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THERE ARE TIDES IN THE BODY
INDO-SWISS GROUP EXHIBITION | CURATED BY DAMIAN CHRISTINGER 8 Nov 2024 - 11 Jan 2025 Preview on November 8, at 5 pm Curatorial Walkthrough with artists on November 8 , at 6 pm. Exhibition Dates: November 8 2024 – January 11, 2025 Venue: Emami Art: Gallery 2 & 3, Ground Floor Radhika Agarwala, Nicole Bachmann, Lukas Bärfuss, Ruma Choudhury, Santanu Debnath, Suman Dey, Mélanie Gugelmann,... Read more -
IMAGINARIUM 4.0
Emami Art Annual All India Open Call 2024 | Awards and Exhibition 8 Nov 2024 - 11 Jan 2025 Preview and Award Ceremony on November 8 , at 5 PM Walkthrough with artists on November 8 , at 6 :30 PM Exhibition Dates: November 8 2024 – January 11, 2025 Venue: Emami Art: Gallery 1, Ground Floor Avijit Dutta (First) , Poojan Gupta (Second) , Sayanee... Read more
Past
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A Thousand Years of Dreaming - A Solo by Debashish Paul
Curated by Mario D’Souza 6 Sep - 26 Oct 2024 A Thousand Years of Dreaming A Solo by Debashish Paul Curated by Mario D’Souza Date: September 6 – October 26, 2024 Emami Art: Gallery 2 & 3 Watch the exhibition walkthrough by Mario D'Souza A barren, sandy landscape stretches in the distance. As the fog parts, a... Read more -
এক্ষণ I Ekkhan : Situating the Present
A Group Exhibition of Artists from Bengal 6 Sep - 26 Oct 2024 এক্ষণ / Ekkhan : Situating the Present A Group Exhibition of Artists from Bengal Aditya Basak, Chandra Bhattacharjee, Chhatrapati Dutta, Goutam Chowdhury, Jayashree Chakravarty, Partha Dasgupta, Subrata Biswas, Srikanta Paul, Tapas Biswas, Veena Bhargava Exhibition Dates: September 6 – October 26, 2024 Venue: Emami Art, Gallery... Read more -
THE SALTS OF MANY SEAS
A Solo Exhibition by Ali Akbar PN 28 Jun - 31 Aug 2024 Ali Akbar P N is a contemporary artist whose thematic preoccupations traverse the delicate terrain of memory, myth, mobility, and heritage. He employs a sophisticated blend of archival research, site-specific study, and scholarly inquiry in his practice. ‘The Salts of Many Seas’ is an introduction to his recent and ongoing... Read more -
PENSIVE MOONS
Recent watercolours by Bholanath Rudra 28 Jun - 31 Aug 2024 The main image throughout the exhibition is the moon. Steeped in the varied shades of darkness of the night, it appears in different moods and shapes, endowing the paintings of the forest and river with profound emotive quality. However, the moonlit nature, which grips us with its tremendous scenic beauty,... Read more -
Dawn to Dusk: A Silent Symphony
A Solo Exhibition by Ujjal Dey 28 Jun - 31 Aug 2024 Ujjal Dey’s recent works on textiles and paper are abstract and expressionistic meditations on themes of time’s passage, ritualistic practices, feminine labour and ties to nature. His keenly observant works, informed by extensive research on the textile histories of India, are a nuanced examination of pre-industrial age traditional dyes and... Read more -
One Hundred Years and Counting: Re-Scripting KG Subramanyan
A research-based survey exhibition curated by Nancy Adajania 5 Apr - 21 Jun 2024 Preview on: April 5 2024 | 4 PM – 8 PM Dates: April 5 – June 21, 2024| 11 AM – 7 PM (Sundays closed) Emami Art, Ground Floor The Exhibition is presented by Emami Art in collaboration with Seagull and Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Baroda. Other collaborators:... Read more -
Not a Dream, Not Peace, Not Love
Recent Works by Arindam Chatterjee 23 Feb - 30 Apr 2024 DOWNLOAD THE DOSSIER DOWNLOAD THE PRESS RELEASE Around 2007 – after more than a decade of intense engagement – Arindam Chatterjee slowly moved away from abstraction, allowing figurative elements in his works. Like many painters of his generation and before that in post-independent India, he carried expressionism toward abstraction. Yet,... Read more -
ALL THAT IS HIDDEN
Mapping Departures in Landscape, Terrains and Geographies 20 Jan - 23 Mar 2024 DOWNLOAD THE DOSSIER DOWNLOAD THE PRESS RELEASE Landscape and its evolution as a genre has always been a significant discourse in art history. The continuum beckons a meticulous exploration of its intrinsic tropes within the contextual frameworks of culture, so ciety, and artistic expression. The diversity in representation across traditions... Read more -
The Lost Fragrance of Memory
A Solo Exhibition by Suman Dey 15 Oct - 30 Dec 2023 The Lost Fragrance of Memory reveals Suman Dey's unique spatial imagination, a mellowed world of lines, shapes and colours. A self-taught artist and one of the prominent painters in Bengal working in the language of abstraction today, Suman Dey (b.1981) repudiates the use of familiar objects and their material existence,... Read more -
IMAGINARIUM 3.0
A group exhibition 14 Oct - 30 Dec 2023 IMAGINARIUM 3.0 , the third edition of Emami Art All-India Open Call Exhibition , features some of the most recent artworks by ten selected young artists. The exhibition s howca ses an eclectic selection of works spanning a range of mediums, styles and forms. A dedicated and meticulous attempt to... Read more -
The Dream of an Idiot
Sibaprasad Karchaudhuri | Tapestry, Painting, Drawing, Prints | Curated by Ushmita Sahu 14 Jul - 30 Sep 2023 The Dream of an Idiot, a survey show of artist and pedagogue Sibaprasad Karchaudhuri, encompasses the significant phases of Karchaudhuri's long and productive career across four decades, bringing to light the rich consonance that marks his practice. The exhibition is curated by Ushmita Sahu, the director and head curator of... Read more -
Lalit Mohan Sen: An Enduring Legacy
Exhibition curated by Emami Art in consultation with Debdutta Gupta. 14 Jul - 30 Sep 2023 A versatile artist, consummate teacher, and a well-known cultural figure throughout his career, Lalit Mohan Sen (1898-1954) was a leading Indian artist who lived and worked at the peak of the Gandhian era. An Enduring Legacyseeks to understand the artist as an ambitious practitioner in colonial South Asia while examining... Read more -
In A Cannibal Time
Photographs by Naveen Kishore 28 Apr - 25 Jun 2023 Always a trigger. A context. For bearing, yes, for bearing witness. The 'when' is not always important. Nor are 'labels' that mark a particular moment of atrocity. Inflicted by nation states, by states within states, by people like you and me on those they see as the Other, an Other like you... Read more -
Garden of Infinite Desires
A group exhibition showcasing the works by seven artists from Bengal 28 Apr - 25 Jun 2023 Over a long period of time , man has desacralize d nature, as John Ruskin puts it, looking at it merely as a source of raw materials to be exploited, stripping it of its mystery and beauty. Our techno-economic progress has red uced the sacred distance that once separated us... Read more -
Soliloquy
Solo exhibition presenting the recent watercolours and prints by Indrapramit Roy 24 Feb - 15 Apr 2023 And there was so much sky, more than at sea, more than anywhere else in the world. The plain was there under one’s feet but what one looked about was that brilliant blue world of stinging air and morning cloud. The landscape one longed for when one was... Read more -
Bhu - Tatva / भू – तत्व: Elements of Earth
The second edition of contemporary ceramics exhibition in collaboration with Falguni Bhatt 24 Feb - 15 Apr 2023 The word Bhū is associated with the creation of the world; the epic poem depicting cosmogony in the Pūrana mentions the breaking of the Aṇḍa (the primal egg or seed) and the emergence of the sound Bhū. It also refers to earth and is one of the 53 synonyms of... Read more -
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 -
Emami Art at Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-23
Invited Satellite Programme 13 Dec 2022 - 10 Apr 2023 Emami Art was part of the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2022-23 invited Satellite Programme. From 13 December 2022 to 10 April 2023, the gallery presented two synchronous solo shows @ Mocha Art Café, Synagogue Lane, Jew Town, Kochi. Anatomy of a Vegetable – Ruminations on fragile ecosystems , is... 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 -
Somnath Hore: A centenary exhibition
Curated by K.S. Radhakrishnan 18 Jun - 24 Jul 2022 Arthshila Santiniketan’s inaugural show, Somnath Hore : A centenary exhibition , curated by K.S. Radhakrishnan , explor es the different facets of the a rtist. The non linear exhibition covers his works across diff erent periods, including works from an unpublished sketchbook of his drawings of daily life in Santinik... 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 -
Imprint: Riten Mozumdar
Emami Art in collaboration with Chaterjee & Lal curated by Ushmita Sahu 13 Feb - 8 Apr 2022 Curatorial note Riten Mozumdar (1927 – 2006) was one of the most significant artist-designers of the Indian Modernist Design Renaissance in the decades immediately following Independence. Responding to the socio-economic and cultural upheaval sweeping through the country, Mozumdar, and his contemporaries such as Nelly Sethna, Ratna Fabri, Shona Ray and... 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 -
Fluid Boundaries
Curated by Nanak Ganguly 6 Nov - 15 Dec 2020 As we are overwhelmed by the sense of an outsider in a presence, exacerbated by never knowing the proper accent, the space here at Emami Art is filled to capacity with the hierarchies that prevail, the resulting subjugations, the dogmas of prescribed thinking, the inequality of gender, the violence and... Read more
