India Tecton – Architectural Expressions in India

An exhibition of photographs by Nicolaus Schmidt from Germany

Inauguration on Friday, 4 November 2022 at 18:30 by H.E. Mr. Philipp Ackermann, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany and Shri Rahaab Allana, Curator, Alkazi Foundation of the Arts

An analytical and interpretative view of India’s architectural heritage through a series of focused photographs. 

AADI - ART OF THE GONDS

An exhibition of contemporary art by artists of the Gond community from Patangarh and Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Artists: Rahul Shyam; Chain Singh Dhurve; Sushma Shyam; Santosh Shyam; Ashna Tekam; Surendra Tekam; Chitrakant Shyam; Premvati Pushaam; Sunil Kumar Shyam; Pankaj Urveti; Suresh Kushram; Nilesh Urveti; Santoshi Tekam; Garima Tekam; Teki Urveti; Ramkumar Shyam; Santoshi Paraste; Jyoti Uikey; Jyoti Shyam; Santosh Maravi; Radheshayam Khairwar; and Sanjay Pancheshwar


 
Inauguration of the exhibition on 15 October 2022 at 11.30 am Shri O.P. Jain, Founder President, Sanskriti Pratishthan

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)
 

An exhibition of a selection of the best photographs taken by Indian visitors to Japan submitted as part of the past five editions of Click! Japan Photo Contest. The photographs cover a range of subjects from traditional Japanese architecture including temples and shrines, people and landscape.

The exhibition will also include a section on History of Japan – India and a screening of short documentaries on Japanese culture, crafts, shrines and temples

Inauguration by Smt Meenakshi Lekhi, Hon’ble Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture on Tuesday, 20 September 2022 at 15:00

Organised as part of the ongoing commemorative events to mark the 70th Anniversary of the establishment of India-Japan Diplomatic Relations 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Japan)

An exhibition of photographs by Debalina Mazumder and Manobina Roy
Curated by Sabeena Gadihoke, Mallika Leuzinger and Tapati Guha-Thakurta
 
This exhibition delves into the photographic lives of twin sisters Debalina Mazumder (1919-2012) and Manobina Roy (1919-2001). Their practice encompassed a range of subjects and genres, joint experiments with light and shadow in 1930s Ramnagar (Benaras) giving way to striking portraits of family and friends in and around their homes in Calcutta and Bombay and distinctive glimpses of 1960s Europe.
 
Inauguration by Sharmila Tagore on Friday, 12 August 2022 at 18:30
 
 The Art Gallery will remain closed on 15 August 2022
 

Curators Walks
On 13 August 2022 at 12 noon - Curators Walk with Sabeena Gadihoke; and at 5 pm with Mallika Leuzinger
On 14 August 2022 at 12 noon and 5 pm – Curators Walk with Mallika Leuzinger
On 20, 21 and 27 August 2022 at 5 pm – Curators Walk with Sabeena Gadihoke
 

Thursday 18
 
Discussion ■ Seminar Rooms I to III, Kamaladevi Complex at 18:00
On the eve of World Photography Day
 
Panel discussion on The Home and Beyond: The World of the Amateur Photographer
Panelists: Sabeena Gadihoke, Professor, Video & TV Production, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia; Mallika Leuzinger, historian based at the German Historical Institute, London; Suryanandinin Narain, Assistant Professor, Visual Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Uma Chakravarti, feminist historian, filmmaker and archivist
 
(Collaboration: CREA; Jadunath Bhavan, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata; and with the support of PhotoSouthAsia, MurthyNAYAK Foundation)

Indian Space Programme: Growing in Leaps and Bounds

Since its inception in 1961 with Dr. Vikram Sarabhai as Chairman of the Indian National Committee on Space Research, the Indian space programme has grown in leaps and bounds. On 21st November 1963, the first Nike-Apache rocket was successfully launched and this marked the beginning of India’s journey into space. The exhibition highlights this journey of over six decades starting from the nascent years under Dr. Sarabhai; to the development of indigenous capabilities for designing and building launch vehicles and satellites; research in Cryogenic; radar imaging; cartography; oceanography and weather related areas; and to the continuing journey that has transformed the country into a technology driven one

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) presents a display of text and photographic panels that tell the story of India’s space programme along with scale models of rockets, launch vehicles and satellite models

Inauguration Prof. Ajay K. Sood, Principle Scientific Adviser to the Government of India on Friday, 22 July 2022 at 18:30

The exhibition is on view from 23 to 29 July 2022, 11:00 to 19:00 daily

WEDNESDAY 27

DISCUSSION  ¦ CONFERENCE ROOM II AT 16:30 TO 18:00
 

Panel discussion on Prospects and Avenues for New Space in India

Panelists: Dr. S. Somanath, Secretary, DOS/Chairman, ISRO; Dr. Shailesh Nayak, Director, NIAS and Life Trustee, IIC; Dr. Srinivasa Kumar T., Director, INCOIS; Dr. Sachin Chaturvedi, Director, RIS; Shri Jayant Sahasrabudde, National Organising Secretary, VIBHA; Dr. Suba Chandran, Professor, NIAS; Shri Sanjay Kumar, Founder & CED, Geospatial World; Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Anil Kumar Bhat, DG, ISpA; Shri Venkat Katkuri, Head, Airbus Defence & Aerospace; and Shri Gaurav Kharod, Managing Sales Director, Intelsat-India

The discussion will focus on the Post Space reforms announced by the Government of India and the vital role of industry and academia. In order to enable them, what are the policies, frameworks, rules and guidelines required to be formulated including incentives; and the single window regulations and approvals which will be enabled for ease of doing businesses. While ISRO will act as a facilitator or technology provider for the early startups; these startups will require directions for sustainable business. Innovations and opportunities shall be debated and discussed across all sectors for implementing space technology in the downstream industries, which will generate further opportunities for the upstream industry.

WEDNESDAY 27

TALK  ¦SEMINAR ROOMS I TO III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30
Transformation of Indian Space Sector

Speaker: Shri S. Somanath, Secretary, Department of Space and Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

Chair: Dr. Shailesh Nayak, Life Trustee, IIC

The Indian space programme started 60 years back is based on the concept of fulfilling societal needs. India achieved self-sufficiency on building upstream technologies with indigenised effort. Now it is the time for technology adoption for various sectors for increasing the country’s economy in multiple folds. The space technology shall be one of the best enablers for the country, considering vast agriculture, water resources, urbanisation and transport. After unlocking the space sector, ISRO acts as a facilitator to many non-governmental enterprises in scaling up the opportunities and contributing to the economy and technological development of the country. ISRO also concentrates more on R&D, space science missions and capacity building.

(Collaboration: Indian Space Research Organisation; SatCom Industry Association; and Indian Space Association)
 

An exhibition of photographs by Chitvan Gill

The Unseen Children of India’s Poor - crushing poverty forces millions of children into the workforce. This exhibition is an attempt to bring these children closer to us, it tells of their struggle for existence; it is the story of their parents, the marginalised, the poorest of the poor.

Inauguration by Mr. Insaf Nizam, Specialist on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, ILO’s South Asia sub-Regional Office on Friday, 1 July 2022 at 18:30

Exhibition on view from 2 to 14 July 2022, 11:00 to 19:00 daily

(Collaboration: Work: No Child’s Business)
 

Ambedkar, Stamps and the Indian Republic

Illustrated lecture by Prof. Vikas Kumar, Faculty, School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru and author of the forthcoming book Waiting for a Christmas Gift and Other Essays and co-author of Numbers in India’s Periphery: The Political Economy of Government Statistics (Cambridge University Press: 2020)

Baba Saheb: An Extraordinary Philatelic Journey (1966-2022)

The exhibition brings together a unique archive on the philatelic afterlife of Ambedkar (1966-2022), his journey from being the first Dalit personality to be honoured with a commemorative postage stamp to becoming a key philatelic icon on the country. On view are commemorative and definitive postage stamps, information brochures, first day covers, postal calendars, inland letter cards and other postal material to throw fresh light on the shifting evolution of the official and popular imagination of Ambedkar

Curated by Vikas Kumar 

Inauguration by Dr. Gopal Guru, Editor, Economic and Political Weekly on Tuesday, 7 June 2022 at 18:30

Exhibition on view: 08 to 21 June  2022 11:00 to 19:00 daily

As part of the exhibition, there will be two related programmes in the Art Gallery:

11 JUNE 2022 AT 18:30 

Ambedkar, Stamps and the Indian Republic

Illustrated lecture by Prof. Vikas Kumar, Faculty, School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru and author of the forthcoming book Waiting for a Christmas Gift and Other Essays and co-author of Numbers in India’s Periphery: The Political Economy of Government Statistics (Cambridge University Press: 2020)
 

20 JUNE 2022 AT 18:00 

Gallery Walk Through

Conducted by Vikas Kumar, curator of the exhibition

(Collaboration: Azim Premji University, Bengaluru)

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

An exhibition of photographs by Anuj Ambalal 

The Salt March, conceived and led by Mohandas K. Gandhi, is regarded as one of the defining movements in the history of the independence struggle. 90 years later, the photographer, Anuj Ambalal retraces the Mahatma’s steps and those who walked with him. Included in the display are copies of personal letters that Gandhiji wrote during the March; and short video film interviews of some of the surviving witnesses of the March.

Preview on Tuesday 10 May at 18:30
Anuj Ambalal will conduct a walk - through of the exhibition

As part of this exhibition, there will be several related programmes in the Art Gallery

On 11 May 2022 at 18:30
In Conversation

 Anuj Ambalal in conversation with Ina Puri, writer, art curator and documentarian

On 23 May 2022 at 18:30 in the Multipurpose Hall
 

Film: 'The Salt Stories'
(84 min; 2008; b/w & colour; Hindi/English/Gujarati and with English subtitles)
Director: Lalit Vachani

Recipient of the Best Documentary Award, MIAAC 2009; and 2nd Prize, Film South Asia, Kathmandu 2009

In 1930, a group of Indians led by a frail, elderly man marched a distance of 241 miles. They marched for salt. Mahatma Gandhi was able to craft an anti-colonial, nationalist movement around the most basic issue of livelihood: the right of Indians to make and consume their own salt. Set against the backdrop of Gandhi’s original journey, this documentary is a road-movie about issues of livelihood in a modern, globalising India. It is a documentary about ‘the salt stories’ of our times.

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)
 

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

In Conversation
Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam in conversation Latika Gupta