Launching its second edition, Poppositions returns to Brussels with another unconventional venue, twice as many participants and a jury to elect the best propositions from the selected artists.

Lyrical and dreamlike, Paul Robinson’s work pushes art photography to its limits, combining and layering images in this abstract, painterly series – a product of the artist’s distinctive photographic eye.

New Wave Photography returns to The Crypt Gallery. Organised by United Creativity, the event recognises the evolving talent of new artists from the CEE region. From 19 – 27 April.

Eva and Franco Mattes’ filmic piece is the result of an online call to watch “the worst video ever”. Showing at Carroll/Fletcher, the film is a demonstration of audiences’ reflecting on another film.

After 10 years of renovation, Rijksmuseum reopens tomorrow. Fittingly, there will be a weekend of festivities led by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who will lead the opening ceremony.

Conceived by artist Rudolf Stingler and Elena Geuna, the exhibition presents over 30 paintings from international collections, including those of the practitioner and of François Pinault.

The Graphic Arts festival Pick Me Up opens 18 April at Somerset House. An annual celebration of the wonderfully diverse sphere of graphic arts, the festival brings together a plethora of works.

The Design Museum has announced the seven category winners for the annual Designs of the Year Awards. The awards celebrate the best of international design from the last 12 months.

The Magic of the State is the name given to a new group exhibition, which has recently opened at Lisson Gallery. The show coincides with a display of the same name in Cairo’s Beirut gallery.

Cityscapes collates artists who respond to elements of urban life in their various practices. Included in this exhibition will be David Hepher, Peter Howson, Patrick Hughes, Lucy Jones, and others.

Martin Boyce’s Eyes is the fourth work in the David Roberts Art Foundation’s study series; a selection of case studies intended to provide a fuller understanding of works from the DRAF collection.

Combining thought provoking imagery and stunning aesthetics, the Royal Geographical Society exhibit CIWEM’s Environmental Photographer of the Year 2013. Running 10 April until 3 May.

The SPILL Festival of Performance brings together some of the finest and most radical experimental theatre, live art and performances of today’s prominent artists from around the world.

Rebecca Ward comes to the Ronchini Gallery for her first major solo exhibition. Running 12 April until 18 May, the showcase represents Ward’s broad practice and includes brand new installations and paintings.

Seeing is Believing is a show of selected works by the German photographer Jochen Lempert. Lempert’s images address the relationship between the world of nature and our man-made world.

Opening on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Liquid Land reveals the struggles and the resilience of people living in some of the world’s most polluted areas in the former Soviet Union.

Considered as a master of light and dark, the presentation compares Mario Nanni’s works with the permanent collection at Villa Panza, introducing a dialogue between classic pieces and the use of light.

ASFF allows for budding and established filmmakers to connect with new, worldwide audiences and interact with some of the biggest personalities in the film industry today. Open for entries.

Every April hundreds of designers make the annual pilgrimage to Milan for Salone del Mobile, the largest design trade fair in the world. All next week, Crane.tv are taking up residence on the Milan frontline.

Patternity presents Pattern Power/ Superstripe at the London Newcastle Project Space from 6 April. The exhibition opens a series of events that explore the powerful presence of pattern.

The Royal Academy of Arts presents Edouard Manet’s stunning portraiture. Those outside of London are offered the opportunity to view Manet’s works in HD on the big screen at a range of cinemas.

The current show at Galleria Massimo Minini is a double solo show with Italian sculptor and painter Ettore Spalletti and conceptual artist Sol Lewitt.

Saatchi launches a new programme of exhibitions that will continue the gallery’s 25-year-long support of emerging artists and its drive to make contemporary art as widely available as possible.

Yang Fudong is one of the most important figures of China’s contemporary art scene and independent cinema movement. His films and photographic work examine tensions between the urban and the rural.

PULSE New York returns to present 60 national and international galleries, exhibiting a mix of emerging and established artists. The fair celebrates artistic practice and a range of talent.

Cornerhouse opens Anguish and Enthusiasm: a show investigating post-revolutionary periods and exploring perspectives from Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia and beyond.

Pop! Design Culture Fashion at The Civic celebrates poodle skirts, rockers, Mods, kitsch glamour and 1970s retro. The show uncovers a time when music, art and fashion blurred the boundaries of style.

Salvatore Arancio talks with Aesthetica about science and psychedelia in his solo show at Rowing Projects. The exhibition has been put into dialogue with Samara Scott’s cabinet room project Cd0xdsspi.

Kunsthalle Basel’s calendar includes the first solo show by the Cuban artist Adrian Melis. In the centre of the work of the Havana-born artist are depictions of the socialist and capitalist economic system.

Air de Paris unveils their new exhibition C’est Wouf ! by M/M (Paris). Art as practised by M/M(Paris) is a cumulative affair, spreading from medium to medium in a process of endless expansion.

Lottie Davies focuses her work on stories and personal histories, embracing the tales and myths society uses to construct life, and LA Noble Gallery present…

Pae White has created a maze of black, red, blue and purple threads which reach from and terminate into the gallery walls as endless and bewildering as the sleepless nights that conceived it.

Open End is the fourth exhibition in an ongoing series of presentations of film and video works from the Goetz Collection in Haus der Kunst. Featuring the work of 14 renowned international artists.

The online platform ART+ announces 180 of the most promising emerging artists at a critical moment, when they are poised to become established artists, chosen by 30 world-leading curators.

An international exhibition of photography, European Chronicles in Cardiff uses lens-based media to initiate debate about European social identities.

Transforming confiscated firearms into musical instruments and shovels, Mexican artist Pedro Reyes believes in the ability of art to change societies permanently.

With a sound blessed with beautiful melodies set amidst lush soundscapes, they have crafted their unique style with a loving attention to detail.

Vito Russo believed that he should be able to live his life as he chose, with a passion that eventually became politicised as his life, and those of his friends, became a struggle against injustice.

An insider’s guide for the modern art buyer, Collecting Art for Love, Money and More reveals the motivations and secrets of successful collectors.

Marczak brings free love to the fore in his new documentary F*ck For Forest, which follows a Berlin-based charity that believes that sex can change the world.

The hero is Cho Young-Chan, a deaf-blind South Korean man on the cusp of a sensory rebirth as he begins to escape from the isolation of his condition.

Examining both visual and literary Surrealism, this text explores in intricate detail how the movement embraced different avant-garde ideas and practices.

Love Crime is laden with too many easy clichés – not to say much too drawn out – to warrant fully the descriptions it has earned as “taut thriller” or “modern Noir”.

Named after a bar in Madrid, noted to be a haven for flamenco, Candela is strongest where it references tight, Spanish guitar-laden anguish.

College instantly demonstrates his ability to reproduce aspects of existence electronically, as his striking first notes echo a heartbeat gasping to live.

It can’t be denied that We Met at Sea is both unpredictable and full of life, driven by punchy guitars and melodies that will easily set feet tapping.

The new release from STRFKR radiates a feel-good electro-pop vibe, hovering somewhere between the grooves of Passion Pit and the electronica of MGMT.

Sightseers accompanies ordinary couple Chris and Tina on a far from idyllic caravanning holiday, as they begin to bump off their fellow campers.

Set during the first Lebanese war, Zaytoun opens in Beirut as the Palestinian protagonist, Fahed roams the crumbling streets selling cigarettes.

Jon Nicholson ventures into the realm of nostalgia with his latest book, a collection of 70 Polaroids of British seaside resorts.