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
Devadeep Gupta is a visual artist and filmmaker based out of Guwahati, Assam. His practice lies in the mutuality of lens-based media, installations, collaborative performances knit together through concurrent conceptual narratives. Devadeep graduated with a Master’s degree in Public Arts and New Artistic Strategies from Bauhaus University, Germany. Since his earliest engagements in academic and professional spaces as a Visual Practitioner, he has been drawn towards work that engages communities through values of transparency and empathy. Through his practice, he reflects his position on the socio-cultural landscapes of his work. Apart from his personal art-making, he directs his efforts towards creating an avenue in the North-East India through
Northeast Lightbox (NELB, a collective co-founded by him and Hrishikesh Chowdhury, a social worker from Assam), that can facilitate more accessibility towards visual art, while cultivating an inclusive space of dialogue and exchange for art-makers and practitioners along with generating new audiences.
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