CUBITT Gallery and Studios, 8 Angel Mews, London, N1 9HH,  30 May 2011

Cubitt Gallery presents the first UK solo exhibition by Swiss artists Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller. Through performance, video, sculptural-recreation, text and archive material, Hemauer and Keller explore two short-lived experiments with solar energy, both marking points of change or crisis in the history of oil consumption. Until 29 May 2011

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Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Grabbeplatz 5 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany,  29 May 2011

The Düsseldorf-based artist Thomas Struth is among the most important contemporary German photographers. Until 15 June 2011

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Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, WF4 4LG,  27 May 2011

Until 26 June 2011. Review by Bryony Bond

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Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków ul. Lipowa 4 30-702 KRAKÓW,  26 May 2011

The opening of MOCAK, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, took place on Thursday, 19 May 2011

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Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London, E1,  25 May 2011

The exhibition represents Kennard's forty year practice, through photomontages, paintings, and new digital images made with Tarek Salhany. These works are drawn primarily from Kennard's new book (assisted by Salhany), titled @earth

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Museum Brandhorst, Kunstareal Theresienstrasse 35a 80333 Munich,  23 May 2011

Cy Twombly, one of the most eminent artists of our time, is celebrated internationally for his paintings, drawings and sculptures. His extensive photographic œuvre, however, is little known. A selection of circa 120 photographs covering sixty years of his career will now reveal this side of the artist's practice. Until 10 July

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Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (Mark Leckey) from Anon. on Vimeo.

Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz 18 D-34117, Kassel, Germany,  20 May 2011

The work of young Swedish artist Nina Canell attempts to activate an intersection between humans, objects and events whereby a certain kind of material imagination might be articulated. 12 March - 5 June 2011

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Ceri Hand Gallery, 12 Cotton Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L3 7DY,  19 May 2011

The exhibition title '3 Megabytes of Hot RAM' is taken from William Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer and sets the tone of the exhibition - incorporating desire, nostalgia, failure and loss, despite the fact it refers to the future. 8 April - 21 May 2011

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Museum Brandhorst, Kunstareal Theresienstrasse 35a 80333 Munich,  18 May 2011

Ten Thousand Waves is a 9-channel video installation almost four years in the making.  The main scenes were filmed in China with internationally-celebrated actresses, including the legendary Maggie Cheung and Zhao Tao.

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KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststraße 69 D-10117, Berlin,  17 May 2011

In his work, Cyprien Gaillard repeatedly explores the absurd aspects of dystopic architectures and their remaining ruins through such strategies as dilapidation, destruction, demolition, preservation, conservation and reconstruction of architecture. 27 March – 22 May 2011

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KUNSTHALLE wien, Museumsplatz 1 A-1070, Vienna,  16 May 2011

CELLAR DOOR is a contemporary fairy tale involving various interwoven and nevertheless self-contained elements: an architectural studio project, an opera, the film One Thousand Ways To Enter (2008–2011), and the sculpture The Book of Captions (2011). 15 April - 7 June 2011

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