25 of 2025: 5 Trailblazing Performance Artists to Know

Artnet, September 26, 2025

Mumbai-born artist Amol K. Patil, now based in Amsterdam and his native city, is fast spreading his international reach, with 2025 solo shows at Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, in California. He’s also currently in two major international exhibitions: SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico and the Berlin Biennale. This widespread visibility builds on previous appearances on the global stage in shows like the Gwangju Biennale (2024), Documenta (2022), and the Yokohama Triennale (2022). 

 

Showing with Project 88 in Mumbai and TKG+ Projects in Taipei, Patil works in various media, including performance, sculpture, and painting. A performance at the India Art fair in 2019 earned a mention in Artforum, which pronounced his Take the City (2019), in which he blew bubbles and invited street sweepers and backstage staff into public view, to be “soft and whimsical.” 

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