One of India\u2019s leading contemporary artists, Kallat\u2019s work explores the intersections of science, historical memory and existential inquiry, often reflecting on humanity\u2019s planetary presence and place in the cosmos. It often juxtaposes the everyday with the cosmic, the present with the historical, and the terrestrial with the celestial.<\/p>\n
Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Frist Art Museum, Nashville; the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi presented a mid-career survey of his work in 2017.<\/p>\n
His work has also been presented at institutions including Tate Modern, London; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Kunstmuseum Bern; Serpentine Galleries, London; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. He has participated in major international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale and Havana Biennial, as well as the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, the Guangzhou Triennial, the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, the Kyiv Biennale and the Curitiba Biennial.<\/p>\n
Kallat\u2019s curatorial projects include\u00a0Whorled Explorations, the second edition of the Kochi\u2013Muziris Biennale (2014\u201315);\u00a0I Draw, Therefore I Think\u00a0for SouthSouth in 2021;\u00a0Tangled Hierarchy\u00a0at the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton; and\u00a0Tangled Hierarchy 2, presented by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art as part of the Invitations Programme of the 5th Kochi\u2013Muziris Biennale in 2022.<\/p>\n
The sixth edition of the Kochi\u2013Muziris Biennale, titled\u00a0For the Time Being, is currently underway. Curated by Nikhil Chopra with HH Art Spaces, the edition will conclude on 31 March 2026. The Biennale is organised by the Kochi Biennale Foundation, a non-profit organisation established in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of India\u2019s leading contemporary artists, Kallat\u2019s work explores the intersections of science, historical memory and existential inquiry,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,175148,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-324681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-kochi-muuziris-biennale","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}