The Sharjah Art Foundation presents ‘Black Pocket’ a survey of the artist’s work exploring memory and inherited trauma at the hands of imperialism

Or, why the Gulf conflicts never really went away

Melissa Gronlund on the best of a bad year: from activists in Jakarta, images of Mecca and labour negotiations in the UAE

Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK

Bohemianism, grass-roots activism, urban regeneration and the voices of the dead

Ed. Bruce Jenkins (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2009)

LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijon, Spain

LUX, London, UK

Sketch, London, UK

Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy

Hal Foster’s recent lecture on the archival strategies of Tacita Dean and Gerard Byrne overlooked a younger generation of artists

For his first London solo show, Swedish-born, Berlin-based artist Alexander Gutke presents a film that offers itself as a modern koan at Hollybush Gardens

BALTIC, Gateshead, UK