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Our weekly selection of member-posted shows and events taken from a-n’s lively Events section.

The very idea of national pavilions creates a tension between politics, art and the role of artists. With this in mind, Pippa Koszerek takes a tour of five presentations including Ukraine, Armenia, Zimbabwe, New Zealand and USA.

The winner of the east end’s very own prize for painting has been announced from a shortlist of 23 artists who live or work in east London Boroughs.

Manchester International Festival has announced John McGrath, currently head of National Theatre Wales, as its new CEO and artistic director.

Recent Royal College of Art graduate Zhu Tian has been announced winner of the £5,000 Catlin Art Prize for her sequence of installations investigating the disruption of the everyday.

Artists including Charles Avery and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd to create new commissions responding to the festival theme of The Improbable City.

Paying Artists events in Liverpool and Birmingham include a talk on fair pay policy plus a giant cake parade.

As the dust settles after last week’s hectic preview period, a-n’s Pippa Koszerek reviews the exhibitions by Sarah Lucas (British Pavilion), Helen Sear (Wales) and Graham Fagen (Scotland) at the 56th Venice Biennale.

Artist Steve Messam’s latest public commission – a large-scale temporary bridge made entirely from bright red paper – has just been unveiled as part of the Lakes Ignite arts programme in the Lake District.

The shortlist for the 2015 Turner Prize has been announced and features a London-based architecture and design collective and three women artists.

For the 56th Venice Biennale curated show, All The World’s Futures, Okwui Enwezor has brought together the work of 136 artists across the Giardini and Arsenale. Artist Jade Montserrat reports.

Students of the Royal College of Art protest at cuts to degree show opening hours and facilities, and at what they see as the unacceptable use of how tuition fees are spent.

Awards presented for best artist in the International Exhibition, Lifetime Achievement and Services to the Arts.

Event and exhibition highlights for the week ahead, selected from our busy Events section and featuring events and exhibitions posted by a-n members.

Fair featuring contemporary craft from 35 international galleries opens as part of London Craft Week.

Karen Kramer and Alice May Williams have been awarded this year’s £20,000 Jerwood/FVU Awards commissions to develop new film projects that reflect on the uncertain nature of our contemporary economic and ecological situation.

Major new sculpture commission to be installed in the Royal Forest of Dean in summer 2016.

Video and photography artist Helen Sear represents Wales at the Venice Biennale with a show exploring ideas around mortality and temporality.

Solo show of ex-YBA is lewd, humourous and paradoxical – everything that makes her so great.