self-representation 

At David Zwirner, New York, plants drawn from Eastern Nigeria and Los Angeles coexist with figures and settings sourced from magazines, books and family photographs

​At Sprüth Magers, the artist visually renders our hackneyed vocabularies around anxiety and care

At Sargent’s Daughters, New York, empathetic oil paintings suggest healing through revisitation

Portland’s arts biennial, Converge 45, adopts an idealist vision of what it means to be a citizen of the world

Ireland’s biennial of contemporary art delicately weaves weighty issues into Limerick’s surroundings

At Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf, the artist’s new series riff on conceptualism but reflect the alienation of our times

From Anri Sala’s marbled explorations of divine time at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris to the first show dedicated to Wanda Czełkowska outside of Poland

While ‘Choreographies of the Impossible’ stumbles curatorially, this edition nevertheless feels vital and exciting

At P21, Seoul, a group show of intimate mixed media works draws on Byung-Chul Han’s revolutionary The Agony of Eros (2017)

At the artist’s studio via Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, the artist’s facsimiles of pavement interrogate the similarities between civic labour and artistic production

At neugerriemschneider, Berlin, an exhibition dedicated to the late dance composer’s notation system reveal the complexities of her ideas

At The National Gallery of Denmark, the artist’s retrospective interrogates the space between coloniser and colonized

At MOCA GA, the artist's sculptures adapt Kente cloth as a framework for pan-Africanism

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

The artist's murals at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, repurpose elements of cloud vistas and early Renaissance frescoes

From Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s first institutional solo show in the US at the New Museum to Elle Perez’s semi-abstract photographs at 47 Canal