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The 61st Venice Biennale as a sensuous joyride and a triumphant odyssey
May 18, 2026by Rosalyn D`Mello May 18, 2026
Koyo Kouoh’s In Minor Keys brings the fringe to the fore, emphasising artistic resilience amid the apocalypse.
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Staging Black and Indigenous feminist history at the Brazil Pavilion
May 15, 2026by Srishti Ojha May 15, 2026
Curator Diane Lima turns to the anti-colonial, feminist works of Rosana Paulino and Adriana Varejão to explore stories of the formerly enslaved and colonised at the biennale.
Ceding freedoms: The danger and complicity of trying to make art apolitical
May 01, 2026by Srishti Ojha May 01, 2026
As fascism and censorship rise, for how long can the art world avoid politics? At the 61st Venice Biennale, ‘neutrality’ towards controversial pavilions sparks mass protest.
An open letter to La Biennale di Venezia calls out inaction in the face of global atrocities
Apr 14, 2026by STIRworld Apr 14, 2026
74 artists and curators call for the exclusion of states accused of war crimes, including Israel, Russia and the United States, from the Venice Biennale 2026, due to open in May.
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".
Exploring the Portugal Pavilion: Collective work within a 'Creole Garden'
Aug 22, 2024by Beth Citron Aug 22, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Sonia Vaz Borges joins STIR to discuss Greenhouse’s ambitious and challenging vision for Portugal’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Venice is a victim of the climate crisis: how is the Art Biennale reacting?
Jun 19, 2024by Julie Baumgardner Jun 19, 2024
STIRring ‘Everywhere’ in Venice: As the Venice Biennale becomes carbon neutral, art brings hope and imagination to climate change debates.
Africa's artistic kaleidoscope: Inaugural Pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2024
May 03, 2024by Ayesha Adonais May 03, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Tracing the transformative landscape of art from Africa across four inaugural pavilions at the Biennale.
STIRring ‘Everywhere’ in Venice: The 60th Venice Biennale
Apr 24, 2024by Aimee Dawson Apr 24, 2024
STIR brings you a curated selection of perspectives from the Venice Biennale 2024.
Foreigners Everywhere: Venice Biennale becomes a cradle of fraught purpose
Apr 23, 2024by Charlotte Jansen Apr 23, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Curator Adriano Pedrosa’s show is brave and bold and has moments of brilliance, but as a whole, it remains incoherent and incomplete.
Why all the art for the Croatia Pavilion is being hand-delivered
Apr 18, 2024by Eleonora Ghedini Apr 18, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Artist Vlatka Horvat mobilises an informal delivery network of friends and strangers in her show at the Venice Biennale.
Politics Everywhere: conflict and diplomacy at the Venice Art Biennale
Apr 17, 2024by Hannah McGivern Apr 17, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: The 2024 Biennale opens at a time of heightened political instability, but history shows that it has long been a site of debate and protest.
Elective affinities: 'Hard/Soft' at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna
Apr 11, 2024by Eleonora Ghedini Apr 11, 2024
Exploring the similarities between the only apparently opposite media of textiles and ceramics, the exhibition awakens our senses as well as our desire for tactility.
Bulgaria brings disquieting installation art to Venice Art Biennale 2024
Apr 10, 2024by Manu Sharma Apr 10, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: In the run-up to the 2024 Venice Biennale, curator Vasil Vladimirov discusses the Bulgaria Pavilion’s presentation The Neighbours.
The real and the surreal converge in Wael Shawky's immersive narratives
Apr 09, 2024by Ranjana Dave Apr 09, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: The artist revisits Egypt’s Urabi uprising in his new work for the Venice Art Biennale 2024.
Curator Robert Storr pays most attention to things he doesn’t initially like
Apr 05, 2024by Vladimir Belogolovsky Apr 05, 2024
Vladimir Belogolovsky speaks with Robert Storr about learning from books and meeting people, what makes a successful exhibition and on the uselessness of art.
Waiting for Venice Art Biennale 2024: an ode to the inner foreigner
Mar 19, 2024by Eleonora Ghedini Mar 19, 2024
STIRring 'Everywhere' in Venice: Curator Adriano Pedrosa centres artists working across borders, exploring mobility, displacement and precarity at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
'Foreigners Everywhere': Adriano Pedrosa outlines the theme for Venice Biennale 2024
Jul 28, 2023by 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.
Art Basel's 'Unlimited' gauges art world’s winds and trends
Jun 18, 2023by 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.
Jorge Otero-Pailos: "Pollution comes first, then comes architecture"
Mar 23, 2023by Vladimir Belogolovsky Mar 23, 2023
Vladimir Belogolovsky talks to New York-based artist and preservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos about his approach to pollution.
Immersive public art redefining our relationship to public spaces
Dec 30, 2022by 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.
The 59th Venice Art Biennale milks more than just dreams
Sep 16, 2022by 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.
STIRring Dreams: Wallace Chan presents sculptural exhibition at Venice Art Biennale
Sep 07, 2022by 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.
STIRring Dreams: Maria Eichhorn's subtle exposure of the German Pavilion's history
Aug 27, 2022by 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.
STIRring Dreams: ‘Palazzo della Memoria’ by Raqib Shaw at the Venice Art Biennale 2022
Aug 12, 2022by 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.
STIRring Dreams: The anatomical variations of Tobias Gremmler’s at Venice Biennale
Jul 24, 2022by 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
STIRring Dreams: 'Pseudo-territory' brings a literary theory to life via augmented reality
Jul 17, 2022by 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.
STIRring Dreams: Zhang Zikang curates the Chinese Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale
Jul 11, 2022by 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.
STIRring Dreams: Visual artist Yunchul Kim presents 'Gyre' at Venice Art Biennale
Jul 10, 2022by 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.
Remembering Sam Gilliam: A legacy of colour field and lyrical abstraction
Jul 08, 2022by STIRworld Jul 08, 2022
Sam Gilliam was an American contemporary artist well-known for his bevelled-edge and drape paintings, and most notably, his resistance to discursive language.
STIRring Dreams: A look at the exhibition design of the Venice Art Biennale
Jul 05, 2022by 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.
STIRring Dreams: Muhannad Shono presents 'The Teaching Tree' at Venice Art Biennale
Jul 04, 2022by 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.
STIRring Dreams: Arcangelo Sassolino on ‘Diplomazija Astuta’ at Venice Art Biennale
Jun 27, 2022by 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.
STIRring Dreams: Cypher Art Collective of Grenada presents at the Venice Art Biennale
Jun 18, 2022by 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.
Looking at the countries debuting with a National Pavilion at Venice Art Biennale 2022
Jun 11, 2022by 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.
STIRring Dreams: Multimedia artist Monira Al Qadiri presents at the Venice Art Biennale
Jun 05, 2022by 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.
STIRring Dreams: Shubigi Rao represents at the Singapore Pavilion with a book and film
May 28, 2022by Shraddha Nair May 28, 2022
Singapore-based artist, writer and researcher, Shubigi Rao, brings discussions of information, control of data and other pressing issues to the forefront at Venice Art Biennale 2022.
STIRring Dreams: Latifa Echakhch’s The Concert weaves elements of art & music
May 15, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar May 15, 2022
Latifa Echakhch, in collaboration with Alexandre Babel and Francesco Stocchi, represents Switzerland at the 59th Venice Biennale with the immersive installation The Concert
STIRring Dreams: Chun Kwang Young's mulberry paper reliefs at Venice Biennale
May 07, 2022by Shraddha Nair May 07, 2022
Chun Kwang Young exhibits 'hanji'-based artworks in the Palazzo Contarini Polignac Venice Art Biennale 2022, which includes an outdoor pavilion designed by Stefano Boeri.
STIRring Dreams: Christina Li curates Pilvi Takala’s work for the Finnish Pavilion
Apr 30, 2022by Shraddha Nair Apr 30, 2022
Venice Art Biennale's Finnish Pavilion presents video artist Pilvi Takala's work, curated by Christina Li and produced by Frame Contemporary Art Finland.
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