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
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.
Jitish Kallat
PUBLIC NOTICE 2
ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, PERTH, AUSTRALIAFrom 05/07/2016 to 08/22/2016
Jitish Kallat’s Public Notice 2 installed at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth.
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SETOUCHI TRIENNALE JAPAN
ISLANDS OF SETO INLAND SEA, JAPANFrom 03/20/2016 to 11/06/2016
Indian artiste Jitish Kallat will be part of The Setouchi Triennale, a contemporary art festival taking place on multiple islands of Japan’s Seto Inland Sea (separating Honshu and Shikoku, two of Japan’s main islands).
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HERE AFTER HERE AFTER HERE, PERMANENT SCULPTURE IN LOWER AUSTRIA
AUSTRIA
Installed in a large roundabout on an expressway at Stockerau, north of Vienna, Here After Here After Here (2012-2015) takes the form of a mammoth loop made of extended highway signage that seems to continue infinitely and coil within. Kallat draws together a confluence of myriad references to arrive at this compelling form, amongst them the mythic symbol of ouroboros, ancient eternal knots, alchemical diagrams and sacred geometry.
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JITISH KALLAT, PUBLIC NOTICE 2
ART GALLERY NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY
Large-scale work Public notice 2 (2007) by Indian artist Jitish Kallat is being installed at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, in an exhibition of works from Gene and Brian Sherman’s Asian art collection, until October 5.
The work renders Gandhi’s historic speech calling for non-violence and civil disobedience before the famous Salt March in 1930 – in its entirety, letter by letter. Each letter appears to be made from bone, as though Kallat has exhumed these words from their historical resting place. As Kallat says: ‘In today’s terror-infected world, where wars against terror are fought at prime television time, voices such as Gandhi’s stare back at us like discarded relics.’
Atul Dodiya
Jitish Kallat
Asim Waqif
ATUL DODIYA, JITISH KALLAT, ASIM WAQIF – AFTER MIDNIGHT : INDIAN MODERNISM TO CONTEMPORARY INDIA, 1947/1997
QUEENS MUSEUM, USA
Taking its title from the phrase “Midnight’s Children,” coined by Salman Rushdie in his seminal 1981 novel about India’s transition to independence, After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India, 1947/1997 weaves themes of art and nation-building to reveal shifting zeitgeists in cultural production, and explores how these artistic practices regard and contest a geopolitical consciousness through modernization and globalization Featured artists include: CAMP, Nikhil Chopra, Desire Machine Collective, Atul Dodiya, Anita Dube, V.S. Gaitonde, Sheela Gowda, Shilpa Gupta, Subodh Gupta, M.F. Husain, Tushar Joag, Jitish Kallat, Krishen Khanna, Ram Kumar, Tyeb Mehta, Akbar Padamsee, Prajakta Potnis, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Raqs Media Collective, S.H. Raza, Sharmila Samant, Mithu Sen, Dayanita Singh, F.N. Souza, Tallur L.N., Asim Waqif.
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JITISH KALLAT IS THE CURATOR FOR KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2014
KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE, INDIA
2014 Kochi – November – 2013: The Hon. Mayor of Cochin, Mr. Tony Chammany, today officially declared the internationally acclaimed Indian artist, Jitish Kallat as the curator of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014. Mr. Bose Krishnamachari, President of the Kochi Biennale Foundation, opened up the proceedings and thanked the State Government, the local bodies and the local and international art communities for their support. He gave a brief overview of what India’s first Biennale meant to the state and to the nation. He said, “ Kochi-Muziris Biennale is one of the largest contemporary art events of its kind in India and it’s the second largest running Biennale in the world after the Venice Biennale.” (…)
Philippe Cognée
Gérard Garouste
Jitish Kallat
Chiharu Shiota
BUSAN BIENNALE
BUSAN BIENNALE, KOREA
From September 20th 2014 to November 22th 2014 Galerie Templon is proud to announce artists Philippe Cognée, Gérard Garouste, Jitish Kallat and Chiharu Shiota’s participation to the 2014 Busan Biennale (September 20 – November 22) in Korea. Entitled Inhabiting the world,this edition gathers around 160 artists from 30 countries, with a main exhibition, two special exhibitions, diverse academic programs international exchange events and participatory events. Under the direction of Olivier Kaeppelin, the main exhibition focuses on the roles of art and artists in aworld of permanent state of economic, ecological and geo-political uncertainty. Inhabiting the world intends to explore the extraordinary constellation of artistic responses to the contemporary situations.
