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Humanity as practice: The 36th Bienal de São Paulo
Sep 23, 2025by Mercedes Ezquiaga Sep 23, 2025
Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the Bienal in Brazil gathers 120 artists exploring migration, community and what it means to “be human”.
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ECC Time Space Existence 2025: Future regeneration, present reflections
Sep 18, 2025by Thea Hawlin Sep 18, 2025
An on-ground report in the final few weeks of the ECC’s showcase this year draws on its tenets and its reception, placing agency and action in the present over future travails.
The Bihar Museum Biennale: Whose stories shape a biennale of museums?
Sep 04, 2025by Vasudhaa Narayanan Sep 04, 2025
In its drive to position museums as instruments of cultural diplomacy, competing histories and fragile resistances surface at the Bihar Museum Biennale.
Building through fragility: The making of a Pan-African Architecture Biennale
Aug 08, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Aug 08, 2025
In a contemplative conversation with STIR, Somali-Italian architect Omar Degan outlines a biennale shaped not by spectacle, but by resistance, pedagogy and presence.
Latent AI and the makings of sub’s Spatial Intelligens at Biennale Architettura 2025
Aug 06, 2025by Jincy Iype Aug 06, 2025
STIR speaks to Niklas Bildstein Zaar of sub on how their exhibition design and AI exhibition guide for VAB reframes ‘intelligence’ as something architecture can live and perform.
From Cartography to Code: Architectures of Power at the Venice Biennale 2025
Jul 19, 2025by Ayesha Adonais Jul 19, 2025
STIR speaks to Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler on their Silver Lion-winning 'large scale visual manifesto' traversing history, colonialism, militarisation and technology.
Ebb and flow: Dialogues on the independent art scene in Venice
Jul 08, 2025by Eleonora Ghedini Jul 08, 2025
An exploration of some innovative curatorial practices while walking and talking in a city that keeps reinventing itself beyond every dreamy idealisation.
Internalities at the Spanish Pavilion envision decarbonising building from the ground up
Jul 02, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jul 02, 2025
Internalities: Architectures for Territorial Equilibrium at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 rethinks sustainability via local materials, traditional trades and territorial balance.
Examining spatial strategies of occupation and resistance in Lebanon and Palestine
Jun 20, 2025by Agnish Ray Jun 20, 2025
Select exhibitors at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale probe what warfare targeting natural landscapes and urbanscapes means for the built environment.
HouseEurope! wins the 2025 OBEL Award with its appeal to ‘Renovate, Don’t Speculate’
Jun 17, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 17, 2025
The citizen-led initiative by German architects b+ has been awarded for their campaign to make renovation the norm for construction by proposing new legislation in the European Union.
The Outer Forces, Power Lines and Inner Selves activating the Global Design Forum
Jun 09, 2025by Jincy Iype Jun 09, 2025
Under the title Design and the Invisible, GDF at the London Design Biennale 2025 unveils how unseen forces and radical ideas shape the future of design.
Are canal espressos and dubious robots the legacy of this year's Biennale Architettura?
May 23, 2025by Anmol Ahuja May 23, 2025
The genealogy of a showcase relying as heavily on technology as the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 as both medium and usher for a future architecture is seldom without biases.
Venice Architecture Biennale's Collateral Events recon crises, resilience and change
May 06, 2025by Anushka Sharma May 06, 2025
STIR lists some of the most impactful satellite events and projects that will take over Venice in conjunction with the Biennale, reaffirming the event's idea to coalesce Intelligens.
Middle Eastern Pavilions at Venice Biennale 2025 beckon emergent regional pedagogy
May 03, 2025by Aarthi Mohan May 03, 2025
From vernacular knowledge to modern sustainability, the pavilions of UAE, Oman, Türkiye, Qatar and others at La Biennale 2025 serve as living archives of alternative architectures.
At the Venice Biennale 2025, four inaugural pavilions herald community and heritage
Apr 30, 2025by 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.
‘Soleil.s’ at mudac spotlights various approaches to potential solar futures
Apr 29, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 29, 2025
The design biennale, initiated to promote clean energy, is hosted in Switzerland this year, with a focus on the power of the sun to imagine a sustainable future for humanity.
Probing ‘Intelligens’ in architecture: A guide to the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
Apr 26, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 26, 2025
STIR lists the best of projects curated by Carlo Ratti for his exhibition, national participations, special projects and collateral events as a guide to navigating this year’s expansive biennale.
What's Real is Unfamiliar: Design Biennale Rotterdam rethinks design perceptions
Mar 01, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Mar 01, 2025
Rooted in the city's industrial past, the inaugural edition of the biennale delves into cultural hybridity, sustainability and the role of design in shaping the future.
‘Melon Mahallah’ creates a space for immersive contemplation
Feb 25, 2025by Manu Sharma Feb 25, 2025
The installation by Slavs and Tatars prompts audiences at Islamic Arts Biennale 2025 to explore the unlikely links between melons and Islam.
Tipping point: The Sharjah Biennial 16 on our hopes, fears and anxieties
Feb 21, 2025by Ranjana Dave Feb 21, 2025
Intersecting contexts and frames of reference become pieces of a puzzle for the five curators of ‘to carry’.
BIO28 in Ljubljana conceives of flowers as 'Double Agents' in design
Jan 11, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jan 11, 2025
Presented by The Museum of Architecture and Design and the Centre for Creativity, the biennale questions if designers ‘speak the language of flowers’.
The centre cannot hold: Creative showcases from 2024 disrupting the mainstream
Dec 17, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Dec 17, 2024
STIRred 2024: A review of architectural biennales and design exhibitions that offered new perspectives and voices on pertinent issues, including the climate crisis and global resource parity.
Artworks and exhibitions that responded to the trauma of war
Dec 17, 2024by Manu Sharma Dec 17, 2024
STIRred 2024: Creative responses to war and conflict reflected contemporary realities in 2024, as STIR’s archive demonstrates.
Koyo Kouoh to curate the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026
Dec 04, 2024by STIRworld Dec 04, 2024
Koyo Kouoh, the chief curator of the Zeitz MOCAA Museum in Cape Town, will lead the curation of the 61st Venice Biennale, taking over from Adriano Pedrosa
Hoor Al Qasimi on growing local audiences: "Everybody should have a biennial"
Nov 28, 2024by Ranjana Dave Nov 28, 2024
In an interview with STIR, the Emirati curator speaks about her focus on community engagement and her work as president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation.
Ruth Patir's crushingly candid work on the burdens of the female body
Nov 22, 2024by Hili Perlson Nov 22, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Female goddesses and advanced medical technology meet in a feminist saga about fertility and self-determination at the Israel Pavilion.
Nikhil Chopra on curating the 6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale with HH Art Spaces
Nov 20, 2024by Ranjana Dave Nov 20, 2024
Artist Nikhil Chopra shares his curatorial vision for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025, contextualising art as a collective endeavour in a conversation with STIR.
The Bangkok Art Biennale embraces Mother Nature
Nov 18, 2024by Rémy Jarry Nov 18, 2024
The fourth edition of the Biennale delves into the contemporary legacy of feminine mythologies while addressing the ecological challenges of our time.
Embodied responses to climate emergencies at the Lahore Biennale 2024
Nov 14, 2024by Maliha Noorani Nov 14, 2024
The third edition of the Lahore Biennale engaged in unpacking the climate crisis from the frontlines of the Global South.
On relating across bodies and contexts: Moe Satt’s first solo show in Europe
Nov 07, 2024by Erin Li Nov 07, 2024
Delfina Foundation curator Erin Li reflects on the long journey to the Burmese artist’s first solo show in Europe, across years of studio visits and slow observation.
Artist Shahzia Sikander on creating artworks that inspire discourse
Oct 11, 2024by Cleo Roberts-Komireddi Oct 11, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Shahzia Sikander reflects on her retrospective show Collective Behavior, a collateral exhibition of the 60th Venice Biennale.
Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024 platforms and mobilises 'Resources For a Future'
Oct 07, 2024by Almas Sadique Oct 07, 2024
The architectural festival hosts exhibitions, symposiums, installations and satellite programmes that explore and illustrate novel ways of building with repurposed materials.
Manal AlDowayan reflects on Saudi womanhood at the Venice Biennale
Sep 27, 2024by Cleo Roberts-Komireddi Sep 27, 2024
STIRring ‘Everywhere’ in Venice: Artist Manal AlDowayan joins STIR to discuss her multimedia installation, Shifting Sands: A Battle Song, for the Saudi Pavilion.
Pirate Utopias and Pansori: The 12th Busan and 15th Gwangju Biennales
Sep 25, 2024by Louis Ho Sep 25, 2024
The current Busan Biennale aligns so-called pirate enlightenment and Buddhist monasticism, while the venerable Gwangju Biennale is premised on an all-embracing inclusivity.
Exploring the Portugal Pavilion: Collective work within a 'Creole Garden'
Aug 22, 2024by Beth Citron Aug 22, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Sonia Vaz Borges joins STIR to discuss Greenhouse’s ambitious and challenging vision for Portugal’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Nicolas Bourriaud on conducting an "operatic" Gwangju Biennale
Aug 14, 2024by Rémy Jarry Aug 14, 2024
Speaking with STIR, the Artistic Director of the 15th Gwangju Biennale emphasises the relevance of Korean heritage in contemporary times through his curatorial approach in Pansori.
Open Group's 'Repeat After Me II' invites audiences to consider the horrors of war
Aug 08, 2024by Ranjana Dave Aug 08, 2024
STIRring Everywhere in Venice: STIR discusses Poland's pavilion at the Venice Biennale with Anton Varga, member of the Ukrainian collective Open Group, and curator Marta Czyż.
Biennale Gherdëina harnesses the folkloric past of the mighty Dolomites
Jul 29, 2024by Rosalyn D`Mello Jul 29, 2024
In curator Lorenzo Giusti’s sensitive hands, the ninth edition of the Biennale in Italy centres on other-than-human sentience.
Safe, revolutionary, neutral, biased: The 81st Whitney Biennial in New York
Jul 09, 2024by Sunena V Maju Jul 09, 2024
Even Better Than the Real Thing at the Whitney Biennial 2024 examines reality through expressive abstraction and non-Western forms of cosmological thinking.
Debt in Venice: Christoph Büchel’s quietly monumental show 'Monte di Pietà'
Jul 04, 2024by Huma Kabakci Jul 04, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: The Swiss-Icelandic artist’s exhibition brings together a failing pawnshop, live-streamed wars, NFTs and a room for sex work in a historic palazzo.
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