Iraqi-born, Toronto-based artist Sukaina Kubba’s previous works have been inspired research into Persian rugs, but during a recent residency at Dundee Contemporary Arts, she visited major Scottish collections of carpets and textiles – including the Stoddard-Templeton Design Archive at the University of Glasgow; the National Museum of Scotland; and Morton Young Borland Lace Mill in Ayrshire. The large-scale, monochrome works she created in response – ranging from paper pulp casting, embossing and laser engraving to screen prints made on DCA’s large-format press, will be part of the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in the UK, which opens this week at Dundee Contemporary Arts.

Boobies – some of us have them, most of us love them – and they remain a perennial subject in art. This exhibition proves our long and ongoing fascination, through artworks from 1500 to today. Breasts of all shapes and sizes, and with a myriad meanings are seen in works by thirty artists, are sculpted, painted, photographed and drawn, including by the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Cindy Sherman, Laure Provost and Irving Penn, to name but a few. Curated by Carolina Pasti to coincide with the opening of the 60th Venice Biennale this week, Pasti has partnered with Fondazione IEO-MONZINO, to donate 30% of the catalogue funds to support the foundation’s cause and essential research, and the exhibition hopes to promote awareness of breast cancer to a broader public through the channel of art. Lingerie and clothing Italian brand, Intimissimi, are the exhibition’s main sponsor, too. “Breasts” is sure to be playful and punchy, irreverent and intelligent, surreal and sexy.

American artist Sarah Sze’s new works are taking over Victoria Miro’s Venice gallery until the summer – a video installation and a suite of new paintings that contemplate ways of looking and constructing images. As well as presenting works at the gallery, Sze has also taken over a Venetian apartment opposite – a group of new paintings presented within a simulation of the space in which they were painted. It’s a heady presentation that challenges the idea of a single way of seeing. It may leave you just a little disoriented as you head back out to navigate the Biennale and its offerings. ‘The paintings, the video, the sculptures – all of the work” Sze says “is about being captured in a continual state of transition.” Venice, with its history of movement and as a site of cultural convergence, seems the perfect environment to explore this state.