Exhibition Reviews

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

From Vojtěch Kovařík's monumental depictions of Hercules at Mendes Wood DM, Brussels to Birke Gorm's dishevelled jute mannequins at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna

During Frieze New York, catch solo shows by Allana Clarke and Esmaa Mohamoud at Kavi Gupta, Chicago, and Xiyadie's queer papercuts at The Drawing Center, New York

By focussing on the artist’s serial drawings, the exhibition goes to great lengths to unburden O’Keeffe of her sensual associations

Despite good intentions, a polyvocal exhibition at MACAAL, Marrakesh, reaffirms the Malagasy artist as the star of the show

Featuring a quintet of Italian artists, a group show at Mai 36, Zurich, makes the case for more unsettled and uncomfortable aesthetic forms

For her first solo show dedicated to ceramics, the artist creates a mosaic of free-wheeling motifs from rudimentary forms

At Arario Gallery, Seoul, new and reformulated installations and photographs by the artist track the non-meaning generated by financial markets

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

At Templon, New York, the artist presents caricatures that illustrate the ever-present violence in contemporary society

At Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, the artist shares a more nuanced and melancholic vision of Hercules, one of art history’s most triumphant figures

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

At The Drawing Center, New York, the artist presents papercut scenes of homoerotic couplings inflected with conventions of the Chinese craft

From Eiko Otake’s installation at Green-Wood Cemetery, New York, to a group show at Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, these are the must-see shows

At the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, the artist’s recent works explore the politics of human production and consumption

A major retrospective of the artist’s hard-to-define work evidences her shapeshifting nature

At the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, the two South African artists present multi-media works that memorialize anti-Apartheid resistance

At PHD Group, Hong Kong, the artist mourns her mother through sensorial installations that incorporate personal detritus

A mid-career survey at S.M.A.K., Ghent, posits a new spiritual museology in which we connect to art beyond just representation

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