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Being and becoming: Embracing in-betweenness in Artizon's In the midst of
Feb 07, 2026by Avani Tandon Vieira Feb 07, 2026
The sixth edition of Artizon Museum’s Jam Session presented a fluid understanding of place and past.
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India Art Fair 2026 and more in Delhi: The STIR list of must-see exhibitions
Feb 04, 2026by Srishti Ojha Feb 04, 2026
As the India Art Fair 2026 draws art lovers from around the world to Delhi, we recommend the best exhibitions, fair booths and events the city has to offer in the coming weeks.
Fractured visions: Multiplying Japan’s realities at Tokyo's National Art Center
Nov 14, 2025by Erik Augustin Palm Nov 14, 2025
Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989 – 2010—on view at The National Art Center, Tokyo, co-curated with Hong Kong’s M+—uses its titular prism metaphor to examine Japan’s cultural transformations.
Art against authoritarianism: HKW’s Global Fascisms presents an urgent challenge
Nov 10, 2025by Srishti Ojha Nov 10, 2025
The group exhibition features artists working in new media, digital art, public art, performance and traditional mediums to analyse the rise of global fascism and imagine alternative futures.
Open house: The Almaty Museum of Arts welcomes the world as its guest
Oct 17, 2025by Ranjana Dave Oct 17, 2025
Built around the collection of its founder Nurlan Smagulov, this private museum of modern and contemporary art opened to audiences in September 2025, offering exhibitions and collateral programming.
More than Human at the Design Museum shapes a vocabulary for ecological design
Aug 13, 2025by Asmita Singh Aug 13, 2025
From seaweed pavilions to river-rights murals, the exhibition repositions design as relational, speculative and situated, looking beyond the human to more multivalent futures.
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 ocean is “both wound and portal” in Kei Imazu’s practice
Jun 23, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jun 23, 2025
In Japanese artist Kei Imazu’s new exhibition, The Sea is Barely Wrinkled, the story of a 1629 shipwreck is a metaphor for Indonesia’s mythology, colonial history and ecological future.
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.
The Islamic Arts Biennale 2025 bridges Islamic history and contemporary art
Feb 17, 2025by Manu Sharma Feb 17, 2025
The art fair returns to Jeddah for its second edition and creates intersecting narratives around Islam and Saudi Arabia.
On presence in absence: Chiharu Shiota at the Grand Palais in Paris
Jan 06, 2025by Giulia Zappa Jan 06, 2025
The largest exhibition of the Japanese artist’s work in Europe to date explores her poetic vision through seven large-scale installations on themes of memory, absence and human connection.
Keiichi Tanaami’s psychedelic art comes to ICA Miami in first solo US show
Dec 27, 2024by Manu Sharma Dec 27, 2024
Curators Alex Gartenfeld and Gean Moreno discuss the late Japanese artist’s themes and influences in an interview with STIR.
Compelling shows and practices from Asia that captured our imagination in 2024
Dec 20, 2024by Manu Sharma Dec 20, 2024
STIRred 2024: Exciting work was produced and exhibited across the continent this year, which STIR covered in great depth.
Seven exciting artists who use AI as a medium of expression
Oct 31, 2024by STIRworld Oct 31, 2024
As AI technology continues to advance, STIR looks at artists like Harold Cohen and Yousuke Fuyama using AI for artistic and philosophical projects.
Sabine Marcelis' 'Panorama' at High Museum of Art explores the fluidity of perception
Oct 19, 2024by Aarthi Mohan Oct 19, 2024
Combining kinetic design with colour and transparency, the large-scale installation transforms the plaza into a place for reflection and discovery.
Shimabuku in Spain: A playful confluence of art, nature and community
Oct 05, 2024by Erik Augustin Palm Oct 05, 2024
The acclaimed Japanese artist brings his first solo exhibition to Centro Botín in Spain, blurring boundaries between species and inviting viewers into his whimsical world.
Jiro Takamatsu’s U.S. showcase reveals simultaneous threads in postwar Japan
Oct 02, 2024by Kate Meadows Oct 02, 2024
STIR discusses Pace Gallery’s exhibition of works from the conceptual artist’s newly represented estate with partner Joe Baptista and curatorial director Xin Wang.
10 art exhibitions you must see in Fall 2024
Sep 14, 2024by STIRworld Sep 14, 2024
As we near the end of 2024, STIR presents its list of 10 exhibitions to look forward to, offering ruminations on horror and technology to contemporary looks at history and heritage.
The Armory Show brings artists from marginalised backgrounds to the US Open
Sep 04, 2024by Manu Sharma Sep 04, 2024
A look at four compelling artists showing at the US Open and the dialogues with tennis and athleticism that their works engage in.
LuYang on ancient philosophies and digital identities in 'DOKU The Flow'
Aug 30, 2024by Ornella D’Souza Aug 30, 2024
In a conversation with STIR, the multimedia creator talks about marrying technology, gaming and gender-nonconforming beliefs with Eastern philosophies.
Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art presents Takashi Murakami’s vibrant world
May 23, 2024by Manu Sharma May 23, 2024
Co-curator Shinya Takahashi explores the exhibition’s thematics and its connection to Kyoto’s rich artistic history.
Kazunori Hamana's dynamic ceramic vessels highlight his reverence for tradition
May 01, 2024by Daria Kravchuk May 01, 2024
An artist, a fisherman and a farmer, Kazunori Hamana draws upon the Japanese art of making tsubo, functional clay jars.
Artist Yuko Mohri on creating work with a focus on ecological consciousness
Apr 20, 2024by Rosalyn D`Mello Apr 20, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Reflecting on her work for the Venice Biennale's Japan Pavilion, Yuko Mohri discusses her artistic process in a conversation with STIR.
Unpicking the phenomenon of ‘Cute’ beyond its aesthetics
Apr 05, 2024by Almas Sadique Apr 05, 2024
The exhibition in Somerset House, London, explores the influence that cute culture has on one’s well being, whilst also tracing its murky usage in pop culture.
The Smithsonian reveals the supernatural in early modern Japanese theatre
Mar 30, 2024by Manu Sharma Mar 30, 2024
Co-curators Kit Brooks and Frank Feltens explore the rise of paranormal elements in Edo-era theatre practices in Japan.
Yousuke Fuyama's 'Land-Venus' presents an endless conversation between AI
Feb 22, 2024by Manu Sharma Feb 22, 2024
The Japanese artist discusses his AI art project and the link between his scientific and new media work with STIR.
Taipei Biennial: "Small World" Thinking Big
Feb 08, 2024by Rémy Jarry Feb 08, 2024
The 13th edition of the Taiwanese biennial, running until March 24, 2024, is anchored in individual experiences and the micro-world to showcase the contemporary art scene.
Japanese tea bowl renaissance by ceramic artist Takuro Kuwata
Jan 23, 2024by Daria Kravchuk Jan 23, 2024
Japanese ceramicist Takuro Kuwata reinterprets traditional pottery through new processes and pays homage to Gifu prefecture's ceramic heritage.
The Thailand Biennale 2023 connects artists and continents
Jan 19, 2024by Rémy Jarry Jan 19, 2024
The third edition of the government-funded itinerant biennale in Chiang Rai, Thailand, until April 30, 2024, spotlights artists from Southeast Asia to Latin America.
Japan Society's exhibition highlights four crucial Japanese women in Fluxus
Jan 11, 2024by Manu Sharma Jan 11, 2024
Curators Midori Yoshimoto and Tiffany Lambert discuss the role of Japanese women and Zen philosophy in shaping the Fluxus movement.
Advocates of change: revisiting creatively charged, STIRring events of 2023
Dec 31, 2023by Jincy Iype Dec 31, 2023
STIRred 2023: We look back on some of the most engaging, thought-provoking, and explorative events that STIRred the global creative community this year.
Exploring Art Week Tokyo 2023, a young contemporary art festival in Japan
Nov 29, 2023by Manu Sharma Nov 29, 2023
The festival's co-founder Atsuko Ninagawa and guest curator Kenjiro Hosaka discuss the festival and its new sales platform in a conversation with STIR.
Chiharu Shiota explores interconnectedness through blood
Nov 05, 2023by 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.
Yabu Pushelberg on collecting, crafted inspiration and storytelling through design
Nov 03, 2023by Ayesha Adonais Nov 03, 2023
STIR in conversation with George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg, on the meaning of collecting, collections, and collectibles.
Yayoi Kusama presents 'I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers' at David Zwirner
Jul 14, 2023by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jul 14, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky visits the Yayoi Kusama exhibition at David Zwirner gallery in Manhattan and finds it liberating, vibrantly ecstatic, and fun.
Eiko Otake's video installation 'Mother' brings forth bodily experience on mortality
Jun 17, 2023by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 17, 2023
Eiko Otake with her latest artwork Mother at Historic Chapel, Green-Wood Cemetery, New York, drew on the maternal lineage to set the framework of who we are in the present.
Inside Japanese artist Ay-Ō’s 'Happy Rainbow Hell' at the Smithsonian Museum
May 23, 2023by Manu Sharma May 23, 2023
Kit Brooks, Assistant Curator of Japanese Art at the Smithsonian Museum, talks to STIR about the museum’s first show reflecting on Ay-Ō’s brilliant, rainbow-themed work.
Yoshinori Niwa brings together gestures that untangle the logic of capitalism
May 09, 2023by Sukanya Deb May 09, 2023
The exhibition Rehabilitating Our Human Spirit Under Capitalism introduces a newly commissioned work that asked ‘candidates’ to lend the artist their possessions for a month in exchange for cash upfront.
Yuri Suzuki's sound installations combine human, environmental and sonic values
May 03, 2023by Dilpreet Bhullar May 03, 2023
The Tokyo-born London-based artist navigates the discipline of art, design and music in an effort to activate human relationships with the surrounding environment.
Art Fair Tokyo 2023: from contemporary art to ancient Japanese earthenware
Mar 28, 2023by Daria Kravchuk Mar 28, 2023
Art Fair Tokyo 2023, the largest art fair in Japan and the oldest in Asia, showcased the state of art in Japan, from antiques to modern and contemporary art.
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