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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.
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BetweenSpaces’ AME Studio harbours artistic pursuits in grounded materiality
Aug 19, 2025by Anushka Sharma Aug 19, 2025
Blending solidity with openness, the multidisciplinary practice crafts an adaptable space in Bangalore where materials, proportion and restraint nurture artistic expression.
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.
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.
Brutalism meets habitable art in Renesa's House Around the Oblique Column
Jul 26, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jul 26, 2025
The New Delhi-based studio crafts a sculptural residence in which raw materials, geometric precision and a slanted column transform the home into a living gallery.
Staging relics and design ceremonies with Michèle Lamy & Oliver Gustav
Jul 22, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jul 22, 2025
An immersive exhibition in Copenhagen unites Rick Owens’ monumental furniture with the curatorial vision of Lamy and Gustav, transforming space into ritual and art into experience.
There Is Nothing to See Here (except the many afterlives of architecture)
Jul 09, 2025by Jincy Iype Jul 09, 2025
A deserted studio, ex-architects and a timeline from ‘Less is more’ to ‘No is more’: Hungary's national pavilion at the Biennale Architettura explores alternative post-architecture merits.
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.
Between flame and form: After Ash traces possibilities of wood-fired ceramics
Jul 07, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jul 07, 2025
London-based initiative County Hall Pottery unveils a group show with eight ceramic artists recasting wood-fired ceramics as innovative and experimental entities.
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.
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 ocean is “both wound and portal” in Kei Imazu’s practice
Jun 23, 2025by Srishti Ojha Jun 23, 2025
In Japanese artist Kei Imazu’s new exhibition, The Sea is Barely Wrinkled, the story of a 1629 shipwreck is a metaphor for Indonesia’s mythology, colonial history and ecological future.
Cosmology, science and spirituality converge in Sonia Leimer’s Cosmic Dust
Jun 05, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Jun 05, 2025
The Vienna-based artist presents Dust Buddies, a series of sculptures inspired by microscopic extraterrestrial particles as cosmological explorations.
‘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.
ICFF 2025 spotlights regeneration, resilience and bespoke craftsmanship
May 28, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot May 28, 2025
The annual trade fair returned to Javits Center, New York, with a showcase that underscored the value of craftsmanship and sustainability for an evolving design market.
Not a spectacle, but a welcome: Roh Soh-yeong on technology and attunement
May 26, 2025by Lee Daehyung May 26, 2025
Ahead of the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2025, symposium director Roh reflects on art and technology, and their ever-evolving meeting points, in a conversation with STIR.
‘Why Look at Animals?’ considers art, ethics & ecosystems beyond the Anthropocene
May 23, 2025by Asmita Singh May 23, 2025
Curated by Katerina Gregos, the exhibition at ΕΜΣΤ outlines the institutional mechanisms of violence & exploitation of non-human species & reaffirms their roles as sentient beings.
Samson Young’s ‘Intentness and songs’ at SFMOMA mobilises AI as a creative tool
May 13, 2025by Manu Sharma May 13, 2025
STIR speaks with curatorial associate Karen Cheung about Samson Young’s 2024 multimedia installation, and its use of algorithmic forms to process human intimacies.
OMA envisions Dior’s 'Designer of Dreams' as a rhythmic journey of spaces and concepts
Apr 30, 2025by Anushka Sharma Apr 30, 2025
In its fifth collaboration with the luxury brand, the OMA-designed exhibition at DDP, Seoul, evokes the experience of "walking on a Parisian street, inside a skirt or a jar."
‘Soleil.s’ at mudac spotlights various approaches to potential solar futures
Apr 29, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 29, 2025
The design biennale, initiated to promote clean energy, is hosted in Switzerland this year, with a focus on the power of the sun to imagine a sustainable future for humanity.
A Klein bottle and an ellipse: X Zhu-Nowell on reimagining arts institutions
Apr 25, 2025by Ranjana Dave Apr 25, 2025
The executive director and chief curator of Shanghai’s Rockbund Art Museum in conversation with STIR about returning to China, institutional models and their wildest curatorial ideas.
IKEA STOCKHOLM 2025 serves up a collection today for a collectable tomorrow
Apr 22, 2025by IKEA Apr 22, 2025
Five designers. Five narratives. Five installations: Hej Holm! by IKEA x STIR invited Indian creatives to interpret the collection via design ingenuity, storytelling and gastronomy.
5Vie construes a bridge between the objects and symbols of design for its 12th edition
Apr 10, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 10, 2025
Highlighting its theme for Milan Design Week 2025, 'armonie invisibli', STIR presents a selection of the best projects that strike a balance between functionality and art.
‘Reverberations’ reframes narratives of BIPOC design history from a pluriversal lens
Apr 02, 2025by Asmita Singh Apr 02, 2025
The design exhibition at Ford Foundation Gallery explores multivocal design histories and diasporic experiences, with curators Brian Johnson and Silas Munro delving into its layered themes.
Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg return to Norway with old and new horrors
Apr 01, 2025by Manu Sharma Apr 01, 2025
‘Death or Eternal Delight’ curator Maria C. Havstam joins STIR for a conversation about the duo’s shocking stop-motion film works.
Louisa Gagliardi’s slick, foreboding surrealism sums up 21st century anguish
Mar 28, 2025by Hili Perlson Mar 28, 2025
The Swiss artist, who shot to fame in recent years, is staging her first institutional show in Switzerland at MASI Lugano, titled Many Moons.
Goa's art scene moves away from the market and towards the community
Mar 25, 2025by Mustafa Khanbhai Mar 25, 2025
India's metro-centric, closed-door art world encounters novel challenges in Goa, where markets are reinvented to side-step the usual economic forces.
Wutopia Lab's tripartite architecture for Ceramic Pages traces a teapot's making
Mar 17, 2025by Nikitha Sunil Mar 17, 2025
In Yixing, China, the Wutopia Lab-designed bookstore unfolds as a multi-layered architectural allegory, basing its spatial design on the journey of crafting Zisha teapots.
Tipping point: The Sharjah Biennial 16 on our hopes, fears and anxieties
Feb 21, 2025by Ranjana Dave Feb 21, 2025
Intersecting contexts and frames of reference become pieces of a puzzle for the five curators of ‘to carry’.
The many threads woven through ‘SURFACE’ in Jodhpur
Jan 29, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Jan 29, 2025
An exhibition in the walled city of Jodhpur, organised by Sutrakala Foundation, JDH Jodhpur and curated by the textile expert questions present notions of embroidery and embellishment.
Immersive worlds: Serendipity Arts Festival takes an experiential turn
Jan 23, 2025by Ranjana Dave Jan 23, 2025
In its ninth edition in 2024, the annual arts festival in Goa invited visitors to engage with artworks and environments in sensorial ways.
Dela Anyah discusses value, waste and sustainability with ‘Beyond Rubber’
Jan 13, 2025by Kwame Aidoo Jan 13, 2025
The Ghana-based artist speaks to STIR about his open studio exhibition Beyond Rubber, on view at Afrobutylism Studio in Accra.
BIO28 in Ljubljana conceives of flowers as 'Double Agents' in design
Jan 11, 2025by 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’.
Tania and Sandeep Khosla x vis à vis: Immersive 'Dialogue' at ADFF:STIR Mumbai
Jan 09, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Jan 09, 2025
Dialogue underlines the importance of words and communication, encouraging exploration of the spatial relationships among enlarged letterforms.
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.
Dr. Beski Science Foundation is a community refuge in a remote town in Iran
Jan 02, 2025by Akash Singh Jan 02, 2025
Originally planned to be a dedicated scientific institution, the building by ZAV Architects evolves to accommodate communities in conservative Iran’s Gonbad-e Kavus.
Construction discards trickle into the interiors of SpActrum's office in Shanghai
Jan 01, 2025by Anushka Sharma Jan 01, 2025
The architectural design practice addresses the neglect in construction practices by reusing abandoned materials from sites in its office and exhibition space.
Roots and Roofs: Kéré Architecture’s Centre des Cultures et Spiritualités Ewés
Dec 18, 2024by STIRworld Dec 18, 2024
By weaving spirituality, history and innovation, CCSE aims to reimagine Africa’s cultural and architectural future in Notsè, Togo.
Alvin Ailey and Ralph Lemon: Unpacking two pathbreaking exhibitions
Dec 16, 2024by Kate Meadows Dec 16, 2024
The oeuvres of both African-American choreographers are captured with gravitas through multi-channel video installations and live performance programming in New York City.
Journeying Across the Himalayas spotlights the region’s layered society and culture
Dec 14, 2024by Aastha D. Dec 14, 2024
Drawing on layered perspectives from Himalayan communities, a new festival by the Royal Enfield Social Mission conveys a deep connection with the land and its historical roots.
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