GREGOR MUIR director of Hauser & Wirth, London and formerly the Kramlich Curator of Contemporary Art at Tate Modern. In 1997 he founded the Lux Gallery in Hoxton Square. His forthcoming book, 'Lucky Kunst: The Rise and Fall of YBA', will be published by Aurum in January 2009.
Pablo Bronstein at Palazzi Torinesi, Turin
A challenging and cohesive exhibition by this young London artist whereby the works on display melded perfectly with Franco Noero's new gallery located in an incredible 19th-century Baroque building known as the Fetta di Polenta, or "Slice of Polenta" - what a space!
Sarah Lucas: Penetralia at Sadie Coles, London
I was genuinely struck by the beauty of this show, more so given how such a quietly affecting experience is generated by a series of simple sculptures that marry natural forms with sexual innuendo.
Monika Sosnowska Solo Exhibition at The Modern Institute, Glasgow
A bold and striking exhibition that magnifies one's sense of interior and exterior surroundings. Sosnowska's work continues to deal with structures - be they urban, political, domestic, human, emotional - in such a way that she manages to avoid any of the obvious cliches.
Yang Fudong: East of Que Village at ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
'East of Que Village' (2007) is a breathtaking multi-screen video installation that documents the desperate existence of a pack of stray dogs in a remote region of northern China. Aside from following the plight of one dog in particular, until its eventual death, the work also peers into the day-to-day experiences of the local township with whom the artist once spent his childhood.
Guy de Cointet Solo Exhibition at Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
A perfectly formed, bite-sized show that focused on the work of this exquisite conceptual artist whose fascination with text, performance, code and narrative continues to inspire. Watch this space!
Mark Rothko at Tate Modern, London
An exhibition that reminded me why I got into art in he first place. I wish I were able to live with the Seagram Murals. Least we forget, painting can be viewed as experience and here it was hard not to be
completely blown away.
Louise Bourgeois: Nature Study at Inverleith House, Edinburgh
For all the amazing museums shows dedicated to Bourgeois in past months, it came as a pleasant surprise to see a modest display of the artist's works being shown in tandem with botanical teaching diagrams once owned and commissioned by Hutton Balfour during the late 1800s.
Subdodh Gupta: There is always Cinema at Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
A barnstorming exhibition of large-scale sculptures made from Indian steel kitchenware alongside more discreet and extremely poetic renderings of objects associated with this wonderful former cinema space, including casts taken from the old projectors and tins of film. Cinema Paradiso meets Bollywood. Viva Continua!
Luc Tuymans: Come and See at Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Slightly reworked from other legs of this impressive touring exhibition, Tuymans seemed to pull out all the stops in Warsaw by bringing out his original subject-material, including wartime photography and magazines, as well as video excerpts from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. As well as including his own early films, and embarking an impressive wall painting especially for the occasion, Tuymans displayed vitrines filled with materials that inform his work, often touching on a dark fascination with recent European history.
Bharti Kher Solo Exhibition at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
There's a magic about Kher's work that I find completely compelling. Peering into a bowl or rice to discover handwritten words on every single grain, or finding oneself encountering a life-size female form with antlers holding a banana leaf, all adds to a rather joyous picture being conjured by this extraordinary Indian artist. As for Kher's bindi works, they remain so full of life that I can't help but
sense that this particular strand of her work will come to be seen as truly iconic in the years to come.
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