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

Essl Museum, An der Donau-Au 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg/Vienna, AUSTRIA,  23 Feb 2012

In February 2012, Anselm Kiefer, one of the most significant artists of the present day, forms the big opening of the exhibition year in the Essl Museum. A new solo exhibition personally furnished by the collector Karlheinz Essl is on show, with 15 works, among them four new main works from the artist’s latest creative period.

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Vilma Gold, 6 Minerva St, London E2 9EH,  22 Feb 2012

Inspired by the plight of H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, Brian Griffiths’ The Invisible Show at Vilma Gold is an exploration of ‘whether an exhibition can be an absurd feat of invisibility.’

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OUTPOST, 10B Wensum Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 1HR,  21 Feb 2012

OUTPOST is pleased to present Positions, an exhibition of a new series of painting by James Iveson. For this presentation of work at OUTPOST, Iveson has chosen to emphasise the gallery as an interior space, creating a discreet intervention in the building's architecture to softly illuminate and bathe the space in diffused light.

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Gak Bremen, Teerhof 21 28199 Bremen, Germany,  20 Feb 2012

The GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst presents the first major institutional solo exhibition of works by Cathy Wilkes to be staged outside the UK.

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Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD,  19 Feb 2012

The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first major exhibition of new landscape works by David Hockney RA. Featuring vivid paintings inspired by the East Yorkshire landscape, these large-scale works have been created especially for the galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts and are shown alongside related drawings and film. Review by Phoebe Dickerson

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Breese Little, 30d Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, London, EC1V 0DU ,  17 Feb 2012

Back to the Future features the work of seven emerging artists whose interests lie in investigating temporally distant aesthetics, objects and images. Unlikely imagery and forms are drawn together in complementary arrangements, creating new languages and examining old ones. Back to the Future features the work of seven emerging artists whose interests lie in investigating temporally distant aesthetics, objects and images. Unlikely imagery and forms are drawn together in complementary arrangements, creating new languages and examining old ones.

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David Roberts Art Foundation, 111 Great Titchfield Street, London,  17 Feb 2012

Lydia Gifford is interested in the language and the possibilities of painting, of painterly thought, and their allocation and transposal of meaning by subtle actions, gestures and processes within a physical space.

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Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX,  16 Feb 2012

This exhibition, his first major survey show in London, will cover the full range of Shrigley's diverse practice. This extends far beyond drawing to include photography, books, sculpture, animation, painting and music.

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Le Plateau, Place Hannah Arendt, F-75019, Paris,  14 Feb 2012

As the first part of a series of exhibitions devised by Elodie Royer and Yoann Gourmel, guest curators for the 2011-2012 season, the group show The Feeling of Things takes as its point of departure the work and spirit of the inventor, artist, designer, writer, illustrator, graphic designer and teacher, Bruno Munari, “a Peter Pan with the calibre of a Leonardo”, to borrow Pierre Restany’s words.

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MK Gallery, 900 Midsummer Blvd, Milton Keynes, MK9 3QA,  12 Feb 2012

Daria Martin’s first survey exhibition in a UK public gallery presents a selection of short 16mm films made over the last 10 years, including the premier of an ambitious new work, Sensorium Tests.

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Schirn Kunsthalle, Römerberg 1 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany,  12 Feb 2012

Edvard Munch is acclaimed for his vivid Symbolist painting and regarded as a pioneer of Expressionism. For the first time Munch’s interest in modern techniques of creating pictures such as photography and film and modern stage designs will be the focus of attention.

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