News 2012

Hemali Bhuta
INDIA : ART NOW

Arken Museum, Denmark

18 August 2012 – 13 January 2013

In the autumn of 2012, ARKEN is devoting its whole special exhibition area to a comprehensive presentation of Indian contemporary art. INDIA : ARTNOW is a presentation...

Sandeep Mukherjee
Local Color

San Jose Museum of Art

26 July – 13 December 2012

Drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, Local Color will explore the role of color in art and encourage visitors to look at color as content with wide ranging works. The exhibition will also include recent acquisitions on view for the first time, including ‘Untitled (Oblique 1) 2011’, by Sandeep Mukherjee.
www.sjmusart.org/local-color

Hemali Bhuta
Artist in residency

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

15 July – 1 October 2012

Yorkshire Sculpture Park in collaboration with Creative India Foundation will host Hemali Bhuta as a visiting artist. Based in the Bothy Gallery, Bhuta will develop new work in response to the Park, its landscape and heritage, through conversations with visitors and staff.
www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/hemali-bhuta

Rohini Devashar
Rendez-vous 2012 – Afrique du Sud

South African National Gallery, Cape Town, SA

28 June – 14 October 2012

A regular feature of the Lyon Biennale in France, Rendez-vouz invites 10 curators of biennales and triennials to propose new work in various mediums. The result is a showcase of new energy and light. The show is global in its reach and exacting in its particularities. Rohini’s print works ‘Arboreal’ are being exhibited at Rendez-vouz.

Sarnath Banerjee
History is Written by Garment Exporters

Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

16 June – 28 July 2012

CCA brings together Banerjee’s work spanning the period 2008 – 11 for his first institutional solo show. The exhibition includes several key sequences from Banerjee's most recent book, ‘The Harappa Files’ and the video ‘1943’ which was exhibited at ‘Paris- Delhi- Bombay’ at Centre Pompidou.
http://www.cca-glasgow.com/

Tejal Shah and The Otolith Group

Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany

6 June - 19 September 2012

Tejal Shah is exhibiting her new commissioned work ‘Between the Waves’ at dOCUMENTA (13) curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Shah’s ‘Between the Waves’,is a multi-channel video installation composed of performative film, text, animation and spacialisation of sound.

The Otolith Group

Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany

6 June - 19 September 2012

The Otolith Groupis exhibiting their new video work ‘The Radiant’ at dOCUMENTA (13).The Radiant explores the aftermath of March 11 2011, when the Great Tohoku Earthquake struck...

Raqs Media Collective
Critical Mass: Contemporary Art From India

Tel Aviv Museum of Art

1 June – 15 December, 2012

The exhibition represents India's socio-political reality, replete with upheavals, of the past two decades and express through contents, materials and visual aesthetics the rich density that echoes India's familiar visual texture.

Rohini Devasher
Large scale site specific drawing

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

The fifth in a series of large site specific wall drawings, Parts Unknown is an exploration of frame switching between different scales and distances… of continuity rather than correspondence between the microscopic and cosmological. The drawing explores the interface between positive and negative spaces, or the relationship of forms that share edges.

Neha Choksi and Rohini Devasher
But a pit stop on a long journey

The Wanås Foundation, Sweden

20 May 2012 onwards

Wanas celebrates 25 years with a new room for video art. Choksi's film ‘Leaf Fall’ and video installation ‘The Weather Inside Me (Bombay Sunset)’ and Devasher’s video ‘Arboreal’ are currently on display. This is in collaboration with Creative India Foundation.

Neha Choksi
Quarantania

Enclave Projects, London

20 May 2012

OCurated by David Thorp, Quarantania features the work of three energing international artists, Neha Choksi (India), Eva Kotátková (Czech Republic) and Taus Makhacheva (Russia).

Shreyas Karle : Project Cinema City

National gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai

19 May – 29 June 2012

On view at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Mumbai is the exhibition ‘Project Cinema City: Research Art & Documentary Practices’, celebrating 100 years of cinema...

Shreyas Karle : Empty studio and other works

Open studio at the end of a residency at Rote Fabrik

19 May – 29 June 2012

At the end of his residency at Rote Fabrik, Karle opens up his studio, with a blank slate as a work, which is painted by different experiences of the artist and the viewer.

Project 88 : HK Art Fair 2012

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

17 – 20 May 2012

Project 88 is taking part in the HK Art Fair 2012 withHuma Mulji, Raqs Media Collective, Sarnath Banerjee, Shreyas Karle and The Otolith Group.

Raqs Media Collective
The Primary Education of the Autodidact

Audain Gallery at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

16 April – 31 May, 2012

‘The Primary Education of the Autodidac’t faces out onto the sidewalk. Composed of related photos in 11 panels, they show various stacks of oversized books.Where one...

Chirodeep Chaudhari
The Commuters

Curators Gallery, Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya

16 April – 31 May 2012

Chirodeep Chaudhari chronicled the daily traveller of Mumbai’s Local trains in a series of portraits that tattle many a tale. The show ‘The Commuters’ comprises...

The Otolith Group

Lighthouse, Brighton Festival 2012

14 April – 27 May 2012

‘I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another’ is a poetic and poignant new work centred on the renowned Lebanese-American poet, painter and philosopher, Etel Adnan. The film is the second part of a trilogy of works by the...

Sarnath Banerjee

Frieze Projects East, London

June – September 2012

Frieze Foundation will curate and produce four new public art projects as part of the London 2012 Olympics. Situated throughout east London, the series will be known as Frieze Projects East. Project 88’s Sarnath Banerjee is one of the four artists looking to change the...

Neha Choksi

John Hansard Gallery, South Hampton and The Enclave, London

June – August 2012

Neha Choksi is taking an array of her work to two British galleries: John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (University of Southampton), followed by The Enclave Gallery (London). The show is curated by David Thorp, and is titled Quarantania, after a work by Louise Bourgeois that...

Raqs Media Collective

The Photographer’s Gallery, London.

19 May – 1 July 2012

Raqs will screen their video ‘An Afternoon Undisturbed on the Richter Scale’ (2011) in a solo show at The Photographer’s Gallery in London. The work is a silent looped video projection of an archival photograph, subtly altered by the artists to create a dream-like mise-en-scène...

Rohini Devashar

Artist Residency at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

March – June 2012

Rohini Devashar has just started a 4 month residency at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin. Researchers at the MPIWG investigate how new categories of thought, proof, and experience have emerged in the centuries-long interaction between the sciences and their...

Baptist Coelho

Pump House Gallery, London

March – June 2012

Pump House Gallery hosts an exhibition of new work by Baptist Coelho, curated in collaboration with George Unsworth. This exhibition is the culmination of a 12 week residency at The Delfina Foundation, supported by the Creative India Foundation.

Hemali Bhuta

Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London

29 February – 13 May 2012

Lines of Thought, an exhibition at Parasol unit, London, explores the work of 15 contemporary artists whose practices have focused in particular on using line in creatively challenging ways. Artists like Sol Lewitt, Richard Long and Richard Tuttle are part of this show along with younger artists...

Shreyas Karle, Rohini Devahsar

Kochi-Muziris Biennale

First Indian biennale, opening on 12-12-12.

Project 88 artists Shreyas Karle and Rohini Devashar have been selected to participate in the Kochi Biennale. The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an international exhibition of contemporary art being held in Kochi, Kerala. Opening on 12-12-12, the...

Zuleikha Chaudhary

Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi

17 – 26 February 2012

Max Muller Bhavan, in collaboration with Archeological Survey of India (ASI), presented Zuleikha Chaudhary’s work ´Propositions: On Text and Space II´. ‘Propositions: On Text and Space II is based on texts from Roland Schimmelpfennig's play ‘Before/Afterwards’. Schimmelpfennig’s...

Raqs Media Collective, Rohini Devashar and Sarnath Banerjee

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida

27 January – 26 June 2012

Curated by art critic Gayatri Sinha, the exhibition ´Cynical Love: Life in the Everyday´ looks at the intersection of art and technology in everyday life. The exhibition included the video work ´The Knots that Bind are the Knots that Fray ´ (2010) by Raqs Media Collective, a seventeen...

Project 88

Mumbai Gallery Weekend

Taj Lands End, Mumbai

31 March and 1 April 2012

Project 88 participated in the of the Mumbai Art District galleries’ weekend trip to Bandra (Taj Lands End) with photographs by Tejal Shah, a painting on duralene by Sandeep Mukherjee, a marble and brass sculpture by Neha Choksi, two of Sarnath Banerjee’s diptychs from his series ´Bicarbonates´...

Project 88

Art Chennai 2012

Taj Coromandel, Chennai

16 - 17 March 2012

Project 88 exhibited five artists at Art Chennai 2012: drawings and prints by Hemali Bhuta and Shreyas Karle, illustrated books by Asma Mundrawala and paintings by Mahesh Baliga and Sandeep Mukherjee...

Rohini Devashar

Shadow Walkers 2012

Presented at KhojLive 12, Delhi
27 January 2012 - 4:00pm - 9:30pm

Shadow Walkers is a walk down memory lane by devoted umbraphiles, those who are addicted to walking in the shadow of the moon... Seven voices, ranging in tone, depth, age, experience and perspective, talking about the single most transforming celestial event, a total solar eclipse.

Neha Choksi

Pause to Release

Presented at KhojLive 12, Delhi
27 January 2012 - 4:00pm – 9:30pm

A gathering abandons voice and motion to explore the erasure and presence of silence. Pause to release is a performative piece whose protagonists are expressively silent in the eloquence of a gathering at a standstill. Time has stopped. It is a still life that expresses the...

Project 88

India Art Fair 2012

Stand D 3, Hall 1
26-29 January 2012

Raqs Media Collective inhabits the Project 88 enclosure at the India Art Fair 2012 with four new sets of enigmas that make up a scenario - ´Interior, Day´, ´Its About Being Here and There at the Same Time´, ´The Namak Haram's Philosophy, Revised´ and ´A Different Gravity´

The Otolith Group

Screening of the Otolith Trilogy & discussion

Little Theatre, NCPA, Mumbai - Monday,
January 9 - Film screenings run from 4pm to 7pm; the talk begins at 7.30pm

Discussion with Chus Martinez, Shanay Jhaveri and The Otolith Group. The event was held in collaboration with Mohile Parikh Center.

 

 

The Otolith Group

Nervus Rerum (2008) Film Screenings and Discussion with Anand Patwardhan

G. Talwatkar Marg, Fort, Mumbai, India vendredi 6 janvier 2012

The evening programme will involve a screening of Nervus Rerum (2008), which is Latin for the ´nerve of things´. The work confronts the problem of the representability of the Palestinian people...