5 To See: This Weekend

Our 5 To See for 30 June – 2 July invites us to reach out to those around us; Susan Hefuna’s performance looks at locality; Otobong Nkanga explores the land.

Centro Botín: Cultural Expansion

Fundación Botín’s new Centro Botín building is a curious combination of grandeur and subtlety, designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano.

Artificial Worlds

Signe Pierce’s Faux Realities brings together 30 photographs that showcase an innovative vision for a highly-saturated, hyperreal world.

Interior Reflection

Kristina Varaksina’s newest series Where do I belong? is inspired by this sense of detachment and isolation evoked by dual-identities.

Cellular Construction

Lumen is an interactive installation by Jenny Sabin Studio, winner of MoMA’s, New York, annual Young Architects Program

NMWA: International Commemoration

The 30th anniversary of National Museum of Women in the Arts includes a year-long programme that re-instates the vision to showcase underrepresented figures.

Influencing Exchange

The Korea/UK season kickstarts a year of cultural dialogues between two countries. 20 institutions across play host to a sequence of creative events.

Identity Politics

More than 60 photographs by the South African visual activist photographer Zanele Muholi will on display at Autograph ABP, London, this summer.

Alternate Perceptions

Hella Jongerius’ Breathing Colour is a new collection of dynamic commissions that investigate how light conditions alter the viewer’s understanding of form.

5 To See: Art Basel

Throughout the weekend, the city of Basel is transformed by close to 100,000 visitors, 4,000 artists, 291 galleries and 100 large-scale pieces.

Questioning Representation

Art, Justice and Terror is a day of debate curated by London College of Communication, in response to War of Terror by Edmund Clark.

Utopian Constructions

Tomás Saraceno’s Aerosolar Journeys investigates sustainable ways of navigating the environment, enabled through multi-disciplinary research.

Photographic Brilliance

The V&A expands its vast photography section with the transfer of the Royal Photographic Society collection from the Science Museum Group.

Emerging Perspectives

Opening for submissions on 12 June, Saatchi Gallery, London, is launching a new photography competition following on from the success of #SaatchiSelfie.

AAP: Creating Connections

Griselda Goldsbrough draws upon the works in this year’s Art Prize to explore the different ways in which we can benefit from connecting with the arts.

Contemporary Regeneration

photo basel is Switzerland’s first international art fair dedicated to photography-based art, bringing together galleries from around the world.

Intimate Visions

Magnum’s Closer square print sale ends today, an initiative that considers the notion of proximity and social immersion through pioneering photographers.

5 To See: This Weekend

For the weekend of 9-11 June, we delve into the theme of motion and transition with work by Rinko Kawauchi, Alexander Calder and Chiharu Shiota.

Suspended Existence

Now on show at The Photographer’s Gallery, London, Evgenia Arbugaeva’s Amani reveals the historic story of the Malaria Research Station.

Chromatic Parallels

Michael Hoppen Gallery examines Harry Gruyaert’s innovative use of colour photography to create chromatic parallels across disparate locations.