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Travelling Exhibition
Critical Zones Kolkata

The travelling exhibition was conceived and first exhibited at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany (2020-2022) based on a concept by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. The original exhibition has been adapted for the local audiences in a close dialogue between the curators, art mediators, and the participating Goethe-Instituts. Each station will include further dialogues and co-creative moments to investigate and analyse what are issues of importance for each particular location, its Critical Zone, and its inhabitants. After being presented in Mumbai and Pune, it was presented in Kolkata in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Government of India and Indian Museum, Kolkata from 16 February 2023 to 2 April 2023. The exhibition included twenty-three art works by twenty-three different artists including two additional works by Nilanjan Bhattacharya from Kolkata and Maksud Ali Mondal from Santiniketan, West Bengal.

  • CZ Kol Exhibition 1 © Goethe-Institut Kolkata
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Exhibition Walkthrough

In this video, co-curator, Mira Hirtz from the ZKM, Karlsruhe takes you for a special curatorial walk through the exhibition in Kolkata.
 

Opening of the Exhibition

The exhibition opened at the museum in the presence of Mr. Arijit Dutta Choudhury, Director of Indian Museum, Manfred Auster, Consul General, Consulate of the German Federal Republic, Kolkata, Astrid Wege, Director, Goethe-Institut Kolkata, Mira Hirtz and Lena Reitschuster, curators from ZKM, Germany Maksud Ali Mandal, participating artist from Bengal and Nilanjan Bhattacharya, participating artist from Kolkata and co-curator of the activation programmes.

  • Exhibition Opening 1 © Goethe-Institut Kolkata
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Activation Programmes

During the exhibition Goethe-Institut Kolkata along with the filmmaker and artist Nilanjan Bhattacharya designed an array of programmes. The programmes included a collective round table conversation, artists' talks and interactions, and exhibition walkthroughs with the curator. A performative intervention by Vikram Iyengar titled the 'THE EARTH IS WET' marked the the closing of the exhibition.
 

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