Carroll / Fletcher, 56 - 57 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8EQ,  11 Mar 2012

A4 paper, photocopiers, electric sanders, desk fans, ladders, light shades, lamps, chairs, cardboard boxes, bulldog clips; John Wood and Paul Harrison use the props of everyday life in the creation of minimal, enigmatic tableaux.

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Der Kunstverein, seit 1817. Klosterwall 23 20095 Hamburg,  9 Mar 2012

For the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Gert & Uwe Tobias (*1973 in Brasvo, Romania, living in Cologne) have developed an installation that makes the entire location something of a window into the fantastical contents of their minds.

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Deichtorhallen Hamburg GmbH, Deichtorstraße 1-2, 20095 Hamburg,  8 Mar 2012

»Leiter is a rare artist, one whose vision is so encompassing, so refined, so in touch with a certain lyrical undertone, that his best photographs occasionally seem literally to transcend the medium.« Jane Livingston

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K21 STÄNDEHAUS, Ständehausstraße 1, 40217 Düsseldorf,  7 Mar 2012

Since his much-acclaimed work for the Czech and Slovakian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of 2009, Roman Ondák (born 1966, lives in Bratislava) has been regarded as a key figure among younger artists who have taken up and developed the traditions of conceptual, process-oriented, and installation art in strikingly independent ways.

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Space Studio, 129—131 Mare Street, London, E8 3RH,  6 Mar 2012

Moving image work by Hex, a rave-culture period collaboration between video graphic artists Hardwire and DJ/producers Coldcut. Review by Ciara Moloney. Until 4th March

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Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Frihamnen, SE – 115 56 Stockholm, Sweden,  5 Mar 2012

Magasin 3 presents the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in his first solo exhibition in Sweden. The exhibition will focus on a number of Ai Weiwei’s monumental installations and his political work. A reading room which will also include documentary films will give visitors a chance to learn about his multifaceted efforts to foster social change in China—an activism that puts him on a collision course with the regime.

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Hamburger Kunsthalle, Glockengießerwall 20095, Hamburg,  4 Mar 2012

The exhibition Müde Helden deals with the utopian ideal of the 'Neue Mensch' ('new man') and its history in the 20th century.

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'For Arrows' Emma Hart from Film and Video Umbrella on Vimeo.

Kadist Art Foundation, fondation pour l'art contemporain - 19bis/21 rue des Trois Frères, 75018 Paris,  2 Mar 2012

Enacting Populism is an on-going research on the possible relationships between art practices and the populist aesthetics that connotes the current zeitgeist. February 18 – April 22, 2012

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Ed Atkins, 'Death Mask 3', 2011. Extract. from Film and Video Umbrella on Vimeo.

,  29 Feb 2012

100 Years of the Contemporary Art Society - What's Next? Inside Public Collections features vital conversations about curating, patronage and the cultural identity of Museums and the significance of collections on the artist and creative practitioner. Review by Maggie Gray

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Lisson Gallery, 52-54 Bell Street, London, NW1 5DA,  28 Feb 2012

Lisson Gallery is pleased to present a major retrospective of video and new works by Santiago Sierra. The exhibition features fifty-three videos that fall into three distinctive groups; performance based works, video documents of sculptural projects and programmed films.

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MoMA, 11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019,  27 Feb 2012

The Museum of Modern Art presents the exhibition Cindy Sherman, a retrospective tracing the groundbreaking artist’s career from the mid-1970s to the present, from February 26 to June 11, 2012.

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Haus der Kunst, Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 Munich, Germany,  26 Feb 2012

The exhibition in Haus der Kunst is the first comprehensive presentation of the works of Thomas Ruff (b. 1958) in more than ten years. It chronologically tracks his artistic development. It shows groups of works that made Ruff famous internationally in the 1980s; like his series of interiors, or the portraits whose creative concept contradicted traditional convention that states that a successful portrait must offer a psychologizing interpretation. Ruff’s realistic and punctilious presentation of the surface of expressionless faces changed the perception of photographic portraits.

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A virtual experience of Miriam Cahn's paintings at the gallery from Elizabeth Dee on Vimeo.