The annual India Art Fair is back in the city between February 2 and February 5, this time with a specially curated section titled ‘Platform’ that will focus on South Asian galleries, artists and artist collectives. The event will be held at the NSIC grounds in Okhla.
Cultural discourse
It will include a Speakers’ Forum that will promote a cultural discourse and have representatives of museums from across the world talk on subjects like the ‘Future of Museums’, ‘The Art of Collecting’, ‘When Technology meets Art’ and ‘Perspectives from Networks of South Asian Art’ .
The event seeks to build on its outreach programme to develop a new generation of collectors across the region by facilitating conversations between collectors from India and private collectors from across the globe.
Since its launch in 2008, the annual India Art Fair has become a platform to showcase Indian art to the world and more recently, it has cemented its status as a place that presents and nurtures the best of South Asian talent.
Making use of the indoor and outdoor space at the sprawling NSIC grounds, the event will host 16-art projects as well as unveil a new space, Vernacular in Flux, curated by Annapurna Garimella, which showcases vernacular art with a focus on Gond, Madhubani and Mysore paintings.
Godrej India Culture Lab will be organising a film programme ‘Art on Film’ which will explore the intersection between film-making and the visual arts in India from the 1960s to the present day. Some of the foreign galleries participating are Kalfayan Galleries (Athens), Grey Noise (Dubai), 1x1 Gallery (Dubai), Sabrina Amrani (Madrid), and Lukas Feichtner Galerie (Vienna).
