Exhibition Reviews

From a major Carrie Mae Weems survey in London to a city-wide Biennial in Liverpool 

Khanyisile Mbongwa’s programme addresses the history of international slave trading that haunts its famous docks

At Barbara Wien, Berlin, the artist reevaluates his love of Leonard Cohen in light of the musician’s stance on Palestine

At his studio in Long Island City, New York, the artist presents a multi-channel film that unspools surreally out of a 1978 NFL disaster

At Gasworks, London, the artist envisions a time when half the world’s population is living in a tropical climate 

A survey at The Broad, Los Angeles, balances the artist’s claims of universality with an acknowledgement of his freewheeling appropriation

From Christopher Kulendran Thomas's meditation on art history to an overdue Tom of Finland homecoming

At the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Naarm/Melbourne, the artist’s videos, drawings and found objects engage subversive wordplay and internet culture to undermine gendered, racialized and colonial institutions

At Galleria Massimo Minimi, Brescia, an intervention by Formafantasma celebrates the practice of archiving by looking at how we remember, categorize and read the past

At the centre of the artist’s exhibition at Paris’s Bourse de Commerce is a sophisticated collage of her life in film

At Bonniers Konsthall, Sweden, the artist’s gravity-defying sculptures create a series of unsettling encounters

An exhibition of kaleidoscopic painting at Victoria Miro, London, is a celebration of free love and excess

At Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, the artist recontextualizes artifacts from the country’s colonial and religious past

At Altman Siegel and Minnesota Street Project Foundation, San Francisco, the artist shows a colour-shifted feature-length film and photographs that use controversial Geographic Information Systems technology

At Between Bridges, Berlin, a retrospective of the late artist's work serves as a memorial to his too-short life

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

At anonymous, New York, the downtown artist shows paintings and prints made of roses and hair that pay homage to those lost in the AIDS era of the 1990s and beyond

A grotesque new group show at Sadie Coles HQ, London, addresses sexual power dynamics but tends toward outdated provocation

A retrospective in Helsinki cements the erotic artist’s legacy but fails to connect the dots of his complicated life story