Renato Leotta employs moonlight, waves, dry-stone walls and ‘southern thought’ in order to ‘slow down time’

The queer cyberfeminist pioneer’s Taiwan Pavilion in Venice explores surveillance, pleasure and control

Can Natascha Süder Happelmann succeed in doing away with national ‘representation’ altogether?

Ahead of representing Canada at the 58th Venice Biennale, the director discusses his 30-year career making films about Inuit life

To address the ‘interesting times’ alluded to in the title of the 58th Venice Biennale, we must challenge the language we use to describe them

An exhibition at Seventeen, London, reflects upon the precarious world that the arts professional must negotiate

A retrospective of the late Iranian-American director at Berlin’s KW Institute for Contemporary Art shows society in ruin

Artists Barby Asante, Libita Clayton and Ashley Holmes are reimagining what it means to go back home

This specially-commissioned visual essay by Tony Cokes draws from theorist Kodwo Eshun’s moving epitaph for his friend, the critic Mark Fisher

From Mx Justin Vivian Bond to Andy Warhol: fan artists in New York

An exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, examines Johns’s recent paintings and how the artist’s intentions remain steadfastly encrypted

From viral slime to medieval botany, these artists are probing the margins of mainstream knowledge 

How archival collections are being re-animated via new technologies

After years in the critical wilderness, Pattern and Decoration, the first postmodern art movement, is being reassessed by a number of exhibitions in Europe and the US 

Against a growing digital landscape, cinema magazines dedicated to print are on the rise

The artist takes us through her multi-faceted practice, now on view in her retrospective at Museum Ludwig, Cologne 

Online feuds, real lives and artistic licence

Q: What do you like the look of? A: A clear bright sky in the morning

In a solo exhibition at kurimanzutto, Mexico City, the artist’s hanging sculptures are, like human beings, contingent, needy and ever-changing

Concurrent exhibitions at mother’s tankstation in Dublin and London are the product of more than 40 years of patiently observing the surrounding world

On the emergence of transgender literature

At Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the Karachi-born artist’s first solo exhibition in Russia sees Western modernisms turned against themselves

The artist depicts the archetypal women of the golden age of film – or reveals them through their absence

At Berlin’s Galerie Neu, a small triumph for nightlife anti-hero Daniel Pflumm, his first show at the gallery in 15 years

Combining baroque design with folk tradition, the late artist’s work asks: is pattern not the motor of creation?

From food delivery apps to public transport, the Berlin-based artists reflect on the changing face of urban life

Body and landscape converge in the groundbreaking painter’s first US retrospective at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

Her retrospective at the Met is a five-decade meditation on the vastness of the cosmos and the insignificance of human life

Linder’s ‘Full Service’ at MUDAM, Luxembourg, enacts a clever service economy between performer, viewer and museum

In a solo show at the McCord Museum, Montreal, the Cree artist’s alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, confronts the horrors of Canadian history

Ellis’s paintings are spring-loaded with overlapping references to film and television, current events, art and cartoons.

A retrospective at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, showcases the forms and themes that underpin the artist’s singular career

The symbolism of a failed property development in Turkey 

Varda (1928-2019) provided a blueprint for an experimental, politically-radical, idiosyncratically personal and wide-eyed humanist cinema

‘Musicality and Humour’ shows the artist at his spontaneous best

In two New York gallery shows, the artist’s domestic sets and portraits of celebrities drive home questions of representation in the culture industry

For 40 years, the Italian artist’s work has ‘shocked us into new realities’

Once labelled a ‘TV terrorist’, the video artist returns with her first posthumous retrospective at Red Bull Arts New York

The Barcelona-based artist’s survey at Lisbon’s MAAT shows the breadth of his experiments in urban architectures and rudimentary materials

‘Wherever he is now, I know he is waiting for me. There is so much we did not have the time to address’

In style as well as substance, the late curator embodied a politics of inclusivity

The late artist Knud Viktor painted a sonic portrait of the non-human world

A show at London’s Cabinet Gallery gives insight into the great writer’s most troubled period

For his first solo show at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, the artist’s five rapturous landscapes channel the cries of condemned and enslaved bodies under empire

A tribute to the late curator and his belief in the primacy of documentation

The London-based sculptor’s new show at Kunstverein München delves into the queasy malleability of bodies

A Wunderkammer-like exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield shows objects from all times and places alongside the artist’s own ceramic vessels

A tribute to the late curator’s support of artists in South Africa and how his writing on them ‘revealed something of his acute sense for history’

A tribute to the Nigeria-born poet, critic and ‘most important curator of his generation’, who persistently bid us to open our eyes

Gaby Sahhar’s solo show explores London city life via pen-and-ink drawings and a video

Two parallel exhibitions in LA, at Blum & Poe and Nonaka-Hill gallery, show how Japanese artists of the 1980s and ‘90s confronted Postmodernism

At Nottingham Contemporary, the artist reflects on intertwined histories of data and digging

A new show at Collective, Edinburgh, makes poetry of physical actions