Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London, SE1 0LN,  29 Jan 2013

The recipients of the Jerwood/Film and Video Umbrella Awards, Ed Atkins and Naheed Raza, premiere their ambitious new commissions as the second part of the exhibition Tomorrow Never Knows. Review by Emily Burns.

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Flat Time House, 210 Bellenden Road, London, SE15 4BW,  29 Jan 2013

Flat Time House opened its adjoining flat as a permanent residency space in 2012. For his first solo show in London, Stuart Whipps presents an exhibition of work made while in residence. Review by Karl Musson

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Carroll/Fletcher, 56 - 57 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8EQ,  28 Jan 2013

Over the past twenty-five years, Grey has engaged in a recursive, playful exploration of our concept of development and its consequences. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in the UK since 1992. Review by Yvette Greslé

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Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Nyhavn 2, 1051 Copenhagen K Denmark,  27 Jan 2013

Charlottenborg is proud to present the first institutional solo exhibition in Scandinavia by the American artist Leigh Ledare. The exhibition, entitled Leigh Ledare, et al., consists of photographs, texts, film and archival material. Ledare’s works are controversial in subject matter and feature people from the artist’s own life: his mother, his ex-wife, collectors and patrons as well as himself, often in situations of a sexual nature.

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Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London, NW3 6DG,  24 Jan 2013

Film in Space is a group exhibition selected by British artist-filmmaker Guy Sherwin. The exhibition focuses on expanded cinema, a film movement which came to prominence in Britain in the early 1970s, at the time Sherwin started making films.

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Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London, E3 5QZ,  24 Jan 2013

A solo exhibition by Helen Marten, featuring a new body of sculptural works set within a bespoke installation environment. This is Marten’s first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery. It closes this Sunday.

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Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7QX,  23 Jan 2013

Descending from phrases such as ‘top dog’ and ‘king of the hill’ into macho mantras such as ‘rule with an iron hand’, the latest paintings of American artist Mel Bochner (b. 1940) use a thesaurus to generate word chains that are both mordantly funny and bursting with colour. Review by Lizzie Pearson

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BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead, NE8 3BA,  22 Jan 2013

'The Rinse Cycle' is the first full-scale international survey of the Los Angeles based artist Jim Shaw, bringing together paintings, drawings, sculptures and videos from the last 25 years. Review by Catherine Spencer

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S.M.A.K., Citadelpark, 9000 Ghent ,  21 Jan 2013

‘Maybe One Must Begin with Some Particular Places’, at S.M.A.K. in Ghent presents an overview of the work of Danish artist Joachim Koester (°1962, Copenhagen), which brings together videos, texts and photography to explore the tangible tension between fact and fiction while adding new layers to already told (hi)stories.

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Art Mûr, 5826 St-Hubert, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H2S 2L7,  20 Jan 2013

In his show entitled ‘London Set’ at Art Mur, Montreal, Canada Jakub Dolejs presents 12 stunningly beautiful chromogenic prints that invite us to reconsider the nature of photography.

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Institute of Contemporary Arts The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH,  18 Jan 2013

27 November 2012 - 13 January 2013 Bloomberg New Contemporaries returns to the ICA for the third year running with this year’s selectors: Cullinan Richards, Nairy Baghramian and Rosalind Nashashibi.

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