Back to (the) Square 1, Helsinki, Finland
Checkpoint Helsinki presents this exhibition as part of the RE-ALIGNED project, which seeks to explore how ‘newly rebellious young movements the world over mesh with contemporary forms of art’. Participating artists include Palestinian filmmaker Khaled Jarrar, Cairo street artists Ganzeer and Ammar Abo Bakr, and members of the non-profit social media and video archive collective, Mosireen.
Until 30 March, www.checkpointhelsinki.fi
FotoFest 2014 Biennial: View From Inside, Houston, USA
48 Arab artists feature in the 15th edition of this international biennial of contemporary Arab video, photography and mixed-media art. The artists exhibiting in Houston, Texas, come from Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen.
15 March – 27 April, www.fotofest.org
Richard Mosse: The Enclave, Sydney, Australia
Irish photographer Richard Mosse’s six channel video installation was one of the highlights of last year’s Venice Biennale, and its depiction in 16mm infrared film of the war and chaos in the Congo couldn’t fail to leave a lasting impression. Such is the power of the work that a 240-page book of the project from Aperture, which was featured in the first of our PICTURED series, is currently sold out.
15 March – 7 June, www.cofa.unsw.edu.au
Superficial Hygiene, Haarlem, The Netherlands
This group show at De Hallen Haarlem brings together a generation of artists who, with their appropriation and corruption of the language of our fast-moving digital age, propose a new understanding of the relationship between the mediated image and the physical world. Through sculpture, print, painting and video, the featured artists – including Ed Atkins, Elizabeth Price, Anne de Vries and Nina Beier – explore our shifting relationship between the virtual and the real.
Until 9 June, www.dehallenhaarlem.nl
