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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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Avijit Mukul Kishore and Rohan Shivkumar on architecture as autobiography
Sep 16, 2025by Srishti Ojha Sep 16, 2025
At ADFF: STIR Mumbai 2025, the architect-filmmaker duo discussed their film Lovely Villa (2020) and how architecture can be read as a mirror of the nation.
Art & Bali brings Indonesian artists and culture to the global stage
Sep 08, 2025by Srishti Ojha Sep 08, 2025
The fair’s inaugural edition, with the theme Bridging Dichotomies, celebrates Balinese philosophy, Indonesian artists and Southeast Asian art with a sustainable twist.
The Cairo Road sees Zambian artists taking representation into their own hands
Aug 11, 2025by Srishti Ojha Aug 11, 2025
A group exhibition at Strangers House in Mumbai features photographer Alick Phiri and other contemporary artists from Lusaka as they overwrite colonial narratives.
A group show at kurimanzutto turns landscape painting on its side
Jul 25, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jul 25, 2025
In a door left ajar, multimedia artists Diambe, Thiago Hattnher and Michael Ho bring a postmodern spin to landscape painting, using grids, layering and assemblage.
Ai Weiwei’s Five Working Spaces are living studios of resistance and creation
Jul 14, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Jul 14, 2025
The recent architectural exhibition offered an intimate lens on five studios of the Chinese artist, shaped by necessity and defiance at the Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin.
Fiona Tan curates a cabinet of fixations in Monomania at the Rijksmuseum
Jul 10, 2025by Hili Perlson Jul 10, 2025
A 19th-century portrait of a kleptomaniac sparked the artist’s yearslong dive into the history of psychiatry.
A group exhibition traces the complex history of colonial-era plantations
Jul 04, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jul 04, 2025
KADIST and ILHAM present 27 artists and collectives who reflect on the violent setting of the plantation and its role as a model for Western capitalism.
An intimate record of temporality: Rules of Freedom, Freedom of Rules
Jul 02, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jul 02, 2025
A retrospective on the conceptual artist at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong showcases text-centric work that documents the mundane aspects of the day.
The home and the world: Rashid Johnson’s multivalent Black selfhood
Jun 24, 2025by Avani Tandon Vieira Jun 24, 2025
The artist’s mid-career survey at the Guggenheim, New York, presents a plural imagination of medium, community and self.
No Doubt About It critiques architecture’s current moment
Jun 21, 2025by STIRworld Jun 21, 2025
The architectural exhibition on view in Venice assembles projects from China and five European countries to point to their diverse origins and potential.
A London exhibition reflects on shared South Asian histories and splintered maps
Jun 19, 2025by Samta Nadeem Jun 19, 2025
(Un)Layering the future past of South Asia: Young artists' voices emphasises regional interconnectedness, despite ongoing geopolitical tensions.
At the Hayward Gallery, Yoshitomo Nara asks you to feel what cannot be seen
Jun 13, 2025by Zohra Khan Jun 13, 2025
A travelling retrospective of the celebrated Japanese artist’s work comes to London, spanning four decades of practice.
GAK Bremen’s new group show exposes the absurdity of debt
Jun 11, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jun 11, 2025
You Breathe Differently Under the Weight. Debt and Credit reveals how our abstract, financial view of debt conceals its impact on everyday life and politics.
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.
In Minor Keys: Venice Biennale 2026 reveals its curatorial theme
May 27, 2025by 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".
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.
‘Why Look at Animals?’ considers art, ethics & ecosystems beyond the Anthropocene
May 23, 2025by Asmita Singh May 23, 2025
Curated by Katerina Gregos, the exhibition at ΕΜΣΤ outlines the institutional mechanisms of violence & exploitation of non-human species & reaffirms their roles as sentient beings.
A history of Okinawa, through photographer Mao Ishikawa’s lens
May 16, 2025by Rhea Mathur May 16, 2025
A retrospective of the Japanese photographer’s work at Mead Gallery in Coventry highlights the zeal of an artist committed to combating oppression and capturing resistance.
The 'Crossed Histories' of architecture, the city and women unfold in a novel exhibition
May 13, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 13, 2025
The current show at Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, curated by Léa-Catherine Szacka, unravels the stories of three women, Gae Aulenti, Ada Louise Huxtable and Phyllis Lambert.
Golden Lion awards at Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 rally for climate and equity
May 12, 2025by Anushka Sharma May 12, 2025
From climate-responsive design to long-term urban experiments, this year's awards reflect a shifting architectural discourse rooted in ecology, collaboration and systems thinking.
Maria Saleh Mahameed juggles movement and memory in ‘Peace of Mind’
May 12, 2025by Karen Chernick May 12, 2025
In an exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the artist uses her body and found objects to create raw, tactile works.
‘GLISTEN’: Lisa Reihana fuses time and tradition at National Gallery Singapore
May 09, 2025by Manu Sharma May 09, 2025
NGS curator Qinyi Lim offers deeper insight into the installation in a conversation with STIR.
Transient borders: Yukinori Yanagi at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan
May 08, 2025by Eleonora Ghedini May 08, 2025
Icarus is the Japanese artist’s first major retrospective to date in Europe and reveals a topicality with the current geopolitical and environmental crisis.
OntheSq by Irenie Studio is 'a living wonderland' coloured by co-creation
May 08, 2025by Jincy Iype May 08, 2025
'Curiouser and curiouser!': with eclectic scales, thresholds and illusions, the renovated Neo-Jacobean structure coalesces historic architecture and contemporary design.
Slow burn: Megan Tamati-Quennell on curating for a world in crisis
May 02, 2025by Ranjana Dave May 02, 2025
The veteran curator on the Sharjah Biennial 16 and collection-building as history-writing, in a conversation with STIR.
‘Rise Up’: Bridging memory and reparative justice at The Fitzwilliam Museum
Apr 29, 2025by Rhea Mathur Apr 29, 2025
A museum at Cambridge University examines Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade between 1750-1850, and its collection’s dark past.
Local voices, global reach: Latin American art fairs gain ground
Apr 28, 2025by Mercedes Ezquiaga Apr 28, 2025
From Brazil to Chile and Peru, Latin American fairs embrace local voices and practices while expanding their reach and reshaping the future of contemporary art.
A Klein bottle and an ellipse: X Zhu-Nowell on reimagining arts institutions
Apr 25, 2025by Ranjana Dave Apr 25, 2025
The executive director and chief curator of Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum in conversation with STIR about returning to China, institutional models and their wildest curatorial ideas.
Miloš Trakilović’s '564 Tracks' examines contemporary warfare through sound
Apr 22, 2025by Manu Sharma Apr 22, 2025
Linda Franken, assistant curator of the exhibition Not a Love Song, joins STIR to explore the Bosnian-Dutch artist’s AI-powered sound art.
‘Ai or Nay?’ at Media Majlis examines AI’s place in art and media
Apr 15, 2025by Manu Sharma Apr 15, 2025
Curator Jack Thomas Taylor discusses the show, along with the ethics of AI in our contemporary moment.
A summer fair: Art Dubai foregrounds contemporary art from the Global South
Apr 14, 2025by STIRworld Apr 14, 2025
The Contemporary and Bawwaba sections of Art Dubai 2025 anchor artistic inquiries into ecology, migration and identity through context-rich, geographically informed works.
Art meets life: In Hong Kong, broader economic trends shape the art market
Apr 11, 2025by Ranjana Dave Apr 11, 2025
In a frenetic week of art fairs, auctions, exhibitions and parties, Hong Kong channels longer histories of global trade.
'XSWL' highlights black humour and disenchantment in China's digital age
Apr 08, 2025by Manu Sharma Apr 08, 2025
Curator David Williams discusses the group show, which presents a rare look into the psyche of Chinese youth.
In the face of climate change, Kettle’s Yard delivers a peaceful warning
Apr 07, 2025by Rhea Mathur Apr 07, 2025
In an interview with STIR, curator Dr Amy Tobin discusses the exhibition Here is a Gale Warning: Art, Crisis & Survival.
Many hands, many voices: Revising Geoffrey Bawa’s furniture at 'Design in the Moment'
Apr 05, 2025by Dhwani Shanghvi Apr 05, 2025
The exhibition by Phantom Hands and the Geoffrey Bawa Trust explores how collective authorship and material evolution shape the reinterpretation of Bawa’s iconic designs.
Girls on swings, transforming art history: Cecily Brown’s Themes and Variations
Apr 04, 2025by Leah Triplett Apr 04, 2025
This 30 year survey of the British artist’s work at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia leaves questions unanswered.
Repair, Regenerate and Reuse: A new ethos for Time Space Existence 2025
Apr 03, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Apr 03, 2025
A conversation between STIR and curator Rachele de Stefano discussed key offerings of the upcoming edition of the biennial architecture exhibition by ECC-Italy.
Building worlds: Arpita Singh’s artistic mapping of memory and history
Apr 02, 2025by Deeksha Nath Apr 02, 2025
The artist’s first institutional solo show outside India, Remembering, at Serpentine North, reflects an illustrious six-decade career through large-scale paintings and intimate ink drawings.
Louisa Gagliardi’s slick, foreboding surrealism sums up 21st century anguish
Mar 28, 2025by Hili Perlson Mar 28, 2025
The Swiss artist, who shot to fame in recent years, is staging her first institutional show in Switzerland at MASI Lugano, titled Many Moons.
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