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.

Solid Light Works is the first major UK exhibition of Anthony McCall’s work in over ten years, in which the visitor is immersed in three new installations.

Sean Hemmerle is known for capturing abandoned architectural spaces in war-affected areas. A series of portraits offers a new angle.

In her series Who in the www am I? Lee explores questions of identity in the digital era, through a character called Alice.

Investigating different forms of transformation, this month’s upcoming releases look at the various ways in which we perceive and conceptualise space.

 SAGE Paris brings together works by Daido Moriyama, Weegee and Eugène Atget, capturing the figures that define the urban terrain.

In 1947 – long before the dawn of the camera phone – Polaroid offered consumers an accessible method of visual documentation.

Work by Aesthetica Art Prize alumnus Liz West is featured in a new publication by Gingko Press, Lust for Light.

Thomas Demand’s unique approach to photography involves the construction and documentation of uncanny environments.

By disrupting time-honoured notions of chronology, a new exhibition provides a fresh approach to visual communication.

The institutional landscape is transforming, dissolving the physical boundaries between artwork and viewer.

Large scale photographs from multidisciplinary artist Taryn Simon are interested in power structures and unearthing systems of control.

Vienna-based artist Charlotte Pann focuses on the phenomenon of relation as a base for and as a result of spatial constellation.

Edward Burtynsky’s large format aerial photographs shed light on remote locations, foregrounding the impact of human activity.

This weekend, 3-4 March, galleries across the globe ask how meaning is constructed and challenged in today’s unsteady climate.

Gianfilipo di Rossi finds precision and inspiration in the composition of the city’s architecture, with works that are a harmonious exertion of form.

John Akomfrah’s environmentally conscious video installation, Purple, offers meaningful dialogues about climate change.

Each individual frame crafted by Christian Tagliavini – an artist known for a precise approach – tells a complex narrative.

In order to move forward, it is often important to look back. MIA Photo Fair celebrates the history of the medium whilst introducing new methods.

Foregrounding innovative approaches, Dorotheum’s Design First auction tracks creative history, offering a unique curation of works.