Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 14 August – 30 April 2016
Founder of Kettle’s Yard, Jim Ede, believed in the importance of creating aesthetic balance in a room to draw out the beauty of the artwork that filled it. His ideas were demonstrated in Kettle’s Yard by the considered way in which artwork was placed around furniture, glassware, ceramics and natural objects, each item working as part of a complimentary whole.

As the house and gallery closes for major redevelopment work, it offers up its permanent collections to a number of offsite projects, including the exhibition Beauty and Balance in the Glaisher Gallery at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum. Viewers can experience paintings and sculptures by artists such as Joan Miró, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Ben Nicholson in an altogether new setting.

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 13 August – 8 November 2015
The Romanian-born artist Paul Neagu had a skill for gratifying all five senses through his phenomenological approach to sculpture. In his most extensive survey to date, Henry Moore Institute stages a selection of the artist’s sensory works including a number of his tactile boxes (below), edible sculptures, films, and drawings, paying homage to Neagu’s idiosyncratic artistic language and lasting influence on British sculptors Antony Gormley RA, Anish Kapoor RA and Rachel Whiteread, whom he all taught.

Sadie Coles, London, until 15 August and Ibid, London, until 22 August 2015
There has been an abundance of exciting group shows in London’s commercial galleries this summer, dovetailing with the Royal Academy’s own Summer Exhibition. With autumn fast approaching, this is your last chance to see two of the best, at Sadie Coles and Ibid. The former displays work by painters that rarely get shown in the city, such as Sylvia Sleigh’s realist nudes (below), while an extensive display of works on paper is on view at Ibid, from evocative drawings by Egon Schiele to the graffiti-like scribbles and pale washes of fellow Austrian Flora Hauser, a contemporary artist.

The Whitworth, Manchester, until 10 January 2016
Back in 2013, Bedwyr Williams dazzled audiences at the Venice Biennale with his galactic sound and light installation, Starry Messenger. Williams reproduced the small tiles in the gallery’s Terrazzo floor on a mammoth scale, creating for the viewer a sense of being a mere fragment in the vastness of space. The Whitworth gallery reconstructs his astronomy-inspired piece, with the addition of new work by Williams and an assortment of drawings and wallpaper pulled from the Whitworth’s collection.

A.P.T Gallery, London, 13 August – 6 September 2015
The Deptford-based gallery Art in Perpetuity Trust is playing host to the work of 15 contemporary artists, the common denominator being that each one draws on a particular aspect of modernist traditions associated with construction. Nearly 100 years since Constructivism emerged in Russia, this show demonstrates how radical ideas about construction and materiality are being embraced and explored by artists today.