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Ai Weiwei on censorship and hypocrisy, and his first visit to India
Feb 16, 2026by Samta Nadeem, Srishti Ojha Feb 16, 2026
STIR spoke with the renowned contemporary artist on the occasion of his first solo exhibition in India.
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What we talk about when we convene for climate action: COP30 and the way ahead
Dec 11, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Dec 11, 2025
Amid several controversies surrounding the UN's annual COP held in Belém this year, a critical exploration of the delegation’s climate action objectives is tantamount.
Blood, breath and other ordeals: How Dmitry Morozov, aka ::vtol::, performs fragility in jest
Dec 05, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Dec 05, 2025
In a conversation with STIR, the Slovenia-based multidisciplinary creative opens up about his works as extensions of himself, underlining their beauty and absurdity.
Kissing back empires with forgotten tongues: Tatar* Kiss
Nov 21, 2025by Srishti Ojha Nov 21, 2025
Tatar* Kiss, a group show at the Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art in Middelburg, Netherlands, features seven women artists exploring the history of the Tatars.
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.
Ukrainian Modernism charts a nation’s fractured architectural history
Aug 21, 2025by Dhwani Shanghvi Aug 21, 2025
Photographer Dmytro Soloviov documents Soviet-era structures that embody Ukraine’s cycles of ambition, suppression and cultural resilience.
Painting as palimpsest: a survey of Julie Mehretu’s work comes to Germany
Jul 11, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jul 11, 2025
KAIROS / Hauntological Variations’ a journey through the Ethiopian-American artist’s career, will be on view at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf.
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".
At the Venice Biennale 2025, four inaugural pavilions herald community and heritage
Apr 30, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Apr 30, 2025
STIR engages with the curators of the Togo, Azerbaijan, Oman and Qatar pavilions—debuting at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025—on representation, access and shared histories.
'Sections of the Mind' imparts creative agency to the humble architectural section
Apr 24, 2025by STIRworld Apr 24, 2025
An exhibition of 30 drawings by architect Sergei Tchoban, cutting across scales and typologies at the Paul Rudolph Institute in Manhattan, reveals layers of meanings.
‘Architecture After War’ posits a guide for post-war reconstruction in Ukraine
Apr 18, 2025by Almas Sadique Apr 18, 2025
The book, co-published by MACK and CANactions and edited by Bohdan Kryzhanovsky, comprises several essays citing historical examples of resilience across countries.
Delving into the poetics and traditions of stop-motion animation with Invisible Friends
Mar 20, 2025by Anushka Sharma Mar 20, 2025
In an exclusive conversation, Yura Boguslavsky, animation director and co-founder of the collective, takes STIR behind the scenes of his evocative and experimental film repertoire.
Bêka & Lemoine's city-matographic odyssey in the freewheeling 'Homo Urbanus' project
Feb 21, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 21, 2025
STIR speaks with the filmmaker and artist duo about their ongoing project, which trains an unrelenting eye on the everyday life of the city and how people negotiate public spaces.
‘Ravel Ravel Interval’ treats audiences to a layered musical experience
Jan 12, 2025by Manu Sharma Jan 12, 2025
Alexandrine Théorêt of MMFA joins STIR for an interview to explore Anri Sala’s classical music installation.
Translating society's fears and worries into graphic designs in 'Propagandopolis'
Nov 21, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 21, 2024
A recent book published by FUEL presents the anxieties of contemporary society in the form of propaganda posters created for government or anarchist campaigns.
On art and Bulgaria’s response to the Russia-Ukraine war
Sep 11, 2024by Cleo Roberts-Komireddi Sep 11, 2024
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has undone the fellow feeling it previously enjoyed in Bulgaria, where public monuments chronicle decades of ideological and social affinity with Russia.
Probing the (un)certainties of (un)knowing at Framer Framed’s Amsterdam exhibition
Aug 16, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Aug 16, 2024
Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis critiques what the public perceives as knowledge, filtered through channels such as newspapers and social media – and the perils of its manipulation.
Open Group's 'Repeat After Me II' invites audiences to consider the horrors of war
Aug 08, 2024by Ranjana Dave Aug 08, 2024
STIRring Everywhere in Venice: STIR discusses Poland's pavilion at the Venice Biennale with Anton Varga, member of the Ukrainian collective Open Group, and curator Marta Czyż.
MAMM presents apocalyptic vistas in ‘Atlas of the New World’
Aug 04, 2024by Manu Sharma Aug 04, 2024
Italian photographers Edoardo Delille and Giulia Piermartiri discuss their beautiful and bleak climate-conscious project, in an interview with STIR.
The Yokohama Triennale mobilises art to examine the cost of war
Apr 30, 2024by Lee Daehyung Apr 30, 2024
The Triennale's eighth edition, Wild Grass: Our Lives, on view until June 9, 2024, reflects on the role of art in a time of polycrisis.
Books on architecture and design coordinating discourse and knowledge
Dec 12, 2023by Jincy Iype Dec 12, 2023
STIRred 2023: From heartfelt autobiographies to activist readings, STIR recounts books published on global design and architecture that enabled creative learning and propagation.
How dare we look to young people for hope?
Nov 09, 2023by Katie Treggiden Nov 09, 2023
The Design Academy Eindhoven Graduate Show felt more like a cry for help than an optimistic vision of the future; we need to take the pressure off young designers.
Christopher Herwig reveals anomalous bus stops in the former Soviet Union
Oct 19, 2023by Almas Sadique Oct 19, 2023
Soviet Bus Stops, a photography project spread across two books and a documentary film, traces Herwig’s process chronicling expressive artistic bus stops built in erstwhile Soviet nations.
Marat Guelman: "Any exhibition is a cocktail of content and entertainment"
Jul 27, 2023by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jul 27, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to gallerist Marat Guelman who opened his new art gallery in Berlin to focus on creating and presenting a new kind of art—generated by AI.
Unwinding the paradox of building and rebuilding at the Ukrainian Pavilion
Jul 06, 2023by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jul 06, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky interviews Iryna Miroshnykova, Oleksii Petrov, and Borys Filonenko, co-curators of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Vitaly Komar: “Showing your art is an act of a mating dance”
Jun 30, 2023by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jun 30, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to New York-based artist Vitaly Komar, the co-founder of Sots Art who combines different styles in his sarcastic diptychs, triptychs, and polyptychs.
Alexander Melamid: "We were born to make the fairytale come true!"
Jun 23, 2023by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jun 23, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to New York artist Alexander Melamid who thinks contemporary art is harmful; yet, there is genius in every artist, if we take a good look.
MoMA Tbilisi peeks into the colourful life of Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli
Jun 10, 2023by Neeta Lal Jun 10, 2023
Within the three storied Museum of Modern Art in Tbilisi, one is exposed to a treasure trove of artistic paraphernalia by Georgian-Russian painter and sculptor, Zurab Tsereteli.
‘Modules’ by Maxim Zhestkov: A creative undertaking at the cutting edge of VR
May 26, 2023by Manu Sharma May 26, 2023
Russian artist Maxim Zhestkov discusses his virtual reality project that blurs various creative disciplines.
Soyuz: the world’s most reliable human spacecraft
Mar 10, 2023by Susmita Mohanty Mar 10, 2023
In the fifth essay in our space design series, STIRship Enterprise, Dr Susmita Mohanty focuses on Soyuz, a series of spacecraft, designed for the 1960s Soviet space program.
Dimensional labyrinths add an essence of play to the Multifunctional Cultural Center
Feb 08, 2023by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Feb 08, 2023
Kerimov Architects uses intelligent space play and new age technology to create a unique cultural experience centre in Argentina.
Dhaka Art Summit 2023 explores metaphors of word and water that have shaped culture
Feb 02, 2023by Rahul Kumar Feb 02, 2023
STIR speaks with Diana Campbell Betancourt, chief curator of the Dhaka Art Summit 2023, investigating the theme and its cultural context, new initiatives to expect, and future of the summit.
Shenzhou: The star of China’s human space program
Dec 13, 2022by Susmita Mohanty Dec 13, 2022
The fourth essay in our space design series, STIRship Enterprise, focuses on the manned spacecraft Shenzhou by China and its significance in the country’s space race.
Dragon: A crew and cargo ferry to the space station
Nov 12, 2022by Susmita Mohanty Nov 12, 2022
In the third essay in our space design series, STIRship Enterprise, Dr. Susmita Mohanty focuses on the spacecraft Dragon by SpaceX and NASA.
Mihail Chemiakin says "I wanted to live in a free world"
Nov 05, 2022by Vladimir Belogolovsky Nov 05, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to Paris-based Mihail Chemiakin who believes that only a serious understanding of earlier masters can give artists wings.
Russian illustrator Eya Mordyakova creates images that evoke a sense of dreamworld
Sep 21, 2022by Rahul Kumar Sep 21, 2022
Illustrative Chronicles: Investigating Eya Mordyakova's fairytale-inspired illustration approach as it appears in children's books, and discovering what drives her as an artist.
Artist Fedora Akimova on loss of home, post-colonialism and war
Sep 12, 2022by Daria Kravchuk Sep 12, 2022
Ria Keburia Foundation presents a solo exhibition, Homin, by the artist Fedora Akimova, uncovering post-traumatic memories in the times of war.
Felix Novikov summarised his extraordinary career: “We were true pioneers!”
Sep 02, 2022by Vladimir Belogolovsky Sep 02, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky writes about Felix Novikov (1927-2022), the architect who coined the term “Soviet modernism” in reference to Soviet architecture’s period from 1955 to 1985.
Ukrainian architect Oleg Drozdov talks about building at the time of war
Aug 19, 2022by Vladimir Belogolovsky Aug 19, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks to Oleg Drozdov about moving his office and school from Kharkiv to Lviv, rebuilding Ukraine, and designing his own house as an endless film.
Slava Polunin wants to convince people that they have wings
Aug 05, 2022by Vladimir Belogolovsky Aug 05, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to Paris-based clown Slava Polunin about making fantasies, bringing comedy and metaphysics together, and a notion of living life as a work of art.
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