Our pick of current exhibitions, throughout the UK and beyond, that we're not involved in but would highly recommend. Follow our recommendations on Twitter using #FVUrecommends
My Head is a Haunted House, curated by Charlie Fox
My Head is a Haunted House grows out of hallucinogenic memory and the psychic hold of horror. Artists include FVU alumni Ed Atkins and Marianna Simnett.
Sadie Coles HQ, London, 4 June – 10 August 2019
Lis Rhodes: Dissident Lines
Spanning almost 50 years of work, this is the first ever survey of Lis Rhodes, a pioneer of experimental filmmaking.
Nottingham Contemporary, 25 May – 1 September 2019
Frances Hegarty & Andrew Stones: The Land That…
The Land That… is a video and mixed-media project by Frances Hegarty & Andrew Stones, based on their collaborative engagement with a ten-acre plot of land in County Donegal.
The MAC, Belfast, 12 April – 7 July 2019
Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt
Explore how video games have evolved into one of the most exciting and innovative design fields of our time.
V&A Dundee, 20 April – 8 September 2019
Paul Simon Richards, Quasi-Monte Carlo
For his exhibition at Spike Island, London-based artist Paul Simon Richards presents Quasi-Monte Carlo (2019), an ambitious new video work exploring patterns of randomisation and their role in the production of an image.
Spike Island, Bristol, 6 April – 16 June 2019
Kate Cooper
In this free HENI Project Space exhibition, the artist presents a new large-scale video installation composed of video works that focus on the vulnerability and instability of the body.
Hayward Gallery, London, 15 May – 23 June 2019
Pedro Neves Marques, It Bites Back
Gasworks presents the first UK solo exhibition of New York-based artist, filmmaker and writer, Pedro Neves Marques, in collaboration with London-based music producer Fraencis.
Gasworks, London, 11 April – 16 June 2019
Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition
The 2019 edition of the Aesthetica Art Prize Exhibition covers a range of themes from technology, urbanisation and digitisation to population growth and ecological destruction and climate change.
York Art Gallery, 8 March – 14 July 2019
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Baltic Artists' Award 2019
See burgeoning moving-image work as part of the second BALTIC Artists’ Award, a worldwide biennial art award judged solely by artists.
Baltic, Newcastle, 15 February – 16 June 2019
Selected 9
Selected 9 is a new collection of diverse artists’ film and video touring the UK in May-July 2019, taking place at some of the UK’s leading venues for showcasing artists’ film and video.
Multiple venues, 2 May – 27 June
Sven Anderson & Gerard Byrne, A Visibility Matrix
A Visibility Matrix is an artwork that explores the politics and conditions of visibility; assembling contributions from a distributed panel of artists, film-makers and others within a synchronised, multi-channel video installation.
Void Derry, 16 April – 8 June
Susan Collins, Five Hours Later
From the end of March 2019, until the end of the year, the view of Boston Harbour and a view across Sheffield towards Park Hill and the Cholera Monument are being transmitted live via network cameras simultaneously.
Online, 29 March – 31 December 2019