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Barbara London with Ranbir Kaleka at Bose Pacia.
Welcome to Bose Pacia . I wanna thank all for you for coming out on this beautiful Saturday afternoon and I wanna thank Asia society and all of the members that have made the Asia contemporary week possible to have this event...Read more
Welcome to Bose Pacia . I wanna thank all for you for coming out on this beautiful Saturday afternoon and I wanna thank Asia society and all of the members that have made the Asia contemporary week possible to have this event...Read more
Moma Visitors Fall, Met Museum’s Rise, Led By Blockbusters
Attendance at the Museum of Modern Art dropped 11 percent last season to 2.8 million, as the previous year’s marathon motionlessness of Marina Abramovic and designs from movie director Tim Burton proved to be hard acts to follow...Read more
Attendance at the Museum of Modern Art dropped 11 percent last season to 2.8 million, as the previous year’s marathon motionlessness of Marina Abramovic and designs from movie director Tim Burton proved to be hard acts to follow...Read more
Absolute Beginners
A Holocaust memorial by New Delhi-based painter and video artist, Ranbir Kaleka, is now a permanent fixture at the recently opened headquarters of Chicago’s Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies...Read more
A Holocaust memorial by New Delhi-based painter and video artist, Ranbir Kaleka, is now a permanent fixture at the recently opened headquarters of Chicago’s Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies...Read more
A Phenomenology Of Origins, August 2000
Sonia Khurana documents the scope of her recent work as ‘video/photo/sound/installation/object/performance’. The range of her pieces includes a great deal of video installation, often the end result of performance work, that emplöy a command of gesture...Read more
Sonia Khurana documents the scope of her recent work as ‘video/photo/sound/installation/object/performance’. The range of her pieces includes a great deal of video installation, often the end result of performance work, that emplöy a command of gesture...Read more
The Performative Space :Tracing The Roots Of Performance Based Work In India
Performance is embedded in the very minutiae of daily life in India—from the daily dance of negotiating the traffic, beggars, animals and hordes of pedestrians to the elaborate legacy and heritage of theatre and drama...Read more
Performance is embedded in the very minutiae of daily life in India—from the daily dance of negotiating the traffic, beggars, animals and hordes of pedestrians to the elaborate legacy and heritage of theatre and drama...Read more
FIVE VISITS
Five visits’ is a narration of a moment in time; a magical, and very benign encounter, the proverbial meeting between two strangers: myself and Tom. In narrating this moment, ‘five visits’ does not attempt so much to provide...Read more
Five visits’ is a narration of a moment in time; a magical, and very benign encounter, the proverbial meeting between two strangers: myself and Tom. In narrating this moment, ‘five visits’ does not attempt so much to provide...Read more
Gender Mobility :Through The Lens Of Five Women
Artist In India
The long history of molding the “base” material of one’s own body to make art took a definite turn in the 1970s when feminism, breaking taboos about the female body, produced cutting-edge work through performance art.27 Regarding body and self...Read more
The long history of molding the “base” material of one’s own body to make art took a definite turn in the 1970s when feminism, breaking taboos about the female body, produced cutting-edge work through performance art.27 Regarding body and self...Read more
Sonia Khurana
The seriousness of what I wanted to be came much before I knew how to do it. I got a jolt in the final year of my degree, when I was at Delhi College of Art. My father died, so suddenly there were big responsibilities to think of...Read more
The seriousness of what I wanted to be came much before I knew how to do it. I got a jolt in the final year of my degree, when I was at Delhi College of Art. My father died, so suddenly there were big responsibilities to think of...Read more
The Logic Of Birds :Points Of Departure For Indian Women Artists
Sonia Khurana's naked encounter with her own body in the video performance 'Bird' (1999) plays on questions related to gender in an insensitive patriarchal society...Read more
Sonia Khurana's naked encounter with her own body in the video performance 'Bird' (1999) plays on questions related to gender in an insensitive patriarchal society...Read more
Self As Situational Experiment: An Ongoing Conversation Between Sonia Khurana And Nancy Adajania
Excerpts from catalogue text, printed in Spanish in the book: “India Moderna”, on the occasion of a historical exhibition with the same title at IVAM, Valencia, Spain, December 2008 - February 2009...Read more
Excerpts from catalogue text, printed in Spanish in the book: “India Moderna”, on the occasion of a historical exhibition with the same title at IVAM, Valencia, Spain, December 2008 - February 2009...Read more
Nowhere :Addressing Place In Video/Installation Art From India
Delhi based artist Sonia Khurana has been constantly concerned with the performative aspects of the body. She has explored the body as a site of subjectivity, which crucially allows to reinvent assumptions of identity...Read more
Delhi based artist Sonia Khurana has been constantly concerned with the performative aspects of the body. She has explored the body as a site of subjectivity, which crucially allows to reinvent assumptions of identity...Read more
Transcript of Interview , MPCVA Bombay 2002
Delhi based artist Sonia Khurana has been constantly concerned with the performative aspects of the body. She has explored the body as a site of subjectivity, which crucially allows to reinvent assumptions of identity...Read more
Delhi based artist Sonia Khurana has been constantly concerned with the performative aspects of the body. She has explored the body as a site of subjectivity, which crucially allows to reinvent assumptions of identity...Read more
Logic of Birds 2006 , Ongoing
In Khurana's most recent video-performance, 'The Logic of Birds', she lies like an abandoned vagrant on a thoroughfare, somewhere in Europe. Her shirt torn at the armpit, her body surface unprotected from attention, her arms over her head...Read more
In Khurana's most recent video-performance, 'The Logic of Birds', she lies like an abandoned vagrant on a thoroughfare, somewhere in Europe. Her shirt torn at the armpit, her body surface unprotected from attention, her arms over her head...Read more
Sonia Khurana in conversation with
Geeta Kapur and RoseLee Goldberg
Sonia Khurana is a visual media artist of international repute, with two Masters degrees from London’s Royal College of Art and Delhi University, and education from the Film and TV Institute of India. Her international practice includes projects such as...Read more
Sonia Khurana is a visual media artist of international repute, with two Masters degrees from London’s Royal College of Art and Delhi University, and education from the Film and TV Institute of India. Her international practice includes projects such as...Read more
Cultural Exchange: Christoff Wolmarans' Fanciful Design
Work Finds Artistic Outlet
Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa —— His grandfather's metal flying machine was perched on the roof, like a prehistoric skeletal bird...Read more
Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa —— His grandfather's metal flying machine was perched on the roof, like a prehistoric skeletal bird...Read more
William Kentridge Animations On Show At Ductac
Just a few seconds of animation – grey waves shifting on to an ash grey shore – is enough to confirm William Kentridge's status among South Africa's most eminent contemporary
artists....Read more
Just a few seconds of animation – grey waves shifting on to an ash grey shore – is enough to confirm William Kentridge's status among South Africa's most eminent contemporary
artists....Read more
Picasso, Van Gogh Art In Online Auction In India
People are going nuts”, said a representative of the Karen Woodbury Gallery at the India Art Fair (IAF), which was overrun by art enthusiasts even on Sunday, when the curtains came down on the annual art show....Read more
People are going nuts”, said a representative of the Karen Woodbury Gallery at the India Art Fair (IAF), which was overrun by art enthusiasts even on Sunday, when the curtains came down on the annual art show....Read more
A Lighter Shade Of Red
People are going nuts”, said a representative of the Karen Woodbury Gallery at the India Art Fair (IAF), which was overrun by art enthusiasts even on Sunday, when the curtains came down on the annual art show....Read more
People are going nuts”, said a representative of the Karen Woodbury Gallery at the India Art Fair (IAF), which was overrun by art enthusiasts even on Sunday, when the curtains came down on the annual art show....Read more
Day 4 Of India Art Fair: Highlights
Delhi's crash course in high culture and art appreciation continued well into the fourth day of the India Art Fair. If things may have been a bit dull postlunch on Friday,...Read more
Delhi's crash course in high culture and art appreciation continued well into the fourth day of the India Art Fair. If things may have been a bit dull postlunch on Friday,...Read more
Art Spells Mega Bucks
The business of art is enjoying a big-time boom. And India is cementing its standing in the international art mart. The fourth edition of India Art Fair 2012...Read more
The business of art is enjoying a big-time boom. And India is cementing its standing in the international art mart. The fourth edition of India Art Fair 2012...Read more
Capital Galleries Roll Out Art-Illery
NEW DELHI: It's just four years old but the India Art Fair has already given Delhi its "art week". Even before the doors open to the big, white tents of IAF at its new venue in Okhla on Thursday, the capital's galleries have rolled out the heavy artillery....Read more
NEW DELHI: It's just four years old but the India Art Fair has already given Delhi its "art week". Even before the doors open to the big, white tents of IAF at its new venue in Okhla on Thursday, the capital's galleries have rolled out the heavy artillery....Read more
I Do Love Donkeys Very Much
To know what a maverick artist looks like, look no further than Ranbir Kaleka. He wears a hat even when indoors, from which on occasion I have seen fish hooks dangling — or perhaps they were earrings....Read more
To know what a maverick artist looks like, look no further than Ranbir Kaleka. He wears a hat even when indoors, from which on occasion I have seen fish hooks dangling — or perhaps they were earrings....Read more
Time To Unfold Again
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is all set to come up with some exclusive artwork of about 30 well-known artists, including legendary painter M F Husain that have not been displayed since the past four decades...Read more
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is all set to come up with some exclusive artwork of about 30 well-known artists, including legendary painter M F Husain that have not been displayed since the past four decades...Read more
40-Year-Old Rare Paintings At This Art Do
A series of rare, vintage paintings were displayed for the first time in India at the recently held art show in the capital by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. Around four decade old paintings, drawings and other artworks were showcased in the exhibition titled...Read more
A series of rare, vintage paintings were displayed for the first time in India at the recently held art show in the capital by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. Around four decade old paintings, drawings and other artworks were showcased in the exhibition titled...Read more
The Sunday Guardian,
It's been a rollercoaster of a year, 2011. In Mumbai, it feels like we've spent most of it complaining or commiserating about something or the other: the city's vulnerability to terror attacks...Read more
It's been a rollercoaster of a year, 2011. In Mumbai, it feels like we've spent most of it complaining or commiserating about something or the other: the city's vulnerability to terror attacks...Read more
Time out Delhi
Although he trained as a painter, Ranbir Kaleka is most well-known for blending video projections with painted canvases to create magical moving images. ...Read more
Although he trained as a painter, Ranbir Kaleka is most well-known for blending video projections with painted canvases to create magical moving images. ...Read more
Times out Mumbai
Sitting in the beautiful lawns adjoining the Bhau Daji Lad museum at Byculla, 11- year-old Romil Kothari is putting the finishing touches to a painting inspired by contemporary artist Sheba Chhachhi’s works....Read more
Sitting in the beautiful lawns adjoining the Bhau Daji Lad museum at Byculla, 11- year-old Romil Kothari is putting the finishing touches to a painting inspired by contemporary artist Sheba Chhachhi’s works....Read more
Evoking the Pause’ at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum
Evoking The Pause’, an exhibition of photo and video based objects and installations by the artist Sheba Chhachhi, is the first in a new series of solo exhibitions by artists whose work speaks directly to...Read more
Evoking The Pause’, an exhibition of photo and video based objects and installations by the artist Sheba Chhachhi, is the first in a new series of solo exhibitions by artists whose work speaks directly to...Read more
The Sunday Herald
I went back to see ‘Evoking the Pause’ four times. On later visits, I'd lounge around and watch people spot art works amidst the museum's permanent exhibits...Read more
I went back to see ‘Evoking the Pause’ four times. On later visits, I'd lounge around and watch people spot art works amidst the museum's permanent exhibits...Read more
Mumbai boss
Given the limited number of respectable galleries and art spaces in the city, it would be unfair to say there’s been a glut of Sheba Chhachhi exhibitions this year. However, considering that the number of solo shows Chhachhi had in Mumbai...Read more
Given the limited number of respectable galleries and art spaces in the city, it would be unfair to say there’s been a glut of Sheba Chhachhi exhibitions this year. However, considering that the number of solo shows Chhachhi had in Mumbai...Read more
Deccan Herald
An art fair that attracted more than a hundred thousand visitors; a new, highprofile private museum adding allure to the national capital; important artists showcased at premier national and international events...Read more
An art fair that attracted more than a hundred thousand visitors; a new, highprofile private museum adding allure to the national capital; important artists showcased at premier national and international events...Read more
Your name is different there
In this exhibition I propose to explore, with four artists, a pervasive form of survivor testimony that recurs across societies and historical situations in our global present: an epoch characterised by genocide, displacement...Read more
In this exhibition I propose to explore, with four artists, a pervasive form of survivor testimony that recurs across societies and historical situations in our global present: an epoch characterised by genocide, displacement...Read more
First Post
Your name is different, currently on at the Volte gallery exhibits works by four artists — Sheba Chhachhi, Sonia Khurana, Ranbir Kaleka and CAMP (Shaina Anand, Sanjay Bangar and Ashok Sukumaran)...Read more
Your name is different, currently on at the Volte gallery exhibits works by four artists — Sheba Chhachhi, Sonia Khurana, Ranbir Kaleka and CAMP (Shaina Anand, Sanjay Bangar and Ashok Sukumaran)...Read more
Time Out Mumbai
In her new exhibition ‘Your Name is Different There’, which goes on display at Volte this fortnight, curator Nancy Adajania presents a selection of works by multimedia art Sheba Chhachhi...Read more
In her new exhibition ‘Your Name is Different There’, which goes on display at Volte this fortnight, curator Nancy Adajania presents a selection of works by multimedia art Sheba Chhachhi...Read more
The Full Picture
The SA art market is under pressure and a number of paintings have failed to sell at recent auctions, but the rise in the number of serious collectors means quality works are still sought after...Read more
The SA art market is under pressure and a number of paintings have failed to sell at recent auctions, but the rise in the number of serious collectors means quality works are still sought after...Read more
70th Annual Peabody Awards Winners Announced
ATHENS, Ga., March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A record 39 recipients of the 70th Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication...Read more
ATHENS, Ga., March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A record 39 recipients of the 70th Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication...Read more
Picture This: A Nose On The Loose
But on Friday night, when the Met introduced its production ofShostakovich’s early opera “The Nose,” based on the Gogol short story, the South African artist William Kentridge, who directed this production, helped design the sets...Read more
But on Friday night, when the Met introduced its production ofShostakovich’s early opera “The Nose,” based on the Gogol short story, the South African artist William Kentridge, who directed this production, helped design the sets...Read more
Mumbai Boss: Culture
Is he stricken with grief? Or merely sleeping? The man in this photo by artist Sonia Khurana could be homeless or merely waiting for a bus. It’s the underlying sense of sadness, loss and poverty.....Read more
Is he stricken with grief? Or merely sleeping? The man in this photo by artist Sonia Khurana could be homeless or merely waiting for a bus. It’s the underlying sense of sadness, loss and poverty.....Read more
Livemint: Lounge
“I relate very strongly to Jeet (Thayil)’s poetry. Especially the manner in which he is able to strike a deep melancholic note, like a dhrupad maestro,” says curator Nancy
Adajania...Read more
“I relate very strongly to Jeet (Thayil)’s poetry. Especially the manner in which he is able to strike a deep melancholic note, like a dhrupad maestro,” says curator Nancy
Adajania...Read more
Art Media Agency (AMA)
Volte Gallery in Bombay is currently presenting the exhibition until 8 January 2012, “Your name is different there”, organised by Nancy Adajania....Read more
Volte Gallery in Bombay is currently presenting the exhibition until 8 January 2012, “Your name is different there”, organised by Nancy Adajania....Read more
Digital Art and Technology
Sweet Unease is a triptych with a single projector. Two men (played by the same actor) on two sides of the screen, in two distinct interiors, eat, get up and enter a central space, and wrestle.....Read more
Sweet Unease is a triptych with a single projector. Two men (played by the same actor) on two sides of the screen, in two distinct interiors, eat, get up and enter a central space, and wrestle.....Read more
Mumbai Boss: Culture,
14 December 2010
Is he stricken with grief? Or merely sleeping? The man in this photo by artist Sonia Khurana could be homeless or merely waiting for a bus. It’s the underlying sense of sadness, loss and poverty that sets...Read more
Is he stricken with grief? Or merely sleeping? The man in this photo by artist Sonia Khurana could be homeless or merely waiting for a bus. It’s the underlying sense of sadness, loss and poverty that sets...Read more
Livemint: Lounge,
10 December, 2010
“I relate very strongly to Jeet (Thayil)’s poetry. Especially the manner in which he is able to strike a deep melancholic note, like a dhrupad maestro,” says curator Nancy Adajania, explaining....Read more
“I relate very strongly to Jeet (Thayil)’s poetry. Especially the manner in which he is able to strike a deep melancholic note, like a dhrupad maestro,” says curator Nancy Adajania, explaining....Read more
Art Media Agency (AMA),
2 December, 2011
Volte Gallery in Bombay is currently presenting the exhibition until 8 January 2012, “Your name is different there”, organised by Nancy Adajania.
Adajania, art critic as well as independent curator, proposes a tragic but current theme in the contemporary society, survival,...Read more
Volte Gallery in Bombay is currently presenting the exhibition until 8 January 2012, “Your name is different there”, organised by Nancy Adajania.
Adajania, art critic as well as independent curator, proposes a tragic but current theme in the contemporary society, survival,...Read more
Augmenting Practices
‘Augmenting Practices’ is a cutting edge curatorial effort by three young curators namely Akansha Rastogi, Rattanmol Johal and Leon Tan at the Khoj International Residency, New Delhi....Read more
‘Augmenting Practices’ is a cutting edge curatorial effort by three young curators namely Akansha Rastogi, Rattanmol Johal and Leon Tan at the Khoj International Residency, New Delhi....Read more
Moving Pictures In A Canvas
An innocuous image of a man makes up the canvas in Ranbir Kaleka’s Fables
from the House of Ibaan. The man sits pensively next to a table, with a jar of milk
and coloured candles. ...Read more
An innocuous image of a man makes up the canvas in Ranbir Kaleka’s Fables
from the House of Ibaan. The man sits pensively next to a table, with a jar of milk
and coloured candles. ...Read more
First Post
Your name is different, currently on at the Volte gallery exhibits works by four artists — Sheba Chhachhi, Sonia Khurana, Ranbir Kaleka and CAMP (Shaina Anand, Sanjay Bangar and Ashok Sukumaran). ...Read more
Your name is different, currently on at the Volte gallery exhibits works by four artists — Sheba Chhachhi, Sonia Khurana, Ranbir Kaleka and CAMP (Shaina Anand, Sanjay Bangar and Ashok Sukumaran). ...Read more
Ranbir Kaleka's Moving Still life
Saffronart and Volte Gallery Present the Solo Exhibition of Ranbir Kaleka: Fables
Showing at The Oberoi, the artist’s Fables are a delightful composite of video and painting with metaphorical stories. ...Read more
Saffronart and Volte Gallery Present the Solo Exhibition of Ranbir Kaleka: Fables
Showing at The Oberoi, the artist’s Fables are a delightful composite of video and painting with metaphorical stories. ...Read more
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Mumbai-based gallery Volte is this year’s choice for Bidaya, Abu Dhabi Art’s designated section which showcases one emerging art gallery.
He was once a venture capitalist but his heart was always in art. Tushar Jiwarajka would always visit art galleries and museums in New York, London and Singapore ...Read more
He was once a venture capitalist but his heart was always in art. Tushar Jiwarajka would always visit art galleries and museums in New York, London and Singapore ...Read more
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International Ideals – by Christopher Lord, November 17, 2011.
To get a sense of Abu Dhabi Art (ADA), with 50 galleries clustered in the enwly erected UAE pavilion on Saadiyat Island, it is necessary to think back to the original idea by which this fair defined itself.
“International” was the buzzword that kept coming up, both by speaking to the directors of the event through to the press conference before opening night. ...Read more
To get a sense of Abu Dhabi Art (ADA), with 50 galleries clustered in the enwly erected UAE pavilion on Saadiyat Island, it is necessary to think back to the original idea by which this fair defined itself.
“International” was the buzzword that kept coming up, both by speaking to the directors of the event through to the press conference before opening night. ...Read more
Luminarium by Sheba Chhachhi
‘Luminariam: a Prelude’ earlier title ‘Winged Pilgrims: A chronicle from Asia’ is comceived and constructed in 2006-2008 by Sheba Chhachhi. ...Read more
‘Luminariam: a Prelude’ earlier title ‘Winged Pilgrims: A chronicle from Asia’ is comceived and constructed in 2006-2008 by Sheba Chhachhi. ...Read more
Delhi-based artist wins Singapore Art Museum award
-Press Trust of India, 2011
New Delhi, Nov 18 (PTI) City-based artist Sheba Chhachhi has won a Signature Art Prize given by Singapore Art Museum for her large-scale public installation 'The Water Diviner'. ...Read more
-Press Trust of India, 2011
New Delhi, Nov 18 (PTI) City-based artist Sheba Chhachhi has won a Signature Art Prize given by Singapore Art Museum for her large-scale public installation 'The Water Diviner'. ...Read more
Brewing art in potpourri of Asian culture- Moushumi Sharma, 2011
Fifteen works from artists of the Asia Pacific Region are currently on display at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM). The artworks were selected from 130 artists from 24 countries and territories who participated at the 2011 ...Read more
Fifteen works from artists of the Asia Pacific Region are currently on display at the Singapore Art Museum (SAM). The artworks were selected from 130 artists from 24 countries and territories who participated at the 2011 ...Read more
Evoking the Pause
‘Evoking The Pause’, an exhibition of photo and video based objects and installations by the artist Sheba Chhachhi, is the first in a new series of solo exhibitions by artists whose work...Read more
‘Evoking The Pause’, an exhibition of photo and video based objects and installations by the artist Sheba Chhachhi, is the first in a new series of solo exhibitions by artists whose work...Read more
Winged Pilgrims - A chronicle from Asia, Nancy Adajania, 2007
“Rising into the air, flying like a bird, travelling immense distances in a flash, disappearing – these are some of the magical powers Buddhism and Hinduism attribute to arhats [Buddhas], kings and magicians.”...Read more
“Rising into the air, flying like a bird, travelling immense distances in a flash, disappearing – these are some of the magical powers Buddhism and Hinduism attribute to arhats [Buddhas], kings and magicians.”...Read more
Winged Pilgrims: Sheba Chhachhi at Nature Morte
Alexander Keefe
Once upon a time, or so the story goes, there lived an old fisherman on the wretched riverbanks in the shadow of the palace of the Shah. A lucky day was one where he caught a tiny fish or two....Read more
Alexander Keefe
Once upon a time, or so the story goes, there lived an old fisherman on the wretched riverbanks in the shadow of the palace of the Shah. A lucky day was one where he caught a tiny fish or two....Read more
Sheba Chhachhi’s first major solo show in Mumbai
In the darkend interiors of the Volte gallery. mythical and mundane birds take flight. their images soar, swoop and glide across several screens....Read more
In the darkend interiors of the Volte gallery. mythical and mundane birds take flight. their images soar, swoop and glide across several screens....Read more
Painted Veil
Till 7 April
Painted Veil, the title of Boshudhara Mukherjee’s debut show in Mumbai, is taken from a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Like Shelley’s poem Lift not the Painted Veil......Read more
Till 7 April
Painted Veil, the title of Boshudhara Mukherjee’s debut show in Mumbai, is taken from a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Like Shelley’s poem Lift not the Painted Veil......Read more
Tibet on Canvas
“Few people know the modern art of Tibet. It is like a strange creature, growing without preparation,” wrote Tibetan artist Gade .....Read more
“Few people know the modern art of Tibet. It is like a strange creature, growing without preparation,” wrote Tibetan artist Gade .....Read more
At a Colaba gallery
There is a scene in the Brad Pitt-starrer Seven Years in Tibet, where Pitt, who plays Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, is tasked with the construction of a theatre for the young Dalai Lama. But when work starts, there is trouble. Tibetan consruction workers refuse to work.....Read more
There is a scene in the Brad Pitt-starrer Seven Years in Tibet, where Pitt, who plays Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer, is tasked with the construction of a theatre for the young Dalai Lama. But when work starts, there is trouble. Tibetan consruction workers refuse to work.....Read more
Leaving Lhasa Vegas by AninditaGhose&Supriya Nair
Moving beyond traditional imagery, contemporary Tibetan art is beginning to carve a niche for itselft...Read more
Moving beyond traditional imagery, contemporary Tibetan art is beginning to carve a niche for itselft...Read more
MUMBAI BOSS
CultureULTURE
Though all of Tibetan origin, the artists showing at Volte have only the loosest artistic connection to their homeland...Read more
CultureULTURE
Though all of Tibetan origin, the artists showing at Volte have only the loosest artistic connection to their homeland...Read more
Lost in Translation, Almostby HemantSareen
On March 28, 2011, the staff of Volte, a two-year-old gallery located in Mumbai’s tony Colaba district, had an unfortunate rite of passage. According to ...Read more
On March 28, 2011, the staff of Volte, a two-year-old gallery located in Mumbai’s tony Colaba district, had an unfortunate rite of passage. According to ...Read more
Smashing Cars, Scrubbing Blood
Have you ever known the thrill of smashing a car in the middle of a 100-year-old mill facing the sea? That’s what multidisciplinary artist ...Read more
Have you ever known the thrill of smashing a car in the middle of a 100-year-old mill facing the sea? That’s what multidisciplinary artist ...Read more
Man Against Machine
How hard is it to destroy a car with a sledgehammer? The answer: much harder than you would imagine. A new gallery called Volte has opened in Colaba, and their second exhibition, Break, by musician....Read more
How hard is it to destroy a car with a sledgehammer? The answer: much harder than you would imagine. A new gallery called Volte has opened in Colaba, and their second exhibition, Break, by musician....Read more
Hammeringe!
It would be safe to say that Mumbai has never seen an art exhibit like this one. And if for nothing else but the sheer novelty of this, it ...Read more
It would be safe to say that Mumbai has never seen an art exhibit like this one. And if for nothing else but the sheer novelty of this, it ...Read more
Under the lens
Over the coming weeks, as the art season slows down, up and coming artists are likely to make their presence felt in galleries across the city ...Read more
Over the coming weeks, as the art season slows down, up and coming artists are likely to make their presence felt in galleries across the city ...Read more
Lung power
Our Breath Concrete, Volte
Most of us wouldn’t think of yoga and light sensors in the same breath but QusaiKathawala hopes that after seeing his debut show Our Breath ...Read more
Our Breath Concrete, Volte
Most of us wouldn’t think of yoga and light sensors in the same breath but QusaiKathawala hopes that after seeing his debut show Our Breath ...Read more
Vogue RSVP
Different Strokes
WHAT: Finissage Party
WHERE: Volte Gallery, Mumbai
Volte Gallery took the iconic works of RanbirKalekato ART Singapore 2011 ...Read more
Different Strokes
WHAT: Finissage Party
WHERE: Volte Gallery, Mumbai
Volte Gallery took the iconic works of RanbirKalekato ART Singapore 2011 ...Read more
RanbirKaleka's Beautiful World
An aluminium kettle, that icon of the roadside chaiwallah, simmers away on a hob as the projected background transforms every few seconds. From the domestic...Read more
An aluminium kettle, that icon of the roadside chaiwallah, simmers away on a hob as the projected background transforms every few seconds. From the domestic...Read more
Moving Image
It’s something that could well have come from Hogwarts, except RanbirKaleka’s moving canvases aren’t a trick of wizardry: the paintings...Read more
It’s something that could well have come from Hogwarts, except RanbirKaleka’s moving canvases aren’t a trick of wizardry: the paintings...Read more
Sweet Unease
Morphing and reproducing exponentially, the image, as we now know it, is perennially beleaguered. To outwit this condition is a challenge, but Ranbir ...Read more
Morphing and reproducing exponentially, the image, as we now know it, is perennially beleaguered. To outwit this condition is a challenge, but Ranbir ...Read more
Sweet Unease
Ranbir Kaleka adjusts the frames for his first solo show in Mumbai, reports Zeenat Nagree In the late 1990’s, when contemporary Indian art was being refined through experiments with video and new media, Ranbir Kaleka’s first video -painting...Read more
Ranbir Kaleka adjusts the frames for his first solo show in Mumbai, reports Zeenat Nagree In the late 1990’s, when contemporary Indian art was being refined through experiments with video and new media, Ranbir Kaleka’s first video -painting...Read more
The New York Times
13.Mumbai
On the one-year anniversary of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, citizens painted a one-kilometer stretch of wall in South Mumbai with murals...Read more
13.Mumbai
On the one-year anniversary of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, citizens painted a one-kilometer stretch of wall in South Mumbai with murals...Read more
The Gallery is Dead
Most of us wouldn’t think of yoga and light sensors in the same breath but QusaiKathawala hopes that after seeing his debut show Our Breath ...Read more
Most of us wouldn’t think of yoga and light sensors in the same breath but QusaiKathawala hopes that after seeing his debut show Our Breath ...Read more
Tushar Jiwarajka
Tushar Jiwarajka is not your run-of-the-mill Marwari boy. For the 32-year-old, life has been full of surprises and a string of career paths that have made him ...Read more
Tushar Jiwarajka is not your run-of-the-mill Marwari boy. For the 32-year-old, life has been full of surprises and a string of career paths that have made him ...Read more
technology redefined
Volte
Minimalist in design, surrounded by new visual formats, amidst art books and good coffee, is Volte. This exhibition space of 3,000 sq ft presents ...Read more
Volte
Minimalist in design, surrounded by new visual formats, amidst art books and good coffee, is Volte. This exhibition space of 3,000 sq ft presents ...Read more
Bose Pacia Gallery
May 2009 New York – Bose Pacia presents Ranbir Kaleka's Reading Man from May 14 – June 27, 2009. The gallery is located at 508 West 26th Street on the 11th Floor, in the Chelsea district of New York City...Read more
May 2009 New York – Bose Pacia presents Ranbir Kaleka's Reading Man from May 14 – June 27, 2009. The gallery is located at 508 West 26th Street on the 11th Floor, in the Chelsea district of New York City...Read more
Art Asia Pacific
At first glance, the three works in “Fables from the House of Ibaan: stage- 1” could be mistaken for exquisite oil-on-canvas paintings or straightforward examples of video art. In reality, Ranbir Kaleka’s inventive installations straddle both mediums...Read more
At first glance, the three works in “Fables from the House of Ibaan: stage- 1” could be mistaken for exquisite oil-on-canvas paintings or straightforward examples of video art. In reality, Ranbir Kaleka’s inventive installations straddle both mediums...Read more
Livemint: Lounge
After working with the moving image in inventive ways—such as marrying it with a still image— which evoke a sense of wonderment in the viewer, Ranbir Kaleka has returned to paintings for his latest show...Read more
After working with the moving image in inventive ways—such as marrying it with a still image— which evoke a sense of wonderment in the viewer, Ranbir Kaleka has returned to paintings for his latest show...Read more
Nature Morte
Nature Morte is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Ranbir Kaleka entitled "Reading Man." This is the artist's first solo exhibition in New Delhi, where he lives and works...Read more
Nature Morte is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Ranbir Kaleka entitled "Reading Man." This is the artist's first solo exhibition in New Delhi, where he lives and works...Read more
Art India Magazine
Ranbir Kaleka has had a busy two years. A solo show of his video installations ran at Bose Pacia New York from March 20th to April 26th, 2008, and in 2007, the Jewish Museum in Chicago commissioned him to make a multi-media...Read more
Ranbir Kaleka has had a busy two years. A solo show of his video installations ran at Bose Pacia New York from March 20th to April 26th, 2008, and in 2007, the Jewish Museum in Chicago commissioned him to make a multi-media...Read more
Art Asia Pacific
A Holocaust memorial by New Delhi-based painter and video artist, Ranbir Kaleka, is now a permanent fixture at the recently opened headquarters of Chicago’s Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies...Read more
A Holocaust memorial by New Delhi-based painter and video artist, Ranbir Kaleka, is now a permanent fixture at the recently opened headquarters of Chicago’s Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies...Read more
Bose Pacia Gallery
Ranbir Kaleka's work has been described as "creating a seemingly living tableau on a canvas and screen." Kaleka's new work continues this project of producing art in a third, liminal space between painting and video...Read more
Ranbir Kaleka's work has been described as "creating a seemingly living tableau on a canvas and screen." Kaleka's new work continues this project of producing art in a third, liminal space between painting and video...Read more
C-Arts Magazine
Another fantastic show by a well-known artist was Punjabi-born Ranbir Kaleka’s marriage-transmutation really-of painting and video at Bose Pacia gallery. In Fables from the House of Ibaan...Read more
Another fantastic show by a well-known artist was Punjabi-born Ranbir Kaleka’s marriage-transmutation really-of painting and video at Bose Pacia gallery. In Fables from the House of Ibaan...Read more
Indian Express
Ranbir Kaleka’s one-man show at Nature Morte Gallery, “Reading Man” marks the decisive shift from his complex video installations, brightly coloured acrylics overlapped on video and hand-coloured films...Read more
Ranbir Kaleka’s one-man show at Nature Morte Gallery, “Reading Man” marks the decisive shift from his complex video installations, brightly coloured acrylics overlapped on video and hand-coloured films...Read more
Live Mint, The Wall Street Journal
Why has a Jewish museum hired Ranbir Kaleka, a Punjabi with a different take on the Middle East, to create a permanent installation piece on the Holocaust?...Read more
Why has a Jewish museum hired Ranbir Kaleka, a Punjabi with a different take on the Middle East, to create a permanent installation piece on the Holocaust?...Read more
Spertus Museum
Memorials have traditionally offered the visitor an imposing, inspiring and everlasting art work upon which to contemplate a historic loss. Think of the towering, pristine obelisk that stands as the Washington Monument or the proud, fixed sculpture of Abraham...Read more
Memorials have traditionally offered the visitor an imposing, inspiring and everlasting art work upon which to contemplate a historic loss. Think of the towering, pristine obelisk that stands as the Washington Monument or the proud, fixed sculpture of Abraham...Read more
Spertus Museum
Spertus Museum has commissioned Indian artist Ranbir Kaleka to produce a powerful, open-ended reflection on the Holocaust. With the aim of finding a universal language to express the horror of the Holocaust while not losing the particular...Read more
Spertus Museum has commissioned Indian artist Ranbir Kaleka to produce a powerful, open-ended reflection on the Holocaust. With the aim of finding a universal language to express the horror of the Holocaust while not losing the particular...Read more
