Contemporary art from India - Art exhibition April 26, 2009

Contemporary art from India - Art exhibition. This exhibition explores contemporary Indian art's relationship with the world the art-world as well as the world beyond the art-world. Contemporary art from India has "gone global" in the past decade. Opening out to the world brings new influences, opportunities, audiences, forms of circulation and means of production. Has this shift in Indian art's place in the world affected the art? Does the expansion of the viewership change the way the artist addresses audiences? Has the need to stand out in an ever-larger crowd affected the scale and look of the art? What forms does an engagement with local contexts take? In short, what has globalisation meant for contemporary Indian art? These are some of the questions that this exhibition addresses. Where in the World is curated from the Lekha and Anupam Poddar collection of contemporary Indian art. This exhibition invites viewers also to think about the implications of such a collection. This collection will be the future's memory of this phase in Indian art. In the absence of other such collections, it may be our only memory of these years. The exhibition includes works by A Balasubramaniam, Atul Bhalla, C. Nannaiah, Sheba Chhachhi, Krishnaraj Chonat, Nikhil Chopra, Atul Dodiya, Anita Dube, Nicola Durvasula, Sheela Gowda, Probir Gupta, Shilpa Gupta, Subodh Gupta, Sonia Jabbar, Bharti Kher, Sonia Khurana, Susanta Mandal, N. Pushpamala, Jeetander Ojha, Jagannath Panda, Srinivasa Prasad, Ashim Purkayastha, Gigi Scaria, Mithu Sen, Tejal Shah, Sudarshan Shetty, T.V.Santhosh, and Navin Thomas. The exhibition has been curated by a team of faculty and students from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University as part of the School's first offering of a course on curating. The student team includes Edward Anderson, Seher Agarwala, Neha Berlia, Rajashree Biswal, Ayeeta Biswas, Ambar Sahil Chatterjee, Rahul Dev, Dipa Donde, Natasha Ginwala, Vartikka Kaul, Nidhi Khurana, Premjish Nil, Eesha Phanse, Mohd. Ahmed Sabih, Moumita Sen, Yamini Telkar, Agastaya Thapa, Malavika Venugopal, and John Xaviers. They were led by Kavita Singh, Shukla Sawant and Naman Ahuja, associate professors of the School.

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