Issue 238

At KIN, Brussels, the artist’s androgynous figures are trapped in a state of leisurely calm 

At the Swiss Institute, New York, Jac Leirner's sculptures and installations of discarded objects suggest the unseen exchanges of everyday life

At SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, ‘Conspicuous Invisibility’ examines the perceptions of identity, history and the African diaspora

An exhibition of video work at MoCA Taipei highlights the affinities between the regions but also the logistical hurdles that prevent full reciprocal exchange

From balletic sculptures to cyborg imagery, a group show at Gathering, London, delves into the vulnerability of our bodies

At the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the artist’s works are simultaneously maps, bodies and repositories

A retrospective at Albertina, Vienna, reintroduces audiences to one of Austria's most provocative feminist artists

At Spike Island, Bristol, the artist captures the flux of queer existence in collages of gender non-conforming figures throughout time

An untitled exhibition at The Renaissance Society, Chicago, explores the friction between the artworld’s emphasis on in-person experience and its dependence on mediation 

At Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia, the artist creates an elaborate send off for a series which followed the ‘courtship’ of two famous monuments

At Kunsthal Charlottenborg, the artist’s ecclesiastical paintings channel the ethereal visions of William Blake and the earthy primitivism of Paul Gauguin

A sparse exhibition at David Zwirner, London, sees the artist embrace pointillism, but her subjects remain the same: beautiful men 

Khanyisile Mbongwa’s programme addresses the history of international slave trading that haunts its famous docks

At his studio in Long Island City, New York, the artist presents a multi-channel film that unspools surreally out of a 1978 NFL disaster

An exhibition of kaleidoscopic painting at Victoria Miro, London, is a celebration of free love and excess

At Altman Siegel and Minnesota Street Project Foundation, San Francisco, the artist shows a colour-shifted feature-length film and photographs that use controversial Geographic Information Systems technology

At anonymous, New York, the downtown artist shows paintings and prints made of roses and hair that pay homage to those lost in the AIDS era of the 1990s and beyond