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Hurvin Anderson’s landscapes defy a linear chronology
Mar 28, 2026by Srishti Ojha Mar 28, 2026
The Jamaican-British painter exhibits works spanning his over 20-year career in the Tate Britain survey exhibition, Hurvin Anderson.
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Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark takes a peek at 1980s New York
Mar 25, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Mar 25, 2026
An exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle in Germany brings together photographs by the photographer of the subversive art landscape of New York and the characters who populated it.
Alexandra Munroe and Jitish Kallat on art, space and interstellar encounters
Mar 20, 2026by Ranjana Dave Mar 20, 2026
In a conversation with STIR, Kallat and Munroe reflect on the instability of knowledge and what it means to stage a tightly argued exhibition inside an imperfect building.
Framing stillness and the uncanny with Yorgos Lanthimos
Mar 13, 2026by Anmol Ahuja Mar 13, 2026
A collection of over 180 photographs by the celebrated filmmaker at Onassis Stegi, staged as a ‘rare artistic event’, prompts an enquiry into film, space, framing and the maker’s eye.
Inside Worldglimpsing: worlding and roleplay as rehearsals for the real world
Feb 20, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Feb 20, 2026
At ArkDes in Stockholm, the design exhibition positions collective imagination as a civic and political act and design as a method of rehearsing hopeful futures.
Of motherhood as a continuum and things that make and break our births
Jan 30, 2026by Zohra Khan Jan 30, 2026
An embodied response to the exhibition Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births examines how design shapes care, access and maternal experience.
Mumbai, transcribed: Inside the Jaquar Pavilion Park at ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2026
Jan 23, 2026by Jincy Iype Jan 23, 2026
The pavilions at the second edition of ADFF:STIR Mumbai responded to curator Aric Chen’s brief, Mumbai Transcripts, to become activated micro-sites of movement and reflection.
In Osaka, the placard is an object of resistance and a rhetorical framework
Jan 16, 2026by Avani Tandon Vieira Jan 16, 2026
This exhibition at the National Museum of Art, Osaka searches for new forms of political articulation.
Paparazza Moderna by Lake Verea reveals the strife and desires that made modernism
Jan 15, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jan 15, 2026
Photographic chronicles by Mexico City-based Lake Verea—‘Frenemies’ and ‘Lovers’—aim to showcase the stories that make up modernist architecture and the designers behind it.
Diane Arbus’ intimate look at the Sanctum Sanctorum of strangers
Dec 09, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Dec 09, 2025
A show at the David Zwirner gallery in London brings together a selection of the American photographer’s portraits from the last years of her life, portraying a subtle shift in style.
Whispers on the Horizon traces desire lines across Taiwan’s shifting horizons
Dec 03, 2025by Ranjana Dave Dec 03, 2025
What is a biennial meant to do? Constituted with works from the Taipei Fine Arts Museum's collection and contributions by contemporary practitioners, the 14th Taipei Biennial hints at the relationship between a biennial and its peoples.
Enduring connections: Dowry of the Soul at CHAT Hong Kong
Dec 01, 2025by Ranjana Dave Dec 01, 2025
Kazakh artist Gulnur Mukazhanova and curator Wang Weiwei speak with STIR about an ongoing exhibition and longstanding cultural and economic links between Central Asia and China.
Echoing Above captures Hong Kong’s vertical ecosystem in flux
Nov 14, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Nov 14, 2025
Through the lens of Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze, the photobook spotlights trees, scaffolders and birds forming a quiet cycle of growth and renewal against Hong Kong’s skyline.
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.
Storefront for Art and Architecture through the eyes of José Esparza Chong Cuy
Nov 13, 2025by Sunena V Maju Nov 13, 2025
In conversation with STIR, José Esparza Chong Cuy, executive director and chief curator of Storefront, discusses his professional journey and what’s next for the organisation.
Making and unmaking: The Autobiography of Hilton Seoul
Nov 12, 2025by Avani Tandon Vieira Nov 12, 2025
An exhibition at Piknik in Seoul considers the afterlife of iconic architecture.
Geoffrey Bawa Trust’s exhibition engages in more active Ways of Knowing Lunuganga
Nov 10, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 10, 2025
The design exhibition in Colombo employs interactive formats to question how we interact with and understand our natural surroundings, with Bawa’s estate as its narrative spine.
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.
Lutz Bacher's first posthumous retrospective reads like a lasting afterimage
Nov 03, 2025by Hili Perlson Nov 03, 2025
In its layered terrain, the show doesn’t explain who Lutz Bacher was—it renders the question beautifully irrelevant.
Maritea Dæhlin’s –A-FI-SA is a multicultural journey from Mexico to Svalbard
Oct 27, 2025by Srishti Ojha Oct 27, 2025
The Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum will display a three-channel video as part of – A-FI-SA. But it might not be tomorrow, a reimagining of belonging, homeland and identity.
Arthshila Delhi depicts Bollywood’s slippery desires in Duniya Parchhaiyon Ki
Oct 22, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Oct 22, 2025
A show curated by film historian Ashish Rajadhyaksha at the institution in Okhla brings together posters of films of the ‘70s to ‘90s, bridging archival affect and cultural relevance.
Joyful queer utopias: City in A Garden at MCA Chicago
Oct 06, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Oct 06, 2025
An exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art delves into the clandestine spaces for queer expression around the city of Chicago, revealing the joyful and disruptive nature of occupation.
Not Here Not There archives an alternate Lebanon in liminal, fragile architectures
Sep 25, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Sep 25, 2025
Middle East Archive’s photobook Not Here Not There by Charbel AlKhoury features uncanny but surreal visuals of Lebanon amidst instability and political unrest between 2019 and 2021.
Richard Rogers: Talking Buildings and the architecture of activism and presence
Sep 24, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Sep 24, 2025
An exhibition by Ab Rogers at Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, retraced five decades of the celebrated architect’s design tenets that treated buildings as campaigns for change.
What the map does not know: Examining the land in Photographic Geomancy
Sep 12, 2025by Avani Tandon Vieira Sep 12, 2025
Fotografiska Shanghai’s group exhibition considers geography through the lens of contemporary Chinese image-making.
StoneX celebrates the subtle artistry of stone with Art Soiree
Sep 11, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 11, 2025
At a recent event at the StoneX refinery in Kishangarh, the stone brand launched a coffee table book detailing the results of an art residency with ten Indian artists.
Louis Vuitton: Visionary Journeys gives the Maison’s trunk a spatial presence
Sep 09, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Sep 09, 2025
OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu stages the Maison’s codes and crafts as a sequence of inhabitable spaces at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka.
Non-Residency unpacks belonging and identity at the Jaipur Centre for Art
Sep 05, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 05, 2025
A showcase at the Jaipur Centre for Art, curated by Rajiv Menon, dwells on how the Indian diaspora contends with cultural identity.
WIELS’ ecocentric group show erodes the binary between magic and reality
Sep 01, 2025by Srishti Ojha Sep 01, 2025
Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order’ brings together over 30 artists to reimagine the Anthropocene through the literary and artistic genre.
Fertile socio-ecological relationships moor Felipe Castelblanco's Counter Expeditions
Aug 27, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Aug 27, 2025
A solo exhibition at Haus for Media Art Oldenburg presents Castelblanco's decade-long research, revealing the interdependencies of the natural world and indigenous communities in the Amazon.
Jacopo Benassi’s Libero! is a punk-infused rebellion against images
Aug 25, 2025by Hili Perlson Aug 25, 2025
In Genoa, the Italian artist disrupts the photographic image’s dominance.
Fostering collaborative design narratives in modernism with Women Architects at Work
Jul 17, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Jul 17, 2025
Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy’s book spotlights the Cambridge School and its alternative American modernism modelled on collective stakeholdership.
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.
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.
Phyllis Birkby’s lesbian feminist architecture and the probing of fantasy as resistance
Jun 20, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 20, 2025
Fantasizing Design: Phyllis Birkby Builds Lesbian Feminist Architecture at the Center for Architecture, New York, delves into feminist design as a lens to reimagine architecture.
Casa Mexicana chronicles the evolving morphology of Mexican homes
Jun 12, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Jun 12, 2025
From austere retreats to luxury villas, this book by Edmund Sumner and Jonathan Bell offers a vivid exploration of the building art of Mexican homes.
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.
Italian feminist artist and poet Tomaso Binga’s triumphant Naples retrospective
Jun 09, 2025by Hili Perlson Jun 09, 2025
Madre Museum examines how Binga carved out a space of autonomy and introspection for women.
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.
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