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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.
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The Cairo Road sees Zambian artists taking representation into their own hands
Aug 11, 2025by Srishti Ojha Aug 11, 2025
A group exhibition at Strangers House in Mumbai features photographer Alick Phiri and other contemporary artists from Lusaka as they overwrite colonial narratives.
An intimate record of temporality: Rules of Freedom, Freedom of Rules
Jul 02, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jul 02, 2025
A retrospective on the conceptual artist at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong showcases text-centric work that documents the mundane aspects of the day.
The home and the world: Rashid Johnson’s multivalent Black selfhood
Jun 24, 2025by Avani Tandon Vieira Jun 24, 2025
The artist’s mid-career survey at the Guggenheim, New York, presents a plural imagination of medium, community and self.
Transient borders: Yukinori Yanagi at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan
May 08, 2025by 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.
We will forget nothing: on theft, protest and the cost of remembering
May 05, 2025by Aastha D. May 05, 2025
When a famed Indian artist used a protest poet’s words without credit, it raised a deeper question: who gets to speak, be seen, or be paid in art?
Anicka Yi's conceptual art explores pressing topics on the microbial level
Mar 27, 2025by Manu Sharma Mar 27, 2025
STIR speaks with the acclaimed South Korean artist about cultural hegemonies, microbiology and environmental collapse.
Between art and artefact: OCEAN at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Jan 27, 2025by Diana Baldon Jan 27, 2025
This transdisciplinary exhibition explores humanity’s urgent need for oceanic reflection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art explores ancient Egyptian themes in Black artistry
Jan 17, 2025by Kate Meadows Jan 17, 2025
In New York, the site of a prominent collection of ancient Egyptian art stages new perspectives on its influence through visual art, sculptures and performances.
The Pinakothek celebrates eccentricity in an intergenerational group show
Jan 10, 2025by Manu Sharma Jan 10, 2025
Curators Eva Karcher and Bernhart Schwenk explore eccentricity and connect it to contemporary art in an interview with STIR.
Where nothing is quite as it seems: Paul Pfeiffer at Guggenheim Bilbao
Dec 25, 2024by Tabish Khan Dec 25, 2024
Are sport, music and film replacing religion? Paul Pfeiffer interrogates this notion through film, sculpture, sound and installations in this major survey exhibition.
Christine Kozlov’s solo show marks a new chapter at the Academy of Arts and Letters
Nov 05, 2024by Kate Meadows Nov 05, 2024
Renovated and reimagined, a storied New York City institution opens its doors to the public with one of Conceptual art’s earliest practitioners.
Jiro Takamatsu’s U.S. showcase reveals simultaneous threads in postwar Japan
Oct 02, 2024by Kate Meadows Oct 02, 2024
STIR discusses Pace Gallery’s exhibition of works from the conceptual artist’s newly represented estate with partner Joe Baptista and curatorial director Xin Wang.
Vibha Galhotra offers self-reflective perspectives on the climate crisis
Sep 02, 2024by Manan Shah Sep 02, 2024
The conceptual artist’s first-ever solo exhibition in the UK, Climacteric Whispers, highlighted ecological crises through multimedia works created over 15 years.
Diana Velasco's curation bridges traditional and digital art at the Enter Art Fair 2024
Aug 07, 2024by Zeynep Rekkali Jensen Aug 07, 2024
In an exclusive interview with STIR, Velasco discusses her ambitious curatorial vision, highlighting her expertise in digital and AI art.
Following his footsteps: Remembering Iranian conceptual artist Farhad Moshiri
Jul 31, 2024by Huma Kabakci Jul 31, 2024
Moshiri, aged 61, was renowned for his modernist sensibilities, blending Iranian and Western culture through his oeuvre.
South Korean artist Kimsooja transforms a Paris museum – and our perception
Jul 22, 2024by 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.
Illuminating the invisible: Tavares Strachan's tribute to overlooked histories
Jul 17, 2024by Deeksha Nath Jul 17, 2024
The focal point of the conceptual artist’s ambitious solo exhibition at the Southbank Centre is the overlooked scientific, political and cultural contributions of Black people.
Exploring the stunning silk-based works of Liang Shaoji
Jul 07, 2024by Manu Sharma Jul 07, 2024
The celebrated Chinese contemporary artist’s inimitable practice uses silkworms to create massive installations.
Reinventing the Western art canon: A view of John Baldessari’s time in India
Jul 02, 2024by Rhea Mathur Jul 02, 2024
Sprüth Magers’ new exhibition, Ahmedabad 1992, provides a fascinating look into the artist’s transformative residency in India
Olomouc Museum’s ‘Infinitum’ presents a large body of László Lakner’s art
Apr 28, 2024by Manu Sharma Apr 28, 2024
Co-curator Dávid Fehér discusses the Hungarian master’s haunting human portraiture and focus on mass-media with STIR.
Foreigners Everywhere: Venice Biennale becomes a cradle of fraught purpose
Apr 23, 2024by Charlotte Jansen Apr 23, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Curator Adriano Pedrosa’s show is brave and bold and has moments of brilliance, but as a whole, it remains incoherent and incomplete.
Richard Serra (1938 - 2024), the artist who rethought contemporary sculpture
Apr 19, 2024by Vladimir Belogolovsky Apr 19, 2024
Vladimir Belogolovsky writes about the American sculptor who drew on space, volume and gravity to craft his gigantic sculptures.
With large screens and bold graphics, Barbara Kruger's works return to London
Mar 18, 2024by Rhea Mathur Mar 18, 2024
Bettina Korek, Director of the Serpentine Gallery, speaks to STIR on Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You. and the provocative visual language of Barbara Kruger.
'Arte! Arte! Arte!': The Jewish Museum echoes Marta Minujín’s feisty anthem
Jan 29, 2024by Kate Meadows Jan 29, 2024
The Argentine conceptual artist’s first major museum survey in the United States features a quieter archive of her six-decade history of making waves in the global art world.
Yuri Albert on the conflicted and evolved relation between artist and audience
Jan 12, 2024by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jan 12, 2024
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks with Moscow-born, self-taught, and Cologne-based conceptual artist Yuri Albert to uncover the histories of Sots, unofficial and Apt art.
Davide Macullo’s 'Ispace' is a living tapestry of nature, art, perception and territory
Dec 04, 2023by Aarthi Mohan Dec 04, 2023
STIR discovers the Ispace project, a testament to sustainable growth, cultural identity and nature’s influence in Rossa’s Calanca valley, Switzerland.
Dennis Rudolph redefines art's boundaries through the virtual and the tangible
Oct 17, 2023by Daria Kravchuk Oct 17, 2023
The new media artist from Berlin invites viewers to traverse the ever-blurring frontier between the real and the virtual.
Erwin Wurm’s 'Trap of the Truth': disrupting reality through sculpture
Aug 12, 2023by Aarthi Mohan Aug 12, 2023
Exploring identity, absurdity and societal conformity through Austrian artist Erwin Wurm’s whimsical sculptures.
Yayoi Kusama presents 'I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers' at David Zwirner
Jul 14, 2023by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jul 14, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky visits the Yayoi Kusama exhibition at David Zwirner gallery in Manhattan and finds it liberating, vibrantly ecstatic, and fun.
‘Coded Gestures’ is survey of invested labour performed by the human body
Jun 29, 2023by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 29, 2023
The exhibition Coded Gestures at NIKA Project Space, Dubai, showcases the conceptual works by Alexander Ugay, Minja Gu, Fatma Al Ali, Mona Ayyash and Khalid.
Art of embroidery is an extension of personal identity in 'Strings of Desire'
May 07, 2023by Dilpreet Bhullar May 07, 2023
The exhibition Strings of Desire at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles showcases the works of 13 artists who put the art of embroidery at the centre of their multimedia works.
Haegue Yang examines the bell as a medium and symbol at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Apr 10, 2023by Sukanya Deb Apr 10, 2023
Investigating the bell as a multidimensional and multicultural form, the artist creates an atmosphere of ritual through a site-specific installation—Sonic Droplets - Steel Buds.
Light installation 'Oasis' by Arne Quinze is an embodiment of life in the desert
Mar 25, 2023by Dilpreet Bhullar Mar 25, 2023
Belgian conceptual artist Arne Quinze was invited by the LVMH advisor Hervé Mikaeloff to create a public installation for the second edition of Noor, a light and art festival in Riyadh.
Vibha Galhotra's 'Silent Seasons' speaks in scale about the post-apocalyptic time
Feb 20, 2023by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi Feb 20, 2023
STIR speaks to Vibha Galhotra about her recent exhibition titled Silent Seasons, at Nature Morte in New Delhi, that spoke about a world of complete extinction.
Michael Heizer's 'City' plays with the idea of urbanism and ecology
Jan 25, 2023by Devanshi Shah Jan 25, 2023
Fifty years in the making, American artist Michael Heizer’s land art sculpture City in the US state of Nevada is a rare diamond in the rough.
2022 art recap: reimagining the future of arts
Dec 31, 2022by Vatsala Sethi Dec 31, 2022
Best of 2022: Artists that STIRred the art world by contributing to a technologically advanced future with virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and more.
Roxy Paine's multimedia works articulate the coexistence of multiple meanings
Nov 18, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar Nov 18, 2022
American painter Roxy Paine creates a conflicting world, driven by ecology and technology, in his installations to open a contemplative space that the audience can share.
Rasheed Araeen's 'Islam & Modernism' at Aicon Gallery is a seminal exhibition of works
Nov 17, 2022by Sukanya Deb Nov 17, 2022
Rejecting the contradictions in the characterisation of his oeuvre by western institutions, Araeen considers the influence of Islamic thought in the development of modernism.
Aichi Triennale Artistic Director on the relevance of art in a post-pandemic world
Oct 09, 2022by Shraddha Nair Oct 09, 2022
Mami Kataoka, the Artistic Director of the Aichi Triennale 2022 in Japan, talks to STIR about the ongoing exhibition that features 100 international artists.
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