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In its 2025 edition, Grow, Asia NOW turns its focus to West Asia
Oct 08, 2025by Srishti Ojha Oct 08, 2025
The 11th edition of the international art fair celebrates the multiplicity and richness of the Asian art landscape.
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ADFF:STIR's London Curtain Raiser sets the stage for 2026 with dialogue and community
Oct 01, 2025by Jincy Iype Oct 01, 2025
With a special screening and vibrant drinks reception, the Curtain Raiser at LDF 2025 showed how ADFF:STIR connects design, cinema, culture and storytelling at the seams.
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.
Muziris Contemporary opens in Mumbai with the exhibition Memory Palace
Aug 29, 2025by 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.
Street, stage, print: In Our Own Backyard unpacks shared feminist histories
Aug 19, 2025by Ranjana Dave Aug 19, 2025
An exhibition at Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong spotlights the cross-border rhythms of South Asia’s women’s movement through the archives of artists Sheba Chhachhi and Lala Rukh.
Kallol Datta explores the biopolitics of clothing, one stitch at a time
Jul 18, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jul 18, 2025
His solo show, Volume IV: Truths, Half-Truths, Half-Lies, Lies, at Experimenter, Mumbai, is inspired by Japanese and Korean fashion and architecture from the 19th and 20th centuries.
A London exhibition reflects on shared South Asian histories and splintered maps
Jun 19, 2025by Samta Nadeem Jun 19, 2025
(Un)Layering the future past of South Asia: Young artists' voices emphasises regional interconnectedness, despite ongoing geopolitical tensions.
“Temporality has a presence,” says Marina Tabassum on the Serpentine Pavilion 2025
Jun 03, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 03, 2025
STIR interviews the Bangladeshi architect on her commission for the 25th Serpentine Pavilion, probing its parallels with her studio's work and its contextual and ephemeral ethos.
In the presence of others: Salman Toor's bodily poetics
Jun 03, 2025by Avani Tandon Vieira Jun 03, 2025
In Wish Maker at Luhring Augustine, the painter explores modes of physical assembly, and the imaginative possibilities they make visible.
Are canal espressos and dubious robots the legacy of this year's Biennale Architettura?
May 23, 2025by Anmol Ahuja May 23, 2025
The genealogy of a showcase relying as heavily on technology as the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 as both medium and usher for a future architecture is seldom without biases.
From commerce to culture: 'Ticket Tika Chaap' on the evolution of textile branding
May 19, 2025by Aarthi Mohan May 19, 2025
Currently on display at the Museum of Art & Photography in Bengaluru, India, this exhibition delves into the intertwined histories of trade and cultural identity.
Art Dubai 2025 honours collective identity, spotlighting eco-social urgencies
May 07, 2025by Samta Nadeem May 07, 2025
This year’s edition of Art Dubai platformed multivocal histories and cultures with a roster of artists from the Middle East, South Asia and their diasporas. STIR distils key insights from the fair and its collateral events.
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.
A summer fair: Art Dubai foregrounds contemporary art from the Global South
Apr 14, 2025by STIRworld Apr 14, 2025
The Contemporary and Bawwaba sections of Art Dubai 2025 anchor artistic inquiries into ecology, migration and identity through context-rich, geographically informed works.
Kazi Fida Islam reinterprets Bangladeshi 'mati'r bari' to build a modern Mudhouse
Mar 19, 2025by Almas Sadique Mar 19, 2025
The Mudhouse, located in Uttara in Bangladesh, comprises three lounging structures, a kitchen and a washroom made of bamboo, mud and wood.
On indigeneity in contemporary art, with Chris Saines and Darrell Sibosado
Mar 17, 2025by Manu Sharma Mar 17, 2025
STIR explores the place of indigenous practices from the Asia Pacific today with Saines, the director of QAGOMA, and Sibosado, a First Nations artist.
What Design Can Do Live New Delhi centres radical collaboration for climate action
Mar 12, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Mar 12, 2025
The South Asian debut of the design event at India Habitat Centre brought together 30 designers, innovators and changemakers to underscore the role design can play in inspiring action.
‘YOU ARE HERE’: Perspectives on Central Asia, via an exhibition in Europe
Mar 11, 2025by Megha Ralapati Mar 11, 2025
A group exhibition on art from Central Asia at Fondazione Elpis in Milan highlights the interdisciplinary practices animating the region and its diaspora.
Gelephu International Airport by BIG seeks to catalyse Bhutan’s urban and economic rise
Mar 07, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Mar 07, 2025
Designed by the renowned Danish practice, the calming design of the aerial transport hub embodies Bhutanese cultural heritage through mindful spaces and timber motifs.
What Design Can Do Live New Delhi debuts in South Asia as a beehive of innovation
Feb 27, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 27, 2025
Taking place at India Habit Centre in New Delhi on March 8, 2025, the multidisciplinary design event will platform conversations on climate action to combat climate change.
Cycles of reciprocity: The Khoj Peers residency programme turns 20
Feb 18, 2025by Pramodha Weerasekera Feb 18, 2025
Peers Continuum: A Relay of Reciprocity showcases over eighty multimedia works by sixty alumni of the annual Peers art residency.
South Asian art in focus: Key conversations from the India Art Fair Talks Programme
Feb 14, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 14, 2025
At India Art Fair 2025, speakers like Naomi Beckwith, Manuel Rabaté and Sangita Jindal discussed building access and community in the arts,
India Art Fair 2025: STIR brings you its list of must-visit booths
Feb 04, 2025by Manu Sharma Feb 04, 2025
STIR helps you navigate the art fair’s 100-plus booths so that you get the most out of your festival experience.
Design displays at India Art Fair 2025 reinterpret archaic art forms
Feb 01, 2025by STIRworld Feb 01, 2025
Under the Design section at India Art Fair 2025, 11 studios and one design exhibition exemplify cultural references and individual tastes of South Asia.
Marina Tabassum evokes the Bengal delta’s fluvial nature for Serpentine Pavilion 2025
Jan 28, 2025by Almas Sadique Jan 28, 2025
For the pavilion—titled A Capsule in Time—Tabassum takes cues from shamiyanas installed for Bengali weddings and evokes ephemeral morphologies and dwellings.
Fiction, frames and furore: A cache of chronicles from ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2025
Jan 17, 2025by Anmol Ahuja, Anushka Sharma Jan 17, 2025
At the inaugural edition of ADFF:STIR Mumbai, an array of international films, architectural pavilions and compelling conversations took over the NCPA from January 10-12, 2025, in Mumbai, India.
Nayana Jhaveri and the Jhaveri sisters: An embodied archive
Jan 14, 2025by Alakananda Nag Jan 14, 2025
Between remembering and forgetting, the Jhaveri sisters’ dynamic body of work spans decades of dance history. How might it be best archived?
Tania and Sandeep Khosla x vis à vis: Immersive 'Dialogue' at ADFF:STIR Mumbai
Jan 09, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Jan 09, 2025
Dialogue underlines the importance of words and communication, encouraging exploration of the spatial relationships among enlarged letterforms.
LOCO Design & Caur exemplify mechanisms to 'Conserve' at ADFF:STIR Mumbai
Jan 08, 2025by Almas Sadique Jan 08, 2025
Conserve, an experimental pavilion crafted from factory waste, marks the launch of Parminder Pal Singh and Sukhvinder Dhaliwal’s sustainable accessories brand Caur.
UHA x Saraf Foundation dream up a theatre within a theatre at ADFF:STIR Mumbai
Jan 07, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jan 07, 2025
The incandescent installation titled Stack will screen 10 short films by Mumbai-based filmmakers, also exhibiting objects from the stories in its 10 framed volumes.
ADFF:STIR Mumbai’s ~log(ue) to expand the scope of discourse via disparate mediums
Jan 07, 2025by Almas Sadique Jan 07, 2025
The South Asia debut of the Architecture & Design Film Festival breaks the traditional panel format with its dynamic ~log(ue) programme across architecture, design, cinema, culture & politics.
Dimensional colour: Reddymade and Asian Paints' 'Chromacosm' at ADFF:STIR Mumbai
Jan 04, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jan 04, 2025
Part of the Special Projects slated for the South Asia debut of the Architecture and Design Film Festival, Suchi Reddy's pavilion spatially explores a cosmos of hues and colour depths.
2024 in art: Exhibitions, ecosystems and economies
Dec 31, 2024by Ranjana Dave Dec 31, 2024
STIRred 2024: This year, STIR’s art coverage mapped key events, defined trends and studied the intricate evolution of arts ecosystems and market dynamics.
New and upcoming arts spaces in South and Southeast Asia to look out for
Dec 29, 2024by Manu Sharma Dec 29, 2024
STIRred 2024: STIR rounds up some of the most promising art spaces in the region, highlighting what they have to offer.
ADFF:STIR Mumbai's film lineup set to frame plural perspectives in the creative cosmos
Dec 26, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Dec 26, 2024
The Architecture and Design Film Festival's South Asia debut will showcase over 20 renowned films exploring vantages and intersections from architecture, design, fashion and the arts.
Words, spaces & discourses: a look at the best design and architecture books of 2024
Dec 20, 2024by Jincy Iype Dec 20, 2024
STIRred 2024: We recount titles published this year that inspired, provoked and provided insight, with topics ranging from propaganda graphics to sacred modernist architectures.
Architecture & Design Film Festival comes to South Asia with ADFF:STIR Mumbai
Dec 20, 2024by STIRworld Dec 20, 2024
The festival will unfold from January 10-12, 2025 at the NCPA, Mumbai, with over 20 films and an engaging public programme that celebrates the intersections of design and cinema.
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.
The 'intersections' that Sri Lankan architect Minnette de Silva's practice appropriated
Dec 19, 2024by STIRworld Dec 19, 2024
‘Minnette de Silva: Intersections’ by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi delves into the modernist architect’s life, painting a landscape of heritage, ecology and society prevalent through her work.
Artworks and exhibitions that responded to the trauma of war
Dec 17, 2024by Manu Sharma Dec 17, 2024
STIRred 2024: Creative responses to war and conflict reflected contemporary realities in 2024, as STIR’s archive demonstrates.
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