UK Reviews

The seaside festival returns with 20 new commissions, addressing climate change, coastal erosion, folklore and displacement 

At Thomas Dane Gallery, London, the artist explores how class domination is maintained through the conservation of objects

At Dundee Contemporary Arts, the first UK institutional presentation of the film k.364 ruminates on ancestral trauma, travel and music

Two exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford and Camden Arts Centre, London, examine the impermanence of power

A group exhibition of works by Clémentine Bruno, Mara Fortunatović, Eva Gold and Bella Riza at London’s Nicoletti Contemporary wrestles with ideas of loss, absence and yearning

The artist’s latest show, at Corvi-Mora, London, depicts men stripped of their social identities

At Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, the artist confronts the representation of Black figures in Western art history, erasing the white nobility

Jonathan Watkins’s triumphant swansong, after 23-years at the helm of Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, is the kind of historical show normally reserved for big public institutions

Two major exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Basel and Hayward Gallery unravel the artist’s vulnerabilities through text, textile and the human figure

‘Surrealism Beyond Borders’ is a comprehensive overview of one of the 20th century’s most influential movements

A new exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA, London, invites 47 artists to propose solutions to that reliably problematic artform, the monument

At The Approach, London, the artist’s latest series dissects classical Hollywood headshots and film stills, leaving only the ghostly outlines of absent stars

The artist’s inaugural show at Simon Lee, London, draws from the annals of cinema history – from Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Chantal Akerman

An intimate new exhibition at London’s Two Temple Place explores how Black female artists – from Ladi Kwali to Shawanda Corbett – have reimagined one of the world’s oldest art forms

At New Art Gallery Walsall, a founding member of BLK Art Group depicts the near future through the anxieties of the present

An impassioned show of new works at Sim Smith, London, affirms the artist’s longstanding engagement with queer sisterhood, solidarity and survival

At Seventeen, London, a group show engineered by Joey Holder and Omsk Social Club presents itself as a creepy ‘Squid Game’-esque clinic

At Nottingham Contemporary the group show – billed as an ‘exhibition-as-sci-fi-novel’ – presents a speculative reality shaped by environmental crisis

An overdue show at Tate Modern, London, focuses on the artist’s preoccupation with theatre but fails to enliven her previous triumphs

The artist’s debut UK exhibition at Pilar Corrias, Savile Row, delights through spinning environmental ethics with a grotesque sensibility