Ned Vena’s solo exhibition at Michael Benevento features a new body of work including seven white paintings, a group of rubber, “target” paintings, a vinyl wall relief and a 16mm film.

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Born in the United States in 1940, Susan Hiller has lived and worked in Britain for over 30 years and is one of the most influential artists of her generation. This major survey exhibition at Tate Britain provides a timely focus on a selection of her key works, from assembled postcard images made in the 1970s to her pioneering mixed-media installations and video projections.

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The exhibition “How to Work” at Kunsthalle Basel attempts to look at possible ways of how one works as an artist today. The exhibition brings together nine contemporary artists whose practices, however varied, are indebted to Conceptual art of the 1960s and ’70s, as well as its manifold incarnations in the later, neo-Conceptual work of the 1980s and ’90s that, following the seminal “Pictures” exhibition curated by Douglas Crimp in 1977, critically engaged with politics of image and object-making.

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On March 11, Iris Touliatou’s first solo exhibition in Germany, titled “On the Breaking Act of Seeing Through and Through the other Side of Grounds and Things”, opened at DUVE Berlin. The exhibition presents new works of sculptures, drawings and collages, alongside a limited edition artist publication.

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“Schhh…Hieroglyphics” – Alistair Frost’s first solo exhibition at HOTEL gallery, London – will be on view until April 23, 2011. An overview of the exhibition after the jump.

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How does a work of art come to be? Who produces it and why? How does the relations developed between client and artist, time and space of the work, between private responsibility and public institutions in the production of a work? Do we simply produce to exhibit or does the chain that leads to the “finished” product deserves interest in itself? Trying to answer these – and other questions related to the theme of “producing for exhibiting” – on March 24 Fondazione Antonio Ratti inquired James Lingwood, co-director of Artangel and Nato Thompson, chief curator of Creative Time: the two most important organizations, which for many years have been commissioning and producing outstanding projects by contemporary artists.

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On April 3, an exhibition of new works by New York artist Erica Baum will be opening at Bureau. The show will feature her newest photographic series, Dog Ear, alongside examples of her rarely seen mid-90s series Blackboards.

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