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Jitish Kallat

Born 1974 in Mumbai, India
Lives and works in Mumbai, India

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Jitish Kallat is one of the most prominent figures of contemporary Indian Art. Working across a variety of media including painting, sculpture, photography and installation, his work reflects a deep involvement with the city of his birth (Mumbai) and derives much of its visual language from his immediate urban environment. His subject matter has been described previously as 'the dirty, old, recycled and patched-together fabric of urban India'. Wider concerns include India's attempts to negotiate its entry into a globalised economy, addressing housing and transportation crises, city planning, caste and communal tensions, and government accountability.
Many of Kallat's works focus on Mumbai's downtrodden or dispossessed inhabitants, though treating them in a bold, colourful and highly graphic manner. Kallat traditionally mounts his paintings on bronze sculptures that are re-created from the wall adornments found on the 120-year-old Victoria Terminus train station in the centre of Mumbai.

“The city street is my university. One finds all the themes of life and art – pain, happiness, anger, violence and compassion – played out here in full volume. Scale is merely one of the many tools one can deploy in the creation of meaning, and decisions such as big, small, lifesize, etc., are as much acts of meaning creation as they may be retinal or aesthetic considerations.”
Jitish Kallat, quoted in The Asian Art Newspaper, February 2010
Interviewer: Rajesh Punj

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Jitish Kallat was appointed curator for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India in 2014. Kallat has participated in many major Indian art exhibitions that include: "India: Art Now" at the Arken Museum, Ishoj, Denmark (2012-13); "Public Notice 3" at the Art Institute of Chicago (2010-2011); "Indian Highway IV" at MAXXI, Rome, Italy (2012) and at Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (2011); "The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Art Today" at Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2010); "Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art" at Essl Museum – Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg, Austria and at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (both 2009), as well as "Indian Highway" at the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2008-09); "Die Tropen. Ansichten von der Mitte der Weltkugel" at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (2008); "Urban Manners" at Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy (2007) and "Century City" at Tate Modern, London, UK (2001).
Solo presentations include "Circa" at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia (2012); "Fieldnotes: Tomorrow was here Yesterday" at the Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India (2011); "Likewise" at Arndt, Berlin, Germany (2010); "The Astronomy of the Subway" at Haunch of Venison, London, UK (2010); "Aquasaurus" at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Paddington, Australia (2008) and "Lonely Facts" at the Kunsthalle Luckenwalde, Luckenwalde, Germany (1998).

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India, Art Institute of Chicago, USA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA, Singapore Art Museum, FAAM (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum), Japan, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, Initial Access Frank Cohen, Wolverhampton, UK, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium, Sigg Collection, Switzerland, Arario Gallery, Korea, Burger Collection, Hong Kong Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland.
 

EXHIBITIONS:
Jitish Kallat
LIKEWISE
Solo exhibition at ARNDT

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