GalleriesNow Top exhibitions of the week: London, Zürich, New York

GalleriesNow is the world’s leading gallery guide – everything you need to know about major exhibitions, wherever you are. Each week for FAD they choose a select group of exhibits to visit.

Expressions of Africa – Inside Jean Pigozzi’s Collection Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich

Courtesy of Galerie Gmurzynska

Following Pigozzi’s “transformative gift” of contemporary African art to MoMA, an exhibition curated by Dr Jérôme Neutres presenting the collection in Switzerland for the first time –

“by building my collection, I wanted to show a happy Africa, its visual richness, its luxuriant nature, the energy of its inhabitants… I have always said that I wanted to be the visual ambassador of Africa”

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Roy Oxlade Alison Jacques Gallery, London

© Estate of Roy Oxlade. Courtesy of Alison Jacques Gallery, London

Paintings from 1978 to 2006 and works on paper presented for the first time at the gallery, by one of the key artists in the historical narrative of post-war British art More

Mike Kelly. Timeless painting Hauser & Wirth, New York

© Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All rights reserved/VAGA at ARS, NY. Courtesy of the Foundation and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Dan Bradica

Curated by guest curator Jenelle Porter, a selection of Kelley’s remarkably diverse output highlights his remarkable exploration of color painting – plus for the first time in the US, Kelley’s multimedia installation ode to Detroit paintings Institute of Arts that captivated him in his youth More

Magdalena Abakanowicz: bodily materiality Marlborough, London

Courtesy of Marlborough, London. Photo: Luke Walker

Ahead of next year’s Tate Modern exhibition, sculptures and drawings by the resolutely innovative Polish artist, a towering figure in 20th century art More

Enigma & Desire: Man Ray Paintings Di Donna, New York

Courtesy of Di Donna, New York

The first investigative exhibition to focus on the paintings of Man Ray – forty works from international museums, foundations and private collections in Europe and the United States reveal the radical thought and practice from which he made his primary passion. More

Pierre Haubensak: Hide and Seek Lullin + Ferrari, Zürich

Courtesy of the artist and Lullin + Ferrari, Zürich

New works in Haubensak’s very physical style of scraper-applied acrylic on canvas More

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