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As part of the Amsterdam China Festival, Hou Hanfu will curate the show ‘Out of sight’, taking place at the De Appel from October 7 to November 20. The exhibition focuses on the desires of individuality and creative freedom that characterize current Chinese contemporary art, through artists such as Xu Tan, Lu Chunsheng, Yan Lei, Cao Fei, Ni Haifeng, Chen Xiaoyun and Zheng Gougo. This fall the centre Pompidou is mounting two remarkable solo shows, on until the middle of November. Jeppe Hein’s ‘Labyrinth Virtuel’, is a new work that addresses ironies of minimalism and the dematerialization of a work. Playing with the rules of the white cube, he changes the visitor’s traditional experience. True to its title, the show presents an empty space containing an invisible labyrinth, visible only through an X-ray devise. Updating its layout daily with a different pathway, it turns the visitors and their movements into the medium itself. Also at the Pompidou, the Brazilian artist Marepe will create a site-specific installation, inspired by his native Bahia from his Brazilian culture and tradition. Until December 4 the Extra City Centre for the Arts in Antwerp hosts an ambitious exhibition: ’ Information/ Transformation’. The show analyzes the complex relationships between processing and distributing information and the desire to trigger social or political change. Among the artists invited are Ivan Grubanov, Dustin Larson, Alon Levin and the Atlas group. MuHKA, the Extra City and Objectif_exhibitions, in collaboration with the Witte de With have put together a selection of the major artists coming from the city of Antwerp in the exhibition ‘Monopolis-Antwerp’. Taking place at the Witte de With, it shows how the works featured create alliances and new possibilities emerging from the social fabric of this metropolis. Among the artists are Niels Donckers, Bruna Hautman and Vanessa van Obberghen. Meanwhile in Oslo, curators Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gunnar B. Kvaran and Daniel Birnbaum present ‘Uncertain States of America; American Art in the third Millenium’. The show examines forty young American artists, ages 25 – 35. Mike Bouchet, Matthew Brannon, Paul Chan, Karl Haendel, Matthew Ronay and others will exhibit their new works at the Astrup Fearnley Museum until December 11. Only a few months from his graduation at the Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Mogadishni of Copenhagen hosts the first solo show of Andreas Schulenberg, titled ‘Democracy is the cosmetic of capitalism’. The works featured in the exhibition, which runs from October 28 to December 22, are pictures as well as Schulenberg’s well known special objects made of wool.

Meanwhile Kate Davis questions the function of the viewer’s relationship with the work creating a three-dimensional installation which is completed by the presence of the spectator. The show, called ‘Could we? I am asking’, is on view at The Breeder in Athens until November 12.