India Art Summit™ 3rd Edition
20 - 23 January 2011 New Delhi, India
Aji V.N. will be represented by Mirchandani+Steinruecke Galerie with three large new drawings

Contemporary Art from India
Curated by Tasneem Zakaria Mehta World Economic Forum 26 - 30 January 2011, Davos, Switzerland

Le Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Paris
Contemporary Drawing Fair Paris 25 - 28 March 2011, Carrousel du Louvre Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, France

All About Drawing 100 Nederlandse Kunstenaars
23 april - 18 augustus 2011
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Hoogstraat 112, Postbus 208, 3100 AE, Schiedam, The Netherlands

Nominees Dolf Henkes Award 2010 announced
17 December 2010 to 13 February 2011 - exhibition Dolf Henkes Award 2010 at TENT
10 February 2011, 20.00hr – announcement winner Dolf Henkes Award at TENT
 
The Rotterdam-based artists Aji V.N., Lara Almarcegui, Otto Egberts, and Jasper Niens have been nominated for the Dolf Henkes Award 2010. The four nominees have been selected by an expert jury led by Wim van Krimpen, former director of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. The shortlisted artists will present their work in a show held in TENT from 17 December to 13 February. The Dolf Henkes Award is one of the major Dutch awards for the visual arts. It has been awarded to leading Rotterdam artists biennially since 2004. The winner of the Dolf Henkes Award 2010 will be announced on Thursday evening 10 February 2011.

Hommage a l'art du dessin
Une sélection de dessins de la Collection Frits Lugt par Paul van der Eerden complétée d'un choix de dessins contemporains.

Homage to the art of drawing
A selection of drawings from the Collection Frits Lugt by Paul van der Eerden complemented with a choice of contemporary drawings.

12 May - 4 July 2010

Institut Néerlandais
121 rue de Lille
Paris, France
www.institutneerlandais.com
www.fondationcustodia.fr



Aji V. N. Untitled, 2007, charcoal on colored paper, 75.5 x 195 cm

Have I ever opposed you?
New art from India and Pakistan
curated by Laura Gowen18 March – 22 May 2010

Waseem Ahmed (b.1976, Pakistan)
Ambreen Butt (b. 1969, Pakistan)
Abir Karmakar (b. 1977, India)
Nalini Malani (b. 1946, India)
Kanishka Raja (b. 1970, India)
C.K. Rajan (b.1960, India)
Rashid Rana (b.1968, Pakistan)
Aji V.N. (b. 1968, India)

Faye Fleming and Partner are proud to present an exhibition of 7 emerging artists from India and Pakistan, juxtaposed with the work of an internationally recognised artist from an earlier generation, Nalini Malani. The exhibition is timed to coincide with Malani’s retrospective at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, and will explore several of the central themes of her work – themes that retain a vital currency in the work of artists from the generation born in the 1960s and 1970s.

The title of the current exhibition quotes the response of Mahatma Gandhi to the British Governer-General Lord Mountbatten – on the day of the vote for Partition of India – during which Gandhi controversially observed his day of silence. Mountbatten said that he hoped Gandhi would not oppose the Partition and Gandhi wrote his reply on a scrap of paper: "Have I ever opposed you?".

The inclusion of artists from both India and Pakistan attempts to reflect the impossibility of viewing contemporary art developments in either country in isolation – the visual heterogeneity of India itself, a vast and sweeping country – makes any reduction towards a national common denominator impossible. The shared history of India and Pakistan, tragic and violent in political and human terms, is also a shared history of visual culture. Artists in both countries often reference aspects of the tradition of Persian and Mughal miniature painting and this source of reference and inspiration is clear in the work of C.K. Rajan, Kanishka Raja, Ambreen Butt and Waseem Ahmed.

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