Exhibition Reviews

An ambitious exhibition in Los Angeles invites different interpretation of feminism to promote a collective resistance to systemic sexism

A survey at Chishang Art Centre, Taiwan, positions the artist’s tenderly crafted landscapes alongside his lesser-known depictions of handsome young men

At Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, the artist presents a video that addresses the issue of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa

At Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, the painter displays the medium's expansive possibilities with subtle disturbances in composition and colour

From Naama Tasbar’s sound installation at the Bass Museum, Miami, to Diane Severin Nguyen’s K-pop video on modern-day revolution, here are the must-see shows in the US. 

At Galería Curro, Guadalajara, the artist presents an immersive installation featuring neon sculptures and photographs visualizing the malleability of time

A characteristically understated exhibition at The Modern Institute uses light and domestic materials to allude to inimical forces at play in the home

An exhibition at Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, showcases the painter’s unfussy yet intimate studies of behaviour and mundanity

From a major retrospective by Renée Green to Małgorzata Mirga-Tas's patchwork quilts, these are the best exhibitions of the year

A joint retrospective at KW Institute for Contemporary Art and daadgalerie, Berlin, displays the US-based artist’s critical passion for the artefacts she uncovers

At SculptureCenter, New York, the artist’s new, K-Pop inspired, video sees revolution as an illness

The artist’s retrospective at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, considers how smells can speak to discourses around capital, class and colonization

At The Box, Plymouth, the paradigm-shifting show presents more than 300 paintings, sculptures, ceramics, weavings and films in blazing celebration of the profoundly rich culture

An intimate show of 12 paintings at Salon 94, New York, showcases the Egyptian-born artist’s dreamlike tableaux 

At Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, the artist presents a suite of hand-sewn paintings affectionately depicting day-to-day domesticities and family life

At Bonner Kunstverein, the late Filipino artist’s first European retrospective is a poetic tribute to an oeuvre that refuses to be categorized

The solo exhibition at Maureen Paley, London, expands the artist’s long-established interests in animism, cosmology and non-Western folklore traditions

A modest survey at the Museum of Modern of Art, New York, celebrates the trailblazing career of an often-overlooked fluxus artist

The artist’s survey exhibition at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, explores Spanish cultural and socio-political practices and how collective belonging is intertwined with cultural production

The best shows to see this winter – from the George Michael-inspired TULCA Festival in Galway to an archive exhibition of Phyllis Christopher’s photographs in Birmingham