Reviews

Exploring the lingering effects of war, censorship and colonialism on art collections – where do museums entangled in complex histories go from here?

At Coda Culture, Singapore, the artist explores questions of authenticity and agency through sobering, yet tender, documentation of her transition

At San Sebastián’s Tabakalera, hypnotic multimedia installations suggest non-human intelligence can function as a generator of meaning, not just as a tool

At Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London, two series of work from the 1970s show the late artist’s playful, powerful intertwining of text and image

At Bildmuseet, Umeå, the artist’s meticulous, elegant photography interrogates both the natural world and the nature of the human gaze

Exploring the state's complex history alongside debates surrounding Confederate monuments at the SITElines biennial, Santa Fe

Discovering the painter’s complex, intimate documentation of recent Albanian history at the National Gallery of Arts, Tirana

At Galleria Civica’s satellite space, Modena, the artist’s first retrospective explores the latent possibilities of ‘togetherness’

Natural and manmade phenomena intermingle, producing dreamlike forms in the artist’s solo show at PKM Gallery, Seoul

At CRAC, Sète, a group show interrogates both the cultural inscription of gender, and the essentializing tendency of earlier feminist debates

Homoerotic vulnerability marks the late artist's delicate portrayals of imaginary men at Delmes & Zander, Cologne

A survey of Tish Murtha’s work at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, shows the compassion and conviction of the late documentary photographer

Works by 13 Aboriginal artists prompt reflection on the 1828 atrocity, one which represents the countless other colonial battles fought in Australia

The artist draws on psychoanalysis and an ancient calendar to explore the idea that life has a predetermined narrative at Barbara Wien, Berlin

Six-years in the making, the comprehensive ‘Museum of Obsessions’ tracks the life and work of the prolific and enormously ambitious curator 

Two new exhibitions, at the Wiener Library and the Freud Museum, fastidiously document these landmark moments in history

At Gasworks, London, the sea is an archive of disaster, but one containing depths of potential 

‘This retrospective portrays an inveterate outsider, a champion of the different and disempowered, as a fixture of a canon he reviled’

Needling, absorptive works animate a biennial in the midst of murky socio-political circumstances

For the first show at S1 Artspace's new home in the Brutalist housing estate, two photographers who documented it in the 1960s and ’80s