Swiss presence at India Art Fair 2013
Pro Helvetia presents Swiss video artists at the Video Lounge of the India Art Fair. The screening has been put together by Indian curators who were mentored by the Swiss curator, Mirjam Varadinis.

Pro Helvetia presents Swiss video artists at the Video Lounge of the India Art Fair. The screening has been put together by Avijna Bhattacharya and Rikimi Madhukaillya from India who have been mentored by the Swiss curator, Mirjam Varadinis.

Like the previous Edition, the 5th Edition of India Art Fair will host an exclusive Video Lounge where the visitors will have the opportunity to view video art by established and emerging artists from India and around the world. 

CURATED WALKS AT INDIA ART FAIR
India Art Fair 2013 has organised a range of curated walks for visitors. Individuals or groups will have the opportunity to explore the diverse art on display with students of art history. Swiss Curator, Mirjam Varadinis will be mentoring the students, and leading the Curated Walks Programme, supported by Pro Helvetia New Delhi.
Dates : 1st, 2nd and 3rd February 2013
Timings : 2:30, 4:00 and 5:30 pm Meeting Point : Information Desk

Mirjam Varadinis 
Mirjam Varadinis is an art historian, curator and writer based in Zürich, Switzerland. She has been a curator at Kunsthaus Zürich for the past ten years. Responsible for contemporary art at the Kunsthaus, Mirjam has curated many exhibitions including Aleksandra Mir: Switzerland and Other Islands (2006), Shifting Identities (2008), and Motion Picture(s) (2010). Mirjam has also co-curated the exhibition Broken Lines as a part of the annual art festival ‘Printemps de Septembre’ (2006) in Toulouse, France. She has edited ‘Parkett: 20 Years of Artists’ Collaborations’. As a curator she has many solo exhibitions to her credit, such as those of Rosa Barba, Adrian Paci, Mircea Cantor, Runa Islam, Tino Sehgal, Erik van Lieshout, Aleksandra Mir, Nedko Solakov, Urs Fischer, David Shrigley to name a few. In 2012, she co-curated ‘TRACK’ in Ghent (Belgium), together with Philippe Van Cauteren. In 2005 she launched the internet-platform www.azple.com in collaboration with Annie Wu.

Mirjam Varadinis is in India as the international jury member of the SKODA PRIZE 2012.

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Rikimi Madhukaillya is an independent curator and art writer. She has been researching on Modern and contemporary indian art with a focus of North eastern states. Worked with National Gallery of Modern Art and Osians- Connoisseur of Arts apart from the other activities. She has been teaching in various art institutes for the last couple of years. Currently she is an Asst. Professor at the Dept of Fine Arts, Kurukshetra University.

Avijna Bhattacharya is a freelance art writer, curator and observer currently working from Kolkata. Her involution with contemporary art began with her art schooling in Kala,bhavana , Santiniketan and Faculty of Fine Arts Baroda between the years 1998-2005, her observations and studies has been evolving ever since. Along with imagining curations, Avijna enjoys writing on art the most amid the miscellany of activities within and around the art world she has been involved in. She has been contributing articles, reviews and essays in exhibition catalogues and art magazines based in New Delhi and Kolkata since 2007.