•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Srishti Ojha Aug 29, 2025
The art gallery’s inaugural exhibition, titled after an ancient mnemonic technique, features contemporary artists from across India who confront memory through architecture.
by Mustafa Khanbhai Mar 25, 2025
India's metro-centric, closed-door art world encounters novel challenges in Goa, where markets are reinvented to side-step the usual economic forces.
by 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.
by Jones John Oct 17, 2024
The launch of an art gallery in Whitefield by the veteran artist and curator at DTale’s third retail store in India reevaluates how design may be viewed alongside art.
by Sukanya Deb Apr 10, 2023
Investigating the bell as a multidimensional and multicultural form, the artist creates an atmosphere of ritual through a site-specific installation—Sonic Droplets - Steel Buds.
by Urvi Kothari Mar 29, 2023
The exhibition curated by Jitish Kallat features artistic discourses on five handwritten notes exchanged between Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Mountbatten on the eve of the announcement of partition.
by Sukanya Deb Mar 02, 2023
Non-Aligned, Non-Alienated by Nathalie Muchamad at Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022, investigates familial history, spice trade in Asia and its significance in imperial history.
by Sukanya Deb Feb 16, 2023
At the ongoing Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Zina Saro-Wiwa reflects on her ancestral land in Niger Delta and the loss of resources and identity within her community.
by Rahul Kumar Feb 14, 2023
Running parallel to the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2022, STIR explores a curation of selected immersive works by emerging young artists and curators at the Kochi Students' Biennale.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jan 29, 2023
Bhumi by Gidree Bawlee Foundation of Arts, with support from Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation, is a collaborative work between local village communities in Thakurgaon, Bangladesh.
by Sukanya Deb Jan 26, 2023
Artist Massinissa Selmani discusses his exhibition of drawn forms that question militarisation, surveillance and media in what can be seen as a world in perpetual conflict.
by Almas Sadique Dec 24, 2022
The fifth edition of Kochi Biennale opens its gates across Aspinwall House, Anand Warehouse, and Pepper House to an exposition of layered visual offerings.
by STIRworld Dec 24, 2022
The global artist community that is part of the 5th edition of the biennale pen this open letter sharing their concerns and views.
by Shraddha Nair Dec 23, 2022
With a crowded calendar of art festivals and biennales this year, we look at the impact of large art festivals on the local economy and culture post COVID-19.
by Rahul Kumar Dec 14, 2022
As the Biennale makes a postponement announcement at the 11th hour, STIR visits the grounds of selected shows that are on view.
by Vatsala Sethi Dec 10, 2022
The biennale's fifth edition, titled Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire, features 200 works dispersed across Kochi, exploring conceptual underpinnings.
by Shraddha Nair May 28, 2022
Singapore-based artist, writer and researcher, Shubigi Rao, brings discussions of information, control of data and other pressing issues to the forefront at Venice Art Biennale 2022.
by Indranjan Banerjee Nov 01, 2021
Artist and performer Hanna Tuulikki’s extensive notation and visual score making practice of the moving and sounding body unlocks new meanings and reveals new knowledges.
by John Jervis Dec 31, 2020
From challenges to innovations, losses to lessons and closures to the continuum, John Jervis rounds up the transformative year that was in design.
by Rahul Kumar Aug 26, 2020
STIR speaks to Shubigi Rao and Bose Krishnamachari, as the team is in the final stages of the forthcoming edition of the most coveted biennale of the region.
by Shailaja Tripathi Aug 12, 2020
The ‘godmother of performance art’, Marina Abramović, and our very own Nikhil Chopra discuss their journey, nuances of the genre and their art practice during the lockdown.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 25, 2020
The minimalistic aesthetic of contemporary Indian artist Shilpa Gupta’s art punctures the intransigence of borders and boundaries to open the world of shared histories and cultures.
by Jones John Jun 15, 2020
From salvaging new worlds in discarded objects to making environments that parody existence itself, Mumbai-based artist Sahej Rahal challenges the tales we take for granted.
by Rahul Kumar Feb 08, 2020
Artist, curator, and entrepreneur Krishnamachari exhibits a series of nine projects that celebrate extremes and explore obsessions of human society, at Emami Art, Kolkata.
by Sukanya Garg Aug 14, 2019
The artists offered a state of hope, a promise of better things to come, and instilled deep thoughts in the minds of visitors with their works at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
by Sukanya Garg Aug 13, 2019
The works presented at the fourth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale spoke of gender differences and imagined the possibilities where those pushed to the margins would speak.
by Sukanya Garg Aug 06, 2019
Mexican artist Monica Mayer showcased written experiences of sexual harassment by men and women as part of her participatory installation The Clothesline, at Kochi Biennale.
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