Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR, UK,  19 Jan 2012

Painting Show is part of a series of group productions examining modes of display and the construction of a public sphere — the gallery. The series started with ‘This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things’ in 2008, followed by ‘Sculpture Show’ and ‘Abstract Cabinet Show’ in 2009, ‘Curtain Show’ and ‘Book Show’ in 2010, and ‘Narrative Show’ in 2011

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Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of Contemporary Art - Berlin Invalidenstr. 50-51, D - 10557 Berlin,  18 Jan 2012

Tomás Saraceno's installations shatter traditional concepts relating to place, time, gravity and traditional ideas as to what constitutes architecture. His works are utopian and invite the viewer to play a part in their impact on a particular space, as they reach up to the sky and down to the ground.

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Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz 18, D-34117 Kassel ,  17 Jan 2012

With JULY, IV, MDCCLXXVI, Danh Vo shifts the focus of his artistic investigations to the concept of freedom. The title designates 4 July 1776, the date of the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.

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Antwerp (M HKA), Kunsthalle Bern, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and Freie Universität Berlin.,  16 Jan 2012

The exhibition Animism. Modernity through the Looking Glass takes up the current broad-based reassessment of modernity, examining the ethnological conception of animism as it was framed in the context of colonialism as well as the concept of animism in psychoanalysis.

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BAWAG Contemporary, Franz Josefs Kai 3, 1010 Vienna,  15 Jan 2012

BAWAG Contemporary is pleased to be able to show new works by the Dutch artist Erik van Lieshout. The exhibition centers around the film Commission from 2011, which will be presented in an installation setting that combines sculptural elements, drawings, and adhesive foils and oscillates between stage, catwalk, and shop.

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projects arts center, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland,  12 Jan 2012

“Oh come on Simon, he’s made some good projects. Remember the hedge fund he did at the ICA managed by monkeys? He earned two million pounds! Didn’t even have to pay the monkeys!...”

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MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt/Main, Domstraße 10 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany,  12 Jan 2012

"Manitoba" is a series of works capturing the lives of teenage gang members of First Nations origin in their urban surroundings in Winnipeg, the provincial capital of the Canadian territory of Manitoba.

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Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, 123 Kennington Road, London SE11 6SF,  9 Jan 2012

Louisa Fairclough’s practices of drawing, sound and image installation come vibrantly together in her first solo show at Danielle Arnaud. Ambitious, lyrical and rigorous this body of work rises to the responsibility of the elegy.

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Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Nyhavn 2, 1051 Copenhagen K, Denmark,  6 Jan 2012

This exhibition features two major works by Simon Starling (born in England in 1967, based in Copenhagen). Starling is one of the most significant European artists of his generation, and a master story-teller of a very contemporary kind.

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Kunstverein Hannover, sophienstraße 2, 30159, Hannover, Germany,  5 Jan 2012

The Irish artist Eva Rothschild (born 1972, lives and works in London) is one of the most important protagonists of a generation of young artists dealing with the formal aspects of sculpture. Influenced by minimalism of the nineteen sixties and seventies, Eva Rothschild’s works convince through their tension-filled combinations of such diverse materials as leather, paper, Plexiglas, wood and metal.

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Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London, W2 3XA,  3 Jan 2012

Pape was a founding member of the Neo Concrete movement, which was dedicated to the inclusion of art into everyday life. Pape’s early work developed out of an interest in European abstraction. However, she and her contemporaries went beyond simply adopting an international style, and started to draw on their own local situation. Review by Morgan Quaintance

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