With the weekend in sight, time and space for contemplation is on the horizon. The 5 to See for 14 – 16 July traces the common links in humanity.

A celebration of photography takes place in Shanghai; the fourth edition of PHOTOFAIRS features notable names alongside new talent.

The Time is Now is curated to expand on the MoMA’s, New York, current show Making Space: Women Artists & Post-war Abstraction.

Cerith Wyn Evans’ installation evokes a playful manipulation of space and time through a spectacle of light.

In The Whiteness of the Whale, British photographer Paul Graham examines the intersections between race and social status in America.

This year’s Lyon Biennale questions the meaning of modernity in our ever-shifting world. It forms the second installment of what will become a themed trilogy.

Chrystal Lebas’ Regarding Nature explores the dynamic between human beings and the organic landscape as two interacting spheres of life.

The exhibition considers the subtle differences between regions, highlighting how and why they remain a source of inspiration.

Thomas Ruff’s photographs question and redefine the artistic potential of the craft as a platform for social commentary.

Ubiquitous, cheap and light, plywood is the focus of an exhibition opening at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, this summer.

Rachel Whiteread demonstrates command of the interdependent factors of space and place, with both inventive and monumental structures.

The 2017 edition of the Accessible Art Fair (ACAF) offers a platform for emerging artists and designers to showcase and directly sell their work to audiences.

TASCHEN’s new publication, Brick by Brick, is a compilation of contemporary buildings from the past 15 years that hark back to the inexpensive material.

Dennis Hopper re-invented the iconography of the lens to document social upheaval in the Western world and the emerging contemporary condition.

The ING Unseen Talent Programme provides young European photographers with an opportunity for international exposure across new platforms.

La Tettonica dell’Assemblaggio shows a large selection of works by the designer, architect and sculptor Angelo Mangiarotti, an influential figure in post-war Italy.

Rachel Ara, winner of the Aesthetica Art Prize 2016, has been awarded a Near Now Fellowship, which includes a reworking of This Much I’m Worth.

Sylvain Biard’s newest series, entitled SHiMA, was looks at the gap between the photographer and an unreachable culture.

Designed World is the first museum show of Peter Keetman for 20 years, whose industralised photographic works looked at the poetic rebuilding of Germany.

Working on History at Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, looks into contemporary Chinese photography to understand cultural ecosystems.

Lalla Essaydi’s Still in Progress at Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, draws audiences into a modern-day harem that utilises photography to rewrite narratives.

Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston (1989 / 2017) is a landmark film that explores the private world of poet, social activist and columnist Langston Hughes.

Finnish photographer Janne Lehtinen captures the individual and human aspiration of continuously wanting to push one’s boundaries.

Where are we marching? The future of protest is a day of debate running alongside IWM’s radical exhibition, Fighting for Peace.

Dundee Contemporary Arts, MIMA, MOSTYN, Nottingham Contemporary, The Hepworth and Turner Contemporary are shortlisted for Freelands.

Robi Walters’ practice encompasses a re-examination of collage. Utilising bright colours and overlapping textures, each piece finds beauty in everyday materials.

Michael Wolf’s weighted depictions of globalisation and growth come into question in Life in Cities, another exhibition at the 2017 Rencontres d’Arles.

Neil Libbert has been working as a street photographer for nearly 60 years; Michael Hoppen Gallery offers an opportunity to see the full range of accumulated works. 

Karine Laval: Reflections looks into the hazy, lucid memories of summer, re-appropriating analogue compositions.

Nelli Palomäki’s photography seeks to find new ways to interpret highly classical monochrome portraiture. Shared explores the complex theme of siblinghood,

Since last year’s presidential election, Richard Misrach (b. 1949) has been travelling around California, Arizona and Nevada, documenting occasions when people have done just that.

Devotional Document (Part I), at Nottingham Contemporary is Wu Tsang’s first solo show in the UK, evoking performative states of impossibility.

Annina Roescheisen’s What Are You Fishing For? immerses into the union between a young man and woman, exploring intimate contrasts.

Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915–1985 is a groundbreaking exhibition about design dialogues between the two states.

Ancient futures is the theme of this summer’s Primavera, an annual event at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

Virtually invisible at times and yet all pervasive, dust is the somewhat unlikely focus of a new exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.

Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age brings together a myriad of works showcasing an unprecedented talent that has brought fictitious ideas to life.

In Lennette Newell’s Ani-human series, the gap between humans and animals is diminished, along with hierarchies imposed by digital technology.

The sixth edition of the Yokohama Triennale, Islands, Constellations and Galapagos, invites thematic connections across a variety of emotional concepts.

The five finalists of the ING Unseen Talent Award 2017 have been announced; an accolade set up to circulate the work of European practitioners.

Perpignan plays host to the 29th Visa Pour L’Image, International Festival of Photojournalism, in September, re-instating the essential role of the lens.

Hammer Museum offers the vision of over 100 radical Latin American women artists, ranging from established figures to those whose output is largely unknown.

Athens Photo Festival’s 30th anniversary celebrations include an exploration of critical issues and the ongoing shifts in dialogue with the past. 

Dr Cadence Kinsey, (University of York), investigates the relationship between art and technology in the next Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition talk.

Longer Ways to Go presents photographs from the the Center for Creative Photography made of, from, on, and in the roads that criss-cross America.

Nordic Delights discusses the region as a topography in its own right, as well as each country’s different art scenes from the 1990s onwards. 

Viviane Sassen’s work frees fashion photography from static precision, focusing instead on a performative, almost theatrical element.

André Lichtenberg’s practice explores contemporary landscape photography, combining childhood memories, sensory visualisation and digital collage.

London-based artist Nina Baxter produces abstract paintings that focus on the interaction of colour, drawing inspiration from landscape and architecture.

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.