Past
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Bhasha Chakrabarti | کروٹ | करवट | Karvat
Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai 26 Oct - 20 Dec 2024 Experimenter presents کروٹ | करवट | Karvat, Bhasha Chakrabarti’s first solo at Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai and her second solo at the gallery. I. Bistar/Beast Bhasha Chakrabarti’s exhibition, Karvat, derives and extends from Ismat Chughtai’s short story, “Lihaaf”, where two women explore desire in the shadows, comfort, and/or safety of... Read more -
Reba Hore | Do You Know How To Start a Fire?
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 25 Sep - 30 Nov 2024 “Do you know how to sow seeds?” “Yes.” “Do you know how to light a fire?” “Yes.” “Do you know how to put it out?” “Only a small one.” Experimenter presents Do You Know How To Start a Fire, a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Reba... Read more -
Aziz Hazara | Muqaddimah
Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai 12 Sep - 12 Oct 2024 Experimenter presents Muqaddimah, Aziz Hazara’s second solo at the gallery and his first solo at Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai. The title of the exhibition is derived from the Persian/Arabic word ‘muqaddimah’ which means a prologue to an expansive milieu. The exhibition presents video installation, photography, sound sculptures and underscores what... Read more -
ہم دیکھیں گے | We Will See | Pushpakanthan Pakkiyarajah & Vikrant Bhise
Experimenter - Colaba, Mumbai 26 Jul - 6 Sep 2024 Hum Dekhenge, Hum Dekhenge, | We will see, we will see, Lazim Hai Ke Hum Bhi Dekhenge, | It is inevitable (that) we too shall see, Hum Dekhenge, Hum Dekhenge, | We will see, we will see, Wo Din Ke Jis Ka Vaada Hai… | The day that has been... Read more -
Of Friendships: Krishna Reddy & His World
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 20 Jul - 21 Sep 2024 Krishna Reddy’s (1925–2018) career, which spanned over seven decades, was defined by constantly pushing boundaries not only through his artistic practice but also in thought and philosophy. Reddy pursued a lifelong pedagogical approach and most importantly, built friendships that emphasised his influence across generations of artists and thinkers, who were... Read more -
Tenzing Dakpa | Weather Report
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 24 May - 27 Jul 2024 Experimenter presents Weather Report, a solo project by Tenzing Dakpa, at Experimenter – Hindustan Road. The solo will showcase Dakpa’s recent body of photographic works Manifest and Weather Report. The images present a visceral imprint of his surroundings, where the human impact on the ecological world and the subjective gaze... Read more -
(Un)Settled | Kanishka Raja & Rathin Barman
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 26 Apr - 15 Jun 2024 Experimenter presents (Un)Settled, a two-person exhibition by Kanishka Raja and Rathin Barman at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata. The exhibition draws its title from Barman’s monumental sculpture Unsettled Structures, and explores the oscillation between being ‘settled’ and ‘unsettled’, mapping the transitory nature of both interior and exterior, personal and spatial,... Read more -
Of Friendships: Krishna Reddy & His World
Experimenter - Colaba, Mumbai 5 Apr - 15 Jun 2024 Krishna Reddy’s (1925–2018) career, which spanned over seven decades, was defined by constantly pushing boundaries not only through his artistic practice but also in thought and philosophy. Reddy pursued a lifelong pedagogical approach and most importantly, built friendships that emphasised his influence across generations of artists and thinkers, who were... Read more -
Alexandra Bachzetsis | Notes on Becoming
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 19 Jan - 2 Mar 2024 Experimenter presents Alexandra Bachzetsis’ (b. 1974 lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland) first solo at the gallery and in India, Notes on Becoming that presents works from over a decade of the artist and choreographer’s practice. Positioned at the threshold of multiple moments in histories of art, theatre and choreography,... Read more -
Afrah Shafiq | I Fell Asleep a Believer and Woke Up an Atheist
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 19 Jan - 2 Mar 2024 Afrah Shafiq’s (b.1989 lives and works in Goa, India) first solo show I Fell Asleep a Believer and Woke Up an Atheist revolves around the findings encountered by the artist during her extensive research (2020-2023) into the phenomenon of Illustrated Children’s books from the Soviet Union that were widely popular... Read more -
CAMP | Bombay Tilts Down
Sassoon Docks, Mumbai 12 - 21 Jan 2024 Experimenter is thrilled to present, in collaboration with St+art India, CAMP’s monumental seven channel installation Bombay Tilts Down for the first time in its home city of Mumbai, during Mumbai Gallery Weekend . A landscape movie in facets, ‘Bombay Tilts Down' was filmed from a single-point location by a CCTV... Read more -
Sohrab Hura | Ghosts in My Sleep
Experimenter Colaba 11 Jan - 16 Mar 2024 Experimenter presents Ghosts in My Sleep, Sohrab Hura’s (b.1981 lives and works in New Delhi, India) solo at Experimenter – Colaba during Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2024. The exhibition takes its title from a new body of work comprising works on paper made with gouache. Alongside these small paintings, the ongoing... Read more -
Sahil Naik | Specters, Specimens and Ships in Doubt
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 24 Nov 2023 - 6 Jan 2024 Sahil Naik’s third solo at the gallery, Specters, Specimens and Ships in Doubt continues to extract patterns between the histories of colonization and non-alignment, through projects of natural history, architectural modernism and the modalities of the Indian Ocean. Through a range of objects in circulation across time and sites, he... Read more -
Radhika Khimji | Cutting Into Space
Experimenter - Colaba Mumbai 9 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Experimenter presents Cutting Into Space, Radhika Khimji’s first solo at Experimenter - Colaba, Mumbai. Presenting a new body of work, the exhibition continues Khimji’s exploration of the liminal space between the body and the landscape, while also transcending the confines of fixed categorisations. Through interventions over images, pictures taken and... Read more -
Julien Segard | Dark Was The Night
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 29 Sep - 11 Nov 2023 Julien Segard’s series Dark Was The Night creates a dialogue between the visceral and the peripheral, vacuity and mass. The body of work immerses the viewer in the minuteness of their elements while simultaneously operating as the entry points into vast infinite spaces. Through drawings made with charcoal and dust... Read more -
Sakshi Gupta | If The Seas Catch Fire
Experimenter Colaba 14 Sep - 26 Oct 2023 Experimenter presents If the Seas Catch Fire, Sakshi Gupta’s debut solo at Experimenter Colaba and her first solo in Mumbai. Gupta’s practice centres the disconnect one experiences with oneself and the turmoil this creates, bringing to the fore the constant drone of an acute background suffering. The works in this... Read more -
In Between The Notes
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 25 Aug - 14 Oct 2023 Experimenter presents In Between the Notes, an exhibition that builds on sonic experiences and aural memories. This exhibition, presenting works by Lala Rukh, Parul Thacker, Superhero Sighting Society (Taus Makhacheva & Sabih Ahmed), Biraaj Dodiya and Samson Young, brings together practices that either directly root themselves within sound as material,... Read more -
Siege of Darkness | Payal Kapadia & Priya Sen
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 3 - 19 Aug 2023 Experimenter presents Siege of Darkness, an exhibition of two crucial films by artists and filmmakers Payal Kapadia and Priya Sen that underscore the swiftly changing dynamics of our social and political constructs and question the fundamental ways in which we experience relationships and share a common space of cohabitation and... Read more -
Shadow Circus: A Personal Archive of Tibetan Resistance (1957 – 1974)
Experimenter Colaba 27 Jul - 26 Aug 2023 After the Communist Chinese invasion of 1950 and its subsequent takeover in 1959, Tibet has been a country under occupation. Since then, resistance to Chinese rule, both inside Tibet and in exile, has been unyielding and resilient, transforming over time in response to the changing situation in China and the... Read more -
Julien Segard & Rathin Barman | Eyes of the Skin
Experimenter Colaba 20 May - 15 Jul 2023 Experimenter presents Eyes of the Skin, a two-person exhibition by Julien Segard and Rathin Barman. Referring to the seminal book by Finnish architect and academic Juhani Pallasmaa on architectures and the senses, the exhibition builds a dialogue between landscape, architecture and the built environment exploring the visceral and peripheral in... Read more -
Soumya Sankar Bose | A Discreet Exit Through Darkness
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 21 Apr - 30 Jun 2023 Experimenter presents A Discreet Exit through Darkness, an exhibition by photographer Soumya Sankar Bose at Experimenter Hindustan Road. The exhibition brings together Bose’s debut work in moving image, in the format of a 360° VR film, delving into the disappearance of Bose’s mother from 1969 – 71. A series of... Read more -
Aziz Hazara | No Starting Point for Revolution
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 21 Apr - 30 Jun 2023 Experimenter presents No Starting Point for Revolution, Aziz Hazara’s first solo at the gallery and in the country. Hazara works across the mediums of photography, video, sound and installation. Through his works one encounters themes of memory, archive, surveillance, the panopticon and politics of representation in the backdrop of violence... Read more -
Kanishka Raja | Ground Control
Experimenter Colaba 9 Mar - 13 May 2023 Experimenter presents Ground Control, a solo by the late artist Kanishka Raja, with a body of works that converge several strands of enquiry that ran concurrently in Raja’s multi-dimensional practice. The exhibition opens at Experimenter – Colaba on 9th March and will be on view until 13th May 2023. Deeply... Read more -
Bhasha Chakrabarti | Skin to Skin
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 21 Jan - 25 Mar 2023 my body writes into your flesh the poem you make of me. — Audre Lorde, Recreation 1 In contemplating matters of desire, it is useful to remember that reciprocity does not beget an arithmetic function, rather it ignites an exponential one. One notices such a generative, almost-erotic, dialogue... Read more -
T. Vinoja | Anatomy of Remembrances | நினைவுகளின் உடற்கூறியல்
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 21 Jan - 31 Mar 2023 My dream was like a blurred image, A ruined composition. With no one carrying it, The coffin moved, by itself, towards the cremation ground. — Cheran, The trace of a dream (Kanavin tadam), 2003 Experimenter presents Anatomy of Remembrances, a debut solo exhibition by... Read more -
Soumya Sankar Bose | A Discreet Exit Through Darkness
Experimenter Colaba 12 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 Experimenter presents A Discreet Exit through Darkness, an exhibition by photographer Soumya Sankar Bose at Experimenter Colaba, marking his first solo in Mumbai. The exhibition brings together Bose’s debut work in moving image, in the format of a 360° VR film, delving into the disappearance of Bose’s mother from 1969... Read more -
Biraaj Dodiya | Every Bone a Song
Experimenter Colaba 10 Nov - 23 Dec 2022 Experimenter presents Every Bone a Song, Biraaj Dodiya’s second solo at the gallery and her first solo exhibition at Experimenter – Colaba in Mumbai, where Dodiya lives and works. Presenting a series of new paintings and sculptures, the exhibition continues Dodiya’s inquiry of the body and landscape and of related... Read more -
Bani Abidi | The Song
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 3 Nov - 30 Dec 2022 Bani Abidi’s exhibition The Song, marks her third solo at Experimenter, premiering a new film along with photographs, watercolors and an immersive sound installation at Experimenter Ballygunge Place in Kolkata. The exhibition opens on November 03 and will be on view until December 30, 2022. Abidi’s solo debuts her... Read more -
Ayesha Sultana | Making Visible
Experimenter Colaba 23 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 Experimenter presents Making Visible, a solo by Ayesha Sultana that marks the inaugural exhibition of Experimenter – Colaba, and Sultana’s first solo in Mumbai. Sultana’s exhibition stands at the precipice between two moments in time, paying attention to neither experiences in time, but only to the relationship between the two... Read more -
Kanishka Raja | Ground Control
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 12 Aug - 15 Oct 2022 Kanishka Raja (1969 – 2018) was born in Calcutta, lived and worked in New York and Kolkata. The circuitry of his work is grounded in the particular contingencies of this apposition. Ground Control sheds light on Raja’s multiform practice, underscoring a constant pursuit in plurality of thought, materials and processes... Read more -
Kallol Datta | Volume 3 Issue 2
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 15 Jul - 23 Sep 2022 Experimenter presents Volume 3 Issue 2, Kallol Datta’s second solo at Experimenter – Hindustan Road, bringing together Datta’s ongoing inquiry in native clothing practices in South-West Asia, North Africa, Indian Subcontinent and the Korean Peninsula. Making structural experimentations in pattern cutting, Datta skews traditional geometry to create silhouettes which shroud,... Read more -
Conversations on Tomorrow
Sadie Coles HQ, London 11 May - 18 Jun 2022 “What comes after reason?” Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung asked last year.1 By addressing a strain of “reason” – a rational, canonizing, cerebral, and intoxicating form of thought prescribed by the West – Ndikung was adumbrating his intellectual resistance. In art, “reason” might suggest submission to the pervading institutional structures, and... Read more -
A Site for Encounters for Drawn From Practice II
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 15 Apr - 30 Jun 2022 Drawing as a conceptual idea, or as a form, goes well beyond the boundaries of visual arts and does not necessarily restrict itself to the physical manifestations of the same, A Site for Encounters for Drawn From Practice at Experimenter Hindustan Road expands this thought. Atho Hidimba Katha by Samuho... Read more -
Drawn From Practice II
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 14 Apr - 30 Jun 2022 Experimenter presents Drawn From Practice II, which relooks at the conceptual, notational, and foundational role of drawing without restricting itself to formal or conventional boundaries. Drawing's flexibility, its suppleness, its anti-monumental, and exploratory character, readily bring forth an intimate and nuanced, yet direct encounter with the mind of the practitioner,... Read more -
Sunil Janah | Making a Photograph
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 3 Feb - 26 Mar 2022 Experimenter presents Making a Photograph, a solo exhibition of works by Sunil Janah (b.1918 – d. 2012), one of India’s pioneering photographers making images at a time in India that marked the emergence of modernity in the country. His work initially came into prominence as he documented the disaster of... Read more -
Rathin Barman | There is Now a Wall
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 3 Feb - 26 Mar 2022 Experimenter presents There is Now a Wall, Rathin Barman’s fourth solo project at the gallery. For over a decade Barman has been weaving narratives of history, architecture and memory through his sculptures by forging long lasting relationships with inhabitants of a range of grand homes, some built over two centuries... Read more -
Soumya Sankar Bose | Where The Birds Never Sing
Experimenter - Outpost 16 Dec 2021 - 31 Mar 2022 Experimenter is pleased to present Soumya Sankar Bose’s project Where the Birds Never Sing in Kumirmari, Sundarbans, West Bengal as part of Experimenter Outpost, an iterative exhibitions program outside the physical gallery, where an extension of the program temporarily inhabits unused spaces, imagining a renewed life for them. The programming... Read more -
Varun Desai | Spectre
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 4 Dec 2021 - 8 Jan 2022 Experimenter presents Spectre, Varun Desai’s first solo exhibition. Spectre explores human perception through sonic experiences and spatial installations, testing the limits of what we see and hear and what we think we know The viewer is confronted by three distinct yet interconnected bodily experiences in the gallery that anchor themselves... Read more -
Radhika Khimji | Adorning Shadows
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 23 Oct - 24 Dec 2021 Experimenter presents Adorning Shadows, Radhika Khimji’s first solo at the gallery. Entwined in the relationship between figure and ground, form and context, mark and page, subject and object, flatness and depth, Khimji explores the body, its transitory nature and the act of looking and experiencing the body in space. Employing... Read more -
Gardens as Thought Form: Lexicons for Revolution
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 27 Aug - 31 Oct 2021 Experimenter presents Gardens as Thought Form: Lexicons for Revolution with works by Aziz Hazara, Bani Abidi, and Prabhakar Pachpute. Gardens exist in multiple forms – many are public, some are secret, some fragile, some even exist only in consciousness or imagination. In the nebulae of a garden lies a... Read more -
Reba Hore | The Broken Foot Journal and Other Stories
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 12 Aug - 4 Oct 2021 Experimenter presents The Broken Foot Journal and Other Stories bringing together the works of the late painter, sculptor and printmaker Reba Hore (b. 1926 – d. 2008). Reba Hore’s practice is rooted in the dailyness that occupied her field of vision. Frenetic and at times even dizzying, her work was... Read more -
Soumya Sankar Bose | Where the Birds Never Sing
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 21 Apr - 31 Jul 2021 Experimenter presents Where the Birds Never Sing (2017-2020), Soumya Sankar Bose’s second solo at the gallery. The exhibition brings together Bose’s long-term project on the Marichjhapi massacre, the forcible eviction in 1979, of Bengali lower caste refugees from Marichjhapi Island in Sundarbans, West Bengal, India, and the subsequent death of... Read more -
Julien Segard | A View From Nowhere
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 21 Apr - 31 Jul 2021 Experimenter presents A View From Nowhere, an immersive solo by Julien Segard at Experimenter – Hindusthan Road. Rooted in experiences of solitude and silence within a remote, rustic cabin in France, where Segard spent most of the past year. The exhibition is a reflection on interiority, the passage of time,... Read more -
Sahil Naik | All is Water, and To Water We Must Return
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 21 Apr - 31 Jul 2021 Experimenter is pleased to announce Sahil Naik’s solo project All is water, and to water we must return at Ballygunge Place (Projects room). The project will concurrently be on view as part of Galleries Curate: RHE. Over the past six years, Naik has extensively worked with families from Curdi to... Read more -
Naeem Mohaiemen | Jole Dobe Na (Those Who Do Not Drown)
Experimenter - Hindustan Road 7 - 14 Apr 2021 Jole Dobe Na (Those Who Do Not Drown), a film by Naeem Mohaiemen premieres in Kolkata at Experimenter-Hindustan Road. The film was conceived in response to a prompt given by Raqs Media Collective (for Yokohama Triennial 2020) to think about the afterlife of caregivers. In an empty hospital in Kolkata,... Read more -
Experimenter at On | Site
Bikaner House, New Delhi 3 - 9 Mar 2021 On | Site is a collaborative project organised by four Indian galleries at Bikaner House, New Delhi, which will take place between 3 – 9 March 2021 and is presented jointly by Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai; Experimenter, Kolkata; Nature Morte, New Delhi and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. Do You... Read more -
Ayesha Sultana | Bare Bones
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 11 Feb - 10 Apr 2021 Experimenter presents Ayesha Sultana’s third solo at the gallery, Bare Bones bringing together an intensely personal yet acutely revealing body of work, that deals with the body and stillness, its relationship with space and movement, breaking down the act of painting to express an intimate moment, where physical and emotional... Read more -
Adip Dutta & Meera Mukherjee | Nestled
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 22 Jan - 31 Mar 2021 Nestled brings together the works of sculptor and painter Adip Dutta and the revered artist late Meera Mukherjee, revisiting a layered and nuanced relationship between them. Although generationally apart, Mukherjee’s influence on Dutta’s work was formative to his visual language and the exhibition attempts to underscore a lesser known, yet... Read more -
Sohrab Hura | Spill
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 7 Nov 2020 - 2 Jan 2021 Experimenter presents Spill, Sohrab Hura’s second solo. The exhibition opens at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place on 07 November, 2020 and will be on view until 02 January, 2021. Spill is an unfolding of a 15-year practice marked by constant probing of the medium of image making. With beginnings rooted strongly... Read more -
Rupture
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 7 Oct - 12 Nov 2020 Experimenter presents Rupture, an exhibition by Ayesha Sultana, Biraaj Dodiya, Nadia Kaabi Linke, Praneet Soi and Radhika Khimji. By collapsing, dislocating and deconstructing body and form, the artists in the exhibition attempt to create a rupture of vision and experience. The works in the exhibition probe the fragile equilibrium between... Read more -
Abhishek Hazra | Between Repetition & Reticence
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 9 - 30 Sep 2020 Experimenter presents Between Repetition & Reticence, an exhibition by Abhishek Hazra that posits itself in a crevice formed between the relationship of dissent, class, legacies of a graded vertical society and cultural history viewed through a lens constructed by the artist’s multidimensional practice. Using language, research text, historical scientific documents,... Read more -
Four Positions
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 21 Aug - 30 Sep 2020 Experimenter presents four solo positions by Ayesha Sultana, Julien Segard, Krishna Reddy, and Rathin Barman at the Ballygunge Place space. The architecture of Experimenter – Ballygunge Place lends possibilities of viewing disparate exhibitions together. Krishna Reddy | In Search of Simultaneity Simultaneity may not be an absolute relation between events;... Read more -
Biraaj Dodiya | Stone is Forehead
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 6 Mar - 30 Jun 2020 “Stone is a forehead where dreams grieve, without curving waters and frozen cypresses. Stone is a shoulder on which to bear time, with trees formed of tears and ribbons and planets.” Experimenter presents Stone is a Forehead, Biraaj Dodiya’s debut solo. The title of the exhibition is a reference to... Read more -
Prabhakar Pachpute | Beneath The Palpable
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 22 Jan - 4 Apr 2020 Experimenter presents Beneath the Palpable, Prabhakar Pachpute’s solo at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place. Reflecting on complex relationships between human, social, economic and political crosscurrents that are at play in the battle for resource, ecology and power, the show furthers Pachpute’s ongoing interest in mining politics, farmers' movements and human conflicts... Read more -
Sahil Naik | Monuments, Mausoleums, Memorials, Modernism
Experimenter – Hindustan road 8 Jan - 25 Feb 2020 Architecture is a complex cultural technology. It is an intersection of economic, technical, scientific, artistic, legal, media, religious, and political interests. In his second solo, Monuments, Mausoleums, Memorials, Modernism , Sahil Naik investigates how the political shapes all other intersections in modern architecture. The exhibition previews on 8th January... Read more -
Samson Young | Available Forms
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 27 Nov 2019 - 4 Jan 2020 Experimenter presents Available Forms, Samson Young’s second solo exhibition at Experimenter. The exhibition opens on 27 November, 2019 and will be on view until 4 January, 2020 at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place. In Available Forms, Samson Young explores openness in musical notation and how it relates to ideas of openness... Read more -
Naeem Mohaiemen | দইু • dui
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 25 Aug - 5 Nov 2019 Experimenter presents দইু • dui, Naeem Mohaiemen’s solo at Experimenter Hindustan Road. This exhibition builds new links between two works which first appeared in another format in a journal (Volume Eleven), and in Bengali (Baksho Rohoshyo). In Volume Eleven (flaw in the algorithm of cosmopolitanism), Mohaiemen looks at four essays... Read more -
Soumya Sankar Bose | Let's Sing an Old Song
Experimenter – Outpost 24 Aug - 21 Sep 2019 Experimenter Outpost presents its first project in Kolkata with a solo exhibition of photographs from Soumya Sankar Bose’s Let’s Sing an Old Song. “I knew I had to work on this project when my uncle retired from the Jatra and joined a railway factory, hoping to do what he could... Read more -
Searching for Stars Amongst the Crescents
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 23 Aug - 25 Oct 2019 Experimenter presents a group exhibition, Searching for Stars Amongst the Crescents. Looking beyond the confines of our mental and physical capacities and prejudices, the exhibition seeks propositions for a future living. Probing failures and slippages of modernity, the artists reimagine the inheritances of shared legacies, build unexpected alliances of solidarity,... Read more -
Julien Segard | A Second Coming
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 26 Apr - 25 Jul 2019 Experimenter presents A Second Coming, New Delhi and Marseilles based artist Julien Segard’s solo at Experimenter Ballygunge Place opening on April 26 2019. The exhibition builds a dialogue between the visceral and the peripheral, vacuity and mass, and the relationship between man, landscape, and architecture. Segard’s work explores the severe... Read more -
CAMP | A Photogenetic Line
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 13 Apr - 15 Jul 2019 A 100-foot long branching sequence of cutouts drawing from the photo archives of The Hindu, a 140-year old newspaper. Cutouts here are a way of reframing existing photographs as new organisms, not to remove their background environments, nor to frame heroic figures, but to create a new boundary or border... Read more -
Rathin Barman | The Thinking Forest is Not a Metaphor
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 22 Feb - 26 Apr 2019 Experimenter is pleased to announce The Thinking Forest Is Not A Metaphor, Rathin Barman’s third solo at the gallery. Barman has long been exploring the nature of built structures and what lies beyond the visible. This exhibition is a continuation of this exploration as Barman probes how we live and... Read more -
Krishna Reddy | To a New Form
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 18 Jan - 31 Mar 2019 Experimenter presents To A New Form, a solo by the late Indian master printmaker and sculptor, Krishna Reddy (1925 – 2018). Reflecting on a continuous exploration of form that fed into a practice of over seven decades, the exhibition will show rare drawings, zinc and copper etching plates and corresponding... Read more -
Praneet Soi | Hold Still
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 1 Dec 2018 - 2 Feb 2019 Experimenter presents Hold Still, Kolkata-born and Amsterdam-based artist Praneet Soi’s second solo at the gallery Hold Still titled after Sally Mann’s seminal book, lays bare a layered lens through which Soi looks at his surroundings, creating a unique interplay between the narrative and the image. A deep association with the... Read more -
Moyra Davey | Bring My Garters / Do Nothing
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 10 Nov - 5 Jan 2018 Experimenter presents Bring My Garters / Do Nothing, a solo exhibition by Moyra Davey, whose work comprises photography, film, and writing. Davey’s films often explore compulsion, creativity, and the feminine. Bring My Garters / Do Nothingoffers an intimate perspective into the artist’s world, her memories, stories of her family, friends,... Read more -
Drawn from Practice
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place & Experimenter – Hindustan Road 18 Aug - 31 Oct 2018 Experimenter presents Drawn from Practice, an exhibition which relooks at the conceptual, notational, and foundational role of drawing across a wide arc of disciplines and media. The exhibition proposes to explore the conceptual idea of drawing as a scaffolding for building practices of expression, rather than restricting itself solely as... Read more -
Ruminations on Labour
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 9 May - 31 Jul 2018 Experimenter presents, Ruminations on Labour, an exhibition that explores the act of labour, its politics and what labour means in an increasingly globalized and capitalist world. Showing works by Prabhakar Pachpute, Praneet Soi, Raqs Media Collective and Sanchayan Ghosh, the exhibition brings together sculpture, installation and painting, making disparate points... Read more -
Soumya Sankar Bose | Full Moon on a Dark Night
Experimenter – Hindusthan Road 17 Mar - 31 May 2018 Experimenter presents Full Moon on a Dark Night, Kolkata based, photographer Soumya Sankar Bose’s first solo at Experimenter – Hindustan Road. Full Moon on a Dark Night navigates the fragile space between the private and the vulnerable where personal experiences of his friends in Bose’s photographic prints become evident. Through... Read more -
I wish to let you fall out of my hands (Chapter II)
Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 28 Feb - 30 Apr 2018 Experimenter presents I wish to let you fall out of my hands (Chapter II), the inaugural exhibition for its second space in Kolkata, Experimenter – Ballygunge Place. The new space will run simultaneously with Experimenter – Hindustan Road, allowing the gallery to build a multifaceted, adaptive and discursive exhibitions programme... Read more -
I wish to let you fall out of my hands (Chapter I) | Bani Abidi | Naeem Mohaiemen
Experimenter – Hindusthan Road 30 Jan - 3 Mar 2018 Experimenter presents, I wish to let you fall out of my hands (Chapter I), with works by Bani Abidi and Naeem Mohaiemen. This exhibition is the first of a two-part exhibition, the latter of which inaugurates Experimenter’s second space in Kolkata. The exhibition proposes an examination of longing, memory, identity,... Read more -
Sahil Naik | Ground Zero: Site as Witness/Architecture as Evidence
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 25 Nov 2017 - 10 Jan 2018 Experimenter presents Ground Zero: Site as Witness/Architecture as Evidence, Sahil Naik’s first solo at the gallery. Using methods of distance and proximity, the exhibition explores Naik’s continued interest in conflicts around the world, and other state sponsored and independent terrorism. In his sculptural installations, lines between the real and the... Read more -
Sohrab Hura | Sweet Life
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 9 Sep - 10 Nov 2017 Experimenter presents Sweet Life, Sohrab Hura’s first solo at the gallery. The exhibition offers an insight into the deeply poetic and personal journey of Hura’s relationships within his family and outside. Sweet Life opens on September 9 and will continue to be on view until November 10 2017. Sweet Life,... Read more -
Kallol Datta | Random Access
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 10 - 31 Aug 2017 Experimenter presents Random Access, an exhibition by Kallol Datta, that explores the deeply linked conceptual, material and technical aspects of Datta’s design practice. The exhibition opens on August 10 and will continue until August 31 2017. Throughout his career, Datta has been working towards understanding how the body adapts to... Read more -
Adip Dutta | By Darkling Ground
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 17 May - 8 Jul 2017 Experimenter presents By Darkling Ground, Kolkata based artist Adip Dutta’s second solo at the gallery. The exhibition opens on 17th May 2017 and will continue to be on view until 8th July, 2017. Over the last decade, Dutta has explored possibilities in re-looking at objects and sites of construction and... Read more -
Prabhakar Pachpute | Shadows on Arrival
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 4 Mar - 29 Apr 2017 Experimenter presents Shadows on Arrival, Prabhakar Pachpute’s second solo at the gallery. Shadows on Arrival follows Pachpute’s continued interest in exploitation of land and mineral resources in which he imagines the future of a post-mined and post-industrial landscape through paintings, sculpture and installation. The exhibition opens on March 4th and... Read more -
Ayesha Sultana | Making Visible
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 21 Jan - 27 Feb 2017 Experimenter presents Making Visible, Ayesha Sultana’s second solo at Experimenter, where Sultana explores simultaneously her pursuit of stillness, a deliberated rhythm of work and the aesthetics of silence through a series of drawings and sculptures. Silence exists as a persistent decision for Sultana, a continuous process of expressing herself through... Read more -
Raster – Emerging from the Grid
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 18 Nov - 31 Dec 2016 Experimenter presents Raster – Emerging from the Grid an exhibition featuring work by Rathin Barman, Astha Butail, CAMP, Nabil Rahman, Julein Segard and Praneet Soi. Raster – a rectangular pattern of parallel scanning lines followed by the electron beam on a television screen or computer monitor, or any electronic device... Read more -
Samson Young | Mastery of Language Affords Remarkable Power
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 20 Aug - 29 Oct 2016 Experimenter presents Mastery of Language Affords Remarkable Power, Samson Young’s first solo in India. Young is a trained composer and practicing sound artist. While his output is multi-disciplinary, he still maintains an active practice as a composer of concert hall music. Young’s work contextualizes political and communal structure and questions,... Read more -
Krishna Reddy | Editionmaker: Contextual Sculpture to the Conceptual
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 20 May - 16 Jul 2016 Experimenter presents, Editionmaker: Contextual Sculpture to the Conceptual, Krishna Reddy’s first solo at Experimenter, Kolkata. The nonagenarian sculptor and pioneering printmaker shows a range of work encompassing his long and illustrious career spanning over seven decades Krishna Reddy’s solo at Experimenter includes a series of viscosity prints, watercolors, photographs and... Read more -
Nadia Kaabi-Linke | Lost and Found
Experimenter – Hindustan Road 9 Mar - 30 Apr 2016 Experimenter presents Lost and Found - Nadia Kaabi-Linke’s second solo at Experimenter, Kolkata. Lost and Found marks a shift in Kaabi-Linke’s practice where she moves towards the act of print making to the act of an indexical, time-related mark making activity and explores cavities of time and space, which reveal... Read more
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Lived Spaces and Other Structures | In Touch Edition 6
Julien Segard & Rathin Barman 28 May - 31 Aug 2021 Experimenter presents Lived Spaces and Other Structures, a two-person exhibition by Julien Segard and Rathin Barman, for In Touch 6. The exhibition builds a dialogue between landscape, architecture and the built environment exploring the visceral and peripheral in our urban field of vision through works on paper, paintings and sculptures.... Read more -
Prabhakar Pachpute | Under the Crust | In Touch Edition 5
16 Dec 2020 - 26 May 2021 Experimenter presents Under the Crust a solo exhibition by Prabhakar Pachpute for Edition 5 of In Touch. Through a new series of works, Prabhakar Pachpute continues his inquiry about exploitation of land and mineral resources, depicting an ominous future of a post-mined and post-industrial landscape. He uses personal experiences, research... Read more -
Radhika Khimji | Traces of Deconstruction | In Touch | Edition 4
22 Sep - 10 Dec 2020 Experimenter presents Traces of Deconstruction a solo exhibition by Radhika Khimji for Edition 4 of In Touch. Straddling a space between multiple polarities, Radhika Khimji’s work is at once a painting, a drawing and a collage; it is also an embroidery and a sculpture. Khimji’s solo exhibition, Traces of Deconstruction... Read more -
Filament | Online Film Exhibition | Part 3
Abhishek Hazra 9 Sep - 20 Oct 2020 Experimenter presents Between Repetition & Reticence, an exhibition by Abhishek Hazra that posits itself in a crevice formed between the relationship of dissent, class, legacies of a graded vertical society and cultural history viewed through a lens constructed by the artist’s multidimensional practice. Using language, research text, historical scientific documents,... Read more -
Soumya Sankar Bose | Let's Sing an Old Song | In Touch Edition 3
17 Jul - 17 Oct 2020 Experimenter presents Let's Sing an Old Song a solo exhibition by Soumya Sankar Bose for Edition 3 of In Touch. How can we relieve the image of the pressure to bear witness or testimony? One way perhaps is for the image to consistently empathise with its capacity to implore the... Read more -
Filament | Online Film Exhibition | Part 2
Bani Abidi 10 Jul - 20 Aug 2020 Experimenter presents the second part of its online film and moving image program Filament, showing films by Bani Abidi as a 4-part online exhibition, embedding the films on Experimenter’s website for 10-days each. Abidi (b. 1971) Karachi, Pakistan, and now working between Berlin and Karachi uses video and photography to... Read more -
Adip Dutta | Form Anew | In Touch | Edition 2
5 Jun - 5 Sep 2020 Experimenter presents Form Anew a solo exhibition by Adip Dutta for Edition 2 of In Touch. Presenting a suite of intricate works on paper and sculptures in bronze and cast paper, the exhibition extends Dutta’s ongoing practice in looking at form and landscape. In a changed environment the cityscape and... Read more -
Filament | Online Film Exhibition | Part 1
Moyra Davey, Ashish Avikunthak and Naeem Mohaiemen 11 - 31 May 2020 Experimenter presents the first part of its online film and moving image program Filament, showing works by Moyra Davey, Ashish Avikunthak and Naeem Mohaiemen. Filament | Part I explores how logical interpretations are often insufficient to comprehend the ways in which interlaced human relationships affect thinking. How history is told,... Read more -
Together We Survive | In Touch | Edition 1
Ayesha Sultana, Biraaj Dodiya, Julien Segard, Krishna Reddy, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Naeem Mohaiemen, Prabhakar Pachpute, Praneet Soi, Radhika Khimji, Rathin Barman, and Soumya Sankar Bose 24 Apr - 24 May 2020 Experimenter presents Together we survive, an online group exhibition rooted in ideas of collective action, hope and collaboration for the first edition of In Touch from April 24 – July 24, 2020. The exhibition features works by Ayesha Sultana, Biraaj Dodiya, Julien Segard, Krishna Reddy, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Naeem Mohaiemen, Prabhakar... Read more
