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Max Mueller Bhavan | India

Kunst Kiosk

Installation | Grids Grounded: An Encounter of Circles

  • Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, Kolkata

Kunst Kiosk square Goethe-Institut Kolkata, Photo Credit: Sanchayan Ghosh

Kunst Kiosk Goethe-Institut Kolkata, Photo Credit: Sanchayan Ghosh

Kunst Kiosk will be opened on 14 November 2024 at 6:30 pm

Kunst Kiosk, a long-term project by the Goethe-Institut Kolkata, aims to give art lovers access to relevant approaches and trends in contemporary art from Germany and India since the 1960s. In a series of regularly changing presentations, exemplary artistic works displayed in a concentrated space offer viewers the opportunity to explore the varied thematic and formal aspects of the broad spectrum of artistic creation that has taken place in both countries since the 1960s. The focus is on works featuring moving images that can be viewed on screens in their original form. 

These presentations will be shown in a specially developed, site-specific artistic installation titled Grids Grounded: An Encounter of Circles, created by the renowned artist and art mediator Sanchayan Ghosh. Its sphere-like structure in the foyer of the Goethe-Institut Kolkata offers space for two to three viewers at the same time. Up to ten works of art will be presented alternately on three screens; however, visitors can also select and view them individually, like a temporary mini-archive.

Sanchayan Ghosh

Sanchayan Ghosh, born in Kolkata, is an artist and pedagogue. He received his MFA (1997) and BFA (1995) from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, where he currently works as an associate professor in the Department of Painting. He lives and works in Santiniketan, India. Through his continuous exploration in site-specific interactive art practice, Ghosh has over the years been exploring workshop-based collective community dialogues and worked closely with different theater forms from all over India. He has been awarded the Charles Wallace Fellowship, UK in 2004 and worked on Merge Down and Resist with three generations of Asian migrants in Bristol. He has also participated in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale and explored the community sound project Incomplete Circles, Invisible Voices. In 2017, he has participated in an education project Under the Mango Tree in Documenta 14 and conducted a Circle Walk. He has been associated with different pedagogy projects with NSD, FICA and Five Million Incidents of Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata. Further he co-curated the second session of Under the Mango Tree in Santiniketan in 2020 and is one of the curators of the 2018 Kochi-Muziris Students’ Biennale, Kochi.