•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jul 10, 2025
At Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano, the Algerian architect conceives a series of workshops that hope to reveal the persisting effects of colonial occupation in urban environments.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 27, 2025
The Nigerian architect speaks to STIR about her project at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, touching on informality and resourcefulness as an alternative to hyperconsumerism.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 28, 2025
STIR looks at the production design of the speculative series' disorienting spaces and the inspirations it draws on to provide a compendium of references to pop culture.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Dec 19, 2024
The art exhibition on view at the Wellcome Collection in London shows the relationship between labour conditions, workers’ health and labour rights through artworks and installations.
by STIRworld Dec 08, 2024
Asia Now 2024, featuring guest curators Radicants, brought an intergenerational cohort of Asian artists grappling with community, tradition, ritual and modernity to Paris.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 28, 2024
In a conversation with STIR, the Kuwait and Bahrain-based studio Civil Architecture speaks about their approach to local contexts and the built landscape before and after Neom.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 09, 2024
An ongoing exhibition at the art museum in Eindhoven presents trans-local stories and sustainable practices around soil and our diverse and complex relationships with it.
by Katie Treggiden Oct 29, 2024
This column explores the question "Can craft save the world?” with a proposed alternative to the ‘design thinking’ model – but there’s a catch, the alternative is a work in progress.
by Niren Tolsi Oct 22, 2024
The Other Side of Now reckons with complex transcontinental colonial histories, acknowledging the intergenerational nature of violence.
by Zohra Khan Sep 19, 2024
In a conversation with STIR, Nango discusses Sámi resourcefulness and how he translates it into an aesthetic framework that attacks the glaring misrepresentations of his culture.
by Ayca Okay Jan 18, 2024
In a conversation with STIR, the Ghanaian artist discusses his collaborative canvases and community-led spaces, evincing echoes of history, justice and freedom in now liberated structures.
by Almas Sadique Jan 12, 2024
STIR in conversation with Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari, co-founders of Palestine Regeneration Team (PART), for their exhibition The Power of the ‘Invisibles’, on view at Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2023.
by Almas Sadique Nov 10, 2023
The book, edited by Elizabeth Cox, delineates the stories of both colonial and indigenous women in New Zealand, with respect to the discipline of architecture.
by Sukanya Deb May 09, 2023
The exhibition Rehabilitating Our Human Spirit Under Capitalism introduces a newly commissioned work that asked ‘candidates’ to lend the artist their possessions for a month in exchange for cash upfront.
by Soumya Mukerji Nov 28, 2022
An immersive retrospective of the graffiti god's 100 most powerful works travels through Europe, in a first such democratic showcase installed at central public junctures.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Oct 07, 2022
The 39 artists of the exhibition Statecraft (and beyond) at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), curated by Katerina Gregos critically dissect questions on statecraft.
by Sukanya Deb Sep 30, 2022
Fear of Freedom Makes Us See Ghosts, a major solo exhibition by Pio Abad, set the background for the nation’s political situation today, ahead of its dictatorial past.
by Daria Kravchuk Jul 26, 2022
Gertrude Flentge, one of the curators from the artistic team of documenta fifteen, who was working with ruangrupa since the early 2000s, comments on the current state of events.
by Sukanya Deb Apr 01, 2022
A web-based project looks at the Atlantic Ocean as a repository of historical information, considering colonialism and man-made aspects of water bodies as extension of capitalism.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Mar 23, 2022
The Korean artist Jieun Gu through her installations and video art underline the effect of digital technology on the psychological alienation experienced by humans.
by Rahul Kumar Oct 18, 2021
A large scale public performative and visual art intervention by artist Kulpreet Singh recreates violent scenes and atrocities to capture the ‘act’ into ‘marks’ for a work of art.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Oct 04, 2021
The art practice of London-born Colombian multidisciplinary artist, Carolina Caycedo, certainly speaks to the world of art, but also raises a protest against exploiters of environment.
by Julius Wiedemann Aug 10, 2021
Julius Wiedemann delves into the evolution of modern business environments, their generational divides, and the effects of readymade systems and real-time feedback loops.
by Abhilasha Srivastava and Aseem Hasnain Apr 20, 2020
Part 3: In our Climate vs. COVID-19 series, experts tell us what the coronavirus can teach us about the environmental crisis, and why prudence, not panic, is the solution.
make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
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