Major exhibitions across Europe and North America from January to February 2018

The Hayward Gallery in London reopens after renovation with a UK retrospective for Andreas Gursky, featuring 60 large-scale photographs documenting global manmade environments from stock exchanges to Amazon warehouses. In New York, the New Museum presents its fourth Triennial, 'Songs for Sabotage', with 30 artists from 19 countries examining media's role in shaping reality. Danh Vo's survey 'Take My Breath Away' at the Guggenheim Museum explores power structures through biographical works, including fragments of a Statue of Liberty replica. Kader Attia's 'The Field of Emotions' at The Power Plant in Toronto screens Abel Gance's film 'J'Accuse' alongside busts of disfigured war veterans, addressing historical trauma. Giorgio Griffa's abstract paintings at Camden Arts Centre continue his 1960s arte povera approach, while Merrill Wagner shows geometric works on industrial materials at Konrad Fischer in Düsseldorf. Tara Donovan presents layered styrene card compositions at Pace London, and Sam Keogh performs within a spaceship installation at Kerlin in Dublin. Ellen Gronemeyer exhibits new paintings at Anton Kern in New York, and Ahmet Öğüt's survey at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen includes confrontational works like 'Punch This Painting'. Saâdane Afif's solo show 'Paroles' at Wiels in Brussels features song lyrics inspired by his art and a participatory music studio.