UK Reviews

A new film at The Showroom in London unravels a complex and vital history, but covers too much ground

From Yinka Shonibare's bizarre and dreamlike manifestations to a broad retrospective of Hiroshi Sugimoto, spanning decades of conceptually diverse projects on the uncanny 

At White Cube Mason's Yard, the artist’s latest film is a Kafkaesque vision that may leave you pining for the exit

A group show at Pilar Corrias, London, unites work dealing with the natural world and humanity’s impact on it

From Cinga Samson’s ghostly figures to Sam Hutchinson’s reckoning with millennium aesthetics 

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

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

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

From a major Carrie Mae Weems survey in London to a city-wide Biennial in Liverpool 

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

At Gasworks, London, the artist envisions a time when half the world’s population is living in a tropical climate 

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

A grotesque new group show at Sadie Coles HQ, London, addresses sexual power dynamics but tends toward outdated provocation

From an exhibition of Kaye Donachie’s chalky blue, purple and grey portraits to David Aruquipa Pérez’s photographic archive of Bolivian carnival culture

At Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, the artist’s portraits play with the idea of cinematic dissolve to reframe female figures from history

At Phillida Reid, London, a series of elegant ink drawings prods at the art world’s social anxieties

At Auto Italia, London, David Aruquipa Pérez’s photographic archive is an intergenerational and transcultural ode to street activism

At Modern Art Oxford, the artist’s monumental new film examines 15 judges working in England and Wales 

From Marguerite Humeau’s post-apocalyptic world of insects to Michael E. Smith’s unsettling assemblages 

At White Cube, Bermondsey, the artist’s landscapes of objects reckon with ideas of existence and extinction