'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

'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

'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

'At South London Gallery, fragments of wood and debris are scattered across the walls and floor of the main space. Two heaped, pyramidal forms rise on either side, their near-symmetry suggesting twin catastrophes or the aftermath of a singular, overwhelming force—like a river gouging a valley through a landscape.' Read an interview with the artist

FREE: Leonardo Drew, Ubiquity II is at South London Gallery until 7 Sep 2025. South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Rd, London, SE5 8UH