The 2010 International Experimental Media Congress April 7 – 11, 2010 The 2010 International Experimental Media Congress coincides with the closing days of the 23rd Images Festival. The first Congress since the storied 1989 Toronto Experimental Film Congress, this gathering will promote ongoing international conversations and provide platforms for creative discussions about the burning issues related to experimental media production, exhibition, dissemination, criticism, pedagogy and reception.

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YCAM [Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media] 20 March – 6 June 2010 Seiko Mikami creates precise depictions of the gradually transforming relationship between information technology and sensory perception in artworks focusing from unique perspectives on the human body and its forms of existence. This retrospective overview of her activities is a large-scale solo exhibition centering around a new installation piece (commissioned by and created at YCAM), shown here along with two related new works.

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Henie Onstad Art Centre 25 February – 30 May 2010 John Cage (1912-1992) defined a radical practice of "experimental" composition that not only changed the course of modern music and dance but defined a new conceptual horizon for artistic practice in the late-20th century. Illuminating the relevance of Cage's contribution to contemporary art, Henie Onstad Art Centre presents the most extensive exhibition to be devoted to the artist since his death, and the first to focus on the historicization of the composer's oeuvre and its impact.

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Comité van Roosendaal 24 – 25 April 2010 Institutional Attitudes looks at a founding premise of the Comité van Roosendaal: the shared conviction that contemporary art institutions may be an important voice in society. Within this premise, key questions include: What kind of contemporary society must be envisioned, given the recent economic crisis and the ecological state of emergency?

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MCA Denver January 29 – May 23, 2010 New York-based conceptual artists Eric and Heather ChanSchatz present paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and books, which inhabit the architecture and psychology of the social condition. Resulting from their engagement with individuals, communities and institutions, ChanSchatz have created artworks that explore communal relationships, structures of individuality, and the mapping of socio-political networks.

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Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 29 January – 2 May 2010 For the first time since its inauguration in 1992, the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany is honouring the commitment of private collectors with a major exhibition presenting a selection of 145 works by 57 artists from 15 private collections in Germany, France and Switzerland.

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Ursula Blickle Foundation 21 March – 25 April 2010 Julika Rudelius (b. 1968, Cologne) addresses a broad field of complex themes in her videos and photographs, ranging from structures of social power and prejudices to role clichés, identity, and cultural hegemony. Rudelius sees art as a form of social expression, as a communicative tool for drawing attention to seemingly trivial observations of everyday life, revealing at the same time their complex social characteristics.

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Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo 25 March – 31 August 2010 On occasion of the celebrations for leading Italian organization Confindustria's 100th anniversary, Confindustria and the Unione Industriale di Torino present 21x21. 21 artists for the 21st century, a group exhibition of young Italian artists devised and organised by the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, which will run at their Turin centre for contemporary art from 25 March to 31 August 2010.

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OPERE/works 21 – 23 May 2010 From 21 to 23 May 2010, the third edition of the festival of Contemporary art will take place in Faenza. It is the top international event dedicated to reflection and debate regarding contemporary art. The project is run by goodwill, and was created and founded by Alberto Masacci and Pier Luigi Sacco, with the scientific direction of Carlos Basualdo, Pier Luigi Sacco and Angela Vettese.

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Fundació Joan Miró 19 February – 6 June 2010 The Joan Miró Foundation presents Murals, an exhibition curated by Martina Millà, head of Projects and Programming at the Foundation. The show offers an overview of the revival of wall painting today and of the great variety to be found in this field.

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Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts / Lausanne 19 March – 6 June 2010 Nalini Malani is one of the most influential contemporary artists from India. She was born in what is now Pakistan. During Partition in 1947 her family was displaced from Karachi to Bombay, where she still lives. Since the 1970s, Malani has displayed her emphatically feminine stance there, in a country torn between the effects of colonialism and the idealism of a Third World social democracy, as well as being seized by the political and economic changes brought about by rapid globalisation.

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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía 17 March – 31 May 2010 The Palacio de Cristal was inaugurated in 1887 with an exhibition of the flora of the Philippines, at that time Spain's pre eminent colony. Palm trees and indigenous plants of many kinds were installed in a ceremonial layout. In its built form the Palacio de Cristal belongs to the typology of green houses; in its role and functions, however, it can be more closely aligned with Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace built in 1852 for one of the first world's fairs.

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Minneapolis Institute of Arts April 16 – August 1, 2010 The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) celebrates its new commitment to contemporary art with the exhibition "Until Now: Collecting the New (1960–2010)." Opening April 16, 2010, the exhibition includes more than 90 works by artists who have challenged and altered the direction of visual art over the past five decades.

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The Power Plant 26 March – 24 May 2010 'Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever,' the first Canadian solo exhibition by the young American artist, is a sprawling seven-video suite amalgamating his ambitious new four-part series, Re'Search Wait'S as well as his 2009 video triptych Trill-ogy Comp.

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The David Roberts Art Foundation in London, Kadist Art Foundation in Paris and Nomas Foundation in Rome are pleased to present The Sirens' Stage/Le Stade des Sirènes/Lo stato delle sirene, a fragmented exhibition by Etienne Chambaud in the framework of Vincent Normand's project Permanent Exhibition, Temporary Collections.

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Rumänska kulturinstitutet and Konsthall C In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher made the notorious statement 'There is no alternative' (TINA), which is often paired with another famous declaration by the former British Prime Minister 'There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families'.

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TEXTE ZUR KUNST The in-house working title for this issue of "Texte zur Kunst" was "Painting is Not the Issue," alluding to how its articles make a case for a "painting beside itself," as David Joselit put it in "October" 130. More precisely, this issue offers a theoretically and art-historically grounded consideration of a certain kind of contemporary painting practice.

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Fondazione Galleria Civica di Trento 20 March – 6 June 2010 Robert Kuśmirowski creates meticulous simulations of historical settings, where the artist's mastery combines, on the conceptual level, with his deep thoughts on our experience of reality and history, and of the role of memory and imagination in the definition of this experience.

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Irish Museum of Modern Art 17 February – 3 May 2010 This, and other things, 1999-2010 brings together two of Tallentire's earlier works as well as four of her most recent pieces, created in response to the environment at IMMA. Nowhere else, The Readers, Document and Drift: diagram xi, working with architect Dominic Stevens (all 2010), are shown for the first time; alongside Instances, 1999, and a staging of Manifesto 3 (… instead of partial object), 2004, in collaboration with artist John Seth, with whom Tallentire has frequently collaborated since 1993, in a practice formalised as 'work-seth/tallentire'.

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Shedhalle Zürich 20 March – 16 May 2010 In art, the most melancholic landscapes were created at a time when the natural of nature was surmised as something irretrievably lost, something endangered by industrialisation. Once more, one tried to halt the ravages of time and evoke an idyll that had never existed the way it was depicted.

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SHARJAH BIENNIAL 10 16 March – 16 May 2011 The Sharjah Art Foundation announces the appointment of Suzanne Cotter and Rasha Salti as joint curators of the 10th edition of the Sharjah Biennial.

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Oslo Fine Art Society 19 March – 25 April 2010 The exhibition Stop Making Sense presents nine artists who live and work in Israel and whose backgrounds are Europe, Maghreb, the Middle East, or Palestine (Israel before 1948). The purpose of the exhibition is to call attention to the complex cultural identities, the artistic legacy and the socio-political orientations that engage contemporary artists who live and work in Israel.

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CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea) 16, 17, 18 March 2010 What is dandyism? It cannot be defined, as attitudes are always difficult to describe. Who is a dandy? Nowadays the term dandy has been so overused that it has almost lost its meaning. Dandies were not just handsome and eccentric men who lived in a particular historical moment, they have in fact become part of the black on white of the page, they have turned into text, becoming protagonists of novels and plays or cases of study of dissertations or essays.

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Greater Lyon – Urban Authorities The Urban Community is undertaking a major project to regenerate the banks of the river Saône as they run through Greater Lyon, from the confluence point to the northern limit of the urban area. This involves 50km of riverbank, passing through 14 Communes, five of which are Lyon city districts (arrondissements).

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Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and Sternberg Press, Berlin Since the early 1980s, Peter Friedl has written on a variety of subjects. His latest book Secret Modernity: Selected Writings and Interviews 1981–2009, edited by Anselm Franke, compiles a representative selection of his texts, along with a series of interviews and conversations, e.g. with Roger M. Buergel, Stefan Germer, and Jean-Pierre Rehm.

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Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Prato 3 February – 11 April 2010 Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Prato presents, from February 3rd to April 11th 2010, Alla maniera d'oggi. Base a Firenze, a show curated by Marco Bazzini aimed at creating a dialogue between some of the most important venues within the Florence Museum Compound and Tuscan artistic production from the last decades.

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e-flux is pleased to present the first in a series of exhibitions, presentations and other projects, based in and around our reading room at 41 Essex Street, New York City.

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Kunsthalle Fridericianum and Postgraduate Program in Curating, ICS, DKV, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, are hosting the symposium Institution as Medium. Curating as Institutional Critique? on Friday, 26 and Saturday, 27 March, 2010.

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Bloomberg SPACE 4 – 20 March 2010 Berlin-based French artist Damien Deroubaix works across a diverse range of media from painting and watercolour on paper to sculpture and installation. He has developed, over the years, a complex and unique imagery that reveals the influence of major figures in the history of painting such as Jerome Bosch, Brueghel, Holbein, Max Beckman, Francis Bacon and David Hockney, with whom he shares a fascination for myths and symbolism in the field of representation.

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IHME 2010 Festival of Contemporary Art, Helsinki The IHME Project 2010 is a sound installation in Helsinki designed by Scottish sculptor Susan Philipsz. She creates sculptures using sound, and is interested in the values associated with space and in how sound can define architecture. Among the key elements of Philipsz's approach are the psychological effects of songs and the way that songs can evoke immediate emotions and memories.

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