ABROAD CANVAS

art has been making an international splash in recent times

Nasreen Mohamedi

March 2016 – June 2016; The Met Breuer, New York, USA

A posthumous and most complete retrospective show honouring the Karachi-born, India-raised artist who broke away from the dominant figurative-narrative mainstream practice to create abstract works.

Bhupen Khakhar: You Can’t Please All November 2016 – March 2017; Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany

UK critics panned Khakhar’s retrospective when it showed at the Tate Modern in London. It was better received in Germany.

An Artist of Her Time: YG Srimati and the Indian Style

December 2016 – June 2017; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA YG Srimati’s first retrospective focused on 25 watercolour paintings done in the 1940s and 1950s, along with works from the 1980s and 1990s, when she moved to New York.

Documenta 14

April 2017 – September 2017, Kassel, Germany and Athens, Greece

More than 16 artists showed at the prestigious exhibition, including Nilima Sheikh, Ganesh Haloi, Gauri Gill and Nikhil Chopra.

Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs

October 2017 – January 2018; The Met Breuer, New York, USA

The first in-depth study of Singh’s work as a pioneer of street photography in colour from the late 1960s through the late 1990s.

Nalini Malani: The Rebellion of the Dead October 2017 - January 2018; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

The retrospective show covered Malani’s video, mixed media and performance works,with relatively unseen 16 mm films from 1969 and 1976.

Adda / Rendez-vous, Subodh Gupta April 2018 - August 2018; Monnaie de Paris, France

Gupta’s works were displayed along the historic salons of 11 Conti by the banks of the Seine, extending up the main stairway and the courtyard of the Monnaie de Paris .

Vivan Sundaram: Disjunctures

June 2018-December 2018, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

The most comprehensive survey of the Sundaram’s work at a European institution.