•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Sep 28, 2023
In conversation with Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores of Prats & Flores Arquitectes, who avoid solving design problems too quickly; they strive to achieve moments of joy and happiness.
by Daria Kravchuk Aug 29, 2023
The Majlis: A Meeting Place, presented by the Caravane Earth Foundation, is a shared dynamic public space that explores the meaning of traditional gathering places.
by Eleonora Ghedini Jul 28, 2023
Venice Biennale 2024 curator Adriano Pedrosa reflects on the concept of a foreigner in controversial times, reminding us how diaspora, exile, and marginality often affect us closely.
by Zohra Khan Jul 06, 2023
Through drawings, models, and maps, In Search of Hy-Brasil looks into three remote Irish islands while imagining their future through the folklore of a mythical phantom island.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jul 06, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky interviews Iryna Miroshnykova, Oleksii Petrov, and Borys Filonenko, co-curators of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale.
by Zohra Khan Jun 29, 2023
The tectonically loaded installation, It’s Kind of a Circular Story, puts a spotlight on the importance of reuse of existing abandoned buildings in realising zero-waste interventions.
by Hili Perlson Jun 28, 2023
Located in Ocean Space, the deconsecrated Church of San Lorenzo, Fattal's installation talks about the mercantile history connected by the Mediterranean trade routes.
by Ayesha Adonais Jun 23, 2023
A look at the impact, and Lesley Lokko's curatorial exploration at the biennale, as it narrates a story of "shape-shifters, material explorers, bound by history and heritage."
by Hili Perlson Jun 18, 2023
Art Basel Unlimited is showcasing 76 large-scale works including sculptures, paintings, video projections, installations, performances, and some museum worthy historical works.
by Eleonora Ghedini Jun 06, 2023
The British artist's exhibition Closer Than Before at Victoria Miro gallery in Venice shows us Carlo Scarpa’s masterpiece Tomba Brion in a new light.
by Devanshi Shah May 26, 2023
A powerful curatorial structure by Lesley Lokko needs to be carefully absorbed as an exhibition, a presentation and a display.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky May 25, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks to Richard Hassell who together with his partner Wong Mun Summ co-founded WOHA to make high-density projects livable.
by Sunena V Maju May 20, 2023
The Golden Lion was awarded to the Brazil Pavilion and DAAR under the National and International Participation for their exhibitions Terra and Borgo Rizza respectively.
by Eleonora Ghedini May 02, 2023
Curator Lesley Lokko offers a new perspective on how architects of the future should be and what one can expect from the Biennale Architettura 2023.
by Georgina Maddox Apr 19, 2023
The Sculpture Park at 19th century Madhavendra Palace in 17th century Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur, launched its third edition with an evocation of the everyday.
by Vatsala Sethi Dec 30, 2022
Best of 2022: STIR looks back at public artwork from around the world that captivated viewers through light, augmented reality, scale, and more.
by Eleonora Ghedini Nov 19, 2022
Looking back at some set-up solutions that enlightened Venice this year, in particular those characterising the exhibition produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film.
by Manu Sharma Oct 25, 2022
Sisters Tara and Tessa Sakhi, born in Lebanon and raised in Beirut, discuss their design studio and latest project, undertaken for the Italian Glass Week in Venice.
by Eleonora Ghedini Sep 28, 2022
The new permanent exhibition curated by Pier Luigi Pizzi reveals the modernity of its interiors while also inviting us to reflect on the relation between the West and the East.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Sep 17, 2022
The Waiting, an installation by Italian artist Monica Bonvicini at La Ribaute, indicts the urban design to talk about the inherent prejudice of patriarchal and socio-culture structures.
by Rosalyn D`Mello Sep 16, 2022
Cecilia Alemani’s main exhibition gathers together lost, stolen, forgotten, marginalised, maternal, non-canonised female, queer, non-binary, and indigenous artistic subjectivities.
by Sukanya Deb Sep 07, 2022
The exhibition Totem at Fondaco Marcello in Venice explores the notion of a fragmented reality through a dis-assemblage sculpture, exploring the art object in veneration.
by Devanshi Shah Aug 27, 2022
STIR speaks with Yilmaz Dziewior, the curator of German Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2022, about how remembrance, relocation and removal define Eichhorn's intervention.
by Shraddha Nair Aug 15, 2022
Paris-based artist Tatiana Trouvé discusses her childhood in Senegal, her drawing processes, and the ongoing exhibition of sketches and sculptures at the Centre Pompidou.
by Urvi Kothari Aug 12, 2022
Raqib Shaw, a magician at work, transformed the 17th century Ca’ Pesaro into a ‘Palace of Memories’, as he engulfs the beholders in a world of myths and epochs with his paintings.
by Sukanya Deb Jul 24, 2022
As part of the new audio-visual artwork presented, the artist cuts past the boundaries of art viewership towards an installation that immerses the audience into the space
by Manu Sharma Jul 17, 2022
Anna Elena Torres and Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson discuss their work in collaboration with The Yiddishland Pavilion, for Venice Art Biennale 2022.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jul 12, 2022
Presented by 369 Art Gallery at Palazzo Bembo, Re-Composing - curated by Mona Al Abdullah and Maya Al Abdullah - shows a kaleidoscopic view of identity-making exercise.
by Sukanya Deb Jul 11, 2022
Meta-space by Zhang Zikang looks at the continuities between virtual reality and spirituality, with the use of AI generated art, a conversation between nature and culture.
by Shraddha Nair Jul 10, 2022
South Korea-born artist and music composer, Yunchul Kim, is presenting at the Venice Art Biennale 2022 with five installations that alchemise physics and art to produce a fantasy.
by Devanshi Shah Jul 05, 2022
Exploring from curatorial dialogue to exhibition flow, STIR speaks with Formafantasma about how they designed and planned the Venice Art Biennale 2022, titled Milk of Dreams.
by Sukanya Deb Jul 04, 2022
The Teaching Tree at Saudi Arabia pavilion at Venice Art Biennale considers knowledge production, accumulation, migration and revolution, through the lens of the ecological present.
by Vladimir Belogolovsky Jun 30, 2022
Vladimir Belogolovsky visits the American Framing at Chicago's Wrightwood 659, which he suggests encourages architects to work around all standards, whatever they may be.
by Shraddha Nair Jun 27, 2022
Sculptor and installation artist Arcangelo Sassolino talks to STIR about his monumental artwork at the Malta Pavilion that involves molten steel, inspired by a Caravaggio masterpiece.
by Eleonora Ghedini Jun 25, 2022
Curator Lesley Lokko speaks about the need for a broader vision of architecture and how Africa might be the starting point for a renewed interdisciplinarity.
by Shraddha Nair Jun 18, 2022
Art historian and curator, Daniele Radini Tedeschi, speaks to STIR about his practice, and the diverse array of artists on view at the Grenada Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2022.
by Rahul Kumar Jun 12, 2022
Hyper realistic portraits by Simon Berger celebrate beauty in destruction at Unbreakable Identities, presented by Gallotti & Radice, in collaboration with Salvioni Design Solutions.
by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 11, 2022
While Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan set up their first-ever national pavilion; Cameroon, Namibia, Nepal, Oman, and Uganda are the first time participants at the biennale.
by Zohra Khan Jun 10, 2022
Dutch architectural firm UNStudio repurposes historic fashion patterns and outdated textiles to create an investigative design collection of objects and spaces.
by Sukanya Deb Jun 05, 2022
The Berlin-based artist's kinetic sculptures as a monument to the impact of the oil industry probe the past, present, and the future of the non-renewable resource through fiction.
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