Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

25 May, 7-9pm

Hurvin Anderson is one of the artists who has contributed to this year's Royal West of England Academy's Secret Postcard Auction fundraiser. The cards are signed on the back for anonymity and will be auctioned on 25 May where participants can bid on these original pieces of art. All proceeds will go towards supporting the RWA.

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John Gerrard in conversation

Tuesday 23 May, 13:00 - 14:00 at Wellcome Collection, London

John Gerrard will be in conversation with writer Brian Dillon to discuss Gerrard's newly-developed commission for the exhibition Electricity: The spark of life. Gerrard's X.laevis (Spacelab) 2017 responds to Luigi Galvani's famous 18th-century experiments on the effects of electricity on amputated frog's legs, and feature an astronaut and a frog in zero gravity.

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Congratulations to Hurvin Anderson who has been nominated for the 2017 Turner Prize.

Turner judges described Anderson as "an outstanding British painter whose art speaks to our current political moment with questions about identity and belonging."

An exhibition of work by the nominated artists will open at Ferens Art Gallery in Hull on 26 September, and the winner will be announced at an award ceremony on 5 December.

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The Absent Museum

20 April - 13 August, 2017

Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels

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Inaugural Fundraising Gala Dinner

Nottingham Contemporary

28 April, 2017

Nottingham Contemporary will honour contemporary artist Glenn Ligon as one of the most important artists of his generation at their Inaugural Fundraising Gala Dinner. 

John Gerrard: Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017

Commissioned by Channel 4, in partnership with Somerset House

Live presentation at Somerset House, Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court, WC2R

Supported by JJ Charitable Trust, Mark Leonard Trust, Ashden Trust and the Western Flag Supporters Circle

Live launch: 20 April, 6:30 - 8:30pm

Dates: 21 April - 27 April

Times: Daily, 7am - 11pm

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Channel 4 and Somerset House launch a new work by John Gerrard presented on a giant LED screen wall in the historic courtyard at Somerset House from 21st to 27th April.

Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017 is a new commission by Channel 4 that will be broadcast as a television interruption, breaking into the schedule in short bursts over 24 hours. The broadcast will begin at 9pm on 22nd April, coinciding with their programming around Earth Day, and will continue until 9am on 23rd April.

Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017 depicts the site of the 'Lucas Gusher' - the world's first major oil strike - in Spindletop, Texas. Gerrard has painstakingly recreated the site as a digitally-simulated moving image and placed at its centre a simulated flagpole bearing a flag of perpetually-renewing balck smoke. The computer generated Spindletop runs in exact parallel with the real site throughout the year: the sun rising at the appropriate times and the days getting longer according to the seasons.

“One of the greatest legacies of the 20th century is not just population explosion or better living standards but vastly raised carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. A new flag attempts to give this invisible gas, this international risk, an image, a way to represent itself. I like to think of it as a flag for a new kind of world order.” John Gerrard

The presentation of Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas), 2017 is kindly supported by JJ Charitable Trust, Mark Leonard Trust and Ashden Trust. These three Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts came together in 2011 as the Climate Change Collaboration to support pilot and research projects to find ways of quickly reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Additional support from the Western Flag Supporters Circle.

Also on view: John Gerrard's X.Laevis (Spacelab) 2017 at Wellcome Collection until 25 June, 2017

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Abraham Cruzvillegas: The Water Trilogy 2: Autodefensión Microtonal Obrera Campesina Estudiantil Metabolista Descalzaat

21 April - 2 Jul, 2017

Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Tokyo

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Preview: 13-15 March, 2018

16 March - 11 June, 2018

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The first 21 artists of the 21st Biennale of Sydney:

 Eija-Liisa Ahtila (Born 1959 in Finland, lives and works in Helsinki)

Ai Weiwei (Born 1957 in China, lives and works in Beijing)
Brook Andrew (Born 1970 in Australia, lives and works in Melbourne)
Oliver Beer (Born 1985 in England, lives and works in Paris and London)
Anya Gallaccio (Born 1963 in Scotland, lives and works in San Diego and London)
Laurent Grasso (Born 1972 in France, lives and works in Paris and New York)
N.S. Harsha (Born 1969 in India, lives and works in Mysore)
Mit Jai Inn (Born 1960 in Thailand, lives and works in Chiang Mai)
Kate Newby (Born 1979 in New Zealand, lives and works in Auckland and New York)
Noguchi Rika (Born 1971 in Japan, lives and works in Okinawa)
Nguyen Trinh Thi (Born 1973 in Vietnam, lives and works in Hanoi)
Ciara Phillips (Born 1976 in Canada, lives and works in Glasgow)
Koji Ryui (Born 1976 in Japan, lives and works in Sydney)
Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman, born 1973 in England, and Joe Gerhardt, born 1972 in England, live and work in Brighton)
Yasmin Smith (Born 1984 in Australia, lives and works in Sydney)
George Tjungurrayi (Born c. 1943 in Australia, lives and works in Kintore)
Nicole Wong (Born 1990 in Hong Kong, lives and works in Hong Kong)
Wong Hoy Cheong (Born 1960 in Malaysia, lives and works in Kuala Lumpur)
Yukinori Yanagi (Born 1959 in Japan, lives and works in Hiroshima)
Haegue Yang (Born 1971 in South Korea, lives and works in Berlin and Seoul)
Jun Yang (Born 1975 in China, lives and works in Vienna, Taipei and Yokohama)

Jean-Luc Moulène: The Secession Knot (5.1)

6 April - 18 June, 2017

Secession, Vienna

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The Secession Knot (5.1) is a site specific intervention by Jean-Luc Moulène. Timber panels painted pitch black and neon yellow form a "knot in space" that engages the architecture in dialogue while establishing "spaces" with different qualities in which Moulène presents additonal works. Most of these objects were conceived specifically for the Secession and relate to the overpainted newspaper images Brèves from his artist's book to be published in conjunction with the exhibition. 

Jean-Luc Moulène in conversation with Corinne Diserens.

5 April, 6pm

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Anya Gallaccio: to see if time was there

A new, site-specific commission for The Contemporary Austin’s Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria. 

The Contemporary Austin, Texas

2 April, 2017 - ongoing

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