The Curating Contemporary Art MA at the Royal College Of Art is a rum beast. Each year it churns out more curators than existed in 1965 to go forth and brain-fry us with their esoteric group shows. Easy to define by their deceptively work-a-day titles, like Do Not Interrupt Your Activities, their theory-heavy shows are not for the light or lazy-hearted: these graduates are coordinating an offensive on the international art scene not seen since Peggy Guggenheim.  Their new show features 11 artists asked to make work in direct response to the college setting. It includes the mini cities of Ian Kiaer and Florian Pumhösl's reconstruction of an image from a 1930s newsreel film, while Kajsa Dahlberg ruminates on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Jessica Lack  · Royal College Of Art, SW7, Fri 16 to Apr 10  Surely the 20th century's most powerfully convincing painter of flowers, Georgia O'Keeffe died at the age of 98 in 1986, so her creative career spanned the great era of American modernist innovation. Yet despite the virtually irresistible trends of abstract expressionism, minimalism, pop art and the rest, O'Keeffe held throughout to her passion for lyrical paintings of nature's charms.  Her methods might appear simple enough - to compose natural forms into seductions of almost visionary wonderment - but, in fact, it takes a lot of subtle artfulness to turn a close-up image of a flower into some kind of icon of sensuous delight. Here also are landscapes of New Mexico, a land this beautiful maverick referred lovingly to as "the faraway".Robert Clark  · Irish Museum Of Modern Art, to May 13  Riyas Komu, member of the Mumbai-based painters group known as the Bombay Boys, has his first show in London at this new gallery devoted to Indian contemporary art. Selected by Robert Storr for the 2007 Venice Biennale, Komu creates sculptures, installations and paintings inspired by the political machinations of his native country.  This exhibition sees a collaboration with Peter Drake, responsible for surreal works that dwell on the weirdness of American suburbia, where world-weary couples are trapped by their own affluence.Jessica Lack  · AICON Gallery, Fri 16 to Apr 15  Mark And Stephen BeasleyNorwich, London  Mark and Stephen Beasley remind us of those excruciating early teenage years, when the centre of the universe seemed to be a shopping centre. Their new audio work, ADVENTURE: Showdown At The Pig Palace, will be broadcast on independent and community radio stations, and relates the story of two mallrats wandering the hallowed halls of cheap commerce.  The accompanying soundtrack is by Napalm Death member Nicholas Bullen, a band that wrote possibly the shortest song ever that simply goes "You Suffer". It's an electric combination: teenage indifference coupled with ageing punk fury. Bring it on.Jessica Lack  · Outpost, Norwich, to Mar 21; City Projects, E9, to Mar 25  Things We Lost In The FireLeicester  An exhibition of tall visual tales told with deadpan restraint. Right from the start, curator Gordon Dalton, explaining that the show's title is derived from an album by "Mormon miserabilists" Low, leads the viewer down the garden path to a world of enigmatic banalities. His own sculptural work sets up precarious balancing acts of bare-faced cheek and hesitant vulnerabilities.  Ruth Claxton interferes with the crassest of charity shop ornaments so they become perverse reflections on innocence lost. Cecile Johnson Soliz presents ceramic still-lifes of domestic objects that look forever petrified and interrupted in performing the useful function for which they were, apparently, intended. Biro drawings by Lloyd Durling, overcast landscape paintings by Merlin James and typical samples of rock'n'roll mischief from the ubiquitous Mark Gubb complete the whole cool, moody and witty affair. Robert Clark  · The City Gallery, to Apr 14  Cigar-chomping maverick Luigi Colani, the pioneering German-born industrial designer with a hatred of right angles, gets his first retrospective in London. He is famed for producing biodynamic designs of cars, boats and planes, as well as inventing a whole host of futuristic concepts that will have us living in pods and driving cars so flat that leg amputation is the only option.  With his trademark walrus moustache and white suits, Colani is certainly a flamboyant character, and his creations have influenced the similarly unconventional Future Systems and Ross "don't call me a designer, I'm an evolutionary biologist" Lovegrove. Jessica Lack  · Design Museum, SE1, to Jun 17  Kirsty Stansfield, Katy Dove And Victoria MortonGlasgow  Katy Dove and Victoria Morton's paintings provide two takes on a stream-of-consciousness world of cross associations. Dove's organic images draw constant parallels with improvised rhythms in music. Morton's painted spaces are more elaborately fragmented, building layers of tactile hints and half recognisable glimpses. "Instinctual, sexual and manual drives construct the hot surface," she enticingly states.  Kirsty Stansfield occupies the Project Room with sound sculptures that respond audibly to the visitor's presence. Her Object Scores betray the sensitivity of their source, being an outcome of an artist's residency conducted alongside a group of elderly women living in a Continuing Care ward in a Glasgow hospital.Robert Clark  Darryl "Muh-Muht" Montana inherited the title of Big Chief of the Yellow Pocahontas from his renowned father, Allison "Tootie" Montana. The Montana family has been "masking" in the New Orleans Mardi Gras parades for some five generations. While no soberly set out exhibition can hope to match the creative extravaganza of the actual festive spectacular, at its best this show will highlight Mardi Gras as a living tradition of quite stunningly inventive performance art.  In an almost bewildering visual riot of feathers and sequins, Aztec angulations and elaborate African beading, Montana transforms ordinary humans into utterly sexy dream beings. "It's a love," he explains.Robert Clark  · Reg Vardy Gallery, to Apr 6
Various Small Fires | Georgia O'Keeffe | Other | Mark And Stephen Beasley | Things We Lost In The Fire | Luigi Colani | Kirsty Stansfield | Darryl Montana