MAGASIN Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, 155 Cours Berriat Site Bouchayer-Viallet 38000, GRENOBLE ,  18 Jul 2011

Tableaux brings together twenty one artists who explore the performative aspects of painting. Until September 4

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Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aargauerplatz 5001 Aarau,  17 Jul 2011

This first major retrospective of the work of Christian Rothacher (1944 – 2007) introduces an Aarau artist who, around 1970, was among the protagonists of the young Swiss avant-garde

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Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Witte de Withstraat 50, 3012 BR Rotterdam ,  16 Jul 2011

The End of Money is a group exhibition about time and value. Bringing together works by a host of international artists, this exhibition and its parallel publication reflect upon the fears, hopes, and expectations associated with the end of money and its ominous consequence: the dissolution of an absolute standard of value. Until 7 August

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SUVI LEHTINEN GALLERY, Novalisstrasse 7, Mitte, Berlin,  13 Jul 2011

Curated by Elly Clarke/Clarke Gallery. With work by Simon Clark, Elly Clarke, Enda O’Donoghue, Kestin Honeit, plan b/Sophi New and Dan Belasco Rogers and Fedora Romita. Until the 23 July, review by Doireann O’Malley

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Hauser & Wirth London, Savile Row, 23 Savile Row, London W1S 2ET ,  12 Jul 2011

‘Everything Leads to Another’ marks Matthew Day Jackson’s first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, presenting a major body of new works by the American artist across both gallery spaces. Regarded as one of the most engaging and inventive artists of his generation, Jackson’s work is all-encompassing, seeking connections that exist between seemingly disparate themes. Review by Jessica Furseth

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Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean 3, Park Dräi Eechelen L-1499 Luxembourg,  11 Jul 2011

Mac Adams is known above all for his photographs, but since the beginning of his career he has also been producing installations in which, nevertheless, photography has a central place. The show at Mudam emphasises this aspect of his work by presenting three installations, in tandem with a selection of photographs ranging from the 1970s to the present day.

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Museum Het Domein, PO Box 230 NL-6130 AE, Sittard,  10 Jul 2011

Roger Ballen is one of the most important photographers of his generation. He was born in New York City in 1950 but has lived and worked in Johannesburg, South Africa, for over thirty years. In his work from 1982 to 1994, Ballen trained his camera on the white population living in the hinterland.

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Vienna Secession, Friedrichstraße 12 1010 Vienna, Austria,  9 Jul 2011

With her exhibition at the Secession, video artist Saskia Olde Wolbers is showing a selection of her work in Austria for the first time, including a new piece Pareidolia (2011). Since the mid- 1990s, she has been developing fictional documentaries often loosely based on factual events.

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ANY EVER (Trailer), Ryan Trecartin PS1 from Ryan Trecartin on Vimeo.

Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP,  7 Jul 2011

Modern Art Oxford presents Teacher of Dance, the first major UK exhibition of the Seoul- and Berlin-based artist Haegue Yang. Yang has developed a distinctive practice of colourful and sensorial installations and sculptures that occupy the spaces where public and private meet.

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Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art Overgaden Neden Vandet 17 DK-1414 Copenhagen K,  6 Jul 2011

How do digital technologies affect our view of the production of meaning and images? In Jacob Dahl Jürgensen’s first solo exhibition in Denmark, both the works and the viewer are mixed into an unstable vortex of distortion, dissolution and creation.

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www.or-bits.com,  5 Jul 2011

or-bits.com is an ongoing curatorial project, a platform displaying contemporary arts and a trigger for the production of new works. Catherine Spencer reviews their current show, Acceleration

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Bonnefanten Museum, Avenue Ceramique 250 NL-6221 KX Maastricht,  4 Jul 2011

Although the words duo presentation might suggest similarities, the aim is to emphasise precisely the differences between the work of Jeroen van Bergen and Rik Meijers. This duo presentation is an interweaving of two solo shows, whereby visitors to each room realise how the two artists create their own worlds and just how big the differences can be.

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