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The 61st Venice Biennale as a sensuous joyride and a triumphant odyssey
May 18, 2026by Rosalyn D`Mello May 18, 2026
Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys brings the fringe to the fore, emphasising artistic resilience amid the apocalypse.
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Ceding freedoms: The danger and complicity of trying to make art apolitical
May 01, 2026by Srishti Ojha May 01, 2026
As fascism and censorship rise, for how long can the art world avoid politics? At the 61st Venice Biennale, ‘neutrality’ towards controversial pavilions sparks mass protest.
An open letter to La Biennale di Venezia calls out inaction in the face of global atrocities
Apr 14, 2026by STIRworld Apr 14, 2026
74 artists and curators call for the exclusion of states accused of war crimes, including Israel, Russia and the United States, from the Venice Biennale 2026, due to open in May.
Adam Nathaniel Furman on laying chromatic feasts for people through his public works
Apr 02, 2026by Pranjal Maheshwari Apr 02, 2026
In conversation with STIR, the British designer reflects on the role of ornament, colour and crafted materiality in reanimating overlooked spaces in contemporary cityscapes.
Wet archives: Marine Intersections and Coastlines as Webs in Colombo
Apr 02, 2026by Ranjana Dave Apr 02, 2026
The inaugural convening of The Current V: Ancestral Ocean asked how the ocean might be mapped as a living archive—across ideas, commodities and people.
Alexandra Munroe and Jitish Kallat on art, space and interstellar encounters
Mar 20, 2026by Ranjana Dave Mar 20, 2026
In a conversation with STIR, Kallat and Munroe reflect on the instability of knowledge and what it means to stage a tightly argued exhibition inside an imperfect building.
Amoako Boafo and Glenn DeRoche on collaboration and building spaces for art
Feb 24, 2026by Chahna Tank Feb 24, 2026
STIR speaks with the Ghanaian artist and architect about their evolving collaboration and architecture as an extension of Boafo’s practice across a four-part exhibition series.
Inside Worldglimpsing: worlding and roleplay as rehearsals for the real world
Feb 20, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Feb 20, 2026
At ArkDes in Stockholm, the design exhibition positions collective imagination as a civic and political act and design as a method of rehearsing hopeful futures.
Amin Jaffer on curating the India Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale
Feb 13, 2026by Ranjana Dave Feb 13, 2026
Speaking with STIR, the curator elaborates on the pavilion’s thematic focus and the five artists chosen to represent India at the “Olympics of the contemporary art world”.
Activating space, objects and thresholds at ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2026 with LIVinSET
Feb 11, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Feb 11, 2026
The experiential product gallery at the recent Architecture & Design Film Festival staged a series of encounters including culinary experiences and other cultural programming.
Being and becoming: Embracing in-betweenness in Artizon's In the midst of
Feb 07, 2026by Avani Tandon Vieira Feb 07, 2026
The sixth edition of Artizon Museum’s Jam Session presented a fluid understanding of place and past.
At Colomboscope 2026 in Sri Lanka, a score for many people
Jan 30, 2026by Ranjana Dave Jan 30, 2026
In venues across Colombo, Rhythm Alliances frames rhythm as the connective tissue between memory, movement, performance and social life.
From conversation to co-authorship: public programming at ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2026
Jan 28, 2026by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jan 28, 2026
The second chapter of the ~log(ue) programme, powered by JSW, expanded its scope to move beyond conversations to reconceive spatial hierarchies through porous exchanges.
Rhythmic entanglements: Colomboscope enters its ninth edition
Jan 27, 2026by Ranjana Dave Jan 27, 2026
In a conversation with STIR, artistic director Natasha Ginwala reflects on the curatorial frameworks and geopolitical realities that have shaped the festival in Sri Lanka.
Architectural Construction Kits 1890 – 1990 and the evolution of building play
Jan 13, 2026by Aarthi Mohan Jan 13, 2026
Frankfurt’s Deutsches Architekturmuseum uncovers the political, cultural and inventive forces embodied in construction kits made of stone, wood and plastic.
Courage and conscience at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025
Dec 26, 2025by Chintan Girish Modi Dec 26, 2025
The sixth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, curated by Goa-based artist Nikhil Chopra with HH Art Spaces, impresses with its thrust on friendship and solidarity.
Transcribing the maximum city with Jaquar Pavilion Park at ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2026
Dec 24, 2025by Jincy Iype Dec 24, 2025
Deriving from The Manhattan Transcripts by Bernard Tschumi, Aric Chen curates the Jaquar Pavilion Park, with ten practices reframing architecture as event, movement and narrative.
Christiane Paul on creating a sustainable ecosystem for digital art
Dec 19, 2025by Lee Daehyung Dec 19, 2025
In a conversation with STIR, the digital art curator talks about the challenges and responsibilities of shaping a lasting digital art landscape for museums and artists.
Serendipity Arts Festival is no longer an outsider in Goa, says Sunil Kant Munjal
Dec 12, 2025by Zohra Khan Dec 12, 2025
In an interview with STIR, the founder patron of SAF unpacks the role of cultural patronage and interdisciplinarity in shaping the Serendipity Arts Festival’s milestone tenth edition.
Enduring connections: Dowry of the Soul at CHAT Hong Kong
Dec 01, 2025by Ranjana Dave Dec 01, 2025
Kazakh artist Gulnur Mukazhanova and curator Wang Weiwei speak with STIR about an ongoing exhibition and longstanding cultural and economic links between Central Asia and China.
Ways of being: At Home in the 17th Century at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Nov 26, 2025by Chahna Tank Nov 26, 2025
Through nine diorama-like galleries, the exhibition reconstructs domestic life in the Netherlands during the Dutch Golden Age, foregrounding the global forces that sustained it.
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.
Art against authoritarianism: HKW’s Global Fascisms presents an urgent challenge
Nov 10, 2025by Srishti Ojha Nov 10, 2025
The group exhibition features artists working in new media, digital art, public art, performance and traditional mediums to analyse the rise of global fascism and imagine alternative futures.
Geoffrey Bawa Trust’s exhibition engages in more active Ways of Knowing Lunuganga
Nov 10, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 10, 2025
The design exhibition in Colombo employs interactive formats to question how we interact with and understand our natural surroundings, with Bawa’s estate as its narrative spine.
Another World is Possible: Perspectives from the future
Oct 29, 2025by Lee Daehyung Oct 29, 2025
The future arrives as a viewpoint at this exhibition in Singapore’s ArtScience Museum.
Maritea Dæhlin’s –A-FI-SA is a multicultural journey from Mexico to Svalbard
Oct 27, 2025by Srishti Ojha Oct 27, 2025
The Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum will display a three-channel video as part of – A-FI-SA. But it might not be tomorrow, a reimagining of belonging, homeland and identity.
Städel Museum’s exhibition of Asta Gröting’s art rewards slow contemplation
Oct 24, 2025by Srishti Ojha Oct 24, 2025
A Wolf, Primates and a Breathing Curve shows seven video works and a laser projection by the German artist, drawing viewers’ attention to the unnoticed aspects of life.
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.
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.
UnBroken at Camden Inspire 2025 proffered salvaged stories and second lives in design
Oct 04, 2025by Asmita Singh Oct 04, 2025
Showcased during the London Design Festival 2025, the UnBroken group show rethought consumption through tenacious, inventive acts of repair and material transformation.
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.
Humanity as practice: The 36th Bienal de São Paulo
Sep 23, 2025by Mercedes Ezquiaga Sep 23, 2025
Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the Bienal in Brazil gathers 120 artists exploring migration, community and what it means to “be human”.
Avijit Mukul Kishore and Rohan Shivkumar on architecture as autobiography
Sep 16, 2025by Srishti Ojha Sep 16, 2025
At ADFF: STIR Mumbai 2025, the architect-filmmaker duo discussed their film Lovely Villa (2020) and how architecture can be read as a mirror of the nation.
Art & Bali brings Indonesian artists and culture to the global stage
Sep 08, 2025by Srishti Ojha Sep 08, 2025
The fair’s inaugural edition, with the theme Bridging Dichotomies, celebrates Balinese philosophy, Indonesian artists and Southeast Asian art with a sustainable twist.
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.
A group show at kurimanzutto turns landscape painting on its side
Jul 25, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jul 25, 2025
In a door left ajar, multimedia artists Diambe, Thiago Hattnher and Michael Ho bring a postmodern spin to landscape painting, using grids, layering and assemblage.
Ai Weiwei’s Five Working Spaces are living studios of resistance and creation
Jul 14, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Jul 14, 2025
The recent architectural exhibition offered an intimate lens on five studios of the Chinese artist, shaped by necessity and defiance at the Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin.
Fiona Tan curates a cabinet of fixations in Monomania at the Rijksmuseum
Jul 10, 2025by Hili Perlson Jul 10, 2025
A 19th-century portrait of a kleptomaniac sparked the artist’s yearslong dive into the history of psychiatry.
A group exhibition traces the complex history of colonial-era plantations
Jul 04, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jul 04, 2025
KADIST and ILHAM present 27 artists and collectives who reflect on the violent setting of the plantation and its role as a model for Western capitalism.
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.
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