Exhibition Reviews

The artists’ installations of components retired from the whisky-distillation process explore sound, labour and materiality

At Sprüth Magers, London, the artist transforms the galleries into a labyrinthine changing room dripping with anticipation of future performances

frieze editor-in-chief Andrew Durbin chooses the best shows to see in the Japanese capital right now

From Camille Henrot’s gossipy solo exhibition at Munch Museum, Oslo, to a group show dedicated to used objects at Thomas Dane, Naples

At Astrup Fearnley Museet, the American visual artist interrogates private and performative spaces of engagement

From a monumental William Kentridge retrospective at The Royal Academy of Arts, London, to Rose B. Simpson’s solo exhibition at ICA/Boston

Archival research projects and the city’s historic venues were the highlights of this year’s somewhat inert biennial

At Thomas Dane, Naples, a group exhibition looks to the found object for inspiration

A set of interrelated conceptual, text- and body-based sculptures and video works at Today Art Museum, Beijing, allows the artist to meditate on individual freedom and geopolitical tensions

At Alison Jacques, London, the Turner Prize-nominated artist recasts Caribbean flora and quotidian objects as symbols of interconnectedness and care

From Somaya Critchlow’s alluring female figures at Maximillian William, London, to William Kentridge’s monumental retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts

At Monique Meloche, Chicago, the artist subverts the worst of American racial stereotyping in briskly emotive figurative paintings

At Maximillian William, London, the artist’s glamorous figures render viewers more than mere witnesses

In two interrelated solo exhibitions at Silverlens, New York, Atienza refuses a touristic gaze of the Philippines’s landscape while Yee urges grassroots governance

At Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, the artist's site-specific installation investigates the ‘incurable experience’ of being female

An elegant retrospective at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, has striking contemporary resonance in a country that remains profoundly unequal

At Newport Street Gallery, London, the artist performatively burnt thousands of his own works 

From Rose B. Simpson’s figurative clay sculptures at the ICA/Boston to an homage of Lucy Lippard’s show of women artists at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, here are the shows currently on our radar

At Museu de Arte de São Paulo, the artist memorializes the Black leaders and notable individuals overlooked in the country’s visual past

At Hepworth Wakefield, the artist’s light-sensitive paintings are an ongoing work in progress