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What the map does not know: Examining the land in Photographic Geomancy
Sep 12, 2025by Avani Tandon Vieira Sep 12, 2025
Fotografiska Shanghai’s group exhibition considers geography through the lens of contemporary Chinese image-making.
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In her own image: The radical practice of Emma Amos
Jul 23, 2025by Deeksha Nath Jul 23, 2025
Amos shaped a practice of formal innovation and political resistance, centring the frontal figure as a site of radical visibility and cultural critique.
Teresa Solar Abboud welcomes audiences into an alien environment at MACBA
Jan 04, 2025by Manu Sharma Jan 04, 2025
The show's curators discuss the Spanish artist’s phantasmagorical site-specific installation work in an interview with STIR.
Debjani Banerjee navigates myth and identity in 'Jalsaghar' at CCA Glasgow
Nov 25, 2024by Shalmali Shetty Nov 25, 2024
STIR interviews Edinburgh-based artist Debjani Banerjee, discussing her exhibition Jalsaghar, which reimagines India through memory, mythology and place.
‘Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch’ challenges Native American stereotypes
Nov 10, 2024by Manu Sharma Nov 10, 2024
The famed Mohawk artist Shelley Niro joins STIR for an interview exploring her multimedia art on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada.
The Armory Show brings artists from marginalised backgrounds to the US Open
Sep 04, 2024by Manu Sharma Sep 04, 2024
A look at four compelling artists showing at the US Open and the dialogues with tennis and athleticism that their works engage in.
The Hepworth Wakefield presents an expansive Ronald Moody retrospective
Sep 01, 2024by Manu Sharma Sep 01, 2024
Guest curator Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski discusses the Jamaican-British artist’s prolific career and this timely exhibition in an interview with STIR.
Probing the (un)certainties of (un)knowing at Framer Framed’s Amsterdam exhibition
Aug 16, 2024by Mrinmayee Bhoot Aug 16, 2024
Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis critiques what the public perceives as knowledge, filtered through channels such as newspapers and social media – and the perils of its manipulation.
From the psychiatric hospital to the museum: ‘PSY-TECH’ with Jojo Abdallah
Aug 03, 2024by Kwame Aidoo Aug 03, 2024
The National Museum of Ghana exhibition highlights the artist’s unbridled cognisance across temporalities through speculative historic and syncretic storytelling.
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.
TANK Shanghai’s ‘Parallel Circus’ explores a dark period in Chinese history
Jun 09, 2024by Manu Sharma Jun 09, 2024
Artist and curator Xun Sun connects with STIR to discuss the show’s central work The Shock Dream in Circus.
The Thailand Biennale 2023 connects artists and continents
Jan 19, 2024by Rémy Jarry Jan 19, 2024
The third edition of the government-funded itinerant biennale in Chiang Rai, Thailand, until April 30, 2024, spotlights artists from Southeast Asia to Latin America.
Grant Fuhst's art sheds light on the darker aspects of human nature
Sep 22, 2023by Manu Sharma Sep 22, 2023
American digital mixed-media artist Grant Fuhst explores his practice and discusses his views on the NFT space.
Catharine Czudej and Gowoon Lee explore nostalgia at Meredith Rosen Gallery
Jul 31, 2023by Manu Sharma Jul 31, 2023
Artists Catharine Czudej and Gowoon Lee discuss their distinctive art practices that explore the darker side of nostalgia.
Manmeet Devgun's bodies of work seek the illusive self
May 20, 2023by Rosalyn D`Mello May 20, 2023
Describing herself as a mother, art educator, and feminist, the New Delhi-based artist’s subjectivity straddles all her different states of being.
'Modern Love' probes possibilities of expressing and embracing love
Mar 20, 2023by Dilpreet Bhullar Mar 20, 2023
Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens complicates the binaries of private and public with the onset of the digital world.
Lubna Chowdhary’s ‘Erratics’ visually defines the idea of migration and displacement
Oct 05, 2022by Urvi Kothari Oct 05, 2022
A leading South Asian diasporic artist, Lubna Chowdhary defies categorisation as she defines common notions of identity and belonging within the floors of MIMA.
Art educator Lauren Stetz uses data visualisation to address women's safety
Sep 26, 2022by Shraddha Nair Sep 26, 2022
USA-based Lauren Stetz speaks with STIR about the collaborative effort that went into building the Violence Against Women Art Map, working with artists across the globe.
The Politics of Art through Nalini Malani’s 'Vision In Motion' at the M+
Sep 04, 2022by Urvi Kothari Sep 04, 2022
Vision in Motion presents Nalini Malani’s five decades-long and yet ongoing investigations on the histories of violence, oppression and socio-political injustices.
Looking at Koketit's visual art technique that employs mark making on photographs
Aug 23, 2022by Rahul Kumar Aug 23, 2022
Illustrative Chronicles: Shira Barzilay, an Israeli illustrator also known as Koketit, plays with her distinctive style on everyday life.
A look at multimedia artist Pyae Phyo Thant Nyo's ‘Electric Ruby’ at Ground Bangkok
Aug 21, 2022by Sukanya Deb Aug 21, 2022
A warehouse-turned-exhibition compound deliberates on the processual matter and raw material required to extract minerals that power our industrialised modern lives.
The womb as artefact and artwork
May 16, 2022by 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.
Marie Raffn’s sculptures resist commonly accepted absolutism of language
May 12, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar May 12, 2022
When Danish sculptor Marie Raffn plays with language to suggest that meaning is susceptible to change, she advertently questions the idea of knowledge received.
Patrick Martinez’s solo show at The Tucson Museum of Art examines systems of power
Apr 28, 2022by Rahul Kumar Apr 28, 2022
Martinez’s multi-disciplinary practice revolves around the political and social injustices, especially towards the minority communities in the United States, in recent times.
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