Prabhakar Pachpute

Prabhakar Pachpute (b. 1986) in Sasti In Chandrapur, Maharashtra,  lives and works in Pune, India. Pachpute works in an array of mediums and materials including drawing, light, stop- motion animations, sound and sculptural forms. His use of charcoal has a direct connection to his subject matter and familial roots, coal mines and coal miners. Pachpute often creates immersive and dramatic environments in his site-specific works, using portraiture and landscape with surrealist tropes to critically tackle issues of mining labour and the effects of mining on the natural and human landscape. Using Maharashtra as a starting point, the artist combines research from around the world and personal experiences, moving from the personal to the global investigating a complexity of historical transformations on an economic, societal and environmental level.

 

Prabhakar Pachpute lives and works in Pune, India. He received his BFA in Sculpture from Indira Kala Sangit University, Khairagarh (Chhattisgarh, 2009) and his MFA from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (Gujarat, 2011).

 

Select solo and group exhibitions include Folkstone Triennale (2025); Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Poland (2025); 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2022); Conversations on Tomorrow, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2022); Tate St. Ives (2022); Artes Mundi 9, Cardiff (2021); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2021); Gardens as Thought Form: Lexicons for Revolution, Experimenter - Hindustan Road, Kolkata (2021); Lone Runner’s Laboratory, On | Site, Bikaner House, New Delhi (2021); Beneath the Palpable, Experimenter - Ballygunge Place, Kolkata (2020); 3rd Industrial Art Biennale (2020); Glasgow School of Art (2019); Searching for Stars Amongst the Crescents, Experimenter - Ballygunge Place, Kolkata (2019); Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2019); Asilo Via Porpora, Milan (2018); Ruminations on Labour, Experimenter - Ballygunge Place, Kolkata (2018); 4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018); 2nd Yinchuan Biennale (2018); Dhaka Art Summit (2018); STUK, Leuven (2018); AV Festival, Newcastle (2018); Shadows on Arrival, Experimenter - Hindustan Road, Kolkata (2017); Parasite, Hong Kong (2017); Asia Cultural Centre, Gwangju (2017); National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai (2016); Immateriality in Residue, Experimenter - Hindustan Road, Kolkata (2015); MACBA, Barcelona (2015); 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015); 8th Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane (2015); 31st São Paulo Biennial (2014); 5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial (2014); DRAF, London (2014); The Land Eaters, Experimenter - Hindustan Road, Kolkata (2013); Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (2013); Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2013); IFA, Stuttgart & Berlin (2013); Clark House Initiative, Mumbai (2012), among others.