Jitish Kallat
The artist
Born in 1974 in Mumbai, Jitish Kallat is one of the most promising artists of his generation. Jitish Kallat’s work, imbued with autobiographical, political and artistic references, forms a narrative of the cycle of life in a rapidly changing India. Weaving together strands of sociology, biology and archaeology, the artist takes an ironic and poetic look at the altered relationship between nature and culture.
Exhibitions
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Cosmography
June 27 - August 1, 2024
New York -
Echo Verse
March 19 - May 7, 2022
Paris - Beaubourg -
Phase Transition
January 12 - March 9, 2019
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare -
Jitish Kallat, Covariance
September 7 - October 21, 2017
Brussels -
The Infinite Episode
September 5 - October 31, 2015
Paris - Beaubourg -
Covering Letter
September 7 > October 31, 2013
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg -
The Hour of the Day of the Month of the Season
September 7 - November 2, 2013
Paris - Beaubourg
Biography
| Birth | Born in 1974 in Mumbai, India |
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| Residency | Lives and works in Mumbai, India |
| Education | 1990 - 1996 B.F.A. (painting), Sir J.J.School of Art, Mumbai, India K.K. Hebbar Art Foundation Award Govt. First Prize, Sir J.J.School of Art, Mumbai, India 1996 - 1997 Fellow at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumbai, India Awarded Fellowship at Sir J.J.School of Art, Mumbai, India |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | Encounters, Art Basel, Hong Kong Public Notice 3, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA |
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| 2023 | Whorled (Here and After Here After Here), installation at The Somerset House, London, United Kingdom |
| 2022 | Jitish Kallat: Echo Verse, Galerie Templon, Paris, France Order of Magnitude, Ishara Art Foundation and the Prabhakar Collection, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Covering Letter, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, United Kingdom Otherwhile, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India |
| 2021 | Tmesis, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, USA Epicycles, Noortälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, Sweden |
| 2020 | Return to Sender, Frist Museum of Art, Nashville, USA Terranum Nuncius, Famous Studios, Mumbai, India Terranum Nuncius, Bikaner House, New Delhi, India |
| 2019 | Phase Transition, TEMPLON, Paris, France |
| 2018 | Decimal Point, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | Au bout de mes rêves, La Tripostal, Lille, France Home and the World, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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| 2023 | Everybody Talks About the Weather, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy |
| 2021 | Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Switzerland Lokame Tharavadu (The world is one family) Alappuzha, Kerala, India Spring, Fondation Thalie, Brussels, Belgium Confabulations : Jitish Kallat & Subodh Gupta, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India Macht! Licht!, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany |
| 2020 | South East North West: New Works From The Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA Visions from India, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, USA Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada Distorted Portrait, Space K, Seoul, South Korea The Future is Not Fixed, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Chromatopia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| 2019 | Our Time for a Future Caring, Indian Pavilion, Biennale de Venice, curated by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi, Venice, Italy Circadian Rhythms: Contemporary art and biological time, The Glucksman, Cork, United Kingdom Weather Report, Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA Modus Operandi II: In-Situ: Artist Studio – Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India |
| 2018 | Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2018 Exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Riots: Slow Cancellation of the Future, ifa Galleries, Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany Asymmetrical Objects, Lad Museum Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai, India The Sculpture Park, Madhavendra Palace, Jaipur, India Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, Kochi Muziris Biennale 2018, Kochi, Kerala, India New Presentation of Contemporary Collections, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Vision Exchange: Perspective from India to Canada, Art Gallery of Alberta, and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada |
| 2017 | Age of Terror, Imperial War Museum, London, United Kingdom India Re-worlded: Seventy years of Investigating a Nation, Gallery Odyssey, Lower Parel, Mumbai, India A World in the City: Zoological and Botanic Gardens, IFA Stuttgart, Germany |
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COLLECTIONS
| Arario Gallery, South Korea | |
| Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia | |
| Art Gallery of Southern Australia, Adelaide | |
| Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA | |
| Bihar Museum, Patna, India | |
| Birmingham Museum, Birmingham, UK | |
| Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA |
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Press
Curator - April 2023
Jitish Kallat about his expansive work at Somerset House and Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Shristi Sainani
The Art Newspaper - February, 2023
Jitish Kallat's huge spiral installation in London connects climate change and the cosmos
Kabir Jhala
The Art Newspaper - 12 juillet 2022
Gandhi's handwritten notes to Lord Mountbatten on the eve of India's partition go on show
The Times of India - mars 2022
Templon Paris unveils Kallat
Le Figaro - mars 2022
Jitish Kallat à la Galerie Templon
Architectural Digest - septembre 2017
The stars are aligned for Jitish Kallat new exhibition in Brussels
Frieze.com - septembre 2017
Critic's guide : Brussels
La Libre Belgique (Arts Libre) - septembre 2017
Les Variations de Jitish Kallat
Beaux Arts Magazine - octobre 2015
Jitish Kallat Cosmique
Le Figaro (Figaroscope) - septembre 2015
Pleine lune sur Jitish kallat
MID-DAY - september 2015
Kallat's World
The Indian Express - september 2015
What is The Moon But a half-Eaten Roti? Jitish Kallat on his new solo in Paris
Time out.fr - septembre 2015
Jitish Kallat : The Infinite Episode
Les Echos.fr - septembre 2013
Jitish Kallat : un artiste indien captivant à Paris
Judith Benhamou-Huet
Le Figaro (Figaroscope) - septembre 2013
Jitish Kallat, méditation su la voie lactée
Valérie Duponchelle
News
Jitish Kallat
INSTALLATION – BANGKOK ART BIENNALE
Museum Siam, Bangkok
From October 22, 2022 to February 23, 2023
Jitish Kallat presents the sculptural installation Untitled (Two Minutes to Midnight). This large installation draws together two carefully chosen pointers, one from our prehistoric past and the other pointing to a prophesied future. The sculptures are placed on a plinth that echoes the contours of the iconic “Doomsday Clock”, which since 1947 pictures a hypothetical human-made global catastrophe as “midnight”. Additionally, he also features a site specific, wallpaper installation titled Integer Studies (Drawing from Life) comprising 365 drawings, produced daily during the pandemic year of 2021.
Jitish Kallat
SOLO EXHIBITION – ORDER OF MAGNITUDE
Ishara Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
From February 16 to July 1st, 2022
Featuring new works that include paintings, multimedia installations, drawings and site-specific interventions, the show reflects the artist’s profound deliberations on the interrelationship between the cosmic and the terrestrial. In ‘Order of Magnitude’, one finds a contemplation of overarching interconnectivity on the individual, universal, planetary and extra-terrestrial dimensions. Image caption : Jitish Kallat, Postulates from a Restless Radius (2021). Acrylic, gesso, lacquer, charcoal and watercolour pencil on linen, 640 x 320 cm radius, 375 cm length. Image courtesy of the artist and Ishara Art Foundation. Photography by Ismail Noor/ Seeing Things.
Jitish Kallat
EPICYCLES – SOLO SHOW
From June 19 to September 26, 2021
Norrtälje Konsthall, Galles gränd 7, Norrtälje, Sweden
Norrtälje Konsthall is presenting simultaneous solo exhibitions by two of India’s most successful artists – Reena Saini Kallat and Jitish Kallat – creating interesting continuity between their practices. Jitish Kallat’s exhibition titled “Epicycles” reveals his longstanding engagement with the ideas of time, transience, sustenance, the ecological and the cosmological. The exhibition is an assembly of conceptual and sensory propositions through a suite of large format paintings, drawings, sculptures and video.
Jitish Kallat
“LOKAME THARAVADU” – GROUP SHOW
Kochi Biennale Foundation, Alappuzha, Kerala, Inde
From April 5 to June 30, 2021
Lokame Tharavadu (The World Is One Family) is a large-scale curated contemporary art exhibition of Malayali artists, organized by the Kochi Biennale Foundation. Over 260 artists will be exhibiting a collection of their works, to foreground each of their practices. Jitish Kallat presents in this exhibition “Epilogue” (2011) in which the artist memorialises the life-time of his late father by picturing the approximately 22 000 moons that he saw during his lifetime. Strructured in monthly slots for each year, the moons are represented by “rotis breads”, the edges of which grow or crumble away as the moon waxes and wanes. The “roti moons”, a recurring pattern in the artist’s work, distill lived time into its essential components—the daily bread, the recurring routine—even as they connect it to a shared, eternally recurring celestial phenomenon. At the end of the path, the viewer is invited to walk with Kallat as he retraces his father’s life, a poignant frame with a lone moon, representing the night before 2nd December 1998, when the artist’s father died.
Jitish Kallat
« SPRING » – GROUP DISPLAY
Fondation Thalie, 15 rue Buchholtz 1050 Brussels, Belgium
From April 1st to May 9, 2021
The Fondation Thalie presents “Spring”, a new display of her collection in Brussels with new acquisitions from Jitish Kallat, as well as Davide Balula, Le Corbusier, Francis Picabia, Jean Dubuffet, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Risaku Suzuki, Tatiana Trouvé, and Pieter Vermeersch, among others.
“Rebirth, buds and flowers, with this new display there is a desire to share the poetry and beauty of artwork that is usually shown in our homes.
This collection was started in 2008 and evokes “le sensible” around the question of know-how and gesture with regard to textile creations, which is a tribute to the legacy of Anni Albers, the worthy successor of the Bauhaus, who spent her entire career experimenting with weaving techniques as graphic paintings. (…).” – Nathalie Guiot, President of the Fondation Thalie.
Jitish Kallat
JITISH KALLAT: RETURN TO SENDER – SOLO SHOW
From March 13 to October 12, 2020
Frist Art Museum, 919 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37203, United States
The Frist Art Museum presents Return to Sender, an exhibition of immersive installations created by the celebrated Indian artist Jitish Kallat. The dramatic works, which engage both mind and body, are inspired by historic messages that reveal the best and worst of humanity.
The show brings together two different types of correspondence that collectively provoke a reflection on our world. Continuing his interest in the epistolary mode, Kallat will exhibit a new project titled Covering Letter (terranum nuncius) (2019) alongside his widely exhibited Covering Letter (2012).
Anju Dodiya
Jitish Kallat
KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2018
KOCHI, INDIAFrom 12/12/2018 to 29/03/2019
The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to invoke the latent cosmopolitan spirit of the modern metropolis of Kochi and its mythical past, Muziris, and create a platform that will introduce contemporary international visual art theory and practice to India, showcase and debate new Indian and international aesthetics and art experiences and enable a dialogue among artists, curators, and the public. Curated by Anita Dube
Jitish Kallat
WEATHER REPORT – GROUP SHOW
From October 6, 2019 to August 23, 2020
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 258 Main Street Ridgefield, CT 06877, USA
The Weather Report will reveal the sky as a site where the aesthetic, the romantic, the political, the social, and the scientific co-exist and inform one another. The depiction of weather in the visual arts is traditionally linked with either landscape painting or photography, but in the last several decades artists have increasingly turned to other media to explore weather and, by extension, the larger subject of the Earth’s atmosphere. Weather Report presents a group of diverse international artists who reference weather in provocative ways through sculpture, drawing, painting, installation, and video.
