Looking Back, Looking Forward: 8

As is the seasonal norm, and in a daily series of postings, ArtReview's critics and columnists pick their favourite exhibitions, performances, books or events from the past year, and look forward to those of 2012.

ArtReview's Paris-based contributing editor, Christopher Mooney, sends this from the confines of his sick bed:

'Off the top of my stuffed-up head and in no particular order, this is an exhaustive list of my most memorable art experiences of 2011 (i.e., the only ones that, lying here in bed fighting the flu, I can spark into recollected being). In Paris: Anish Kapoor at the Grand Palais; Gerhard Richter and Yang Fudong, both at Mariam Goodman; Dewar & Gicquel at Galerie Loevenbruck; 21st Century Outlookat at Le Plateau; Hassan Khan at Galerie Chantal Crousel; Fresh Hellcurated by artist Adam McEwen at Palais de Tokyo; Michel François at Kamel Mennour and Yana Bystrova's recent work which I saw at her studio.

Chinese scholar's rock (see Structure & Material). Courtesy White Cube

Elsewhere: Richard Prince at the Bibliothèque Nationale; Johan Creten at Almine Rech, Brussels; Erre, variations labyrinthiques, the second major thematic show at the Centre Pompidou, Metz); Structure & Absence, the opener group show at the new White Cube, Bermondsey and Thomas Anfield's work, seen at his house in Vancouver. The top of the heap though: Kapoor's giant, curving, technologically marvelous leviathan; and, more powerful, Bystrova's small, technically astute plein air paintings.'

Yana Bystrova, Côtes du Rhône, 2011. 48 x 55 cm, acrylic on canvass.

Courtesy the artist