Critic's Guides

From a retrospective of Josh Kline in New York to the ‘Made in LA’ biennial, here are the best stateside exhibitions of the year

From a biennale in three neighbouring Kosovar cities to the relaunch of an institution in Berlin featuring two days of blessings, performances, readings and rituals

From a solo show by Alejandro Piñeiro Bello at KDR to an archival exhibition of local legends at Miami-Dade Public Library

From Candice Lin's tales of demonic transformation to Elif Saydam's overlapping of schmaltz and camp

From Arisa Kumagai’s ecclesiastical symbolism to Rika Minamitani’s carnivalesque paintings, here are the shows to see in Japan’s capital

From Yinka Shonibare's bizarre and dreamlike manifestations to a broad retrospective of Hiroshi Sugimoto, spanning decades of conceptually diverse projects on the uncanny 

From Shellie Zhang’s altars to elusive homelands to Anna Boghiguian’s chessboard of historical icons

From a group show at Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, exploring the marginalized and transient to Frank Sweeney’s 1970s bedroom at EVA International in Ireland

From Mamma Andersson's gothic paintings at David Zwirner to an examination of American mythologies at Bourse de Commerce

From a rare display of works by Anna Mendelssohn at Whitechapel Gallery to Ellie Pratt’s distorted female portraits at South Parade

From Sarah Lucas’s hotly anticipated retrospective at Tate Britain to Christian Marclay’s Kafkaesque Nightmare at White Cube Mason’s Yard

From Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s first institutional solo show in the US at the New Museum to Elle Perez’s semi-abstract photographs at 47 Canal

From a survey of African fashion at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, to Florian Krewer’s animalistic oil paintings at Aspen Art Museum

From Nathanaëlle Herbelin’s stunning depictions of quotidian encounters to Javier Barrios’s evocations of Buddhist hell scrolls 

From a Nicole Eisenman survey at Museum Brandhorst to new AI-generated paintings by WangShui at Haus der Kunst

From Iole de Freitas’s works from the 1970s to Carolina Cordeiro’s zinc-coated sculptures

From Kim Beom's humorous works at Leeum Museum of Art to Jaeseok Lee's enigmatic paintings at Gallery Baton, these are the shows to see in the Korean capital

From Edita Schubert’s performative paintings at Galerie Molitor, Berlin, to Sin Wai Kin’s new video installation at Fondazione Memmo, Rome

From Lee Bull’s exploration of failed utopias in Gothenburg to a group exhibition on the arctic region in Umeå

From Shikh Sabbir Alam's wild flora and fauna to Camille Norment's sonic feedback loops