In recent years Nina Canell has exhibited at major international shows, including La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, the 18th Biennale of Sydney and the 2010 Liverpool Biennial.

In just two days Art Stage Singapore is due to open, showcasing all that is great about Asian Contemporary Art. The fair brings together professionals and enthusiasts to discover emerging and established talent within the art industry.

Best known for his large and open forms, leading British sculptor Richard Deacon utilises elements of engineering and combines these with sculptural techniques to create sinuous and contorted shapes.

Light installation GRID is a work of designer Christopher Bauder (WHITEvoid) and consists of 50 motorised LED-rod triangles that form a massive dynamic grid, spreading over 200 square meters.

Returning for its sixth edition, India Art Fair opens 30 January in New Delhi. The premier modern and contemporary fair has a global reputation as being one of South Asia’s leading art events.

A selection of 19 artists working across a range of media trace the contours of the human body in Body Language. This show spans the grotesque to the uncanny, and the poignant to the satirical.

The inaugural Jerwood Open Forest exhibition examines art in the environment and what it has the potential to be in its broadest definition. This unique, multisensory exhibition of new work charts the five selected projects over a six-­‐month period.

The Zabludowicz Collection will unveil a solo exhibition of New York-based artist Trisha Baga, in her first non-commercial gallery in the UK. It will unfold around the dramatic architecture of the Collection’s north London home.

Sri Lanka’s pre-eminent platform for international dialogue in contemporary art, the Colombo Art Biennale, which opens 31 January, will feature works by artists and collectives from 12 countries.

Entering Virginie Yassef’s solo exhibition at Parisian Galerie Vallois, the visitor faces an installation L’Objet du doute (2013), a tree trunk, obstructing his way and then it suddenly starts to stir.

A sculpture of a young man in casual dress holding and looking at a phone, Network (2012), will make its open-air premier at Yorkshire Sculpture Park as part of a solo exhibition by Tom Price.

There is still chance to get along to Matt Johnson’s second solo show at Alison Jacques Gallery before it closes 21 December. Working with recycled old-growth redwood, million-year-old granite and bronze, Johnson deals with the theme of time.

Celebrating the reopening of the Palais Galliera, the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris presents a retrospective of fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa, uniting his most outstanding creations.

Chance plays a preponderant role in Didier Mencoboni’s latest works. His sculptures range from fluorescent, dangling mobiles to photographs confected from the dollops of paint stuck at the bottom of the artist’s sink.

Ikon Gallery will be rolling out the celebrations in 2014 as they mark 50 years of championing modern and contemporary art with a special series of events and exhibitions.

Mona Hatoum mentions that one the excitements of being an artist is not knowing where you will find a new exhibition. However, Reflection at the Parisian Chantal Crousel Gallery marks 20 years of their enduring collaboration.

Cardboard, metal and wire and other everyday objects play their role in creating the simple and functional displays of Zimoun’s (b.1977) new exhibition, Rotations, at the BACKLIT gallery until Tuesday 31 December.

Taking pride of place in the heart of the Hauser & Wirth Saville Rowe & Piccadilly galleries was the Onnassch collection of post-war American and European artists who shaped the history of art.

Artangel Open is inviting artists working in all media across the UK to submit bold, site-specific proposals that will transform and enrich the UK’s cultural landscape. Championing innovation and creativity is at the heart of this project.

In a new section of Art Projects, a pivotal component of the annual London Art Fair, a series of collaborations between emerging UK and international galleries is to take place.