Art Writers’ Award 2023

TAKE on Art Writing series was conceived to foster a writers’ and critics’ community, to generate discourses and keep conversations alive in the field of art. In continuation of TAKE on Art’s commitment to art writing and Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia’s sustained efforts in promoting critical discourse, we are pleased to announce the fourth edition of Art Writers’ Award (AWA). The vision of the award is to recognize Indian art writers and offer the recipient a research residency in Switzerland for a period of up to 60 days.

Horizon and Perspective: Curatorial Gaze to Gauge Promise of Art

The role of a curator, when situated in such a charged milieu, has taken on a new sense of allegiance towards community-building exercises. Here, the community represents a living embodiment of collective and individual movements – within hyphenated subjectivities. In this context, as a conversationalist, the curator engages in continuous practice to shape the horizons of possibilities with a perspective rooted in political aesthetics, thus assessing the emancipatory potential of the arts.

The Future of Memory in the Present: Possibilities of Archive-Making

Launch of Lure of Collaboration: Dissecting Consensus by Premjish Achari (recipient, AWA 2021) + Conversation with Prof Parul Dave-Mukherji

TAKE Booth at India Design ID 2023

We are thrilled to announce the participation of TAKE on Art at the India Design ID 2023 with our exclusive TAKE Editions. We have a stellar lineup of exciting commissions by some of South Asia’s most talented artists.

TAKE Party — Celebrating 13 years of TAKE on Art and Gallery Latitude 28

An annual tradition since the inception of the TAKE on art magazine in 2009, the evening set the tone and served as the pre-inaugural party for India Art Fair 2023.

Panel Discussion — Looking Back to Look Forward: Many Meanings of Memory in Making

TAKE on Art organised a panel discussion as part of the launch of 28th issue 'Memory' at Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022. Bhavna Kakar introduced TAKE on Art and its 28th issue ‘Memory’. Manuela Ciotti moderated the panel that included talks by Zuleikha Chaudhari, Tapati Guha-Thakurta, and Anita Khemka + Imran B Kokiloo. Girish Shahane joined as discussant.

Art Writers’ Award 2022

In continuation of TAKE on Art’s commitment to art writing and Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia’s sustained efforts in promoting critical discourse, we are pleased to announce the fourth edition of Art Writers’ Award (AWA). The vision of the award is to recognize Indian art writers and offer the recipient a research residency in Switzerland for a period of up to 60 days.

Open Call for Art Practitioners — Memoria Major: Constellation of Memories

Irrevocably, the overarching tendency to anchor a unified and official history in the times of the 75th year of 1947 Partition serves as a timely backdrop to offer an access point to the assemblage of diverse ideas and distinct exploration of the presence of a flourishing field of cultural and personal memories in South Asia. In doing so, TAKE Memory is an endeavour to expand the many meanings entailed to the discipline of memory.

TAKE symposium — What Future Hides: Writing Critically In/For A Changing Nation

The two-day symposium features panel discussions and roundtables to assess the diverse forms of critical writing practices across India in art, fiction, and translation, and explore possibilities to co-learn from each other to strengthen criticality in a post-critical world.