Lee Kit: A profile of an unfiltered, weary artist with a sense of humour
Oct 26, 2026by Srishti Ojha Oct 26, 2026
The Taiwan-based artist shares his opinion on exhibition rituals, protests and his search for ‘fragmented beauty’.
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Can immersive VR experiences change how people respond to the climate crisis?
Oct 21, 2026by Srishti Ojha Oct 21, 2026
Increasingly, artists, filmmakers and activists are turning to VR to create more personal, tangible accounts of the climate emergency and its impact on vulnerable communities.
Charudatt Pande’s wadas are portraits of a city between memory and ruin
Oct 20, 2026by Mirra Lynn Oct 20, 2026
The Indian artist paints the old wadas of central Pune, capturing the traces of everyday life that cling to these structures, battered by time but unbowed.
Tony Albert: Not a Souvenir reframes aboriginalia by interweaving artefact and art
Oct 15, 2026by Anmol Ahuja Oct 15, 2026
How do heaps of souvenirs and relics with racist Aboriginal motifs and features become art? MCA Sydney’s winter showcase—the artist’s largest to date—beckons a possibility.
Refik Anadol’s monograph unfolds an ethical, humanistic future for AI art
Oct 14, 2026by Srishti Ojha Oct 14, 2026
The first Dutch publication on the Turkish artist, the eponymous book centres on Refik Anadol: Latent City, his living data sculpture of Bruges, exhibited at BRUSK gallery.
Sudhir Patwardhan on drawing, Mumbai and the artist’s responsibility to society
Oct 14, 2026by Vandana Kalra Oct 14, 2026
With his latest exhibition as a point of departure, the modernist discusses his decades-long practice, the spontaneity of drawing and the social responsibility of artists.
Artist Pierre Fouché is constructing and dismantling binaries with bobbin lace
Oct 09, 2026by Srishti Ojha Oct 09, 2026
In his ongoing exhibition, the South African artist creates two post-apocalyptic futures to explore society’s relationship with textiles, patterns and technology.
Emami Art Experimental Film Festival 2026: Rethinking what film can be
Oct 07, 2026by Srishti Ojha Oct 07, 2026
The Kolkata-based film festival shone a spotlight on local and international filmmakers and artists who are pushing the boundaries of what a film can encapsulate.
What Ahmed Ali’s industrial photographs reveal about a new India
Oct 05, 2026by Samar Jodha Oct 05, 2026
Looking at Ahmed Ali’s photographs of workers and industry within the wider history of industrial photography, from Soviet state imagery and Sunil Janah to Lewis Hine.
Rohini Devasher’s Solar Poetics makes a case for wonder
Oct 02, 2026by Srishti Ojha Oct 02, 2026
The Indian artist’s exhibition at the Bruce Museum in the US thinks through fundamental questions of humanity by focusing on the Sun and the cosmological timescale.
Heshoram Hoshiyaar is a chaotic, goofy take on a childhood Bengali classic
Oct 01, 2026by Srishti Ojha Oct 01, 2026
The West Bengal-based visual storyteller speaks to STIR about his latest release, the Indian comic book industry and his many sources of inspiration.
Kader Attia on repair, AI and his vision for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2027
Sep 29, 2026by Vandana Kalra Sep 29, 2026
The Algerian-French artist and curator speaks to STIR about returning to curating, colonial legacies and the responsibilities of art institutions.
Jennifer Guidi’s Waterfall at Gagosian Paris draws on Pointillism and nature
Sep 26, 2026by Srishti Ojha Sep 26, 2026
The solo exhibition sees the American artist draw on the California desert, light and nature to create luminous landscapes.
How conceptual art is questioning the realities we take for granted
Sep 23, 2026by Srishti Ojha Sep 23, 2026
This is (Not) Conceptual Art in Korea’s MMCA is a nuanced look at the conceptual art that arose from Korea’s particular context, finding parallels in global exhibitions.
EAEFF 2026: Experimental cinema moves beyond the screen in Kolkata
Sep 18, 2026by Vandana Kalra Sep 18, 2026
The Emami Art Experimental Film Festival in Kolkata is set to present screenings, moving-image installations, workshops and conversations from India and around the world.
Ankur Hooda’s The Calf Doll evokes rural existential dread through cinema
Sep 17, 2026by Zohra Khan Sep 17, 2026
Haunting dreams and landscapes of grief and loss and a slowly eroding rural life mark this no-script-led Haryanvi film in which the literary and the cinematic coalesce.
Seamus Murphy on photography, war and the everyday
Sep 16, 2026by Vandana Kalra Sep 16, 2026
In a conversation with STIR, the Irish photographer reflects on three decades of his practice and how time can transform our understanding of an image.
Skin of Dreams sees Shezad Dawood at his multimedia, multipassionate best
Sep 15, 2026by Srishti Ojha Sep 15, 2026
The London-based artist’s mid-career retrospective is a vibrant constellation of paintings, installations, VR environments and films that reflect his research in diverse fields.
When art travels across difficult political terrain, what does it carry with it?
Sep 10, 2026by Vandana Kalra Sep 10, 2026
The first contemporary Indian art exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum in Russia initiates a conversation about memory and cultural exchange.
Silhouettes burned, etched and carved: Ana Mendieta at Tate Modern
Sep 07, 2026by Srishti Ojha Sep 07, 2026
The UK’s first survey of the Cuban-born American artist in a decade traces the breadth and innovation of her feminist practice, rooted in spirituality and the Earth.
How a feminist future remains unfulfilled
Sep 03, 2026by Vandana Kalra Sep 03, 2026
Eight South Asian women artists across generations examine power, memory and labour in an exhibition at the Vadhera Art Gallery in New Delhi.
Inhabiting the uncanny and liminal at Pierre Huyghe’s Swiss exhibition
Aug 31, 2026by Srishti Ojha Aug 31, 2026
The French artist’s latest exhibition explores consciousness through an uncanny, video game-like environment
Kulpreet Singh on how art, activism and farming intertwine in his practice
Aug 28, 2026by Srishti Ojha Aug 28, 2026
The Indian multimedia artist speaks to STIR about using art as a platform to support and serve farmers and the disenfranchised.
Vishal K Dar on taking art outside the white cube at sā Ladakh Biennale
Aug 27, 2026by Samta Nadeem, Vandana Kalra Aug 27, 2026
The artist-architect speaks about his approach to curating a biennale rooted in Ladakh’s landscapes, communities and artistic practices.
Yayoi Kusama passes away at 97: The artist who turned hallucinations into infinity
Aug 27, 2026by Vandana Kalra Aug 27, 2026
A pioneer of the postwar avant-garde art, the Japanese artist spent decades pushing painting, sculpture and installation beyond conventional boundaries.
A reconsideration of Partition and memory
Aug 26, 2026by Samar Jodha Aug 26, 2026
Partition is often told through stories of displacement and loss. The exhibition MOOL asks what survives for those who inherited a history they never lived.
Shadows of the Moonless Nights captures the urban search for rest and home
Aug 21, 2026by Srishti Ojha Aug 21, 2026
FTII graduate Mehar Malhotra’s short film uses an immersive soundscape and experimental camera work to evoke the altered state of a protagonist haunted by sleepless nights.
Mai Ni Meriye documents the unrecognised carework of women in Himachal, India
Aug 18, 2026by Zohra Khan Aug 18, 2026
A travelling exhibition and a photo book offer a tender compilation of portraits and pennings spotlighting rural Himachali women surviving systemic invisibility and unwaged labour.
KNMA's The Meeting Ground brings diverse art histories into conversation
Aug 17, 2026by Vandana Kalra Aug 17, 2026
Christie’s London’s first summer exhibition dedicated to South Asia and a single institution explores connections between artists, traditions and ideas beyond chronology.
Unearthing India’s buried legacy of visual storytelling
Aug 14, 2026by Srishti Ojha Aug 14, 2026
A Moving Line sees graphic novelist Amruta Patil putting temple friezes and folk art next to comics and graphic novels to argue for visual storytelling as an art form.
Sudarshan Shetty's A Breath Held Long reflects Mumbai’s contradictions
Aug 10, 2026by Srishti Ojha Aug 10, 2026
The Indian artist’s solo exhibition at Ludwig Museum Koblenz in Germany explores the space between the static and moving, past and present.
Private sketches to public memory: Reading Emily Eden's Princes & People of India
Aug 06, 2026by Vandana Kalra Aug 06, 2026
Through essays, letters and lithographs, the publication positions Emily Eden as both an artist and chronicler of a rapidly changing colonial India.
Crazy dangly thangs: Inside FLV’s landmark exhibition in Paris on Alexander Calder
Aug 05, 2026by Anne Feenstra Aug 05, 2026
Marking a century since Calder’s arrival in France, the exhibition brings together nearly 300 works that explore his fascination with motion and material.
Purvai Rai’s cartography of care, shared ecology, culture and divinity
Aug 03, 2026by Srishti Ojha Aug 03, 2026
The Indian artist’s exhibition, Cartography of the Grounded Sky, at Gladwell Projects in Jersey City weaves together the sacred and earthly through materiality and Sikh thought.
Siddhesh Gautam’s first graphic novel explores dreaming equality and solidarity
Jul 31, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jul 31, 2026
The Blue Book: An Anti-Caste Graphic Novel is a surreal portrait of South Asia’s ongoing anti-caste struggle and its history seen through conversations with its icons.
Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale 2026 reframes the planet as co-author
Jul 30, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jul 30, 2026
Speaking with Daehyung Lee, artistic director of the biennale's 13th edition, STIR explores the platform's focus on the future of ceramics and the human-nature-technology triad.
Thinking through curatorial practice at the Experimenter Curators' Hub
Jul 27, 2026by Vandana Kalra Jul 27, 2026
In its 15th edition, the Hub in Kolkata turned the spotlight on the curator's evolving role amid changing political and cultural realities.
Benoît Maubrey’s sound sculptures are an ‘ohmage’ to the inherent goodness in people
Jul 23, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Jul 23, 2026
STIR talks to the Berlin-based sculpture artist on his journey and learnings from decades of creating public installations using upcycled loudspeakers.
Second Nature at NMACC: The democratic future of exhibitions comes to India
Jul 18, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jul 18, 2026
Superblue invited global immersive and new media artists to reimagine the relationship between technology and nature. STIR reports from the exhibition walkthrough.
West Bund Museum's Material Matters on learning through the hands and the eyes
Jul 15, 2026by Emma Drocco Jul 15, 2026
A double solo exhibition of Sheila Hicks and Shi Hui unpacks two independent artistic worlds through material, memory and the unmediated experience of making.
Sunhil Sippy on the fading art of analogue photography and building a living archive
Jul 11, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jul 11, 2026
At Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, photographer Sunhil Sippy joins Shivendra Dungarpur and Mortimer Chatterjee to discuss the effects different photographic formats tap into.
Experimenter Curators’ Hub and the new, rhizomatic structures of the art world
Jul 10, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jul 10, 2026
This July, Experimenter Kolkata will host the 15th edition of the Curators’ Hub, where select global curators gather to broaden conceptions of curation in a circular model.
Cao Fei’s Swiss exhibition reimagines what an art gallery can (or should) be today
Jul 02, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jul 02, 2026
Cao Fei: Testimonies to the Near Future transforms the Kunstmuseum Basel’s building into an immersive experience that is simultaneously virtual and real, futuristic and historic.
Ocean futures and rooted practices take centre stage at Hastings Contemporary
Jul 01, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jul 01, 2026
The British coastal gallery’s 2026 summer programme of sea-centric exhibitions and institutional collaborations marks a shift in the art world’s response to urgent global issues.
Bloodstained, pockmarked, resurrected: THE GET's inaugural exhibition in Ghent
Jun 29, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jun 29, 2026
La Rencontre du Troisième Type, featuring Bernard T. Sestig and duo Middernacht & Alexander, features unsettling works that explore decay and transformation.
Tate Modern hosts late kinetic art pioneer Julio Le Parc’s last exhibition
Jun 26, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jun 26, 2026
STIR visited Julio Le Parc: Light. Colour. Action. and spoke to the curator of the Latin American artist’s retrospective about his legacy in kinetic and immersive art.
Marcel Duchamp at MoMA: Controversy and the critique of unconventional art
Jun 19, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jun 19, 2026
The gallery presents the largest retrospective of the modern artist in the last 50 years, enlivening eternal debates about what ‘real art’ is for 21st-century audiences.
Lubaina Himid’s British Pavilion on creating home against the odds
Jun 16, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jun 16, 2026
In Predicting History: Testing Translation at the 61st Venice Biennale, the black British artist depicts the strategies marginalised people must employ to create belonging.
Performance and lived reality animate Abhishek Khedekar’s Tamasha at NCPA
Jun 15, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jun 15, 2026
The New Delhi-based photographer’s docu-fiction photo series follows a nomadic troupe of Tamasha folk-art performers who bend form to capture feelings.
Crossing lines: Queer artists on borders, belonging and nationhood
Jun 12, 2026by Agnish Ray Jun 12, 2026
Queer and migrant identities intersecting at this year’s Venice Art Biennale highlight the normative exclusions of the nation-state.
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