'To breathe the perfume of the leaves that cover the walls of the environment, to inhale the fragrance of the resin extracted from the trees and poured into an empty tree trunk, these are actions that allow us to perceive the space of Serpentine as a continuum with the nature of the park that surrounds it,' Giuseppe Penone says. 'All of my work is a trial to express my adherence and belonging to nature, and it is with this thought that I have chose the works for the exhibition. The two paths that I have created, inside the gallery and outside of it, in the park, become two integrated gardens.'

FREE: Giuseppe Penone 'Thoughts in the Roots' is at Serpentine South until 7 September 2025. Kinsignton Gardens London W2 3XA

'Filipino duo Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan have turned Ames Yavuz’s shiny new Mayfair outpost into a site of uneasy memory and soft revolt, smuggling in cardboard, pineapple fibre, and the heavy weight of empire. From monumental wings made of farming scythes to a battalion of scrap-metal crowns, the show unpacks the afterlives of migration, labour, and the global machinery that forgets as fast as it extracts. The result is a show that’s both visually commanding and quietly unrelenting.' — Sammi Gale

FREE. Isabel & Alfredo Aquilizan 'Ellipsis' is at Ames Yavuz until 29 May. 31-33 Grosvenor Hill, London, W1K 3QU

'British artist Ed Atkins has spent the past 15 years proving that pixels can cry. Best known for his uncanny, computer-generated videos – all dead-eyed avatars and emotional leakages, the human and the digital coexist like a FaceTime breakup with patchy signal. Expect big questions about love, loss and being a squishy meatbag in a cold, sleek, USB-C universe.' — Sammi Gale

£18: Ed Atkins is at Tate Britain until 25 August. Millbank, London SW1P 4RG

'These Alexander Calders are full of movement and abstract beauty, but mobiles they are not – instead, hand-dyed maguey fibre tapestries, knotted and braided by Guatemalan artisans in the '70s from the artist’s original designs, fill The Gallery of Everything. Born out of a post-earthquake relief project and fuelled by Calder’s obsession with indigenous craft, the works are a swirling blast of colour, texture, and heart.' — Sammi Gale

FREE: Made in Guatemala is at The Gallery of Everything until 25th May 2025. 4 Chiltern Street, London W1

'Heinemann builds a series of sculptures from found materials, salvaged items, and strange objects he discovered online to create things that are unwieldy, silly, dark, and without use. The first institutional show by the artist and poet, across these new works the viewer experiences many such suspensions, obscurations, and switches of meaning – with everyday materials repurposed into sculptures that then become emptied of the function that the original materials contain. The viewer has to break the ways that they usually think about objects to find connections within it.' — Ed Luker

FREE: Caspar Heinemann, Sod All is at Studio Voltaire until 3 August 2025. 1A Nelsons Row London SW4 7JR

Cover image: Installation view of Ellipsis, Ames Yavuz, London, 2025, photographed by Eva Herzog