UK Reviews

From Marlene Dumas’s melancholic paintings to Gary Hume’s precise depictions of flora and fauna, here’s what not to miss this autumn

A new exhibition at Sprüth Magers, London, showcases the artist’s distinctive style, reimagining animals and humans through layered forms and enigmatic reflections

An unsettling outdoor performance in Edinburgh combines live and pre-recorded voices to directly confront Conservative MP Suella Braverman’s incendiary rhetoric

Major surveys at the Serpentine Galleries, London, and the LUMA Foundation, Arles, celebrate the artist's enduring dedication to feminist practice and social justice

At South London Gallery, the artist weaves folklore, history and personal narratives into a vibrant tapestry exploring cultural identity and imagination

At the Whitechapel Gallery in London, the artist’s haunting sculptures examine the lingering impacts of colonialism and the enduring weight of the past on diasporic futures

The artists’ solo exhibitions in a 1950s port building draw inspiration from James Joyce, shedding new light on forgotten relics

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

The artist’s latest show at Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE, London, intertwines myth with history and memory

The artist’s Turner Prize-nominated exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is a lyrical meditation on cultural loss

The artist's short films document how children from across the world navigate their environment through play

At Kate MacGarry, London, the artist’s accomplished ceramic fragrance vessels reference East-West trade, exoticism and narratives about place

At Grand Union in Birmingham, the collective collaborates with sound artist utopian_realism on a show foregrounding access and highlighting art world burnout

 

At V.O Curations in London, the artist attempts to navigate the overwhelming influx of imagery in contemporary culture

At the artist’s exhibition at David Zwirner in London, conventional concerns of portraiture become richly complex when combined with such enigmatic subjects

Dreamlike landscapes and eerie memories weave together, forming a captivating blend of the past and present at London’s GRIMM Gallery

The artist’s debut solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery in London features a compelling mix of objects, tapestries and installations, creating ritualistic compositions from an array of material

A series of monochrome photos at Soft Opening, London, allows viewers to peek into Berlin porn cinemas, offering only slight hints of the people inside

In a new series of paintings at White Cube Mason’s Yard, the artist interrogates the political and social subjugation of women’s bodies down to the bone

A show at Auto Italia in London contains an archive of Ryszard Kisiel ‘Filo’, one of the first LGBTQ+ magazines in Central and Eastern Europe