DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art is delighted to present the first major Canadian exhibition of Brooklyn-based artist Cory Arcangel.  Trained initially in classical guitar and music technology at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Cory Arcangel is no_ recognized as a major exponent of a pop-tinged, computer-centred art.    Arcangel embraces the Internet's anarchic potential and its utopian open-source culture, making _orks that question authorship, the status, and value of the art object. Exploring both the promises and deceptions of soft_are, electronic gadgets, games and other devices—_ith an emphasis on ho_ they become old and quickly outdated—Arcangel's art eulogizes technology's built-in obsolescence _hile also _ittily celebrating its noise, mindless repetitions, and inevitable failures.

When the crowds descended on Venice's Giardini at the end of May for the preview days of the 55th Venice Biennale, there was a noticeable weariness in the air. Many gallerists and collectors had clocked in thousands of frequent flier miles, hitting Frieze New York and Art Basel's inaugural Hong Kong edition just a couple of weeks earlier. So when Massimiliano Gioni's much anticipated "The Encyclopedic Palace" finally opened, for some it was more like the season's denouement than a summer kick off. Inside the garden's gates, many were delighted by Gioni's elegant show, with its "museal" presentation and tantalizing roster of unknowns (mostly dead white men with juicy back stories).

This summer, The Phillips Collection presents its first exhibition of works by acclaimed American painter, sculptor, and printmaker Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923). Panel Paintings 2004–2009 features seven works consisting of two to four canvases of solid color. Coinciding with the artist's 90th birthday year, Ellsworth Kelly: Panel Paintings 2004–2009 is on view from June 22 through September 22, 2013.  With a prolific career spanning over 60 years, Ellsworth Kelly is internationally renowned for his explorations of form, color, and space.

Co-organized by Kunsthaus Zürich and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Riotous Baroque. From Cattelan to Zurbarán – Tributes to Precarious Vitality strikes up a dialogue between 17th-century artworks and contemporary pieces in an attempt to extricate the concept of the Baroque from its conventional stylistic pigeonhole, moving away from clichés such as pomp, rich ornament, or gold and instead focusing on the Baroque as a "tribute to precarious vitality": the riotous yet uncertain nature of existence. The show juxtaposes works by great 17th-century masters such as Pieter Aertsen, Giovanni Battista Langetti, Alessandro Magnasco, José de Ribera, Jan Steen, David Teniers the Younger, Simon Vouet, and Francisco de Zurbarán with that of renowned contemporary creators like Maurizio Cattelan, Robert Crumb, Urs Fischer, Glenn Brown, Tobias Madison, Paul McCarthy, and Cindy Sherman, among others.

Chisenhale Gallery presents two new Offsite commissions with emerging London-based artists, taking place in our east London neighbourhood this summer. Edward Thomasson and Cara Tolmie have both developed performance projects with people who live or work near the gallery—exploring collaborative improvisation, multi-layered narratives and public space. Both projects have been developed during residencies over a period of time, supporting the production of new work outside the gallery space.  Between You And Me, a new play by Edward Thomasson with music by Soosan Lolavar, premieres at The Glass House, a bespoke design 1950s community centre in the Parkview Estate near Victoria Park.

Following the intervention by Marcus Geiger (2011) and the Hans Schabus solo exhibition (2012), this year the 21er Haus is once again the venue of a site-specific show, created on the spot and occupying the entire building. It began with a solid cube, reaching up to the museum atrium's ceiling. It stood as a mass of material, a mine just waiting to be exploited. However, nothing but emptiness was extracted from it at first.

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture presents two new projects: Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg's The Black Pot and Jan Švankmajer's Kunstkammer, each created specifically for the new Garage Pavilion in Gorky Park. Nathalie Djurberg is best known for her provocative films that are produced using stop-motion animation and set to hypnotic music created by Hans Berg.

The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to present two summer exhibitions opening on June 28, 2013. Tehching Hsieh One Year Performance 1980–1981 marks the first time that the work of one of the world's most important performance artists will be shown in mainland China. The full installation from one of Hsieh's most iconic works, Time Clock Piece (One Year Performance 1980–1981)—a work in which the artist punches a time clock every hour for an entire year—will be shown in the UCCA Long Gallery alongside documentary materials on his other works.

S.T.R.H. (Stones That Rest Heavily) is a solo show by Konrad Smoleński in the main exhibition hall of the Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk. Smoleński's installation fills the space entirely, denying viewers a safe distance and pulling them towards its interior. The visual elements consist of massive, static, three-dimensional objects that generate low-frequency sound at specific intervals.

The promise of a pioneering architecture, which is especially associated with East Asian countries, is the focus of the exhibition EASTERN PROMISES. China, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea are currently seeing architectural and urban projects that amalgamate social awareness, ecological strategies and artistic practices in new ways. The reflection on local traditions and conditions as well as a critical awareness of global media technologies lead to an architectural approach that is less interested in iconic objects and spectacular forms than in a structural realignment of society in its spatial dimensions.

Little Constellation - Contemporary Art in the geo-cultural micro-areas and small states of Europe presents a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Iceland, Subjective Maps / Disappearances, scheduled to June 30, 2013. Little Constellation is an international network for contemporary art. It was founded for the creation and dissemination of research projects especially attentive to the present in Andorra, Cyprus, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, and in some micro geo-cultural areas of Europe including Ticino, Ceuta, Gibraltar, Kaliningrad, the Aland Islands, the Faroe Islands, Jersey and Guernsey.

Last week the two curatorial teams presented a sneak preview of their curatorial plans of the 2013 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen) [abbreviated as "UABB(SZ)"], which will be exhibited in Shekou, Shenzhen, China from December 6, 2013 to February 28, 2014. The biennale will be curated by Team Ole Bouman and Team Li Xiangning + Jeffrey Johnson. Both teams work within the framework of the 5th UABB theme "Urban Border" which will be presented in two main venues in Shekou.

The Power Plant's summer season engages text, language and performance as a way to consider the past in relation to contemporary art practices. Jimmy Robert: Draw the Line 22 June–2 September 2013 Curated by Julia Paoli In partnership with the Consulate General of France in Toronto with support from the Institut Français as part of Paris-Toronto. Supported by Air France. The Power Plant is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Brussels-based artist Jimmy Robert. Robert's practice typically explores the corporeal potential of a range of media including photography, drawing, film, video, sculpture, and performance.

With the title Jeppe Hein, A Smile For You a new catalogue published by Koenig Books explores happiness. It is a topic Danish artist Jeppe Hein intends to research for many years. Hein's first outward step of this exploration includes circulating questions about happiness in a media campaign, two parallel exhibitions in Sweden at Bonniers Konsthall and at Wanås Konst and this publication.

Erlend Hammer and Power Ekroth curate two separate exhibitions for Momentum 7, each with their own title and selection of artists. The curators work closely with artists they invite to Momentum 7, and both are engaged with the collaboration process between artist and curator. By sharing the biennial between them, they will put their own signatures on each part of the exhibition, and to a greater extent claim individual responsibility for the end results.

The Institute of Modern Art Board is seeking a new and innovative Director to creatively lead the organization through its next phase of development.  Founded in 1975, the IMA is a highly respected Australian contemporary art space and the hub of contemporary-art life in Brisbane and the state of Queensland. In recent years we have staged exhibitions by artists including Taryn Simon, Cao Fei, Artur Zmijewski, Olaf Breuning, Diana Thater, Yang Fudong, and Gregory Crewdson. We also have a long history of producing important exhibitions and publications.

Alternative Guide to the Universe presents the work of individuals who re-envision the conventions of culture and science. In addition to maverick artists, the exhibition includes self-taught architects and outsider urbanists, fringe physicists and visionary inventors, all of whom provide bracingly unorthodox perspectives on some aspect of the world we live in.  Their work, while often conceived without an audience in mind, is publicly engaged in this sense:  its grand ambitions include reimagining our relationships with time and space, language and technology, as well as our notions of self and consciousness.

In 2013 the Turku Biennial examines idyll from a Nordic viewpoint. Fifteen artists or artist groups from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland have been invited to take part in the exhibition by curators from each Nordic country. Many universally shared ideas, but also surprising and deeply personal views to possible idylls are found in the new works.

The State Hermitage Museum is delighted to announce the exhibition Gegenlicht. German Art from the George Economou Collection. Exploring the legacy of German Expressionism and New Objectivity on Postwar and Contemporary art, the exhibition installed in the new Contemporary wing brings together major works from the last one hundred years of German art from the collection.  We are honoured to appropriate Gegenlicht (counterlight) from the poetry of Paul Celan, who was deeply linked to German history of the Postwar period. The Greek art collector George Economou has over the last two decades assembled an important collection of Modern and Postwar art.

Agnès Varda has had a long and successful international career as filmmaker. Already with her first film she got established; La Pointe Courte from 1954 is considered the starting point of the French New Wave. In recent years, her work as a visual artist has found new and experimental expressions and evolved into installations and thus gained new audiences.  The exhibition at Bildmuseet, her first in Scandinavia, presents a selection of Agnès Varda's documentary film projects from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as newer works that display the boundary-transcending way in which she moves between the cinema theatre and the gallery space; between photography and cinema; between the moving image and the still.