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The fifth Bergen Assembly: A call to learn from differences
Oct 13, 2025by Shaunak Mahbubani Oct 13, 2025
Collective practices and live acts shine in across, with, nearby convened by Ravi Agarwal, Adania Shibli and Bergen School of Architecture.
Fragmented histories: Reliving The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower at MoMA
Oct 08, 2025by Jerry Elengical Oct 08, 2025
An exhibition about a demolished Metabolist icon examines how the relationship between design and lived experience can influence readings of present architectural fragments.
When function fails, All the Beauty in the World reveals new meaning
Oct 03, 2025by Gautam Bhatia Oct 03, 2025
Indian architect Gautam Bhatia pens an unsettling premise for his upcoming exhibition, revealing a fractured tangibility where the violence of function meets the beauty of form.
Witnessing conflict through form: Mona Hatoum meets Alberto Giacometti
Sep 29, 2025by Deeksha Nath Sep 29, 2025
An exhibition at the Barbican Centre places the 20th century Swiss sculptor in dialogue with the British-Palestinian artist, exploring how displacement, surveillance and violence shape bodies and spaces.
Wohnkomplex homes in on the prefab housing units of the former Eastern Bloc
Sep 26, 2025by Hili Perlson Sep 26, 2025
The exhibition at DAS MINSK Kunsthaus unpacks the politics of taste and social memory embedded in the architecture of the former East Germany.
ECC Time Space Existence 2025: Future regeneration, present reflections
Sep 18, 2025by Thea Hawlin Sep 18, 2025
An on-ground report in the final few weeks of the ECC’s showcase this year draws on its tenets and its reception, placing agency and action in the present over future travails.
The in-between city: Alternative urban dispositions at Venice Architecture Biennale
Sep 12, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Sep 12, 2025
For Intelligens, participations by Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao explore how infrastructure and development prerogatives in Asian megacities are (re)produced for global perceptions.
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.
The Bihar Museum Biennale: Whose stories shape a biennale of museums?
Sep 04, 2025by Vasudhaa Narayanan Sep 04, 2025
In its drive to position museums as instruments of cultural diplomacy, competing histories and fragile resistances surface at the Bihar Museum Biennale.
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.
Street, stage, print: In Our Own Backyard unpacks shared feminist histories
Aug 19, 2025by Ranjana Dave Aug 19, 2025
An exhibition at Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong spotlights the cross-border rhythms of South Asia’s women’s movement through the archives of artists Sheba Chhachhi and Lala Rukh.
The shape of memory: Negotiating visibility in Chan Hau Chun’s Map of Traces
Aug 18, 2025by Avani Tandon Vieira Aug 18, 2025
The Hong Kong artist’s moving image work examines loss and persistence in a fragmented urban landscape.
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.
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A poetics of fracture and possibility at the 14th Taipei Biennial
Oct 03, 2025by Ranjana Dave Oct 03, 2025
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