EU Reviews

In the wide-ranging exhibition in Timișoara, Romania, the voices and experiences of Balkan artists resist Western reductionism

A retrospective in Helsinki cements the erotic artist’s legacy but fails to connect the dots of his complicated life story

At Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, the artist’s enveloping installation is at once archaic yet futuristic

Featuring a quintet of Italian artists, a group show at Mai 36, Zurich, makes the case for more unsettled and uncomfortable aesthetic forms

For her first solo show dedicated to ceramics, the artist creates a mosaic of free-wheeling motifs from rudimentary forms

At Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, the artist shares a more nuanced and melancholic vision of Hercules, one of art history’s most triumphant figures

A major retrospective of the artist’s hard-to-define work evidences her shapeshifting nature

At the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, the artist’s recent works explore the politics of human production and consumption

A mid-career survey at S.M.A.K., Ghent, posits a new spiritual museology in which we connect to art beyond just representation

From a group show on the psychological and philosophical dimensions of combat in Turin, to Isa Melsheimer’s enchanted ceramics in Vienna

Imbued with cultural history, the artist’s ceramic sculptures embody near-magical properties that hint at a dystopic future

A group show at Castello di Rivoli explores the cultural impact of conflict via the works of artists who have witnessed it

At Campoli Presti, Paris, the artist’s delicate installations respond to texts by two of the 20th-century's most celebrated authors 

The artist's retrospective at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf sees him retreat into childhood pastimes in the face of a changing world

At Fotomuseum Winterthur, ‘Aphasia’ addresses the barriers that the dominance of the French language imposes on civic participation

From Bekhbaatar Enkhtur’s sleeping wax figure at Matèria, Rome, to Cindy Sherman’s baroque selfies in tapestry form at Aarhus Art Museum

At Noah Klink, Berlin, the artist’s dog paintings are disarmingly joyful depictions of human-animal relationships

At M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, the artist’s career retrospective takes influence from Gloria E. Anzaldúa and James Joyce

At Matèria, Rome, the artist’s beeswax sculpture of a key figure in Buddhism reflects a significant moment in Mongolian history

At ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, an exhibition dedicated to tapestries continues the artist's interest in the construction of persona through social media