SWG3 Gallery, 100 Eastvale Place, Glasgow,  9 Jan 2013

LAST CHANCE will be the opportunity to show a work for the first time, a piece that has been sitting in the studio or in the artist’s mind for a while.

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La Loge, Kluisstraat - rue de l’Ermitage 86 B-1050 Brussels,  8 Jan 2013

La Loge, an unconventional artistic platform that opened in September in a former freemason’s temple in Ixelles, currently hosts ‘The Ceremony and the Spirit’. The title of the exhibition was the starting point for a site-specific artistic dialogue between American photographer Roe Ethridge (°1969) and Belgium-based Canadian artist Zin Taylor (°1978) within the building’s exceptional architecture.

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mumok, MuseumsQuartier Museumsplatz 1, A-1070 Wien,  7 Jan 2013

Alejandro Cesarco’s work (b. 1975 in Montevideo, Uruguay) continues in the tradition of conceptual art. His works contain thematic references to popular culture, art history and literature.

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Ori Gersht, Falling Bird, 2008 from Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art on Vimeo.

Ori Gersht, Big Bang, 2006 from Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art on Vimeo.

Ori Gersht, Pomegranate, 2006 from Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art on Vimeo.

The Modern Institute, 14—20 Osborne Street, Glasgow G1 5QN,  2 Jan 2013

Sosnowska creates minimal architectonic structures that respond to the social, political, and psychological use of space. Her works are influenced by the Socialist construction dominant within former Communist Eastern European states, and inherent to the environment the artist herself grew up in. The stark building style, shaped by politically charged systems, has now become an expression of stagnation, a factor, which Sosnowska rekindles within her work.

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International Project Space, School of Art Bournville, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Maple Road, Birmingham B30 2AA,  20 Dec 2012

The artist Andrea Büttner considers shame to be a useful emotion, as it can drive an individual to greater productivity and reflection...

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Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG,  19 Dec 2012

This exhibition will take a new look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting since 1950. Contrasting key paintings by Jackson Pollock and David Hockney, the exhibition considers two different approaches to the idea of the canvas as an arena in which to act: one gestural, the other theatrical. Review by Simon Bayliss.

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ROWING, Unit F, 449 Holloway Road, London N7 6LJ,  18 Dec 2012

Frank! is an exhibition of newly produced works by Francesco Pedraglio and in the second part of the show beginning Friday 11 January, a collaboration with eight other artists (Nina Beier, Paul Becker, Alex Cecchetti, David Raymond Conroy, Chosil Kil, Marie Lund, Simon Dybbroe Møller and Robert Frank) directly or indirectly invited by Pedraglio in relation to some of the ideas underpinning the exhibition. Review by Tom Snow.

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