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Fans of artistically and politically invested film know where to head each year in late January - with its record of presenting some of the best experimental, independent projects from around the globe and visual arts exhibitions, the offerings at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) really can't be topped. The 36th installment will take place 24 Jan-4 Feb and although the full programme listing won't be revealed until this Thursday, 18 Jan (click here for a direct link), here's our pick of events to definitely watch out for.

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'My practice is like an open spiral that moves with time. My work revolves around the subject of memory and the question of what remains that is valuable,' Caro Niederer In her forthcoming show Niederer continues her practice of replicating photographic images in paintings and carpets.

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The Paul Kopeikin Gallery is currently exhibiting the work of five young artists, each showing three works, including Amy Stein whose photographs (below) were chosen to be in the Your Gallery @ the Guardian exhibition in London last October.

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Remember the Human League? Remember Heaven 17? Of course you do. They're still around, for a start. Martyn Ware (below), founder of both, has become one of Britain's leading figures in electronic music. Now he's dragging 23 artists around the country on a mission to explore the future of sound. The trance-inducing echoes of Neolithic burial sites are as we speak clashing with celestial sound art installations. Someone's even doing a concert of the brain. Laura K Jones reports.

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For those of you who feel you missed on some of the greatest art shows last year because of geography, the Mobile Studios are here to rescue you. About as fluid as an art organisation can be, the studios are self-described as 'an internationally networked pilot project of a mobile, autonomous production laboratory for young artists, musicians, performers and cultural programmers', and they certainly deliver the goods they promise - sort of like a non-profit wandering and ever-evolving art fair. Lupe Nunez-Fernandez chats with Ela Kagel on the past and future of the project.

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Steven Bluttal, the former curator of the Warhol Estate, will be bringing his choice of drawings by Andy Warhol to London on 25 January for the most extensive collection of Warhol's drawings shown in Britain to date. The collection predates Warhol's graduation from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh and spans his first decade living in New York City. 'He was technically superb as a draughtsman - akin to Picasso - and a brilliant figurative artist,' says Bluttal. Laura K Jones reports.

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Rokeby is opening an exhibition of new paintings by Sam Dargan on 3 January. Dargan, who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2002, creates paintings and drawings that express the alienation and dissatisfaction experienced in contemporary daily life. Isolated middle-income men are depicted in stark and often sinister environments; empty interiors illuminated by a solitary lamp, windswept landscapes, dirty streets, the walls daubed with political graffiti or scenes which could be taken from frames of Zapruder's home movie.

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For the last two years Rachel Howard, assistant to Damien Hirst in the early 1990s, has been working flat out to prepare for two major shows in America. The first, an exhibition of abstract paintings at Gagosian's Beverly Hills space opens on 6 January; the second opens at the Bohen Foundation in New York on 24 February. Laura K Jones met up with the artist to discuss her new, large-scale abstracts which are made by pouring thick household paint onto each canvas.

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Early in the new year, tank.tv will be presenting a programme at Tate Modern of moving image work by artists whose practice reflects a vision of tomorrow. The structures and systems of everyday reality are examined to reveal glimpses into the 'future'.

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Tate Liverpool today opens the first major mid-career retrospective for British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman. The exhibition presents now iconic works by the Chapmans such as their series of mannequin sculptures (below), Hell 65 Million Years BC (2004-5) and Disasters of War 1993, a three dimensional rendering of Goya's etchings.

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Primarily known for his textile works, Sergej Jensen's compositions incorporate a variety of fabrics, from burlap and linen to silk and wool. White Cube in Hoxton Square opens today an exhibition by the Berlin-based artist whose work plays with the principle of the readymade and recycling.

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The Sarah Myerscough Gallery in London is getting into the winter spirit with a group show of work by young, emerging artists inspired by seasonal changes and, specifically, the theme of the nocturnal. We preview here the work of the artists in the exhibition which opens today.

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Each artist in this new exhibition utilizes a step-by-step production process. Be it implied, seemingly spontaneous, or unnervingly rigorous - each leads to outcomes that range from the humorous to the politically charged (pic: work by Gunilla Klingberg).

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Join Russell Storer, MCA Curator and Keith Munro, Curator Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Programs lead a tour of the new exhibition of Paddy Bedford's work, today.

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Dave Hickey curates fellow Las Vegas resident Jack Hallberg, while Juan Sanchez curates a show by Puerto Rican artist Miguel Luciano.

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The influential Argentinean artist, Victor Grippo, who died in 2002, is the subject of a large-scale retrospective at the Camden Arts Centre. This is the artist's first major show in London, following a retrospective in Birmingham eleven years ago.

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Miami's Moore Space is opening a new loft space to coincide with ArtBasel Miami Beach, and the inaugural show is a restaging of John Bock's performance and installation, 'Zero Hero', first seen at the Venice Biennale 2005.

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Graham Hudson's Netherlands debut will be the first show at ZINGERpresents' new Amsterdam space. The artist will work for several weeks in the city, gathering materials for his tongue-in-cheek sculptural work from local DIY stores, skips and the street.

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An imaginative pair of exhibitions is in store at Arnolfini, Bristol. Upcoming UK artist Melanie Jackson's show, 'Road Angel', will run concurrently with Austrian duo Lois and Franziska Weinberger's 'Home Voodoo', which takes the theme of the garden as a starting point and metaphor for society.

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Dave Muller returns to Blum and Poe to present more of his precisely rendered acrylic paintings on the theme of pop culture fandom.

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Provocateur Rob Pruitt twins up with French graphic artist Mirka Lugosi for a fiery double bill at Air de Paris from 2 December. Expect leather, glitter, and maybe a few pandas.

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Based on her recent research in China, veteran Conceptual artist Rose Finn-Kelcey explores the formal and symbolic resonance of Chinese characters in a new show at Milton Keynes Gallery, the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work in nearly a decade.

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A double helping of hysteria is on the menu at Freight and Volume, New York, with painter Brendan Cass in the main space, and picture-book and sound collagist Brian Belott in the project room. Cass revels in hallucinatory landscapes, especially of New York, while Belott gives a magical twist to overlooked aspects of the everyday.

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Yinka Shonibare confirms his place as one of the leading British artists of his generation in a new series of works at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.

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Viewers will get a chance to experience the full gamut of Christine Borland's output in this survey show at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery. The Scottish artist is one of a number of internationally-renowned figures to emerge from the Glasgow School of Art in the 1990s.

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Sergio Prego's beguiling sculptures and films, shown at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York for the first time, are part of an extended artistic project which sets out to question conventional understandings of space and time.

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It's 100 years since the Piccadilly line first opened its gates, and to celebrate Platform for Art are embarking on their most ambitious project to date, with a six-month programme of 18 specially commissioned artworks in station platforms and entry halls from Heathrow to Cockfosters.

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Over the course of 2006, painter Andrew Grassie visited every exhibition held at Maureen Paley's gallery. On each occasion, he photographed and painted the premises from every angle, thereby creating a documentary of the gallery's recent history and a strange multi-layered virtual reality. The results go on show today.

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Today sees the opening of the Serpentine Gallery's major new show, 'In the darkest hour there may be light', the first public exhibition of Damien Hirst's 'murderme' collection of art. Hirst puts on his curating coat to arrange works by 24 artists that have both interested and stimulated him throughout his career.

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For his first solo exhibition in the UK the Danish artist John Kørner will turn the project space of the Victoria Miro gallery into a fictional factory, painted floor to ceiling in his signature 'hazard' yellow. Max Andrew meditates on the 'unknown unknowns' in Kørner's work.

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Young artist Ed Harper brings the outside urban environment inside the gallery through painting and digitally remastering urban debris.

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For his first solo exhibition in the UK, currently showing the Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art in London, German artist Johannes Kahrs presents a series of paintings and pastel and charcoal works on paper in which he manipulates found imagery from film stills, newspapers and personal photographs to depict human figures and their world in unusual scenarios.

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This new exhibition traces the direct and oblique influences that Magritte's work (both the word image paintings and other key images) has had on subsequent generations of artists.

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Gary Lawrence's 'Easyjet Sunset' (pic) is just one of the many highlights of this year's Open, including work by all kinds of artists, from film-makers to painters.

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This is the final show in a series of four exhibitions in which Tal R restricts his color palette to seven colors: pink, yellow, green, red, brown, black and white. Working within these confines, the artist is enabled to breach conventions through a play on expectations that propels his work forward.

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Italian artist Patrick Tuttofuoco's 'Chindia', his first UK solo show at Haunch of Venison, London, focuses on the two main emerging world powers suggested by the word - India and China.

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A new book documents Anderson's powerful photographic study of the people and places of Vidor, Texas, a poor and isolated town in rural Southeast Texas, most known for its long history as a Ku Klux Klan centre.

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Driesen, whose first solo European show opens next week, draws inspiration from the compositions, colour palettes, and themes explored by Old Masters such as Memling and Van Eyck, and is inspired by the way in which they used all of these elements to project a vision of life in their time, political, religious, romantic or otherwise.

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An exhibition of work by contemporary, international artists whose work uses science fiction and alien life forms as a way of exploring racial difference and as a potent metaphor for the threat of the outsider.

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The Ikon Gallery in Birmingham is planning to end the month with a bang. Two solo exhibitions, Suchan Kinoshita (below) and Perry Roberts, will bring the artists' latest work closer to UK audiences.

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It's all around us, so maybe it's time to get to know it...Coinciding with the worldwide celebration of the font's fiftieth birthday in 2007, 'Helvetica' (the movie) is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture which will open early in the new year - but you can get these limited edition Helvetica prints now if you can't wait..

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'The starting point of the project is very simple and sounds like the rule of a game: how accurate can a representation be when only based on testimonies? How true can the images I produce be considered, if representing a place where I have never been, that I never saw in picture and which I try to imagine only through the testimonies of its inhabitants?' Consider the young French artist's conclusions in his first solo show at Cosmic Galerie in Paris, opening this Saturday.

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The first solo show for the young Danish artist in the UK will presents new works exploring consumerism, and luxury goods, a project that has grown out of the fact that Max Wigram's gallery is located on New Bond Street, one of London's most exclusive shopping areas.

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Today is the opening for the first solo exhibition in The Netherlands by the South African photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.

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The first UK exhibition of work by Belgian artist Berlinde de Bruyckere opens today at Hauser & Wirth London. De Bruyckere is best known for her distorted animal forms, such as sculptures covered with horse pelt and hair stitched together to create what at first glance seem to be horses but are in fact are malformed, often faceless shapes embued with a sense of terrible suffering.

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