Prabhakar Pachpute | Lone Runner’s Laboratory : Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai

Experimenter presents Lone Runner’s Laboratory, Prabhakar Pachpute’s first solo at Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai and fourth solo with the gallery.

 

For more than a decade, Pachpute has critically examined the impact of mining on both the environment and human lives. What began as a study of altered natural and industrial landscapes has deepened into an exploration of the inner worlds of those most affected. 

 

Lone Runner’s Laboratory marks a pivotal moment in Pachpute’s practice, emerging after a prolonged pause of close reflection on the characters who have informed his panoramic landscapes over the years. Shaped through introspection while assimilating finding of all the visits to mines; mining and agricultural museums; farms and barren landscapes; farmers’ protests, rallies, and demonstrations; sustained conversations with miners and farmers, he turns to their afterlives, tracing moments of rumination and respite while engaging with the psychological and social dimensions of labour and systemic abuse. His characters are no longer restricted to occupying farms and mines; they also inhabit diverse industrial and urban spaces, surrounded by human desires and their forced interventions.

 

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.