Lawrence Lek, Sheila Hicks, Alexandra Bircken, Mika Rottenberg and Amie Siegel
A group show featuring the work of five established artists from around the world. Filmmakers Amie Siegel and Mika Rottenberg, American and Argentinian respectively, show works dealing with globalisation and labour. German artists Lawrence Lek and Alexandra Bircken tackle Glasgow's industrial heritage through sculpture (Bircken) and multi-media (Lek). Finally august octogenarian American artist Sheila Hicks will make one of her site-specific textile installations to the height of the Tramway. Adding another dimension, Turner Prize-winning Scottish artist Martin Boyce has been commissioned to design the exhibition.
Tramway, Albert Drive, April 8-May 22
Nicolas Party: Mezzotint
A hit when his playful and brightly-coloured pastels and murals were shown at Edinburgh's Inverleith House Gallery last summer, the Swiss-born, Glasgow-based artist presents a collection of solo work made using the mezzotint print-making process.
Glasgow Print Studio, 103 Trongate, April 8-May 29
Counterflows
A four-day festival of contemporary music which doubles as a celebration of GI's opening weekend. Among the acts featured are Inga Copeland, one half of art-music pranksters Hype Williams, and American harpist Zeena Parkins, who has performed and recorded with Bjork and Yoko Ono among others.
Venues include the Centre for Contemporary Art and Glasgow School of Art, April 7-10
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Raoul Reynolds: A Retrospective
Born in Glasgow in 1882 to a shipyard-owning Scottish father and a French mother whose family owned a Marseilles tobacco business, Raoul Reynolds studied at Glasgow School of Art around the turn of the 20th century and found his first inspiration in the Arts and Crafts movement. But it was Modernism and the European avant garde which really grabbed him and as a painter he threw himself into it in a life of travelling which saw him wind up in New York. He died there in 1969. A tangential figure in the story of 20th century Scottish art, this retrospective offers an overview of a rich, varied and (until now) relatively unsung career.
Scotland Street School Museum, 225 Scotland Street, April 8-24
Asparagus Piss Raindrop
No self-respecting art biennale would be complete without a performance in a roller disco, so here's GI's, created by the self-styled “crypto conceptual science fiction anti-climax band” and billed as a performance piece for upwards of six skaters and an amplified roller ring. Bring your own wheels.
Roller Stop, 130 Middlesex Street, April 8 (2.30pm-4.30pm)
Carol Rhodes: Construction Site
Despite showing at Edinburgh's Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2007 and again in the Generation group show of 2014, this is Rhodes's first exhibition in Glasgow since 2000. In it, the painter will present her trademark aerial landscapes alongside the preparatory drawings for them.
Oxford House, 71 Oxford Street, April 8-25
Cosima von Bonin
In an exhibition titled Who's Exploiting Who In The Deep Sea?, the German artist brings together at GoMA a decade's worth of pieces loosely connected by her fascination with oceans and their inhabitants, and covering a variety of media including sculpture.
Gallery of Modern Art, Royal Exchange Square, April 8-August 7
Third Hand: Autonomous Art From Scottish Prisons
A collection of single and collaborative art works made by prisoners in Scottish jails, displayed in the CCA's Creative Lab space under the auspices of New Lanarkshire College. Call it outsider art if you want, though the organisers would rather you didn't: this show is intended as an outright challenge to the idea of the naif.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, April 13-23
Aaron Angell: The Death Of Robin Hood
In a show split between Kelvingrove Art Gallery and the Botanic Gardens, “radical ceramicist” Aaron Angell shows sculptural works inspired by (variously) pipe organs, gardening, landscape architect Capability Brown and the colour green. The show includes performances of organ music at Kelvingrove (April 9 and 23). In the Botanic Gardens, Angell is setting up in the Begonia House where his show will be accompanied by poetry readings from DM Black and Lucy Mercer (April 9).
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum/Glasgow Botanic Garden, April 8-25
Claire Barclay: Bright Bodies
In a GI commission, the Glasgow-based installation artist will create a new work inside Kelvin Hall, whose varied history – it has been everything from a sports arena to a music hall to a factory making barrage balloons – she will try to reflect. In particular, Barclay will concentrate on the 1951 Exhibition of Industrial Power.
Kelvin Hall, Argyle Street, April 8-25
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