Observatory
2018
Observatory
2018
Last Man on Ship (2019)
Last Man on Ship (2019)
Full HD, Color, Sound
00:13:55, 16:9
Cinema used as a tool to react to a brutalist monumental space.
Performed by Nikola Kekerovic
A film by Devadeep Gupta, Edoardo Tedde, Nikola Kekerovic and Lukas Grubba
Full HD, Color, Sound
00:13:55, 16:9
Cinema used as a tool to react to a brutalist monumental space.
Performed by Nikola Kekerovic
A film by Devadeep Gupta, Edoardo Tedde, Nikola Kekerovic and Lukas Grubba
Understanding a Mythos
Inspired by the ancient Sardinian earth-built towers and observatories called ‘Nuraghe’, a make-shift observatory is conceived using moving boxes made of cardboard. Bearing the name 'Big Pack Bauhaus X', the cardboard boxes stand in rebellion against the concrete monuments of the brutalist architecture of Ruhr University, Bochum.
Currently based in Guwahati, India
My artistic expression evolves from a reflective stance towards my own positionality in the socio-political and cultural realities of my surrounding landscapes. Emphasizing on the humane aspect of our society, my actions tries to expand, and at the same time, contest the widespread blanket understandings associated with the contextual subjects of my art-making. Multidisciplinary outtakes illustrate the aesthetics of my practice.
Since my earliest engagements in academic and professional spaces as a Visual Practitioner, I have been drawn towards work that engages communities through values of transparency, inclusivity and accessibility towards visual arts, that aid in a sustainable future. I am putting my efforts towards creating an avenue in North-East India through Northeast Lightbox (a collective co-founded by me and Hrishikesh Chowdhury, a social worker from Assam), that can facilitate more accessibility towards visual art, while generating new audience as well as cultivating an inclusive space of dialogue and exchange for art-makers and practitioners. My intention is to make discourses associated with art more and more public through workshops, residencies and seminars including artists and students alike and at the same time bring art directly into the public realm through public actions, interventions and exhibitions.
Education
2007 - 2011
Bachelor of Architecture, Department of Architecture and Landscape Design, Jammu, India
2017 - 2019
Master of Fine Arts in Public Arts and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Selected Exhibitions
2021
Hong Kong International Photo Festival; Hong Kong
Things of State Unstable; Simultan Festival, Romania
Normalizing Disasters; Sudden Beams, United Kingdom
Ostrale Biennale for Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany
2020
2019
Chronicles of an Inferno; Egaro Photo Festival 4th Edition, Agartala, India
Climate, Changed; Nottingham Arts Mela, Nottingham, England
Ich sehe was Du nichst siehst! ; ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
Take me Home ; Bauhaus Summaery, Weimar, Germany
Did you mean Bauhaus? ; Gallerie Bernau, Bernau bei Berlin, Germany
MANIFESTO ; New Bauhaus Museum, Weimar, Germany
Imaginary Bauhaus Museum ; Schiller Museum, Weimar, Germany
Open Constructies ; Playroom, Zaandam, Netherlands
Frei-Kunst Exhibition Series II ; Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
2018
2017
You have a Strange Perception of Yourself ; Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
Where Do You Go When You Leave ; Northeast Lightbox with Maati Centre, Guwahati, India
Kunst im Dialogue ; Stichting White Cube, Landshut, Germany
Che Bella Brutta! ; Ruhr-university, Bochum, Germany
Wir sind auch Enten ; Sternbruecke, Weimar, Germany
3rd Berliner Herbstsalon ; Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin, Germany
DISPLA(Y)CED ; Gallerie Alte Feuerwache Loschwitz, Dresden, Germany
6ix ; Assam State Museum, Guwahati, India
Grants and Commissions
2018
2020
Bauhaus Annual Scholarship for Students in the field of Arts
Normalization of a Disaster, Video Work Commission, Abr Circle, Delhi, India
Residencies
2019
Northeast Lightbox Residency, Majuli, India