Tate Modern brings together a major UK survey of visual activist Zanele Muholi, one of the most acclaimed photographers working today. With over 260 photographs, this exhibition presents the full breadth of their career to date. From the early 2000s, they have documented and celebrated the lives of South Africa’s Black lesbian, gay, trans, queer and intersex communities. The powerful and reflective images on display explore themes including labour, racism, Eurocentrism and sexual politics.

Curated by Richard Calvocoressi, Gagosian Grosvenor Hill presents 'The Body as Matter: Giacometti Nauman Picasso', the first exhibition to bring together these three artists. Giacometti, Nauman, and Picasso have all redefined sculpture - reshaping traditional mediums and pioneering new ones. Central to all three artists is the idea that the space we occupy, the ways we are perceived, and our effect on others are crucial to their unique methods of existential inquiry.

In her first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland, Nigerian-born artist Toyin Ojih Odutola presents a powerful new body of works in her signature vernacular of multimedia on paper - drawn using ballpoint pens, pencil, pastel and charcoal - to elicit stories out of her characters. The works on display explore the malleability of identity and the possibilities of visual story-telling, while reinventing the tradition of portraiture.  

David Zwirner London presents new paintings by Belgian artist Michaël Borremans in an exhibition titled 'The Monkey'. In this new body of work, Borremans continues to explore surface and artifice in his careful consideration of mise-en-scène, combining technical mastery with subject matter that defies straightforward interpretation. Borremans' exquisite paintings are at once absurd and romantic, inspired by an 18th-century porcelain monkey from the Rococo period, he deftly satirises society with nods to Chardin and Watteau.

Presented at Palazzo Grassi 'Ensemble' is the largest exhibition of Julie Mehretu's work to date in Europe, bringing together over fifty works. The exhibition is punctuated by the works of some of her closest artist friends, including Nairy Baghramian, Huma Bhabha, Tacita Dean and David Hammons, who she has collaborated and developed a powerful affinity with. Conceived as a non-chronological journey through Mehretu’s work, the show explores her artistic practice, to understand both how it came into being and how it constantly evolves.

Pierre Huyghe transforms Punta della Dogana with his new exhibition 'Liminial' into a dynamic, sensitive milieu. The exhibition is a transitory state inhabited by human and non-human creatures that are constantly learning, changing, and hybridizing. Their memories are expanding with information captured from events, both perceptible and imperceptible. For Huyghe, the exhibition is an unpredictable ritual, where new possibilities are generated and coexist, without hierarchy or determinism.

William Middleton's ‘Double Vision’ is a scrupulously detailed biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil and a must read. The book chronicles the Menil's many cultural achievements and argues for their inspiring belief in the necessity of art for the common good and the crucial role that patrons play in shaping the art world.

The National Portrait Gallery traces the Black figure throughout portraiture with its spring exhibition, ‘The Time is Always Now: Artists Refframe the Black Figure’. Curator Ekow Eshun unites works from 22 African diasporic artists, including Michael Armitage, Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola and Amy Sherald to highlight the use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life and survey the presence of the Black figure in Western art history – socially, psychologically and culturally.

The Courtauld Gallery brings together a series of hauntingly beautiful, large-scale drawings by Frank Auerbach in their exhibition ‘Frank Auerbach. The Charcoal Heads’. The works were made in the 1950s and ’60s, when Auerbach produced a series of large-scale porrtraits of friends and relatives, including serial sitters Stella West and Gerda Boehm, rendered almost exclusively in obsessively worked black and white strokes, with only sparing touches of coloured chalk giving the portraits a raw, vital power.