Ryoichi Kurokawa, FACT, Liverpool
This immersive installation offers an audio-visual imagining of the solar system. It is Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa’s first UK solo show and includes new commission, unfold, for which the artist used data from the Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe (CEA Irfu, Paris-Saclay) to create 3D representations of space using large-scale multi-screens and surround sound.
Until 12 June 2016. www.fact.co.uk
Pádraig Timoney, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
New York based Irish artist Pádraig Timoney’s paintings splice together abstraction, realism, text and graphics, chemical treatments and found objects. The result is a diverse set of works that almost resemble a group show – the show’s title, The Scrambled Eggs Salute The Trifle, is taken from one large oil on canvas work whose unappetising yellow eggs and dictatorial trifle dominate this exploration of how paintings and their images are assembled.
Until 26 March 2016. www.themoderninstitute.com
Basil Beattie, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough
Spanning three decades of Teesside-born painter Basil Beattie’s practice, this show presents an overview of the artist’s personal take on abstract expressionism. Recurring themes in the work are references to architecture through doors, steps, and tunnels, mixed with more gestural brushstrokes and bold sections of colour.
Until 12 June 2016. www.visitmima.com
Jerwood/FVU Awards 2016, Jerwood Space, London
New films by artists Karen Kramer and Alice May Williams have been developed following the award of £20,000 to each artist last year from the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Film and Video Umbrella (FVU). Both have responded in different ways to the theme of ‘Borrowed Time’, with its allusion to escalating levels of personal and national debt and a wider feeling of economic unease or ecological threat. The works tour to CCA, Glasgow in June.
Until 24 April 2016. www.jerwoodfvuawards.com
The Indivisible Present, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
This is the first show in Modern Art Oxford’s year-long Kaleidoscope programme of exhibitions, celebrating its 50th anniversary. Presenting previously displayed works along with new commissions, performances and events, it features work by Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe, John Latham, Elizabeth Price, Yoko Ono, Dog Kennel Hill Project and Viola Yeşiltaç. As an intriguing addition, the gallery will stay open the entire year without closing between shows. With a view to giving audiences an insight into the process of exhibition-making, The Indivisible Present begins to transform into the next exhibition, A Moment of Grace, from 22 March.
Until 16 April 2016. www.modernartoxford.org.uk
