Lawrence Abu Hamdan

From Martin Margiela’s underwhelming solo exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, to a tech-savvy edition of the Athens Biennale, here's European shows on everyone's radar 

In his current exhibition at the Kunstverein Nürnberg, the artist continues his career-long negotiation of the gulf between what we say and how we are heard

From Shanghai-based artist Yu Ji’s national debut to the largest exhibition to date of British surrealist Eileen Agar, these are the must-see shows

In a time of heightened vulnerability, new media lends itself to the Arab diaspora, reconstructing ideals of exit, nationalism and things lost

The Austrian art festival creatively rethinks ways of exhibition-making during a pandemic with a collection of commissioned TV shows

Hardline, right-wing policies restrict entry to the country to ‘the great minds’

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani fill Margate’s Turner Contemporary with imagined communities and cities

From political caricatures to self-contradictory statements by Donald Trump, this year’s edition of the biennial pays tribute to the potential of satire

Institutional incorrectness aside, the 2019 shortlist is an exciting, politically-charged collection of artists

This year’s nominees are Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani

Short films at the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam give primacy to music and voice

At the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève this year's editions attempts to collapse the boundary between screen and spectator 

With galleries reopening after the summer break, a guide to the best of the new season shows in the capital

The artist-investigator tunes his work to the undocumented, the surveilled, immigrants and prisoners; those fleeing the talons of the state

Nottingham Contemporary, UK

Ahead of the Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair this weekend, a guide to the best shows in the city

In further news: Jack Whitten (1939-2018); Nan Goldin campaigns against Sackler Family’s OxyContin links; sexual misconduct in UK museums emerge

Artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on the pivotal sounds and stories from 2017, from historical fiction to Vince Staples’s representation of race

Tate Senior Curator Andrea Lissoni reveals the four works acquired at Frieze London 2017

Contemporary Art Society and Frieze Tate Fund acquisitions at Frieze London; protests over MAM São Paulo performance