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British-born, Berlin-based artist Tacita Dean presents her new film project JG at the Arcadia University Art Gallery. JG is the sequel to FILM, Dean’s 2011 project for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.

9 Intervals is about dialogue. Dialogue between juxtaposing images, presented on two screens playing in tandem across the walls of Mother’s Tankstation Gallery from 16 January.

Saatchi’s Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union is a broad anthology of Russia’s contemporary cultural offerings. Lightness, is an element scarcely present within this latest show.

Estrangement presents four emerging artists whose practices and nationalities choreograph a sly line between identity, economy, politics and video art history. With work by Samuel Williams.

Kevin Cooley presents his stunning photographs from his Night for Night series in Aesthetica Issue 51. His largescale video installation, Skyward, is currently on show at Pierogi’s The Boiler.

It can be said that art can serve as a universal language. Lesley Dill applies literal meaning to art as a communicative agent by incorporating various forms of language into her multi-faceted work.

Concerned with observing the world, Kevin Cooley captures a profound and intense mood through his treatment of light, colour and object.

We spend some time with shortlisted artist, Damien O’Mara. The photographer will be exhibiting The Trespasser, which depicts suited men in places that are “off-limits” to people in corporate roles.

Juergen Teller’s Woo! is a showcase of the greatest work from Teller’s longstanding, unwavering career. One of the most recognisable about his work is his ability to portray subjects entirely stripped back.

Joy Division’s bass guitarist Peter Hook is in artist conversation at the MCA on Tuesday 5 February. Reflecting on the band he helped co-found and his new book Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division.

Although its origins date back to 1996, Galería Rafael Pérez Hernando officially opened its doors in Madrid in 2004. It has since concentrated on promoting unknown or little-known artists.

Richard Wentworth presents an exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, London, from 30 January until 9 March. The British sculptor continually questions the way in which we approach the material world.

Young Gods is a multi-disciplinary presentation of London’s most exciting graduates from the summer of 2012. The exhibition takes place simultaneously across locations in west and east London.

Bloomberg Space hosts an experiential exhibition, distanced from the streets just beyond its walls. Glacier by Charles Atlas, uses a 360-degree projection to create an immersive environment.

The Ultimate Form is a live action response to Barbara Hepworth’s work. It is a collaboration between choreographer Kenneth Tindall, designer Pam Hogg, and composer Stuart McCallum.

Today, Frieze announced that its Projects programme of specially commissioned works will be realised at Frieze New York from 10 until 13 May and will present over 180 of the world’s leading galleries.

It might be considered to be a curatorial risk to combine the works of William Klein and Daidō Moriyama in two mellifluous exhibitions, as they are both important and vivacious artists of our time.

Tate Britain opens a new show on Kurt Schwitters. Opening on 30 January, the show focuses on his later works in Britain which began in 1940 when he arrived as a refugee until his death eight years later.

Aesthetica Art Prize artist Mary Humphrey’s Roma : Transylvania narrates the experiences that she encountered whilst photographing Roma families living on the outskirts of a Transylvanian village.