Fresh art on the scene

(In Search Of) The Perfect Lover
It's rare to find drawing on art-college syllabuses these days, but it remains a vital medium in which artists may inscribe their ideas at their most impassioned and elemental. Focusing on a quartet of artists, including Louise Bourgeois and Paul McCarthy, this classy show highlights the insights that drawing offers into their work, and underlines the medium's sensuality. The ever-growing Hauser & Wirth Collection is a family collection, housed in a former locomotive shed in St Gallen, Switzerland, and this is part of a larger exhibition that toured on the Continent last year.

It Could Be Suicide

South African-born Ansel Krut has lived and worked in the capital for more than a decade, and last year won the coveted Jerwood Drawing Prize. His works on paper deploy a macabre, graphic satire more usually found in cartoons, depicting a barbaric world lit by cruel comedy. Small-scale and made with brush and ink, their knowing simplicity masks gruesome tales of cannibalism, maggoty flesh and pastel-pupilled eyeballs. They're weird, unsettling and definitely worth a look. Watch out, too, for an exhibition of Krut's paintings at this same gallery in June.

This Much Is Certain

Documents and the alternative narratives that documentaries spin from them lie at the heart of this international group show, which has been mounted by students from the RCA's curatorial department. Uniting young artists from the UK and countries as far afield as Sweden and the US, it explores their use of documents and documentaries. Along with screenings, there is also a packed programme of talks and discussions in a specially constructed events space, and in aptly democratic spirit, the galleries will remain open until 9pm each evening.

My Name Is Michael Caine
Berlin-based artist Carola Gollner takes fandom to new levels. For almost two decades she has been fascinated - obsessed, some might say - by the actor Michael Caine, and this exhibition is intended as a tribute to mark his 71st birthday. Gˆllner has previously dabbled in German Expressionism and Pop Art, and her early work explored artificial light in film noir. On show here are paintings and minutely observed drawings, depicting this much-loved national treasure in new and curious ways.