Anna Parkina’s work defies categorisation; appropriating the human ephemera of modern day culture and society, she creates works that reflect the human experience and environment.

This February Stephen McKenna: Perspectives of Europe 1980 – 2014 opens at mima in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, and is the artist’s largest museum solo presentation in a decade.

Through work spanning 50 years of the artist’s long career, this exhibition at Robilant+Voena, London, will focus on Italian artist Mimmo Rotella’s fascination with innovative techniques.

In 20 bittersweet photographs taken over the last century from master photographers, this exhibition explores youth culture and the various rites of passage towards adulthood.

Rawiya is the first all-female collective to emerge from the Middle East. With this show at Impressions Gallery they hold a specific focus on gender and identity.

The Art Fund has teamed up with one of the most respected names in the travel industry, cazenove+loyd, to offer audiences insightful and luxurious art tours to international destinations.

Wait Until It Dries at Encounter Contemporary is features new works by acclaimed and forward-thinking Taiwanese artist Shih Hsiung Chou.

Two series of long-exposure photographs document impressions on the surface of the planet, one capturing Kenya’s Lewis Glacier, the second depicting the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan.

In this retrospective of American artist Jeff Koons, Pompidou Centre provides viewers with an illuminating chronology on the evolution of one of contemporary art’s most controversial figures.

In Nottingham Contemporary’s latest exhibition, 20 international artists reflect upon the ecological, economic, political, and cultural crises of our modern world.

With 20 photographs Alex Soth moves away from the haunting and influential portraits and landscapes that he has become known for, and turns his lens toward life in the country.

We speak to Linda Ingham, Curator and Project Officer at Abbey Walk, about the gallery’s attendance at London Art Fair. Alongside her involvement with gallery programming, Ingham is also an artist.

The world’s leading museum devoted to architecture and design, The Hasselt Fashion Museum, takes audiences behind the scenes of Paul Smith’s world, which is dominated by intuitive creativity, in Hello, My Name is Paul Smith.

Continuing Christian Marclay’s long-standing interest in the relationship between image and sound, this show is comprised of works on canvas and paper.

Bruce Silverstein shows large-scale paintings on canvas as well as a single over-painted photograph belonging to Max Neumann, who has been the focus of over 150 solo exhibitions.

Seven influential abstract painters from the 1970s exhibit works demonstrating a reductive and disciplined articulation of the sensations of light, form, sound, colour and space at Flowers Gallery, London, in Seven from the Seventies.

In We Never Dream Alone, works by Sidsel Christensen, Andrew Leventis and Lisa Slominski see the borders between real and unreal, fact and fiction, virtual and visceral, and blurred and explored.

The UK’s premier fair for Modern and contemporary British art opens for its private view. Situated in the Business Design Centre, Islington, the 27th edition of the London Art Fair runs 21-25 January.

In the build up to its 45th anniversary, Flowers brings a diverse showcase of international practitioners to the London Art Fair. The family run gallery was established in 1970 by Angela Flowers.

The Arts Club in London presents a selection of work spanning the career of American photographer Laurie Simmons. Gender and sexuality are recurring themes in her work.