Transmitting Andy Warhol, Tate Liverpool

Transmitting Andy Warhol is a dazzling exhibition which enables the viewer to discover more about the Pop Art pioneer and founder of the influential Studio 54 movement, whose radical designs transformed the modern art world.

Temporal Measures, White Rainbow Gallery, London

Berlin-based Japanese artists Futo Akiyoshi, Kouichi Tabata and Takahiro Ueda hold the first group show to take place within White Rainbow gallery. Each artist creates works surrounding the themes of time, space and psychology.

Who Do We Think We Are, Impressions Gallery, Bradford

Pupils from 12 schools take over Impressions Gallery with photographic tableaux re-imagining the past, and playful contemporary portraits which explore history and social identity.

Ponte City: Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse, Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Featuring the work of South African photographer Mikhael Subotzky and artist Patrick Waterhouse, this photographic project documents five years in the lives of the inhabitants of Ponte City.

The Plot Thickens, 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Fraenkel Gallery, SF

Comprised of 100 photographs assembled over the last five years, The Plot Thickens celebrates the 35th anniversary of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. The exhibition revels in the richness of the photographic medium.

Jonathan Monk: I ♥ 1984, Lisson Gallery, London

Jonathan Monk replays, revises and re-examines works of Conceptual and Minimal art by acts of witty, ingenious and irreverent appropriation.

Maria Friberg: Communicate Over Vast Distances, Pi Artworks, London

For Maria Friberg’s first solo show with Pi Artworks, the gallery has curated a series of photographic and video works that span the last 10 years. Friberg belongs to a generation of Scandinavian artists often referred to as the Nordic Miracle.

Penelope Umbrico: Sun/Screen, TPG, London

For Sun/Screen, Penelope Umbrico used an iPhone to re-photograph images cropped from thousands of sunset images shared online, this process of capturing images directly from the computer screen creates a moiré pattern.

Nicolás Muller: Traces of exile, Château De Tours

Organised by Jeu de Paume in collaboration with the City of Tours, this is the first show in France dedicated exclusively to Hungarian photographer Nicolás Muller; bringing together a hundred images and documents from the archives kept by his daughter Ana Muller.

Murray Fredericks: Recent Works, Hamiltons Galleries

For his latest series Australian photographer, Murray Fredericks, travelled alone with a bicycle and trailer, carrying his large format camera and supplies to capture an area of Southern Australia in severe weather conditions; taking a physical and mental toll in order to collect the perfect frames.

João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva: Papagaio, Camden Arts Centre

Portuguese artists João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva will present a magical, immersive film installation. Their kaleidoscopic world created by 27 16mm films and two camera obscura works, takes viewers on an imaginative journey into science, philosophy and religion.

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Still Life, Pace Gallery, London

Thirteen large-format photographs from conceptual artist Hiroshi Sugimoto’s ongoing Diorama series, executed between 1976 and 2012, feature far-flung landscapes which initially seem to be documents of the natural world.

Robert Heinecken: Lessons In Posing Subjects, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

This is to be the first UK exhibition dedicated to the artist Robert Heinecken (1931–2006), widely regarded as one of America’s most influential post-war photographers and a pioneer of 20th century photographic experimentation.

Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA

For its 65th anniversary, Bloomberg New Contemporaries arrives at the ICA for the fifth time and selectors Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Enrico David and Goshka Macuga have chosen works by 55 of the most promising artists emerging from UK art schools out of 1,400 submissions.

Julie Cockburn: Waiting Room, Flowers Gallery

A new series of portrait photographs, transformed by embellishments, study the social territory of everyday encounters between strangers.

Brancusi: The Photographs, The Margulies Collection

Brancusi: The Photographs features 29 vintage prints from the 20th century, produced by Brancusi, “one of the greatest artists of the Modern era” according to collector Martin Margulies.

Paris Magnum, Paris City Hall

From Henri Cartier Bresson to Martin Parr, Robert Capa and Raymond Depardon, the photojournalists of Magnum Photos immortalise 80 years of the history of Paris in 150 dazzling shots.

Fashion on the Ration: 1940s Street Style, IWM London

To mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, this exhibition will explore how fashion survived and even flourished during wartime. across 300 innovative exhibits.

Top 10 Exhibitions in 2014

2014 has been a great year for contemporary art exhibitions. The huge range of practices on display demonstrates the variety of artistic approaches being developed across the world. From Martin Creed to Annette Messager, all of the artists listed here demonstrate both skill and thought.

Interview with Photographer Joël Tettamanti, Issue 62

In the midst of a white snowscape, Joël Tettamanti finds moments of captivating colour. While travelling across Greenland, he discovered objects and buildings which had managed to escape the thick layers of snow engulfing the region.