Whitechapel Gallery, until 22 June 2014
Readers of an art-house orientation will be pleased to learn of the Whitechapel’s focus on Chris Marker, the late French filmmaker celebrated for experimental flicks such as Sans Soleil (Sunless, 1983), a non-linear meditation on memory. As well his work on celluloid, the show presents artist books, photographs, multimedia installations and, in Ouvroir: The Movie (2010), a tour of Marker’s virtual museum created on the website Second Life.

Sprüth Magers, until 21 June 2014
Andreas Gursky produced the most expensive photograph ever sold: Rhein II (1999), which in 2011 was auctioned for £2.7 million. But however extreme his prices, his greatness as a photographer is hard to question, so incredibly rich are his interior and landscape images. Sprüth Magers presents a series of his early photographs from the late 1980s and early 1990s, before the Düsseldorf-trained artist digitally manipulated his works. Recent photographs are on view at Bermondsey’s White Cube from the end of the month.

Abbott Hall Art Gallery, until 21 June 2014
Although Surrealism is thought of as a continental art phenomenon, thanks to iconic images by artists such as Dalí, Ernst and Magritte, there was a significant flowering of the movement in Britain from the 1930s with painters such as Roland Penrose and Merlyn Evans. The widest array of British Surrealism in private hands in the UK – the Sherwin Collection – has gone on view at Kendal’s Abbot Hall this week.

Richard Saltoun, until 23 May 2014
Richard Saltoun follows his exhibition on Vienna Actionism (mentioned on this blog a few weeks back) with another focus on post-war Viennese art, this time spotlighting feminist works by artists Valie Export and Friedl Kubelka. The latter is  represented by photographs including the series ‘Pin Up’ (1971–74), in which she stages self-portraits of her semi-naked body – an ambiguous mimicry of images mass-produced for male consumption.

National Maritime Museum, until 21 April 2014
If you’re in the capital this Easter weekend, you’ll have a last chance to catch ‘Turner and the Sea’, the National Maritime Museum’s sweeping survey of the British artist’s sea paintings, which range from his early works of impeccable draughtsmanship to his proto-modern late work where sea, sky and sailing vessel all merge in a tide of paint.

Sam Phillips is Editor of RA Magazine.