NO NIIN

16/07/2026

In NO NIIN Issue 35, we turn to the legitimacy crisis convulsing the art world as Israel's genocide in Gaza forces a reckoning with complicity. The issue features a Venice Biennale 2026 dispatch on jurors strong-armed into resigning after trying to exclude Israel; an archive-turned-witness at Amsterdam's IISH tracing five centuries of solidarity; a review of Rebellion for Future, embedding viewers in Finland's climate movement; an essay on the diaspora artist's uneasy status as an "eligible dissident"; an essay on firefighters battling Kurdistan's Zagros wildfires; a testimony from a Baloch mother who has spent sixteen years demanding her disappeared son's return; an essay on Bint Jbeil, the town Israel tried to erase and Lebanon turned into a symbol of resistance; a review of PhotoKTM tracing resistance and solidarity through Nepal's Gen-Z revolution; a review of steirischer herbst 25 on history as continuum; a review of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale weighing its claims of friendship and collaboration against its labour practices and accountability; and an interview with Suraj Milind Yengde on the unfinished work of centring the anti-caste struggle.

In NO NIIN Issue 35, we turn to the legitimacy crisis convulsing the art world as Israel's genocide in Gaza forces a reckoning with complicity. The issue features a Venice Biennale 2026 dispatch on jurors strong-armed into resigning after trying to exclude Israel; an archive-turned-witness at Amster...

13/07/2026

This conversation between editor Paula Alzugaray and special reporter and art critic Juliana Monachesi offers a fragment of the history of a Brazilian art magazine that could be likened to a trench—or to an urban guerrilla.

07/07/2026

The Brotherhood of Black and Favela Men in Contemporary Art [Irmandade de Homens Pretos e Favelados Das Artes Contemporâneas] is reshaping and radicalising forms of political engagement across the Brazilian visual arts scene.

Beatriz Ferro in conversation with Vilanismo, the Brotherhood of Black and Favela Men in Contemporary Art [Irmandade de Homens Pretos e Favelados Das Artes Contemporâneas] addresses how they are reshaping and radicalising forms of political engagement across the Brazilian visual arts scene.

30/06/2026

Established in Rio de Janeiro’s Pequena África, LanchoneteLanchonete proposes a counter-colonial contemporary art practice that refuses institutional charity in favor of radical, two-way alliance with historically excluded Black and Indigenous communities.

Mariana Pimentel and Coletivo 28 de Maio trace how LanchoneteLanchonete, established in Rio de Janeiro's Pequena África, refuses institutional charity to propose a counter-colonial contemporary art practice built on radical, two-way alliance with historically excluded Black and Indigenous communi...

10/06/2026

The curatorial project of Frestas – Trienal das Artes proposes a way of apprehending epistemologies and lifeworld relations that have been stifled by the colonial condition across different countries in Latin America.

Naine Terena writes about how the curatorial project of Frestas – Trienal das Artes proposes a way of apprehending epistemologies and lifeworld relations that have been stifled by the colonial condition across different countries in Latin America.

01/06/2026

A study trip to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro became the origin of this issue and an encounter with art scenes that refuses, in many different ways and from many different places, to separate art from life, institutions from communities, or the past from the futures it might yet build.

24/02/2026

Palestinian architect, artist, and educator, Sandi Hilal, reflects on hospitality as a political practice, showing how private spaces – from living rooms to summer houses – can become sites of agency and collective self-determination.

Palestinian architect, artist, and educator, Sandi Hilal, in an interview with Reyhaneh Mirjahani, reflects on hospitality as a political practice, showing how private spaces can become sites of agency and collective self-determination.

18/02/2026

Contemporary art promises global inclusivity, yet hierarchies persist. Examining Kochi-Muziris Biennale and Konsthall C reveals how temporality, locality, and institutional practices shape whose voices and histories are truly represented today.

17/12/2025

NO NIIN issue 33 is LIVE 🔥

In this issue, with a primary focus on events and practitioners shaping the arts in Sweden today, we move in-between worlds: the archival and the immediate, the sacred and the habitual, the personal and the collective, the diaspora and the homeland. The issue features conversations on the emotional weight of diasporic identities, tracing Indigenous and African knowledge through cassava, bananas and bark cloth and hospitality as a political practice in Palestinian architecture. Also included are reviews of Claudia Pagès Rabal’s ALJUB and Liljevalchs’s When We See Us, probing language, power, and Black joy in contemporary art spaces, alongside critical reflections on European missionary photography in Palestine and the persistent hierarchies of biennales and institutional practices carrying a false promise of global inclusivity.

In this issue, with a primary focus on events and practitioners shaping the arts in Sweden today, we move in-between worlds: the archival and the immediate, the sacred and the habitual, the personal and the collective, the diaspora and the homeland. The issue features conversations on the emotional....