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.
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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.
Seasons symbolise more than weather in Sohrab Hura’s A Winter Summer
Jun 09, 2026by Srishti Ojha Jun 09, 2026
The exhibition of the Indian photographer’s works at Experimenter in Mumbai depicts the lives of locals in Kashmir and Madhya Pradesh, focusing on the poetics of the everyday.
Nalini Malani’s Of Woman Born harvests darkness as medium and metaphor
Jun 05, 2026by Rosalyn D`Mello Jun 05, 2026
Maternal fury against an anti-natalist world fuels the artist’s latest animation chamber, a collateral exhibition at the Venice Biennale, hosted by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.
How long can we continue performing neutrality under the spectre of war?
Jun 04, 2026by Debika Ray Jun 04, 2026
Protests, strikes and exclusions at the 2026 Venice Art Biennale are exposing the fragility of the international order on which the cultural world is built.
Tomás Saraceno’s Interwoven navigates poetic spider webs and critical crises
Jun 03, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jun 03, 2026
At the New Taipei City Art Museum, spiders and geopolitics collide in a dense field of unresolved relationships through installations, sound and participation.
India Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2026 draws distance between here and home
May 29, 2026by Bakul Patki May 29, 2026
Alwar Balasubramaniam, Asim Waqif, Ranjani Shettar, Skarma Sonam Tashi and Sumakshi Singh map Geographies of Distance, curated by Amin Jaffer.
Locating Sufi sensibility amid fascism: Khaled Sabsabi’s Australia Pavilion
May 29, 2026by Srishti Ojha May 29, 2026
The multimedia artist’s two installations at the 61st Venice Biennale, conference of one’s self and khalil, ask audiences to imagine a self and world harmonious even in instability.
sā Ladakh Biennale 2026: Inside the world's highest biennale and its regenerative vision
May 20, 2026by Srishti Ojha May 20, 2026
The 2026 edition of the sā Ladakh Biennale, themed Signals from Another Star, will feature site-specific art that emerges from the communities, culture and ecology of Ladakh.
The 61st Venice Biennale as a sensuous joyride and a triumphant odyssey
May 18, 2026by Rosalyn D`Mello May 18, 2026
Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys brings the fringe to the fore, emphasising artistic resilience amid the apocalypse.
Staging Black and Indigenous feminist history at the Brazil Pavilion
May 15, 2026by Srishti Ojha May 15, 2026
Curator Diane Lima turns to the anti-colonial, feminist works of Rosana Paulino and Adriana Varejão to explore stories of the formerly enslaved and colonised at the biennale.
Irum Rahat on calling home and her tender meditation on South Asian familiality
May 12, 2026by Zohra Khan May 12, 2026
Discussing home and everything we hold on to and leave behind, STIR speaks to the Lahore-born artist regarding her ongoing solo show at the Pristine Contemporary in Delhi.
Soup as Life at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT positions soup as nourishment and envelopment
May 11, 2026by Chahna Tank May 11, 2026
STIR speaks with exhibition director Natsumi Toyama about using soup as a lens for understanding the origins of food, clothing and shelter.
Auntiescapes at Load Gallery asks: Can the hyperreal impact social reality?
May 08, 2026by Srishti Ojha May 08, 2026
In this solo exhibition, niceaunties (a.k.a Wenhui Lim) uses AI to imagine a speculative future for aunties, pushing the artistic and social possibilities of AI art.
Ceding freedoms: The danger and complicity of trying to make art apolitical
May 01, 2026by Srishti Ojha May 01, 2026
As fascism and censorship rise, for how long can the art world avoid politics? At the 61st Venice Biennale, ‘neutrality’ towards controversial pavilions sparks mass protest.
Goa Open Arts’ photo exhibition probes change, loss and what remains
Apr 30, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Apr 30, 2026
At the Goa Open Arts and Museo Camera’s show What Remains, 10 visual artists presents what they hold on to amid times of uncertainty, movement and perpetual change.
Heiner Goebbels’ Landscape Plays faces an uphill battle to appeal to the public
Apr 22, 2026by Srishti Ojha Apr 22, 2026
Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum’s solo exhibition of the German composer’s video works reveals the challenge of translating contemporary art for general audiences.
Involuntary memory and invisible labour underpin Subodh Gupta’s A Fistful of Sky
Apr 20, 2026by Srishti Ojha Apr 20, 2026
The Indian artist’s landmark exhibition at NMACC in Mumbai is a collage of dreams, memories, aspirations, histories and futures created with ordinary objects.
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