•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by 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.
by Hili Perlson Jul 10, 2025
A 19th-century portrait of a kleptomaniac sparked the artist’s yearslong dive into the history of psychiatry.
by 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.
by 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.
by Hili Perlson Jun 09, 2025
Madre Museum examines how Binga carved out a space of autonomy and introspection for women.
by 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.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 15, 2025
A retrospective of the artist, best known for his video art that manipulates reality, is currently on view at Tate Britain, London, featuring works spanning 15 years of his career.
by 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.
by Leah Triplett Apr 04, 2025
This 30 year survey of the British artist’s work at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia leaves questions unanswered.
by Chintan Girish Modi Dec 18, 2024
With her solo exhibition, Photo Lies on view at JNAF, Mumbai, Singh talks about the deceptive potential of photography that makes the medium a joy to play with.
by Giulia Zappa Dec 02, 2024
The Colombian artist, a pioneer of fiber art, is the focus of a major retrospective at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, challenging misconceptions about textile's expressive power.
by Aarthi Mohan Nov 14, 2024
The immersive retrospective at Liljevalchs in Stockholm honours the Swedish design house's century-long journey of crafting homes that inspire, warmth, creativity and character.
by Manu Sharma Nov 10, 2024
The famed Mohawk artist Shelley Niro joins STIR for an interview exploring her multimedia art on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada.
by Pramodha Weerasekera Nov 02, 2024
Sri Lanka’s modern art history is dominated by fine art – the HOUSE exhibition at Barefoot invigorated a discussion about design being fine art’s scorned relative.
by Manu Sharma Nov 01, 2024
AGO’s Renée van der Avoird joins STIR for an interview exploring Abad’s love of travelling and how it inspired her vibrant artmaking.
by Louis Ho Oct 29, 2024
Large-scale surveys of Kim Lim and Teo Eng Seng at the National Gallery Singapore highlight divergent sensibilities, exhibition aesthetics and cultural politics.
by Deeksha Nath Oct 19, 2024
The I and the You traces Clark's journey from spatial exploration through abstraction to forefronting audience experience with manipulative objects and participatory performances.
by 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.
by 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.
by Hili Perlson Aug 20, 2024
Staged at Museum Tinguely, the exhibition casts bodies as machine-like sites of production.
by Kate Meadows Jul 27, 2024
El Museo del Barrio in New York stages a retrospective for a leading Chicana artist, centring memory as a strategy of cultural reclamation.
by Hili Perlson Jul 22, 2024
An exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce highlights Kimsooja’s thrust towards universality and her ability to entwine experiences across space and time.
by Eleonora Ghedini Jun 01, 2024
The major retrospective reconstructs the brief and luminous career of the Italian artist, showing the constant relevance of his sculptural research.
by Kate Meadows Apr 12, 2024
Chelsea-based Tina Kim Gallery presents 30 years of the Korean artist’s distinctive work in drawing, sculpture and installation.
by Zohra Khan Feb 07, 2024
The first major retrospective of the Neapolitan designer and artist Riccardo Dalisi stages an alternate world to showcase his works in its extreme diversity and vastness.
by Jincy Iype Dec 15, 2023
UHA's founding director Jonas Upton-Hansen and director Ricardo Mateu recall a decade of learning, purpose, and planning with their retrospective held at the STIR Gallery, New Delhi.
by Tamsin Hong Oct 06, 2023
Marina Abramović’s retrospective exhibition at Royal Academy of Arts, London, traces the artist's transgressive oeuvre, accompanied by the restaging of her iconic performances by younger contemporaries.
by Zohra Khan Nov 16, 2022
Speaking with STIR, the French experimentalist discusses the premise of his book, Architecture for Disquiet Bodies – "an archipelago of ideas, tests and experiences."
by STIRworld May 22, 2022
American contemporary artist and sculptor Melvin Edwards is presenting barbed wire installations at the museum Dia Beacon this Spring.
by Pallavi Mehra Mar 15, 2022
Titled Paolo Pallucco: Luck and Sex. That’s all., the show at Ketabi Projects in Paris takes viewers on a journey through the radical furniture designer’s illustrious career.
by Devanshi Shah Nov 18, 2021
The multimedia exhibition is a deep conversation between MVRDV’s practice and working methodology, that is presented through sketches, models and digital data.
by Aditi Sharma Maheshwari Nov 10, 2021
Larger-than-life photographs, handpicked objects, apparel and more take over Armani/Silos in Milan to mark the 40th anniversary of Emporio Armani.
by Shraddha Nair Jul 08, 2021
The Swedish artist, Charlotte Johannesson, puts up her tapestry and digital art as part of Take Me to Another World, a solo retrospective at Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain.
by Shraddha Nair May 26, 2021
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is showcasing over 200 works by German artist Ulay, in the first international posthumous exhibition of the artist, titled Ulay Was Here.
by Jones John May 06, 2020
The performance artist’s first solo exhibition, Why Let the Chicken Run? gives Indonesian audiences a chance to understand her practice, and through it, performance as a medium.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Apr 03, 2020
Vladimir Belogolovsky discusses the act of reassembling in the 25-year retrospective of architect Nikita Yaveyn’s Studio 44 during the ongoing global coronavirus lockdown.
by Sukanya Garg Sep 17, 2019
Twelve performers re-interpreted Xavier Le Roy at Retrospective, a performance art exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
by Pragnya Rao Jun 28, 2019
Trace the magical journey of fashion’s most influential couturiers, Christian Dior from 1947 to now at the V&A, London chronicling some of the most iconic milestones in the history of fashion.
by Sukanya Garg May 24, 2019
Announcing Ghanian artist El Anatsui's survey exhibition 'Triumphant Scale' at Haus der Kunst in Munich, between March 8 to July 28, 2019.
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