In a show at Badischer Kunstverein, the artist emerges in the wake of feminist performance art pioneers with a different method

Andreas Slominski has turned traps into sculptures, jokes into performances and, most recently, Polystyrene into paintings. Despite almost three decades of work, Slominski’s art remains based on absence.

Should difference be hidden or visible?

Galerie Crone

Jessica Warboys works with film, painting, sculpture and stained glass. But her main medium may be our ability to recognize resemblances

In this new series, frieze d/e invites an artist to talk about their working process. Swiss artist Peter Regli gets the ball rolling.

Fri Art

Today the choice between ‘opacity’ and ‘transparency’ has become the subject of increasing critical engagement in the realms of both contemporary art and politics. Should art works reveal their cultural origins and references or should they hide them? Do political claims still depend upon making identities visible?

In his last collection of essays Philosophie de la Relation (Philosophy of the Relation, 2009), the late Martiniquan writer and poet Édouard Glissant presented his final statement on opacity. A response to the text by the critic and curator Ulrich Loock.

How Berlin’s Times Bar became a legend in no time at all

Art Foundation

How sophisticated is popular culture? A new book by Nadja Geer tries to find out

Kölnischer Kunstverein

How does Édouard Glissant’s demand for opacity translate into art? Jan Verwoert explores opacity as a model for open communication – and outlines a history, which runs from Lygia Clark’s sculptures to Trisha Donnelly’s enigmatic films

The artist rebuilds a former cabaret theatre at Gartenstraße 6, Berlin, into a labyrinth of dust and spotlight, in his new workshop space that saw (platform for a performance in two parts)

Korpys/Löffler document the rituals of political power that take place, not behind the scenes, but in plain sight

Hauser & Wirth

Posters, pots and fingerprints

How Rainald Goetz turned his new novel into a performance piece

In this regular series, frieze d/e picks out favourites from the ebb and flow of culture

Deserts, ideologies and relics

In this regular series, we ask artists, curators and writers to think about the meaning and impact of a word – however dreaded it may be …

In this regular series, frieze d/e asks artists, curators and writers to think about the meaning and impact of a word – however dreaded it may be .

Kunsthaus Dresden

Mathew Gallery

50 years of Fluxus in Wiesbaden: How collector Michael Berger turned the movement’s ‘anti-art’ philosophy into museums for toilets and tat

Smoking, kissing and storing data

Kunstverein in Hamburg

Surveying recent exhibitions, Kito Nedo considers the history of the carpet as an artistic medium

mumok

Verschiedene Orte, Berlin & Kunstverein Arnsberg

Van Horn

Kunsthalle Basel

In her videos and installations, Gitte Villesen uses simple methods to create compelling biographical portraits

The private photographs of Siegfried and Lili Kracauer

‘When it fills up at the end of the week, you think, “Okay, I have done something!”’

Galerie Mezzanin

Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens

Kunstraum Baden

Kunstpalais

Galerie Tanja Wagner