Performa 13, New York, USA
The fifth edition of the Performa Biennial features 110 artists and more than 45 collaborating partners across New York City, with venues in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Including work by Eddie Peake, Ed Atkins, Subodh Gupta, Meredith Monk, Joan Jonas, Bedwyr Williams and Rosa Barba, this year’s three-week festival of performance art features a new initiative, Pavilion Without Walls, and an expanded Performa Hub on New York’s Crosby Street. Performa 13 is curated by a team of curators led by Performa Founding Director and Curator RoseLee Goldberg.
1-24 November, www.performa-arts.org
Hugo Boss Asia Art, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
An exhibition of work by seven emerging Chinese artists, including the inaugural winner of the biennial Hugo Boss Asia Art award, Kwan Sheung Chi. Established to ‘recognize the significant achievements in contemporary art in Asia’, the shortlist for the award was selected by Larys Frogier, Director of the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, along with a panel of Chinese and international curators and directors.
Until 8 December, www.rockbundartmuseum.org
Views 2013: Deutsche Bank Foundation Award, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
The sixth exhibition of this biennial award for the most interesting young, but already established, Polish artists features five finalists, all presenting new works. Working across various media but mostly in film, this year’s winner of the award is Kraków-based artist Łukasz Jastrubczak, chosen for his ‘daring experimentation’ and ‘a non-instrumental, independent approach to current technologies’. The other artists are: Tymek Borowski, Piotr Bosacki, Karolina Breguła and Agnieszka Polska.
Until 17 November, www.zacheta.art.pl
Tensta museum: Reports from New Sweden, Spånga, Sweden
Some 40 artists, architects, local associations, performers, sociologists, cultural geographers, philosophers and others relate to the histories and memories of the district of Tensta in Sweden, an area defined by a large, late-modernist housing area built in 1967–72. Taking place over seven months, artists including John Akomfrah, Fernando Garcia Dory, Ahmet Ögüt and Lawrence Abu Hamdanhrough will present art works, research projects, seminars, and guided walks.
Until 18 May, 2014, www.tenstakonsthall.se
