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by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 24, 2025
This travelling exhibition, on view at Travancore Palace, presents works by artists who centre feminism to speak out against injustices against minority communities.
by Deeksha Nath Apr 02, 2025
The artist’s first institutional solo show outside India, Remembering, at Serpentine North, reflects an illustrious six-decade career through large-scale paintings and intimate ink drawings.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Mar 26, 2025
An artistic intervention at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona paid homage to pioneering women designers through contemporary interpretations of their legacy.
by Diana Baldon Jan 27, 2025
This transdisciplinary exhibition explores humanity’s urgent need for oceanic reflection.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jan 11, 2025
Presented by The Museum of Architecture and Design and the Centre for Creativity, the biennale questions if designers ‘speak the language of flowers’.
by Marilena Borriello Dec 09, 2024
Ooooooooo-pus at Moderna Museet highlights Ladik's pioneering blend of sound, performance and mythology, challenging traditional views on gender and identity.
by Alexandra de Cramer Nov 11, 2024
With works by eleven contemporary artists, the group exhibition at Yapı Kredi Culture and Arts centres on ecological concerns and the need for equitable resource management.
by Manu Sharma Nov 03, 2024
Guest curator Michelle Cotton discusses the necessity of this landmark exhibition in an interview with STIR.
by Cleo Roberts-Komireddi Oct 11, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Shahzia Sikander reflects on her retrospective show Collective Behavior, a collateral exhibition of the 60th Venice Biennale.
by Kwame Aidoo Sep 13, 2024
To reimagine a universe without humans at the centre, Constellations Part 2 assembles three curators and 25 artists at Accra’s Gallery 1957.
by Hili Perlson Aug 26, 2024
Centred on the tensions within the artist's work, the show at Museo Novecento includes works that have never been exhibited before.
by Manu Sharma Aug 11, 2024
Exhibition curator Luisa Heese discusses Lucas’ feminist art and her place in the Young British Artists canon, in an interview with STIR.
by Ranjana Dave Apr 15, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: The Paris-based Turkish artist is viewed as a pioneer of the global feminist art movement.
by 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.
by Verity Babbs Jan 25, 2024
The colour of dissent and change across communities and revolutions, Orange is most specifically associated with ecological and political movements.
by Rosalyn D`Mello Nov 23, 2023
In part two of this mini-series, two artists discuss the feminist weaponisations of embroidery within the domestic mundane
by Rosalyn D`Mello Oct 27, 2023
In the first part of this mini-series, two artists reflect on the feminist underpinnings of their intricate embroideries.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Oct 27, 2023
The exhibition Women of New Figuration: Body and Position at Galeria Superfície reconsiders the features of Brazilian New Figuration.
by Zeynep Rekkali Jensen Sep 20, 2023
In an exclusive interview with STIR, Campolmi explores her unconventional path into curatorial work, her commitment to addressing postcolonial, queer, and feminist themes and more.
by Urvi Kothari Jun 21, 2023
A deep dive into the oeuvre of Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi, curated within two prominent white cubes in Mumbai.
by Manu Sharma Jun 20, 2023
Announced at the 70th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Untangling the Politics of Hair campaign features photographs by Rohit Chawla.
by Georgina Maddox Jun 09, 2023
French painter Francoise Gilot, who recently passed away, outgrew the shadow casted by Bluebeard and shall now be remembered for her defiant spirit and the ability to surge ahead.
by Sukanya Deb Apr 20, 2023
Displaying the artist’s documentary practice, the exhibition Temporal Twists: A Subversive Metalogue presented a complex retelling of the meta-narratives that drive the Indian nation state, through a feminist lens.
by Sukanya Deb Jan 07, 2023
A major survey exhibition of Carolee Schneemann’s work looks at the artist’s masterful experimentations, across mediums of performance, installation, film and multimedia.
by Jones John Dec 29, 2022
The African American artist is the seventh recipient of the award instituted by the Nasher Sculpture Centre, US, to recognise her contributions to the medium’s potentiality.
by Sukanya Deb Dec 28, 2022
Sudarshan Shetty curates Who is Asleep Who is Awake for Serendipity Arts Festival 2022, on the intersections between reality and fiction and the claims to freedom and expression.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Oct 29, 2022
With the exhibition Unbearable Memories, Unspeakable Histories at South Asia Institute in Chicago, Pritika Chowdhry mines unsutured wounds carved by the 1947 partition of India.
by Shraddha Nair Oct 06, 2022
Executive Director of non-profit Through The Flower, Megan Malcom-Morgan speaks with STIR about the immersive, feminist art exhibition Wo/manhouse.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Oct 02, 2022
Accumulation of objects produced at a massive scale for the multimedia artist Portia Munson serves as the material to produce the sculptural installations which are maximalist.
by Rahul Kumar Sep 28, 2022
Illustrative Chronicles: Examining the illustration approach of Vanessa Mwangi, creator of Gucora Andu, and how she uses her art to support black lives, feminism, and other causes.
by Urvi Kothari Sep 01, 2022
Rina Banerjee’s imaginative, complex and layered world comes to life at the Hunterdon Art Museum as she explores ideas of gender, identity, beauty, and human psyche.
by Rahul Kumar Aug 29, 2022
Examining the new definition of 'museum' issued by ICOM, and the Museum of Rape Threats and Sexism that expands the idea of the format associated with a museum.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 28, 2022
Toronto Biennial of Art: What Water Knows, The Land Remembers, with various artists and indigenous communities explored natural world and the colonial history of Toronto.
by Sukanya Deb Jun 15, 2022
Who is afforded femininity and how do we view the feminist struggle? In conversation with the exhibition curator, Phalguni Guliani, the act of waiting is unpacked as a practice.
by Rosalyn D`Mello May 16, 2022
The discovery of a votive uterus in a museum prompts an enquiry about the organ as a potential site of lost female subjectivity.
by Sukanya Deb Mar 08, 2022
Part two of a three-part series probes the works of Hannah Höch, Meret Oppenheim, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Claude Cahun, away from masculinist approach to art history.
by Girinandini Singh Oct 22, 2021
Exploring the evolving lens of the female gaze beyond filmic studies.
by Rosalyn D`Mello Aug 21, 2021
How can feminist art historians unearth, excavate, reconsider and recontextualise the non-canonised, quasi-mystical practices of female and other-than-human artists.
by Shraddha Nair Jul 09, 2021
Taiwanese artist Yuan Hui-Li’s solo exhibition at Tina Keng Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan, is an exploration of the female narrative in shanshui painting traditions.
by Rosalyn D`Mello Mar 25, 2021
Feminist artistic, critical and philosophical discourses situate fermentation as a queer site for contamination, collaboration, and transformation.
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