Chhota Paisa (small money) at KHOJLIVE12
Chhota Paisa (small money) at KHOJLIVE12 - a collaboration between the Swiss musician, Hans Koch and the Indian artist, Rashmi Kaleka and Suchet Malhotra. [dated 2012]
Chhota Paisa (small money) at KHOJLIVE12 Pro Helvetia New Delhi is delighted to be associated with KHOJLIVE12 an evening of live performances organised by the KHOJ International Artists' Association and to present Chhota Paisa (small money) a collaboration between the Swiss musician, Hans Koch and the Indian artist, Rashmi Kaleka and Suchet Malhotra.
Friday, 27th January, 2012 from 4:00pm to 9:30pm
at BlueFROG, The Kila, Seven Style Mile, Opposite Qutub Minar, Mehrauli, New Delhi
The work Chhota Paisa (small money) is a collaboration between the Swiss musician, Hans Koch and the Indian artist, Rashmi Kaleka and was commissioned by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council in 2011.
Dario Gamboni’s lecture series
Dario Gamboni’s lecture series to be held in Mumbai on January 23 & 24 2012. [dated January 2012]
Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council and Mohile Parikh Center, NCPA, Mumbai invite you for the Dario Gamboni’s lecture series on modern and contemporary art on Monday, January 23, 2012 at 4:00 pm and Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Venue: NGMA Auditorium, Mumbai
Speaker: Dario Gamboni
Discussant: Shukla Sawant
Programme Details:
January 23, 2012
RECYCLING NEOLITHIC URNS AND VINYL RECORDS: MATERIAL AND METAMORPHOSIS IN CONTEMPORARY ART
In the first half of the twentieth century, the “truth to materials aesthetics” defended the notion that the materials of art were agents in the artistic process. Since then, the digital revolution and the delegation of artistic production to “fabricators” seem to have relegated materials to the role of passive, interchangeable instruments or to have let them disappear altogether. Recently, however, artists have given a renewed prominence to unexpected materials such as overpainted prehistoric ceramics and melted vinyl records. This lecture will examine works by these (very diverse) artists, such as Ai Weiwei and Dario Robleto, and compare the new meanings they give to materiality with developments in archaeology, popular music, and genetics.
January 24, 2012
ART IN A PHYSICAL CONTEXT: CHANGES IN THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE VISUAL ARTS, SPACE, AND TERRITORY
“Globalization” also means an ever increasing circulation of images and artefacts. Around 1800, keen observers such as Goethe noted that this movement had already begun and that henceforth, works of art would no longer be seen and appreciated primarily in the location for which they had been made. The very idea of art became associated with sitelessness, an independence from place as well as from time and history. Ever since, however, some artists and theoreticians have tried to counter this “dislocation” by creating and praising works meant to be “site-specific”. The history of art has been deeply involved in these contradictory tendencies and it is only recently that a “geography of art” has started to gain a foothold in the English language.
Dario Gamboni is professor of art history at the University of Geneva since 2004. He was a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fellow at CASVA, Washington DC, Meret Oppenheim Prize 2006, Senior Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute, and Clark Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. He was also a guest professor at the universities of Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Buenos Aires, Freiburg im Breisgau, Mexico, Sao Paulo, and Tokyo. He has (co)curated exhibitions including Iconoclash (ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2002) and Une image peut en cacher une autre (Grand Palais, Paris, 2009). He has published many books and articles including La plume et le pinceau. Odilon Redon et la littérature (Paris 1989), The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution (New Haven/London 1997), and Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art (London 2002).
Shukla Sawant is a visual artist and currently an Associate Professor of Visual Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research interests include Contemporary Art and Art in Colonial India. She has been a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of London and studied at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts Paris. Shukla works with photography, installation, and printmaking and her theoretical interests extend to writing on contemporary art. She has lectured extensively in various institutions and has been actively associated with artists’ initiatives. This programme is organised by Mohile Parikh Center, NCPA, Mumbai in collaboration with Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council, New Delhi and supported by Hivos, Deon Foundation, Mondriaan Foundation and Arts Collaboratory.
Admission free and open to all.
Runners-up of SKODA Prize 2011 to be awarded residency
Swiss curator, Heike Munder, an international jury member will be in India to participate at the The SKODA Prize for Indian Contemporary Art 2011 award ceremony. [dated January 2012]
Swiss curator, Heike Munder, who was the international jury member for the award will be in India to participate at the The ŠKODA Prize for Indian Contemporary Art 2011 award ceremony. The two runners-up of the prize will receive a 4-week residency in Switzerland awarded by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
Events: The ŠKODA Prize Show 2011
Exhibition opening on Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Venue: Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
Award ceremony: Saturday 28 January 2012
Entry: By invitation only
Heike Munder, director and curator of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich has participated as an international jury member for the prestigious SKODA Prize 2011. Heike is the founder member of Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg and the co-founder of SEECAN, Southeast-European Organization and European organization Art Centres of Europe. The jury members have shortlisted the final three whose works can be viewed at www.theskodaprize.com The final announcement of the winner and the award ceremony will take place on Saturday 28 January 2011 in front of the jury members and reputed members of the art fraternity.
The award ceremony will be preceded by The ŠKODA Prize Show 2011, an exhibition showcasing the works of the shortlisted finalists Jitish Kallat, L N Tallur, and Navin Thomas. The two runners-up of the prize will receive a 4-week residency in Switzerland, awarded by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council.
Heike Munder
Heike Munder is the director and curator of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich and has held the post for the last ten years. She is the founder member of Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, founded in 1995 and was its co-director up to the year 2001. She is also the co-founder of SEECAN, Southeast-European Organization and European organization Art Centres of Europe.
Munder has been actively curating art shows whose concerns revolve around psychological spaces and collective memory, hedonistic and glamorous strategies, performative startegies and conceptual humour. Among the most important exhibitions curated by her are "The Garden of the Forking Paths" for Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg in 2008, "Identity Troubles" (co-curated) for Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e. V. in 2004 and for Nurture, New York in 2005 and "Disfunctional Places" (co-curated) in Belgrade in 2001. In 1999, she was awarded the Jürgen-Ponto Prize for "Junge Kunst in Kunstvereinen". Munder studied Cultural Studies at University of Lüneburg. She has held teaching positions at Goldsmith College, London, Department Cultural Studies at University of Lüneburg and Department Art at University of Bern. She currently teaches at the Academy of Art, Zürich.
For more information please visit: www.theskodaprize.com
Nadia Schneider Willen to lead curated walks at India Art Fair 2012
Swiss curator Nadia Schneider Willen, a freelance curator from Zurich, has been invited by India Art Fair 2012 to lead a curated walk through the fair. [dated January 2012]
Pro Helvetia New Delhi in collaboration with the India Art Fair have invited Swiss curator Nadia Schneider Willen to lead a curated walk through the fair. Nadia will also lead and mentor students of art history and young curators in designing and leading their tours around the art fair.
Date: 25 – 29 January 2012
Venue: NSIC Exhibition Grounds, New Delhi
Timings: 2:30, 4:00 and 5:30 pm
Meeting Point: Information Desk
Entry: Art Fair rules apply
For more information visit: www.indiaartfair.in/curated-walks.aspx
India Art Fair 2012 will enable galleries from around the world to showcase their artworks to discerning collectors, artists, curators, students and art enthusiasts. Guided tours curated by artists and students of art history well-versed with the artworks on display will offer a unique opportunity to the visitors to get an insight and wholesome experience of the art fair. A tentative schedule for Curated Walks for India Art Fair 2012 will be made available shortly. Each walk will be about a half hour long, maximum 40 minutes.
Nadia Schneider Willen
Nadia Schneider Willen, born 1971 in Bern, is a freelance curator based in Zurich. She studied French literature and history of art at the University of Zurich. From 2001 to 2007 she was director and curator of the Kunsthaus Glarus and after that conservator of modern and contemporary art at the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva. In 2005 she co-curated the exhibition "In Times Like These“ at the International Biennale in Prague (National Gallery). Since 2007 she has been a member of the Swiss Federal Art Commission and is currently a member of the Turner Prize jury 2011. In Geneva, she was responsible for the exhibitions „Alexandre Perrier (1862-1936)“, Musée d'art et d'histoire, and the retrospective of Alberto Giacometti at the Musée Rath.
In the Kunsthaus Glarus she curated contemporary exhibitions with international artists such as Gillian Wearing, Julika Rudelius, Jim Shaw, Annelise Coste, Gary Webb, Tobias Zielony, David Thorpe, Jeanne Faust, Hammwöhner/Jakob/Vormstein, Peter Piller und Swiss artists such as Hanspeter Hofmann, Pierre Vadi, Philippe Decrauzat, Daniel Robert Hunziker, Markus Müller, Vaclav Pozarek, Rolf Graf, Ingrid Wildi, Goran Galic/Gianreto Gredig.
For more information please visit: www.indiaartfair.in
