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On a Clear Day, One Can See Forever
Annika Hippler, Ingo Gerken and Lior Gal 1 - 12 Feb 2023 On A Clear Day, One Can See Forever is a result of a six-week interaction Annika Hippler, Ingo Gerken and Lior Gal had with the city of Kolkata on various levels . Coming from an entirely different cultural context and artistic practices, the artists try to create a certain kind... Read more -
The Crowd and Its Avatars Sculptures by K. S. Radhakrishnan
Curated by R Siva Kumar 9 Jan - 12 Feb 2023 The Crowd and Its Avatars: Sculptures by K. S. Radhakrishnan, curated by the eminent art historian R. Siva Kumar. The large-scale exhibition, which includes more than 70 bronze sculptures of various sizes, celebrates the individuality and inventiveness of the artist. Photographs of the sculptures taken by Prabudha Dasgupta are exhibited along with the sculptures as the artist’s tribute to the photographer. Read more -
Songs of Reclamation: The Art of A. Ramachandran
Curated by R Siva Kumar 28 Oct - 31 Dec 2022 A Ramachandran belongs to the generation of Indian artists who began their careers in the 1960s and whose art was shaped by India’s post-independence experience. Ramachandran’s early work focused on the predicament of peripheral men trapped in a life of unfreedom, irrationality and suffering in a world that swore by... Read more -
IMAGINARIUM 2.0
Emami Art all India open call award and exhibition 2 - 30 Sep 2022 Emami Art Imaginarium 2.0, the annual open call, awards and exhibition for upcoming artistic talent, returned this year with ten talented young art practitioners selected from more than two hundred applicants across the country. The final participants, Ali Akbar PN, Sudhir Ambasana, Puja Mondal, Abhishek Chakraborty, Dhaivat Shah, Gyanwant Yadav,... Read more -
Room Full of Mirrors: Works by Probir Gupta
Emami Art in collaboration with Anant Art 2 - 30 Sep 2022 Room Full of Mirrors, Probir Gupta's solo in Kolkata, after a lengthy hiatus, is a complex, encrusted offering. The exhibition site assembles recent works and important pieces from the last decade. Gupta is a migrant at heart, an itinerant dividing time between continents. France is his home away from home,... Read more -
Shahidul Alam: Singed But Not Burnt
Curated by Ina Puri 18 Jul - 20 Aug 2022 Opening on the 18th of June, the retrospective exhibition spanning the four-decade long career of the renowned photographer who is also a writer, an activist and an institution-builder will be on view for a month before travelling to other Indian cities. The panorama of photographs exhibited will give the viewer... Read more -
The Dark Edge of Green Arunima Choudhury Works from 1995-2022
Curated by Nancy Adajania 18 Jun - 20 Aug 2022 ‘The Dark Edge of Green’ embraces almost three decades of Arunima Choudhury’s practice from 1995 to the present. This retrospective-like vista allows for an expansive engagement with her restless experimentation across various mediums including watercolour, acrylic, enamel painting, ceramics, as well as eco-prints on cotton and rice paper. The earliest... Read more -
Between the Self and Silhouettes by Soma Das and Anjan Modak
Curated by Adip Dutta 8 Apr - 4 Jun 2022 The self extends itself on to others. A simultaneous acknowledgement of the passer-by and recognition of the shadow of one’s self falling on the other constitute the connection. The works of Soma Das and Anjan Modak centre around a sense of empathy that accounts for a search of the self... Read more -
The Politics of Paper
Curated by Ushmita Sahu 12 Feb - 29 Mar 2022 Taking Marshall McLuhan’s famous quote as a starting point, The Politics of Paper addresses a renewed interest by contemporary artists in the medium of paper as integral to their practices and as a point of departure. By doing so, the proposed exhibition firmly situates itself within the larger movement of... Read more
