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
OUR TIME FOR A FUTURE CARING – INDIAN PAVILLON – BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
BIENNALE DI VENEZIA INDIA PAVILLON, ARSENALE, VENICE, ITALYFrom 11/05/2019 to 24/11/2019
We are honoured to announce that Jitish Kallat is part of the artist line-up for India Pavilion at 58th International Art Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia 2019. Our Time for a Future Caring features works by an intergenerational group of artists spanning from twentieth century to present day that either reflect directly on Gandhi and his place in history, focusing on specific moments and their resonances for contemporary audiences, or offer conceptual investigations into his philosophical ideas and broader notions of agency, action and freedom.
Gérard Garouste
Jitish Kallat
Ulrich Lamsfuss
Pierre et Gilles
ART EATS ART
Museum Regards de Provence, Marseille, France
In the framework of the Gastronomic Year in Provence–MPG 2019, the Regards de Provence Museum is showcasing « L’Art Mange l’Art” et “De la table au tableau”, two exhibitions that bring together works of artists from the XIX to XXIst century on the theme of food, its pleasures and the art of the table.
Jitish Kallat
A WORLD IN THE CITY. ZOOLOGICAL AND BOTANIC GARDENS – GROUP SHOW
IFA GALLERY, STUTTGART, GERMANYFrom 5/05/2017 to 7/02/2017
Traveling and exploring the world has always enabled us to meet different peoples, to encounter different cultures and spaces, and to collect artefacts and take them into other contexts. These collections have been used to entertain and to educate, whether in private and feudal collections, the World’s fair, or today’s zoological and botanic gardens. They shape the ways in which we see the world. By collecting, documenting and reproducing we hope to understand the world and its manifold forms of life and diverse cultures. Curator Kaiwan Mehta has invited JitishKallat,SoniaMehraChawla, SahejRahal, ShelaghKeeley and author RuthPadel to address this ‘world in the city’. They explore the stories and the practices of entertainment and knowledge production, and of artistic documentation and reproduction in the context of zoological and botanical gardens.
Jitish Kallat
TALK
AUDITORIUM ART BASEL, CONVENTION CENTER, HONG KONG3/25/2017, 2-3 pm
What is the role of art publishing today? Much has encroached on this established vehicle for art and its surrounding critical discourse as of late. Taking exhibition catalogues, magazines, artist books, and historical and philosophical writing into consideration, Hong Kong, Mumbai, and New York-based artists, curators, editors, and authors delve into how literary, research-based, and digitally-oriented hybrid practices alongside region-specific challenges impact their work.
Reiko Tomii, Co-Director, PoNJA-GenKon, New York; Jitish Kallat, Artist, Mumbai; Christina Li, Curator-at-Large, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong; Pak Sheung Chuen, Artist, Hong Kong
Moderator: Ingrid Chu, Public Programmes Curator, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Access: With Art Basel VIP card or purchased ticket; artbasel.com/hong-kong/salon
Jitish Kallat
JITISH KALLAT, CATHERINE DAVID AND MURTAZA VALI – TALK
ART DUBAI, MODERN LOUNGE, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES3/16/2017, 3-4 pm
Murtaza Vali (Sharjah~Brooklyn based historian-curator-writer) will engage in a dialogue with Catherine David (Deputy Director, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou) and Jitish Kallat (artist) regarding Here After Here a mid-career survey exhibition of Kallat’s work at National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi. Curated by Catherine David the exhibition brings together over 100 works across a time-frame of 25 years revealing the artist’s continual engagement with ideas of time, sustenance, recursion and historical recall., and his recurrent deliberations on the cosmopolis and the distant cosmos. The conversation will centre around the exhibition and two accompanying monographs, and how they collectively explore the many processes, themes and ideas that reappear throughout his artistic practice.
Jitish Kallat
HERE AFTER HERE – SOLO SHOW
THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART, NEW DELHI, INDIAFrom 1/15/2017 to 3/14/2017
A major solo exhibition of works by Jitish Kallat titled Here After Here, curated by internationally renowned curator Catherine David will open at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi on 15 January 2017.
Here After Here brings together Jitish Kallat’s vast œuvre spanning painting, photography, drawing, video and sculptural installations with some works dating back as far as 1992. The exhibition is spread across two buildings of the NGMA – the ornate Jaipur House, originally built as the residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur in 1936, and the museum’s new wing constructed in 2009.
Here After Here is the largest and most wide-ranging exhibition of Kallat’s work to date. To commemorate this significant juncture, a specially commissioned monograph published by the National Gallery of Modern Art will also serve as an anthology of essays on Kallat’s works.
Jitish Kallat
Julião Sarmento
ONE MINUTE IN ART
ETOILE CINEMAS or INDEPENDENT MOVIE THEATERS, PARIS, FRANCEstarting Septmeber 30, 2016
Initiated by conceptual artists Stephan Breuer and Charles de Meaux, along with Lea Marchetti, One Minute In Art (OMIA) introduces in the Etoile Cinémas’ movie theaters One Minute of Video Art before each movie, made and/or directed by a contemporary artist.
The new edition was launched on September 30 in the Cinema Etoile Saint Germain with a selection of French and international artists like Brice Dellsperger, Anthony McCall, François Curlet, Julião Sarmento or Jitish Kallat.
The OMIA program aims to pull video art out of the museums and galleries and penetrate the public space, freely offering this ‘minute’ to the audience. Each work starts its voyage in the movie theater Etoile Saint Germain for two weeks and will travels to the other movie theaters, thus offering 6 weeks of exhibition all over Paris.
Jitish Kallat
TELLING TALES – GROUP SHOW
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIAFrom 06/04/2016 to 10/09/2016
Telling Tales: Excursions in Narrative Form explores the varied, inventive approaches taken by leading Australian and international artists to narrative form.
