Brass, Avenue Van Volxemlaan 364, 1190 Brussels (Forest), (next to Wiels),  12 Apr 2013

POPPOSITIONS

POPPOSITIONS is a pop-up fair changing location each year and working with artists who are known for their site-specific practice. Ahead of their second edition, George Major examines the pop-up phenomenon in the art world and the conditions that enable and drive the format.

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Stephenson Works, South Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3PE,  11 Apr 2013

Rubén Grilo: The Need For Speed

Rubén Grilo is the second of three artists to provide a central position in a series of sequential exhibitions and events co-curated with the artists and CIRCA Projects at Stephenson Works throughout the Space Release programme. Review by Michael Mulvihill.

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Café Curio Visual Thinking: A history of the Penny Gaff, filmed at Camden Arts Centre



Dr Ann Featherstone presents a history of the unlicensed, riotous Penny Gaff theatres of 19th Century London, staging bawdy tales mixing popular myth and contemporary satire. Programmed to accompany the Serena Korda exhibition.

Steinway Hall, 44 Marylebone Lane, Westminster, London,  10 Apr 2013

The Memory of W. T. Stead

“I lay my ten fingers on the keyboard and imagine music. My fingers copy this mental image as I press the keys… The anatomical reality of my hands and the configuration of the piano keyboard have transformed my imaginary constructs.” György Sándor Ligeti (1923-2006) Cassie Yukawa and Lundahl&Seitl collaborate on an immersive tour of Steinway Hall. Review by Maggie Gray.

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Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham B9 4AR,  9 Apr 2013

Puppet Show

Eastside Projects is revealed as a 'puppet state' gone rogue. Review by Beth Bramich.

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JVA at Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London SE1 0LN,  8 Apr 2013

Jerwood Painting Fellowships 2013

The second edition of the Jerwood Painting Fellowships, which aims to support and promote exceptional emerging painters in the first five years of their professional practice. Review by Simon Bayliss.

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Jonathan Viner, 17a Adam's Row London W1K 2LA,  7 Apr 2013

Max Farago: Look Like Barbie, Smoke Like Marley

Jonathan Viner is pleased to present Look Like Barbie, Smoke Like Marley, an exhibition of new works by Max Farago. The exhibition samples a 2012 project in which Farago located a temporary troupe of subjects at marginal settings in the Los Angeles landscape—post-foreclosure McMansions, icy shopping malls, overcrowded pool patios—with results that are seemingly overfamiliar, but actually unprecedented.

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BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Bruxelles,  5 Apr 2013

Neo Rauch: The Obsession of the Demiurge. Selected Works 1993-2012

"The very first retrospective in Belgium of internationally acclaimed German painter Neo Rauch who, with his monumental canvases full of drama, violence and mystery, has almost single-handedly made figurative painting cool again" - review by Rebecca Castermans

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Sheraton Park Lane Hotel, Piccadilly, London W1J 7BX,  4 Apr 2013

Ivan's Ecstasy

CHEWDAY'S first exhibition, featuring Bryan Dooley, Ed Fornieles and Alistair Frost, was staged for a single evening in the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel. Review by Ciara Moloney.

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Barbican Centre, Silk Street London, EC2Y 8DS,  3 Apr 2013

The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns

Exploring one of the most important chapters in the history of contemporary art, the exhibition focuses on Marcel Duchamp’s American legacy, tracing his relationship to four great modern masters – composer, John Cage, choreographer, Merce Cunningham, and visual artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Review by Simon Bayliss.

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Z33 House for Contemporary Art: Zuivelmarkt 33, B-3500 Hasselt,  2 Apr 2013

Space Odyssey 2.0

Will there ever be astronaut geese flying to the moon? A group exhibition contemplates the possibilities of space in the contemporary era. Review by Annelies Thoelen.

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Stephen Friedman Gallery, 25-28 Old Burlington St, London W1S 3AN,  1 Apr 2013

Yinka Shonibare: Pop!

Pop! Bubbles, bankers and a contemporary last supper feature in Yinka Shonibare's latest display. Review by Kate Pantling.

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Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol BS1 6UX,  29 Mar 2013

Uriel Orlow: Back to Back

Two towns from the South Caucasus - Mush, Northern Armenia and Mush, Eastern Turkey - are depicted in Orlow's two films, their disrupted, forgotten histories playing out back to back in an installation at Spike Island. Review by Matteo Lucchetti.

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MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave. Long Island City, NY 11101,  28 Mar 2013

Cyprien Gaillard: The Crystal World

Cyprien Gaillard's (b. 1980, Paris) work navigates geographical sites and psychological states, addressing the relationship between architecture and nature, and evolution and erosion. Using a variety of artistic mediums ranging from painting and sculpture to photography, film, and video, Gaillard juxtaposes pictorial beauty and the atmospherically lush with elements of sudden violence, destruction, and idiosyncrasy culled from popular culture, pointing to the precarious nature of public space, social ritual, and the very viability of the notion of civilization. Review by Siofra McSherry.

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