Exhibition Reviews

A group exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, reconfigures our engagement with the structures and systems that support and shelter us

In a live commission and a new video work at CARA, New York, the artist complicates embodied histories of racialization, violence and resistance

From Tetsuya Ishida’s disaffected oil paintings at Gagosian, New York, to Ato Ribeiro’s wooden weavings at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta

At Chisenhale Gallery in London, the artist explores the disquieting potential of waiting rooms, doctors' offices and sickbeds

At Green Art Gallery, Dubai, a group exhibition underscores the significance of textile art and its ability to weave together a narrative of meaning

Multi-media sculptures and a video work installed at the Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, create a playfully immersive environment

At its best, the artist’s London survey is a ferocious display of courage, while at its worst, it feels like a tribute act

At Regen Projects, Los Angeles, the artist’s multi-media works explore the similarities between entertainment and state oppression

At Gagosian, New York, paintings that blend surrealism and social realism depict the disaffection of modern workers

At Soft Opening, London, Hendrickje Schimmel challenges linear constructs of creation and usage by manipulating end-of-life materials

At WIELS in Brussels, the artists present a multimedia dystopia of disenchanted desires and endless searching

At Layr, Vienna, a group exhibition reminds viewers of the culture-crossing and nonconformist possibilities of artworks

At David Zwirner, New York, plants drawn from Eastern Nigeria and Los Angeles coexist with figures and settings sourced from magazines, books and family photographs

At W-galería, the artist collaborates with Guaraní weavers in a decolonial project of self-representation 

​At Sprüth Magers, the artist visually renders our hackneyed vocabularies around anxiety and care

At Sargent’s Daughters, New York, empathetic oil paintings suggest healing through revisitation

Ireland’s biennial of contemporary art delicately weaves weighty issues into Limerick’s surroundings

Portland’s arts biennial, Converge 45, adopts an idealist vision of what it means to be a citizen of the world

At Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf, the artist’s new series riff on conceptualism but reflect the alienation of our times

While ‘Choreographies of the Impossible’ stumbles curatorially, this edition nevertheless feels vital and exciting