Reviews from around the world

Both regional and international artists probe the history and identity of the port city, offering a template for other biennials to stave away hyper-globalist perspectives

At Sharjah Art Foundation, a landmark group exhibition explores art inspired by popular culture in South Asia

With simultaneously mournful and irreverent works, ‘F’ at Empty Gallery is haunted by our inability to process grief in the internet age

At Instituto Moreira Salles, the writer anchors an exploration of Brazilian women’s art and literature in the mid- to late-20th century

A group exhibition at blank projects, Cape Town, brings together artists whose work experiments with the materiality of the earth

‘Still Alive’ registers the inequity inherent in the world while imagining a trajectory to a future unburdened by rigid categories of identity

The collective’s retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada extends from foundational mail art to hard-hitting installations about HIV/AIDS

A group show at Times Museum, Guangzhou, traces waterways in Southeast Asia and the cultures, communities and survival strategies forged in their wake

A group show at Singapore Art Museum’s new outpost invites viewers to discern the flows of capital in contemporary life and imagine more humane systems

A joint exhibition at Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, opens a cross-generational discourse, connecting the two artist’s interests in light and momentary experience

Opening at a time when severe flooding north of the city, the exhibition uneasily aligns with a state of national emergency

At Green Art Gallery, Dubai, the Iranian artist Nazgol Ansarinia reimagines the city’s urban decay in various shades of blue

Organised across five venues, the fourth iteration of the event seeks to place Indigenous cultures and practices front and centre

The newly opened Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute presents the first-ever survey of the autodidact’s long painting career

At Hakanto Contemporary, Antananarivo, a group show attempts to portray a Malagasy identity through figurative and conceptual work

Curated by Jeppe Ugelvig and Poppy Dongxue Wu, the group show at Bejing’s X Museum, questions identity, community and controversial impact of the global fashion industry

At Travesía Cuatro, Mexico City, the two artists illuminate the three-storey gallery space with projected video animations and magic lanterns

A survey at Chishang Art Centre, Taiwan, positions the artist’s tenderly crafted landscapes alongside his lesser-known depictions of handsome young men

At Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, the artist presents a video that addresses the issue of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa