5 Artists to Look Out For at the Thailand Biennale Phuket 2025

KOLKATA CITY LAB: City as an Archive Open to the Field of Experiments

In recent times, the discipline of arts and art institutions has been working to address the lack of critical spaces for discourse and deliberation. When a city like Kolkata, with its deep, penetrating roots—nurturing a dense forest of diverse artistic and aesthetic voices—is considered, how can one overlook its presence in the contemporary art-making scene? KAEE Kolkata City Lab (KKCL) by KAEE Contemporary in Kolkata, established by Ambica Beri, is one such promising residency programme, conceived and curated by Premjish Achari. The residency excavates the multiple layers of Kolkata to explore both the tangible and intangible salient features of the city. Curators, writers, architects, designers, and scientists have collaborated to investigate the city’s cultural heritage.

TAKE Calendar: The South Asian Edit 2024

The South Asian arts scene has been at its peak. With experimentation in mediums and innovative platforms, South Asia and its diasporic artists constantly strive to push the envelope of contemporary art. To bolster this wave of energy, there are multiple key events that highlight, empower and uplift South Asian visual voices. Here is a curated guide to important art events across the globe that all South Asian art connoisseurs must bookmark. The year is marked with a promising line up of art fairs, festivals, public installations, and biennales. Let the 2024 art hop begin!

TAKE on Writing Workshop, Jaipur 2018

Following a series of art-writing workshops aimed to foster the practice of critical art writing in India TAKE was invited to organise a four-day workshop on art writing, from ‘Breaking Ground’, the first Indian Ceramics Triennale at the Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur in November 2018.

Live Stream—Performance Art Pavilion at the 18th Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh

As suggested by Nam June Paik, that ‘noise’ occurred in two-way communication, and mistranslation was also a way of delivering messages. Within this system, Paik gave equal importance to both the role of the sender and that of the receiver.

Liverpool Biennale 2018

The Oratory building sits at the northern edge of the iconic and imposing Liverpool Cathedral. Built in the extravagant Greek Revival style, it serves as the perfect home for a newly commissioned work by Austrian filmmaker Mathias Poledna.

Archaeology of the Underground Self

Kafka’s The Burrow tells
us the story of a wounded person caught in tension between the self and the world. The protagonist digs a burrow and tries
to hide the physical and metaphorical self and body from the gaze of
the world.

The Fair that Fared Well

With a series of changes, India Art Fair 2018 came out in a new cloak; and commenced its journey in a new direction. We take a deeper look at the direction and potholes on this path.

Building Communion: FLAME Artist Residency 2018

Initiated by Gauri Gandhi, faculty at the FLAME University, the 21-day artist residency inaugurated on 8th January was awarded to artists Garima Gupta and Roshan Chhabria, who
in the subsequent days, presented their ideas
and conversed about personal experiences
and inspirations.

Present Tense: Notes on Living Between Material Futures and a Critical Present

At the Curators Hub (2014), Adam Szymczyk spent a brief moment breaking open the originary fragments that form the term ‘curating’. The action verb ‘to curate’, he said was etymologically rooted in the idea of care, derived from the Latin word cura, implying that the curator’s role was care of the art object.