The Sly and Unseen Day is a major exhibition of Shaw's work that will bring together 40 paintings from 1996 to the present day, during which time the British artist has paid painstaking homage to his childhood habitat of Coventry's Tille Hill estate. At Baltic until 15 May
Photograph: George Shaw/Wilkinson Gallery, London
Photography's tricky relationship to real life has long obsessed Broomberg and Chanarin, and this project draws on a photography archive, Belfast Exposed, begun in 1983. Professional pictures of the Troubles sit alongside local people's snaps of their children and sweethearts. At Paradise Row, from 25 February until 26 March
Photograph: Broomberg & Chanarin
For his latest show the American artist is putting his own achievements in the spotlight with a new work that takes an imaginary future perspective on his 40-year career. Above, a still from Joints 4tet for Ensemble (1971-2010), an installation of Super-8 colour films of the dancer Merce Cunningham, shot by Atlas in 1971. At Vilma Gold, from 25 February until 10 April Photograph: PR
Von Bonin's Missy Misdemeanour (The Vomiting White Chick, Riley [Loop # 5], MVO's Voodoo Beat & MVO's Rocket Blast Beat), 2010 is a chubby creature resembling Mr Stay Puft, with a dribble of brown fabric sick stitched down her front. These are artworks for grownup babies, turned bloated, fat and stupid on the cheap, dumb pleasures of commodity culture. At Arnolfini, from 19 February until 25 April
Photograph: Studio Goedewaagen/Courtesy the artist and Galerie Neu (Berlin)
Taking the enormous legacy of German dada artist Kurt Schwitters as his inspiration, Gerken makes his own mixed-media work in fragmented accord with the work of fellow mavericks such as Madeleine Boschan, Gregor Schneider and the duo Tim Noble and Sue Webster, whose work, TrasHeaD, 1999, is pictured above. At Castlefield gallery until 10 April
Photograph: Tim Noble & Sue Webster/Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney
Shovlin's latest project, Hiker Meat, picks up a late-70s exploitation flick that an experimental noise band called Lustfaust supposedly soundtracked. Exploring artistic control, the show features three versions of the film, with a rough cut, film posters and costume studies. At Ibid Projects, from 22 February until 2 April Photograph: PR
Dijkman maps out marvellous banalities in thousands of digital photographs. In contrast, Orchardson is fascinated by the formal geometries of early modernist abstract sculpture and design. Above is Dijkman's Appropriate, photograph from the series Gestures, from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (2005-ongoing). At Ikon gallery, from 23 February until 25 April
Photograph: Courtesy of the artist
As contemporary art's uneasy relationship with committed political action is being reassessed, this comprehensive show of work by Mary Kelly, spanning some 40 years, couldn't be more timely. Above, Mary Kelly's Love Songs, 2005-7, WLM Demo Remix, 2005, still. At Whitworth art gallery, 19 February until 12 June
Photograph: Courtesy the artist
