Melissa Gronlund

The Sharjah Art Foundation presents ‘Black Pocket’ a survey of the artist’s work exploring memory and inherited trauma at the hands of imperialism

Or, why the Gulf conflicts never really went away

Melissa Gronlund on the best of a bad year: from activists in Jakarta, images of Mecca and labour negotiations in the UAE

Machines, magic and music; perception, the body and beyond

Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK

Bohemianism, grass-roots activism, urban regeneration and the voices of the dead

Ed. Bruce Jenkins (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2009)

LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijon, Spain

LUX, London, UK

Sketch, London, UK

For his first London solo show, Swedish-born, Berlin-based artist Alexander Gutke presents a film that offers itself as a modern koan at Hollybush Gardens

BALTIC, Gateshead, UK