Ivana Cholakova

From a debut novel by Stephanie Wambugu to Maggie Nelson’s analysis of Taylor Swift and Sylvia Plath, the frieze team recommend the new books they’re most excited about

At The Perimeter, London, the artist explores how women have been mistreated in both domestic and clinical settings

At Fondazione Prada, Milan, a group show studies the variations and chance connections that form our worldview

At Almine Rech, Monaco, Francesco Vezzoli depicts various weepy versions of the designer

Artistic director Meriem Berrada on the importance of responsibility and community in Marrakech's artistic ecosystem

At GRIMM Gallery, London, the artist depicts everyday objects to highlight the insidious presence of colonialist legacies

From a long overdue retrospective of Chantal Akerman to a group show celebrating the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto

In pointillist drawings of women urinating in public at Guts Gallery, London, the artist captures moments of feminine solidarity

Highlights also include Gerardo Sámano Córdova’s debut novel and Peggy Gou's first album 

Inspired by Joan Didion's novel, a new group show at Charim Gallery, Vienna, toys with the illusion of choice

The artist’s intricate paintings and multimedia installations at Sadie Coles HQ in London explore themes of artistic labour and concealed influences

Considering this year’s title, ‘Foreigners Everywhere', we look back at how artists have addressed entrenched ideas of nationhood with bold, and at times comical, interventions

In her debut novel, The Extinction of Irena Rey, the writer experiments with form whilst interrogating literary theory and the politics of language 

We met with the artist in her exhibition at London's Pictorum Gallery to discuss how the body shapes her perception of the world

The artist’s survey at the Courtauld Gallery in London skillfully challenges tradition to establish a complex depiction of Black subjects

In a new series of postpartum nudes at Tiwani Contemporary, London, the artist paints a realistic picture of intimate moments

The artist discusses his found-image collection and the mutating, collaborative motifs it inspires within his practice

From new fiction by Isabel Allende to the first Bulgarian novel to win the Man Booker International, the frieze team recommend new favourites and future classics

In the wide-ranging exhibition in Timișoara, Romania, the voices and experiences of Balkan artists resist Western reductionism