Atul Dodiya

The artist

Atul Dodiya was born in 1959 in Mumbai where he lives and works. One of the pioneers of contemporary Indian art, he builds bridges between the history of Indian and Western art. His references to popular culture, cinema and literature point to an underlying political analysis of the aspirations of the Indian middle class and the impact of globalisation on their traditions. Atul Dodiya uses a broad spectrum of media, from his early photo-realism to the works on metal shutters that sealed his international reputation.

Exhibitions

I know you. I do. O’ stranger

March 2 - April 27, 2024
Paris - Beaubourg
The Fragrance of a Paper Rose

October 27 - December 29, 2018
Paris - Beaubourg
Mahatma and the Masters

September 11 - October 24, 2015
Brussels
Scribes from Timbuktu

September 8 - October 2012
Paris - Beaubourg

Biography

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Birth	Born in 1959 in Mumbai, India
Residence	Lives and works in Mumbai, India
Education	Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art, Mumbai (1982) École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (1991–1992)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2024	‘I know you. I do. O’ stranger’, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
2023	Dr. Banerjee in Dr. Kulkarni’s Nursing Home and Other Paintings 2020-2022, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India
2022	Walking with the waves, KNMA Saket, New Delhi, India
2020	Atul Dodiya, Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, Detroit, USA Atul Dodiya \| In Touch – Edition 4 \| Selected Works, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Atul Dodiya \| Stammer in the Shade, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2019	Atul Dodiya - Seven Minutes of Blackmail, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India
2018	The Fragance of a Paper Rose, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2017	Girlfriends: French, German, Italian, Egyptian, Santiniketan, Ghatkopar…, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India

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2015	Mahatma and the Masters, Galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels, Belgium
2014	7000 Museums: A Project for the Republic of India, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India
2013	Experiments with Truth: Atul Dodiya, Works 1981–2013, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India Atul Dodiya, curated by Raphaela Platow, Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, USA
2012	Scribes from Timbuktu, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2011	Bako Exists. Imagine, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India
2010	If It Rains Fire, Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany Malevich Matters and Other Shutters, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2008	Pale Ancestors, Bodhi Art Mumbai, Mumbai, India
2007	Shri Khakhar Prasanna, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India Saptapadi: Scenes from Marriage (Regardless), Museum Gallery, Mumbai, India and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2006	The Wet Sleeves of My Paper Robe, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, India ; Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore, Republic of Singapore ; Bodhi Art, New Delhi, Mumbai, India, New York, USA
2005	Shri Khakhar Prasanna, Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, India Cracks in Mondrian, Bose Pacia, New York, USA
2004	Antler Anthology, Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara, presented by Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
2003	Boken Branches, Bose Pacia, New York, USA
2002	E.T. and Others, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA ; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Bombay Labyrinth/Laboratory, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
2001	Bombay Labyrinth/Laboratory, The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, Japan Tearscape, The Fine Art Resource, Berlin, Germany Bodywash, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
1999	Herwitz Gallery, Ahmedabad, India Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
1997	CIMA Gallery, Calcutta, India Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
1995	Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
1993	Gallery Apunto, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1991	Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India
1989	Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2025	Avatar, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2024	Avant-garde and liberation contemporary art and decolonial modernism, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
2023	Prussian Blue: A Serendipitous Colour that Altered the Trajectory of Art, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India Part 1 : Framing \| Chemoulding: Framing Future Archives, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India The Patience of Ordinary Things, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2022	Conversations on Tomorrow, Sadie Coles HQ, London, United-Kingdom Group Show, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
2021	On I Site, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India On\|Site \| Entry Only, Chemould Perscott Road, Mumbai, India Collective 22, Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Erasure, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
2020	Frin/Ge, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India The Future is Not Fixed, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India A Mind Of One’s Own, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Group Show \| In Touch – Edition 2, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Photo / Concept, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India Group Show \| In Touch – Edition 1, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Out-site / Insight, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
2019	Indian Pavilion, Venice Biennal, Our Time for a Future Caring, curated by Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi and commissioned by Shri Adwaita Chavan Gadanayak, General Director of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, Venice, Italy

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2018	Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Art Gallery of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Modus Operandi, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India 50 Years after 50 Years of the Bauhaus 1968, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
2017	Sensorium-Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts, Altinho Panaji, India India Re-Worlded : Seventy Years of Investigating a Nation, Gallery Odyssey, Mumbai, India
2016	Mysteries of the Organism, AkaraArt, Mumbai, India
2015	After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India 1947/1997, Queens Museum, New York, USA Artist Making Movement, Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2014	Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions, curated by Michael FitzGerald, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain Is It What You Think? Ruminations on Time, Memory and Site, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India Une histoire, art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd’hui, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Zameen, Art District XIII, New Delhi, India Drawing 2014: 7 Decades of Indian Drawing, The Exhibition Hall, IGNCA, New Delhi, India
2013	Art Basel – Hong Kong, Hong Kong Voyages intérieurs, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium Touched by Bhupen, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke and Galerie Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, India The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA The Drawing Wall, curated by Gayatri Sinha, Lalit Kala Akademi and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence, From the Peabody Essex Museum’s Herwitz collection, Salem, Massachusetts, USA Ideas of the Sublime, curated by Gayatri Sinha, Lalit Kala Akademi and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Galerie Du Musẻe Et Galerie D’Art Graphique, Level 4, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Aesthetic Bind: Cabinet Closet Wunderkammer, Chemould’s 50th anniversary exhibition series, fourth of five exhibitions curated by Geeta Kapur, Chemould Prescott Road Gallery, Mumbai, India
2012	Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, Kerala, India India: Art Now, curated by Dorthe Juul Rugaard, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark Project CINEMA CITY, Research Art & Documentary Practices, curated by Madhushree Dutta and co-curated by Archana Hande National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore, India To Let the World In: Narrative and Beyond in Contemporary Indian Art, curated by Chaitanya Sambrani, Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, India 2012: A Further Global Encounter, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, UK How Am I? Narratives about the Search for Identity in Different Realities, curated by Trine Ross, Kastrupgardsamlingen, Copenhaguen, Denmark The Seventh Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2011	Watermark II, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India Paris-Delhi-Bombay, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, France Of Humour, Wit and Satire, Gallery Treshold, New Delhi, India Roots in the Air, Branches Below, Modern and Contemporary Art from India, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA Against All Odds: A Contemporary Response to the Historiography of Archiving Collecting, and Museums in India, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Lalit Kala Akademi Galleries, Ravindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India SIX DECADES Celebrating the Bombay Artists from the Jehangir Nicholson Art Collection, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai, India Of Gods and Goddesses, Cinema, Cricket – The New Cultural Icons of India, curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbia, India Narrations, Quotations and Commentaries, Grosvenor Vadehra, London, UK Orientations - Trajectories in Indian Art, curated by Deepak Ananth, Foundation De Elf Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium Shadow Lines, curated by Alia Swastika and Suman Gopinath, Biennale Jogja XI / Equator # 1, Indonesia
2010	Monumental, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA Finding India, Art for the New Century, MOCA Taipei, Taiwan The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Urban Manners-2, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg, SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, BrazilLooking Glass the Existence of Difference, curated by Gayatri Sinha, Religare Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Inside India – A Journey through contemporary Indian Art, curated by Marco Marrone and Margherita Artoni, Palazzo Saluzzo di Paesana, Turin, Italy Art Taipei 2010, presented by Sakshi Gallery, World Trade Centre, Taiwan La route de la soie, organized by lille3000 and the Saatchi Collection, Tri Postal, Lille, France Modern Art of India: The Ethos of Modernity, organized by National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi at Sichuan Museum, Shenzhen Museum et Zhejiang Provincial Museum, China
2009	3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Artists of Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1), Bruger Collection, Berlin, Germany Chalo! India : A new Era of Indian Art, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria ; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan ; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea Progressive to Altermodern, Grosvenor Gallery, London, UK
2008	Where in the World, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India India Moderna, IVAM, Institut Valencià d’Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain Body Chatter, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA Bodhi New York Presents, Bodhi Art New York, New York, USA Anatomie \| Les Peaux du dessin – Collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France Expanding Horizons, Bodhi Art Mumbai, Mumbai, India Anxious, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, India 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea Multiple Modernities: India, 1905–2005, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA Frontlines: Notations from the Contemporary Indian Urban, BodhiBerlin, Berlin, Germany Passage to India, Initial Access Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampto, UK
2007	Urban Manners- Contemporary Artist From India, curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg, Hangar Bicocca, spazio d’arte contemporanea, Milan, Italy India Arte Oggi : L’Arte Contemporanea Indiana, fra Continuita’e Transformazione, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy Horn Please : Narratives In Contemporary Indian Art, Erzählen in der zeitgenössischen indischen Kunst, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland Gallery Collection, Bodhi Art New York, New York, USA Gateway Bombay, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA Hungry God : Indian Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Documenta 12, Documenta, Kassel, Germany On the Edge of Vision, New Idioms in Indian & Italian Contemporary Art, Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta, India Private Corporate IV, Daimier Contemporary, Berlin, Germany Edge of Desire, Recent Art in India, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India New Narratives: Contemporary Art From India, curated by Betty Seid, Chicago Cultural Centre, Chicago, USA After Shock: Conflict, Violence and Resolution in Contemporary Art, curated by Yasmin Canvin, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Fashioning The Divine, Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina, USA
2006	Hungry God, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea Hungry God, Indian Contemporary Art, Arario Beijing, Beijing, China Edge of Desire, Recent Art in India, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, USA El filo del deseo, arte reciente en India, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, USA India Express – Sacred & Popular, The Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2005	El filo del deseo, arte reciente en India, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico ICon: India Contemporary, Collateral event, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Bhupen among Friends, Museum Gallery, presented by Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India Indian Summer, La jeune scène artistique indienne, curated by Henry-Claude Cousseau, Deepak Ananth and Jany Lauga, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
2004	Atul Dodiya / Shibu Natesan, in Transit, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin / Beijing, Berlin, Germany Looking Both Ways, Contemporary Artists from Africa, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA Androgene, curated by Alka Pande, India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India The Search: Paintings from National Gallery of Modern Art, curated by Dr. Saryu Doshi, Omi Society of Fine Arts, Muscat, Sultanet of Oman ZOOM! (Art in Contemporary India), curated by Nancy Adajania and Luis Serpa, Museo Temporario/Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal Masala Diversity and Democracy in South Asian Art, Willliam Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA South Asian Masters at Alhamra, curated by Salima Hashmi, Alhamra Center, Lahore, Pakistan Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India (2004-2006), Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia - Traveling exhibition ; Asia Society Museum, New York, USA ; NGMA, New Delhi and Mumbai, India
2003	Body City, New Perspective from India, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany The Tree from the Seed, Contemporary Art from India, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway Sub Terrain: Artworks in the Cityfold, curated by Geeta Kapur, Haus Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Crossing Generations: diVERGE: Celebrating Forty Years of Gallery Chemould, an exhibition spanning four generations of Indian arts, curated by Geeta Kapur and Chaitanya Sambarani, The National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India Under the Skin of Simulation: Three Contemporary Painters from India, with Shibu Natesan and Surendran Nair, Fine Art Resource, Berlin, Germany
2002	New Indian Art : Home- Street- Shrine- Bazaar- Museum, curated by Prof. Gulammohammed Sheikh, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK Secular Practice: Recent Art from India, Hoopoe curatorial, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Capital and Karma: Recent Position in Indian Art, guest Curators Angelika Fitz and Michael Worgotter, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2001	Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis Bombay/Mumbai, curated by Geeta Kapur and Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Tate Modern, London, UK Yokohama 2001, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama Triennale, Tokyo, Japan Moving Ideas: A Contemporary Dialogue with India, Hoopoe curatorial, OBORO, Montreal, Canada
2000	Shatabdi: Reflections on a Century Past, CIMA, Calcutta, India Embarkations: The Millennium Show, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India Kala Ghoda: A Meeting Place, collaborative installation with Architect Rahul Mehrotra, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India Family Resemblance, a show curated by Ranjit Hoskote for Birla Century Gallery, Mumbai, India
1999	Watercolour and Contemporary Painting, Gallery Art Motif, New Delhi, India Icon of the Millennium, organized by Lakeeren Gallery at Nehre Center, Mumbai, India Ideas and Images – Mumbai Magazine, curated by Saryu Doshi, NGMA, Mumbai, India Humour on Line Group Show with Amit Ambalal, Arpita Singh & Bhupen Khakhar, curated by Abhishek Poddar, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India Watermark, watercolour show organized by the Fine Art Resource, at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India As You Like It, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1998	Recent Works: Six Artists, Gallery Espace, New Delhi, India Summer Show, organized by CIMA, Academy of Art & Literature, New Delhi, India Artists for a Sustainable World, Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, India Contemporary Indian Art, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery, Jehangir, Art Gallery, Mumbai, India SPIN, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India Wilberding Collection of Contemporary Indian Art, NGMA, Mumbai, India Cryptograms, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India Multimedia: Art of the ‘90s, CIMA, Calcutta, India
1997	Indian Contemporary Art: Post Independence, organized by Vadehra Art Gallery, NGMA, New Delhi, India 50 Years of Freedom of Expression, sponsored by RPG Enterprises, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 50 Years of Art in Bombay, 1947–1997, NGMA, Mumbai, India Gift for India, organized by SAHMAT, LKA Galleries, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, India Tryst with Destiny: Art from Modern India, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Republic of Singapore The Looking Glass Self, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India 9th Triennale – India, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India Indian Contemporary Art: An Overview, The Fine Art Resource, Berlin, Germany Out of India: Contemporary Art of the South Asian Diaspora, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA Contemporary Narrative Painting from India: Epic Reality, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, USA
1996	Cinemascape: An Artist’s Tribute to 100 Years of Cinema, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbai, India
1995	Bombay: An Artist’s Impression, sponsored by RPG Enterprises, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1989	Indian Eclectics, sponsored by French Embassy and Sanskriti Pratishthan, New Delhi, India
1988	Seventeen Indian Painters, Gallery Chemould Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India India/Contemporary Art, World Trade Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

	Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
	Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, Detroit, USA
	Deutche Bank, India
	Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India
	Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
	Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UEA
	Herwitz Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA

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	Ishara Art Foundation and the Prabhakar Collection, Dubai, UEA
	Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India
	Kunsthaus Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
	Museum M+, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmania, Australia
	National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Mumbai, India
	National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
	National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
	Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany and Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Ananda Bazar Patrika Ltd., Calcutta, India
	Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
	Procter and Gamble, India
	Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
	RPG Enterprises, Mumbai, India
	Sumita and Arani Bose, New York, USA
	Suresh and Saroj Bhayana Family Collection, New Delhi, India
	TAPI Collection of Shilpa and Praful Shah, India
	Tate Modern, London, UK

AWARDS

2015	FIND Residency Programme, India-Europe Foundation for New Dialogues, Zagarolo, Rome, Italy
2011	HELLO! Hall of Fame Awards 2011, India
2009	GQ Men of the Year Award Raza Award
1999	Sotheby's Prize Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Italy
1995	Sanskriti Award, India
1991/92	French Government Scholarship, France
1982/83	The Fellowship at Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, India

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1982	The Gold Medal of Maharashtra Government, India
1979	First prize diamond jubilee exhibition, Art Society of India, India

Press

Les Inrockuptibles

Atul Dodiya

The New Indian Express - mars 2020

Dodiya's bringing viewers face-to-face with realities

Bhumika Popli

The Times of India - mars 2019

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Asian Art - avril 2019

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Olivia Sand

Télérama Sortir - décembre 2018

Atul Dodiya - The Fragrance of a Paper Rose

Laurent Boudier

The Indian Express - septembre 2015

Bapu Exists. Imagine

News

Atul Dodiya
Sudarshan Shetty
KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2012

Kochi, Kerala, India

From Decembre 12th 2012 to March 13th 2013 The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an international exhibition of contemporary art being held in Kochi, Kerala.
The exhibition will be set in spaces across Kochi, Muziris and surrounding islands. There will be shows in existing galleries and halls, and site-specific installations in public spaces, heritage buildings and disused structures.
Indian and international artists will exhibit artworks across a variety of mediums including film, installation, painting, sculpture, new media and performance art. (…) Atul Dodiya interview

Atul Dodiya
INDIA : ART NOW(GROUP SHOW)

ARKEN, Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Danemark

From August 18th 2011 to January 13th 2013 In the autumn of 2012 ARKEN is devoting its whole special exhibition area to a comprehensive presentation of Indian contemporary art. (…)