•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jul 31, 2025
A documentary film by Thomas Furhapter highlights the banal, near liminal spaces composing one of many integration facilities providing courses for the integration of refugee groups into Austrian society.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 27, 2025
The biennale's organisers acknowledged the passing of curator Koyo Kouoh, reiterating their support for her curatorial vision of "a collective score composed together with artists".
by Bansari Paghdar Apr 30, 2025
STIR engages with the curators of the Togo, Azerbaijan, Oman and Qatar pavilions—debuting at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025—on representation, access and shared histories.
by Preciosa Lighting Apr 08, 2025
The Czech company debuts Crystal Links at Salone del Mobile.Milano’s Euroluce, alongside a cutting-edge generative visualisation tool, Preciosa Signature Design Generator.
by Jincy Iype Dec 20, 2024
STIRred 2024: We recount titles published this year that inspired, provoked and provided insight, with topics ranging from propaganda graphics to sacred modernist architectures.
by Manu Sharma Sep 17, 2024
The artist joins curator Bettina Spörr in a conversation with STIR that explores the ability of AI to reshape perspectives around the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
by Jerry Elengical Sep 06, 2024
The famed graphic designer reflects on his career and M+ exhibition, Henry Steiner: The Art of Graphic Communication, which highlights his impact on Hong Kong’s visual culture.
by Almas Sadique Jun 22, 2024
The art festival showcased site-specific art installations that were mindful of the land and resources utilised to build them up.
by Jincy Iype May 16, 2024
With Sacred Modernity: The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture, Jamie McGregor Smith visually surveys the dramatic shift in ecclesiastical architecture across post-war Europe.
by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Feb 28, 2024
Hamburg-based Hadi Teherani Architects create a holistic escape in an adult-exclusive spa that seamlessly blends with nature and redefines luxury wellness.
by Manu Sharma Feb 12, 2024
Gallery Director Samuel Mizrachi joins STIR to explore the artist’s articulation of human and artificial intelligence.
by Manu Sharma Nov 05, 2023
The Japanese artist’s latest exhibition Who am I Tomorrow? immerses audiences within a world of red threads and tubes in Austria’s Kunstraum Dornbirn.
by Devanshi Shah Nov 03, 2023
An in-depth look at Deutsches Architekturmuseum and Vienna’s MAK—Museum of Applied Arts' joint exhibition called Protest Architecture: Barricades, Camps, Superglue.
by Manu Sharma Sep 19, 2023
Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman speak with STIR about their collaborative film works that challenge our supremacy over nature.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Sep 08, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks to Raymond Neutra about his father, Richard Neutra, whose modern houses and buildings are designed to stimulate healthy living.
by Anushka Sharma Sep 05, 2023
The Italian architecture studio draws inspiration from the client’s life as a traveller to contrive a home that symbolises the diversity of her experiences.
by Akash Singh Aug 21, 2023
PPAG architects creates an eclectic composition between traditional and futuristic architecture to align with the principles of the globally renowned restaurant, Steirereck.
by Aarthi Mohan Aug 12, 2023
Exploring identity, absurdity and societal conformity through Austrian artist Erwin Wurm’s whimsical sculptures.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 12, 2023
The site-responsive and process-driven installations by Beili Liu are motivated by tenants of handcraft and labour while talking about cultural memory, materiality and climate change.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Apr 13, 2023
The Austrian artist’s public art installations draw attention to the strained relationship between humans and the environment, under the burden of spiralling climate change.
by Manu Sharma Mar 14, 2023
The Japanese artist Hiroki Okamoto discusses his digital art practice that eliminates humans from its method and mutates man-made forms such as buildings.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Feb 15, 2023
The Austrian architecture photographer ascends difficult terrains to create photographs, allowing viewers to experience a milieu that is hitherto unseen, yet continues to survive.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jan 28, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky writes about the life and work of Harry Seidler (1923-2006) on the occasion of his world tour’s last stop in Singapore from February 16 to March 8, 2023.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jan 20, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to Peter Noever, a Vienna-based Ausstellungsmacher/creator of exhibitions who aspires to do things that have never been done before.
by Shraddha Nair Oct 01, 2022
Vienna-based artist Yein Lee talks about her cultural influences and inspirations while growing up in South Korea.
by Shraddha Nair Sep 22, 2022
Ars Electronica Festival 2022 presents CIFO's awardees at A Parallel (R)evolution - Digital Art in Latin America, which looks to empower Latin American artists in new media.
by Rosalyn D`Mello Aug 26, 2022
Absentee bodies are among the complex subjects on display as part of the work (Non)-Places at Graben, Vienna, that critiques the rifts between the haves and the have-nots.
by ABB Aug 01, 2022
The project helmed by INNOCAD architecture features an asymmetrical facade, golden details and a striking rooftop overlooking the panoramic views of a canal.
by Shraddha Nair Jul 10, 2022
South Korea-born artist and music composer, Yunchul Kim, is presenting at the Venice Art Biennale 2022 with five installations that alchemise physics and art to produce a fantasy.
by Jerry Elengical Feb 19, 2022
This residential complex in Merano, a city in Italy’s South Tyrol region, relies on a strong spatial grid and monochrome materiality to bring order to its natural context.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Feb 17, 2022
The site-specific sculptural installations by the Austria-born artist Alois Kronschlaeger disturb the geometry of the built environment to explore light, space, and time.
by Rosalyn D`Mello Feb 05, 2022
The late artist Martha Murphy’s culinary labour of love celebrates the housewifely and the matrilineal.
by Rosalyn D`Mello Dec 10, 2021
A recent visit to two Austrian museums threw up critical questions about display strategies and lack of transparency about provenance.
by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi Dec 05, 2021
This conversation unpacks with Raqs Media Collective the curatorial vision that shaped the ongoing Hungry for Time exhibition, at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
by Devanshi Shah Nov 02, 2021
The Vienna Design Week is one of Austria’s largest curated design festivals, transforming the city of Vienna into a hotspot for design with its events, exhibitions, tours and workshops.
by Devanshi Shah Sep 27, 2021
Through a combination of immersive digital content and physical exhibitions, Adorno London invited eight curators from different countries to present eight distinct collections.
by Anmol Ahuja Sep 10, 2021
On this week's UNSCRIPTED episode, discover Italian design veteran Matteo Thun’s secret to slow, elevated living, and his unique brand of botanical architecture.
by Aastha D. Jul 12, 2021
STIR speaks with Elisabeth Falkensteiner and Baerbel Mueller, the curators for Ecologies and Politics of the Living at the Vienna Biennale that aims to inspire alternative imaginations.
by Jerry Elengical Jul 05, 2021
Vienna-based Delugan Meissl Associated Architects revitalises a former coal mining zone in the city of Taiyuan, transforming it into a fluid green landscape with bermed structures.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jun 09, 2021
Vladimir Belogolovsky reports from Venice about the XVII Venice Architecture Biennale that opened after one year delay, questioning “How Will We Live Together?”
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