11 Feb – 4 Mar. Presenting the visionary world of the Italian photographer Marco Sanges. Every sequence tells a unique, multi-layered story, creating a highly personal, imaginary cinema. This body work takes shape in this truly vintage exhibition called Big Scenes. Marco Sanges's works are narrative based, always evoking a feeling of mystery and the sense of a sensual, uncanny world just out of grasp. On the 11th of February, the preview night will reveal a live installation co-deviced with director Alberto Bona, and Big Scenes will make the spectator enter a night of decadence: performances and screenings will unveil an exhibition. Special guests include controversial artist Gavin Turk and legendary composer Michael Nyman, whose music will be specially performed live by a string quartet.

Normally, to express an opinion one is dependant on the acquisition of specific communication skills and this is perhaps the principle feature that defines us in the social hierarchy, particularly in a post-modern context. Handviews embodies the desire to go beyond this linguistic segregation and “find a game everyone can play”, to create a conversation about our lives in which everyone can communicate on an equal footing. Inspired by the Eastern ritual 'mudras', which are bodily gestures usually formed with the hands and fingers, that underpin much of hindu and buddhist iconography, yoga, meditation and dance. Each area of the hand has a reflex reaction in a specific part of the brain. A mudra locks and guides energy flow and reflexes to the brain. So what can you do with this lovely little book? Well, Handviews is a communication tool that can be used to express essentially anything, the choice of your handview will always be determined by your cultural or social background, (the meaning of specifc hand signs may mean different things in different cultures), your personality (the use of abstract, symbolic or literal shapes) and the emotion behind the message you want to transmit. But don't panick most of the times it all comes naturally at once!

17 Feb-18 Apr. The exhibition will include a gallery of the artist's recent paintings, including still lives with flowers, self-portraits of the artist hill-walking, and works depicting the life and death of the modernist writer Robert Walser. Childish's paintings are highly expressionistic, conveying a sense of the visionary significance that he discovers in objects, places and people. The exhibition will also contain an important archival component, including a multitude of records, books, pamphlets and posters that have been designed and produced by Childish. This material throws light on his long career, including his activities in rock and roll and poetry, and his role as a publisher and polemicist. It also demonstrates how his life and activities can be seen as a total work of art.

In his second show with Sadie Coles HQ, Matthew Barney is presenting a group of new drawings relating to his project Ancient Evenings, an ongoing performance in seven acts in collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler. Based on Norman Mailer’s symbolic and erotically charged novel of 1983 reimagining ancient Egyptian mythology and ritual, the operatic performance piece is structured according to the seven stages the soul passes through after death – Ren, Khu, Sekhem, Ba, Ka, Khaibit and Sekhu. It transposes the central myth of Isis and Osiris into a contemporary industrialised dystopia: the opening instalment in 2008 supplanted the entombed body for the battered Chrysler that also figured prominently in Barney’s film Cremaster 3. Encased in self-lubricating plastic frames, Barney’s highly intricate drawings mirror the themes and iconography of all seven acts, and variously allude to masquerade, mythology and the cycle of death and reincarnation. Enigmatic and organic, the drawings are delicately realised in graphite and ink. Several of the works also contain alchemical ingredients – gold, silver and copper leaf and bright blue Lapis pigment – investing them with an aura of sacred and archaic merit. The show also features working storyboards for the Ancient Evenings project, installed in seven freestanding cabinets and consisting of photography, clipart, drawing and collage.

Digitally growing plants and a mechanical eye that mirrors the blink of a visitor's gaze will be among the digital works that will feature in Decode: Digital Design Sensations. The exhibition will show the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small screen based graphics to large-scale installations. Curated in collaboration with leading digital arts organisation onedotzero, there will be works by established international artists and designers including Daniel Brown, Golan Levin and Daniel Rozin as well as emerging designers such as Troika and Simon Heijdens. The exhibition will explore three themes. Code as a Raw Material, interactivity and the network.