UCCA Beijing

Indian Highway

2012.6.24 - 2012.8.26

2008

Acrylic on canvas

183 x 1098 cm (six panels, 183 x 183 cm each).

Courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

About

Location:  Great Hall, Central Gallery

The rapid development in India during recent years is among the defining events of the new century, and a situation constantly compared to China’s own emergence. Yet knowledge of India and its vibrant creative scene has been slow to take root in China. Indian Highway brings together the work of over thirty artists spanning a wide range of media and subject matter. Much of the work explores social and political issues key to the Indian situation, including environmentalism, religious sectarianism, gender, sexuality, and class.

The culmination of extensive research across India by curators Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Directors, Serpentine Gallery, and Gunnar B. Kvaran, Director, Astrup Fearnley Museet, the exhibition features artists who have already made an impact on the international art world alongside newer practitioners, including Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, Tejal Shah, Sudarshan Shetty, Amar Kanwar, Jitish Kallat, Nikhil Chopra, and Dayanita Singh.

The arrival of this international touring exhibition in Beijing will mark the most comprehensive presentation of contemporary art from India ever seen in China.

For more information, please read the “Indian Highway” press release.

News

“The exhibition has received a predominantly warm reception from Chinese visitors, many whom are intrigued by the cultural similarities shared by India and China.”


—Global Times

“It’s a beautiful exhibition”
—CNN

Works in the exhibition

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Subodh Gupta

Take Off Your Shoes and Wash Your Hands

Stainless steel, stainless steel kitchen utensils
407 x 2764 x 42 cm
2008
Courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

Raqs Media Collective

Step Away from Oblivion

Video installation (aluminium stairs, screen)
Dimensions variable
2008
Ourtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London.

Raqs Media Collective

Step Away from Oblivion

Video installation (aluminium stairs, screen)
Dimensions variable
2008
Ourtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London.

Raqs Media Collective

Step Away from Oblivion

Video installation (aluminium stairs, screen)
Dimensions variable
2008
Ourtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London.

Raqs Media Collective

Step Away from Oblivion

Video installation (aluminium stairs, screen)
Dimensions variable
2008
Ourtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London.

Sheela Gowda Darkroom ar drums

Tar drum sheets, asphalt, mirrors

238.8 x 304.8 x 259.1 cm
2006
Courtesy of Shumita + Arani Bose Collection, New York

Jitish Kallat

Baggage Claim

Acrylic on canvas, bronze
243.8 x 518.2 cm / triptych
2010
Courtesy of artist and ARNDT Berlin

Jitish Kallat

Baggage Claim

acrylic on canvas, bronze
243.8 x 518.2 cm / triptych
2010
Courtesy of artist and ARNDT Berlin

Nalini Malin

Tales of Good and Evil

Digital pigmentated print on Hahnemule paper, bamboo 12 panels
Each 68.5 x 68.5 cm
2008
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lelong

N.S. Harsha

Come give us a speech

Acrylic on canvas
183 x 1098 cm (six panels, 183 x 183 cm each)
2008
Courtesy of the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Sudarshan Shetty

No Title (from Listen outside this house)

Wood, perspex,
259 x 259 x 351 cm
2011
Courtesy of the Guy and Myriam Ullens Foundation.

Bharti Khern

The internal workings of my mind when the body is sleeping

bindis on painted boards, in three parts, framed with glass
249 x 188 cm / triptych
2012
Courtesy of the Guy and Myriam Ullens Foundation.

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