Praneet Soi

Praneet Soi was born in Kolkata in 1971. Soi moved to the Netherlands in 2002 to attend the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, a two-year international residency program for artists and currently divides his time between Amsterdam and Kolkata. This oscillatory movement impacts his practice. Soi identifies over time, patterns that emerge from an investigation of his extended social and economic landscape and explores these across a multidisciplinary oeuvre. Interactive processes are important to Soi. He designed for certain of his installations drawing machines encouraging audiences to draw. The artist, in partnership with the Mondrian Foundation, set up in his hometown of Kolkata a residency for Netherlands based artists, thus connecting his two environments. Recent activities include participation at the 12th Berlin Biennale (2022) with an installation titled“Paraphernalia”, “Centurion” at Positions # 6: Bodyworlds at the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, (2020-21) and “Anamorphosis: Notes from Palestine, Winter in the Kashmir Valley” at the Mosaic Rooms in London (2019). This exhibition was followed by an eponymously titled publication with Book Works UK. He was in 2021 resident at the Luceberthuis in Bergen, North Holland. Soi is participating in a long-term residency titled Aspects of Madness granted by the Al Qattan Foundation in Palestine which has him visit the region for a month annually for the coming 3 years.