Horn Please! Narratives from Contemporary Indian Art

‘Horn Please!’ an exhibition of contemporary Indian art at the Kunstmuseum Bern showcases works of Indian artists. [dated September 2007]

Horn Please!’ an exhibition of contemporary Indian art at the Kunstmuseum Bern showcases the works of 32 Indian artists. The exhibition has been curated by Bernhard Fibicher, a curator of contemporary art from Bern and Suman Gopinath, an independent curator from Bangalore. A special programme with films, literature and performances will accompany the exhibition, which will open to the public from September 20' 2007 to January 6' 2008

Horn Please! spans three decades from the 1980s to the present and is loosely constructed around four sections – Narrating Collisions, Re-imagining Places for People, Re-telling Stories/Telling Metaphor and Living in Alice-time. The stories weave back and forth across shifts in media and temporalities without tracing a history or lineage. The exhibition with its breaks in style, its digressions and diversions, its diversity in points of view and ‘narrators’, has a structure, which allows the viewer to reconstruct a different story with each reading.

Names of artists being showcased: Ayisha Abraham, Ravi Agarwal, Sarnat Banerjee, Jyothi Basu, Atul Dodiya, Anita Dube, Sunil Gupta, Sheela Gowda, Archana Hande, N S Harsha, Abhishek Hazra, Ranbir Kaleka, Jitish Kallat, Bhupen Khakhar, Sonia Khurana, Nalini Malani, Prabhavathi Meppayil, Surendran Nair, Sudhir Patwardhan, Justin Ponmany, Pushpamala N., Raqs Media Collective, K P Reji, Gigi Scaria, Mithu Sen, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh, Arpita Singh, Dayanita Singh, Vivan Sundaram, Surekha and Vasudha Thozhur