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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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StoneX celebrates the subtle artistry of stone with Art Soiree
Sep 11, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 11, 2025
At a recent event at the StoneX refinery in Kishangarh, the stone brand launched a coffee table book detailing the results of an art residency with ten Indian artists.
Louis Vuitton: Visionary Journeys gives the Maison’s trunk a spatial presence
Sep 09, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Sep 09, 2025
OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu stages the Maison’s codes and crafts as a sequence of inhabitable spaces at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka.
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 National Museum of Uzbekistan sees Tadao Ando probe "the origins of thought”
Sep 06, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Sep 06, 2025
Featuring Ando’s distinctive ‘pure’ spatial expression and minimal forms in concrete, the museum reflects the nation’s cultural identity with a contemporarily resonant design.
Muziris Contemporary opens in Mumbai with the exhibition Memory Palace
Aug 29, 2025by Srishti Ojha Aug 29, 2025
The art gallery’s inaugural exhibition, titled after an ancient mnemonic technique, features contemporary artists from across India who confront memory through architecture.
Jacopo Benassi’s Libero! is a punk-infused rebellion against images
Aug 25, 2025by Hili Perlson Aug 25, 2025
In Genoa, the Italian artist disrupts the photographic image’s dominance.
Asunción Molinos Gordo looks to the past to interpret the future
Aug 21, 2025by Srishti Ojha Aug 21, 2025
Jameel Art Centre’s survey exhibition, The Peasant, the Scholar and the Engineer, charts the artist and researcher’s ecocentric approach to contemporary art.
Onassis ONX on cultivating and curating interdisciplinary artscapes
Aug 14, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Aug 14, 2025
Jazia Hammoudi and Matthew Niederhauser tell STIR how the hybrid studio fosters creative agency, curates immersive exhibitions and shapes new media culture.
M HKA in Belgium explores the affect and politics of infrastructure
Aug 14, 2025by Srishti Ojha Aug 14, 2025
The Geopolitics of Infrastructure. Contemporary Perspectives examines the power of infrastructure through experimental multimedia installations.
Roots, seeds and slow activism at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2025
Aug 12, 2025by Vamika Sinha Aug 12, 2025
This year’s Edinburgh Art Festival takes a slower, deeper curatorial approach, integrating within its home city more than ever before.
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.
Look at the Sun: On the work of James Turrell, Kimsooja and Lee Eunsun
Aug 08, 2025by Lee Daehyung Aug 08, 2025
The three contemporary artists counter digital acceleration with art that demands stillness and introspection.
No Trespassing at Ishara Art Foundation revels in the aesthetics of the street
Aug 06, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Aug 06, 2025
The Dubai exhibition brings street aesthetics into a white cube space to create site-specific installations that blur distinctions between the street and the gallery.
A ghostlight in dark times: Stan Douglas’ survey at the Hessel Museum
Aug 04, 2025by Paola Malavassi Aug 04, 2025
A powerful journey through decades of groundbreaking art by the Canadian artist, Ghostlight is a timely reminder that the past shapes the present.
Craft and caste: Roots of the Earth tells an intertwined story
Aug 01, 2025by Srishti Ojha Aug 01, 2025
In Roots of the Earth, artists Prabhakar Kamble and Akshay Mahajan remind us of the often obscured relationships between marginalised communities and craft practices.
The Bagri Samaya series celebrates and amplifies women’s voices
Jul 30, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jul 30, 2025
The Bagri Foundation’s series, A Woman Hums: Women, Voice, Creativity, brings together women curators, artists, filmmakers and writers from across Asia and its diaspora.
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.
Rot, burn, fade: Charwei Tsai on spirituality and impermanence
Jul 24, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jul 24, 2025
The Taiwanese artist’s first solo exhibition in Malaysia, Tofu, Incense, and Sky situates old knowledge systems in a new world.
The lay of the land: Deep-time ecologies at the Folkestone Triennial 2025
Jul 22, 2025by Sofia Hallström Jul 22, 2025
Amidst ecological crises and geopolitical disorientation, the Folkestone Triennial 2025 explores a deep-time ecology of ritual, resistance and repair.
Kallol Datta explores the biopolitics of clothing, one stitch at a time
Jul 18, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jul 18, 2025
His solo show, Volume IV: Truths, Half-Truths, Half-Lies, Lies, at Experimenter, Mumbai, is inspired by Japanese and Korean fashion and architecture from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Mark Goudy’s translucent Origami vessels embody mathematics in porcelain
Jul 12, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jul 12, 2025
The California-based artist channels his knowledge of digital tools to emulate the fragility and precision of the Japanese craft in porcelain.
Painting as palimpsest: a survey of Julie Mehretu’s work comes to Germany
Jul 11, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jul 11, 2025
KAIROS / Hauntological Variations’ a journey through the Ethiopian-American artist’s career, will be on view at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf.
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.
Ebb and flow: Dialogues on the independent art scene in Venice
Jul 08, 2025by Eleonora Ghedini Jul 08, 2025
An exploration of some innovative curatorial practices while walking and talking in a city that keeps reinventing itself beyond every dreamy idealisation.
The Semiotics of Dressing turns the dressing room into a stage for the self
Jun 30, 2025by Chahna Tank Jun 30, 2025
Comprising design artefacts from the 1900s to the present day, the group show at Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery explores how we make and remake ourselves each day.
Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits – Between Korea and the Middle East
Jun 30, 2025by Lee Daehyung Jun 30, 2025
This exhibition reconfigures transnational exchange by foregrounding digital media, conceptual installations and archival interventions by Korean and Middle Eastern contemporary artists.
Irony and endurance: Kumu Art Museum presents Ragnar Kjartansson’s works
Jun 27, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jun 27, 2025
A Boy and a Girl and a Bush and a Bird presents the Icelandic artist’s signature video installations alongside a newly commissioned series of landscape paintings in Estonia.
Contemporary art undergirds a topography of the superlative at Simose Art Museum
Jun 26, 2025by Louis Ho Jun 26, 2025
An exhibition of contemporary art in a stunning new Japanese museum, designed by Shigeru Ban, speaks to the natural environment as well as the industrial suburbs around it.
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.
Somos raíces: indigenous art, resistance and memory at Círculo de Bellas Artes
Jun 20, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jun 20, 2025
Rooted in ancestral knowledge, the exhibition in Madrid, Spain, showcases paintings and sculptures by Santiago Yahuarcani and Nereyda López, narrating histories of the Peruvian Amazon.
A London exhibition reflects on shared South Asian histories and splintered maps
Jun 19, 2025by Samta Nadeem Jun 19, 2025
(Un)Layering the future past of South Asia: Young artists' voices emphasises regional interconnectedness, despite ongoing geopolitical tensions.
The Watcher: Ola Hassanain's filmic protagonist negotiates care and precarity
Jun 17, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jun 17, 2025
Hassanain’s solo exhibition at Kunstinstituut Melly highlights the central role of infrastructure and temporality in affecting slow violence on indigenous communities in Sudan.
GAK Bremen’s new group show exposes the absurdity of debt
Jun 11, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jun 11, 2025
You Breathe Differently Under the Weight. Debt and Credit reveals how our abstract, financial view of debt conceals its impact on everyday life and politics.
In the presence of others: Salman Toor's bodily poetics
Jun 03, 2025by Avani Tandon Vieira Jun 03, 2025
In Wish Maker at Luhring Augustine, the painter explores modes of physical assembly, and the imaginative possibilities they make visible.
Delaine Le Bas on language and power, and making interactive art
May 30, 2025by Srishti Ojha May 30, 2025
The British artist’s new exhibition, Fabricating My Own Myth – Red Threads & Silver Needles, at Newcastle Contemporary Art highlights the political power of presence.
In a New York solo, diaspora artist Kenny Nguyen makes colour his language
May 29, 2025by Srishti Ojha May 29, 2025
Nguyen’s solo exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York explores culture and memory through sculptural paintings.
‘Walk the House’ explores Do Ho Suh’s poetic fabrications of home and belonging
May 29, 2025by Aarthi Mohan May 29, 2025
The South Korean artist's ongoing showcase at the Tate Modern captures the essence of migration and layered memories of home.
In Minor Keys: Venice Biennale 2026 reveals its curatorial theme
May 27, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 27, 2025
The biennale's organisers acknowledged the passing of curator Koyo Kouoh, reiterating their support for her curatorial vision of "a collective score composed together with artists".
A history of Okinawa, through photographer Mao Ishikawa’s lens
May 16, 2025by Rhea Mathur May 16, 2025
A retrospective of the Japanese photographer’s work at Mead Gallery in Coventry highlights the zeal of an artist committed to combating oppression and capturing resistance.
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