By 2050, 70% of the world’s population will live in urbanised surroundings. Current exhibitions embrace, escape and offer solutions to this issue.

A new exhibition celebrates the British seaside experience through the lenses of Tony Ray-Jones, David Hurn and Simon Roberts and Martin Parr.

Czech practitioner Jaromír Funke pushed the limits of photography through an experimental use of light and shadow.

A strong sense of narrative permeates Robert Frank’s oeuvre. An exhibition explores work created in Paris, England, Wales and the US

The Whitworth showcases its latest major moving image acquisition – Isaac Julien’s Ten Thousand Waves.

New York Times invites a mix of practitioners, industry experts and prolific tastemakers to discuss the most pressing issues in art today.

Only 30% of artists represented by commercial galleries are women. Exhibitors at Photo London foreground a strong female presence.

Monty Kaplan fluctuates between modes of working. Colour is rendered as an emotive backdrop, carrying a sense of joy and woeful nostalgia.

Dan Flavin’s pioneering body of work is designed to be experienced, engaging with the minimalist language of fluorescent light.

To mark their seventh consecutive installation at Salone del Mobile, fashion brand COS collaborates with Phillip K. Smith III.

An exhibition at Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, tracks the intercontinental journeys of German photographer Axel Hütte.

The average American spends 7% of their life outdoors. YSP tracks a the work of a charity offering dialogues between societies and nature.

Stéphanie Roland reates evocative compositions which are often influenced by science and technology.

Positioning the work of leading 20th and 21st century practitioners alongside emerging artists, a show celebrates photography’s legacy.

Photographer Andrew Moore’s oeuvre comprises evocative images of architectural landscapes in Cuba, Russia and Detroit.

Anne Collier interrogates popular culture in order to investigate gender stereotypes, challenging outdated notions of female identity.

A new show of works by Iván Navarro explores timely themes of migration, propaganda and the collective trauma of the artist’s native Chile.

A new exhibition at Southbank Centre, London, explores the experimental history of the venue by delving into the archives.

Olafur Eliasson and Tomás Saraceno’s sculptural works investigate notions of space, making innovative use of colour, form and light.

The selection for 17-18 March celebrates the past, present and future of creative practice through performance, installation and images.

An exhibition at Asia House, London, examines ideas of space, boundaries and the tensions caused by power imbalance.

The Historic Dockyard Chatham hosts Powerful Tides: 400 years of Chatham and the Sea, an exhibition that showcases works inspired by water.

An exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery transforms the institutional space into a singular, immersive installation.

Miles Aldridge collaborates with other creatives, building cinematic narratives that engage with image-making from all angles.

A multi-sensory work, consisting of moving illuminated walls, combines light and sound to expand spatial perceptions.

Scottish artist Robert Montgomery’s poetic installations engage with contemporary global issues including consumerism, war and injustice.

In advance of their first edition, which will take place at the end of March, Photo Macau hosts a curated agenda of exhibitions, installations and conferences.

Dutch multidisciplinary artist Erwin Olaf investigates the contemporary landscape by constructing cinematic compositions.

Saudi artist Ahmed Mater (b.1979) has spent the last ten years photographing this surge in size of Mecca, currently on display at Brooklyn Museum.

Describing herself as a child of television, Pipilotti Rist incorporates the visual language of music videos into bold, immersive installations.

The rising popularity of documentary reflects a burgeoning desire to make sense of the world. An exhibition examines the genre’s history.

Gina Soden’s haunting images of abandoned structures uncover forgotten narratives, breathing life into desolate architectural forms.

The Baltic Material Assemblies at RIBA tracks the changing architectural discourse of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

In producing Somnyama Ngonyama, Zanele Muholi took a self-portrait every day, documenting the injustices she witnessed in her everyday life.

Melbourne Design Week provides an annual celebration of creativity and innovation, drawing links between practitioners and businesses.

Daniel Shea is the winner of the 12th edition of The Foam Paul Huf Award. The work reflects on the urban landscape of late capitalism.

Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain presents Freeing Architecture, the first major solo exhibition devoted to the work of Junya Ishigami.

For A Slight Shift at the Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, Paris, three artists employ manmade mediums to provide poetic interpretations of the landscape.

Bas Princen challenges how audiences perceive buildings in relation to their surroundings through a new exhibition at Vitra Design Museum.

For Marciano Art Foundation’s second artistic project, Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson takes over the expansive Theater Gallery.

Seydou Keïta was a portrait photographer who found fame late in life. His archive, brought to light in the early 1990s, facilitated international recognition.

Conjuring a bygone spirit of Americana, Phil Donohue’s works reflect a sense of stippling anonymity and recession on Route 66.

Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating re-examines under-representation, questioning why there is still imbalance in the wider industry.

In an era of fake news, how can the individual decipher the true course of events? Exhibitions opening 10-11 March focus on narrative forms.

Italo Calvino’s Le città invisibili is the inspiration behind Invisible Cities: Architecture of the Line at Waddington Custot, London.

Marking the continued journey to establish gender equality, global and cultural institutions celebrate International Women’s Day.

The work of Irish photographer Julian D’Arcy is endowed with mesmerising formal qualities; each image transforms ordinary sites in golden planes.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, showcases the works of Sally Mann as she explores communicative landscapes and sombre subject matters.

An exhibition at Museum der Moderne Salzburg offers a photographic survey of life in Austria. Investigating the country’s creative output in the late twentieth century…

Work by Angel Albarrán and Anna Cabrera is heavily influenced by Japanese culture and printing processes.