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Workshop with Students of School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi

17 December 2016

The students of School of Planning and Architecture accompanied by their teacher facilitator Mr. Amardeep Labana visited the museum for a field study. A walkthrough of Jeram Patel’s retrospective exhibition and an interactive session with Roobina Karode gave insights to the students in the design and planning of large exhibitions and museum spaces. The culminating workshop invited students to reimagine the Museum building while responding to the exhibition and works they saw.

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Conversation on Silence: Sozkhwani performance by Askari Naqvi and Syeda Hamid

21 December 2016

KNMA hosted an evening of Dastangoi performance narrating the stories from the Battle of Karbala, ‘A Conversation on Silence: The Affective Life of Mourning – A Performance of Soz, Marsia and Nauha-khawani. These stories usually sung for religious purposes on the day of Muharram among Shi’a Muslims achieved another meaning when placed amidst the powerful modernist abstract paintings of artist Jeram Patel. The voice of Askari and the narration of Syeda resonated with the metaphor of ‘dark loam’ used by the curator Roobina Karode to describe the work of Jeram Patel. The performance was conceptualized by Sarover Zaidi.

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Visit by Students of Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany

20 April 2017

Prof. Beatrice von Bismarck and Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer from Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany with the current batch of the ‘Cultures of the Curatorial’ students visited the exhibitions ‘Hangar for the Passerby’ at KNMA Noida and ‘Stretched Terrains’ at KNMA Saket. Students questioned and discussed the curatorial aspects and conceptual ideas behind mounting such large exhibitions in two long interactive sessions with the KNMA curators Roobina Karode and Akansha Rastogi.

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Boxes in the Courtyard – An Exhibition

6 May 2017

Artreach India and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, in partnership with Udayan Care, present artworks made by 19 young adults who participated in the year-long Teaching Fellowship programme which was supported by KNMA. The title of the exhibition draws from a day of playful installations with empty cartons in the open courtyard of Udayan Care Ghar in Greater Noida – the site of the fellowship programme. Artreach India’s second teaching fellowship was conceptualized and led by Vandana Kothari, artist and Assistant Professor at the School of Planning and Architecture, who was selected through an open call, interview and trial workshop. The 19 children from Udayan Care (ages 13-16) were selected for the programme based on interest and aptitude.

The artworks by Santosh, Sarita, Anjali, Bansi, Rani, Jyoti, Madhur, Sonal, Vanshita, Santosh, Manish, Chameli, Kajal, Gulfiza, Mathura, Shanti, Papiya, Sheetal and Marjeena include large self-portraits as scroll paintings, line and ink drawings, fresh watercolour lifestudies, intensely creative collages, an abstract collaborative enamel relief, among others. 

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International Museum Day Celebration

18 May 2017

KNMA celebrated the International Museum Day 2017 in collaboration with Sahapedia with a talk and discussion on ‘The Role of Design and Technology in Enhancing the Museum Experience’. Rachna Pande, alumnus of MIT and Pratyush Kashyap, alumnus of NID were the invited speakers who shared many examples of using technology to enrich the knowledge dissemination by museums. The larger thematic proposed by International Council Of Museums (ICOM) for the International Museum Day 2017 ‘Museums and Contested Histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums’ was also discussed. The evening concluded with a musical walk 'Hindostan Promenade' by Imtezaj Ensemble (Shyam Rajan, Anju Sharma and Gautam Ecka. The Performance was conceived as a response to the ongoing exhibition 'Stretched Terrains' at KNMA and also the International Museum Day  thematic as declared by ICOM. 

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INTACH Heritage Walks at KNMA

27 May 2017

KNMA in collaboration with Intach Delhi Chapter and Heritage Walks hosted a group of visitors from the YES Global Institute. The visitors enjoyed the curated walk-through of the ongoing exhibition STRETCHED TERRAINS, and discussed the life and times of artists MF Husain, SH Raza and FN Souza. The central points of engagement were the works of contemporary artists Parthiv Shah, Pushpamala N, Navjot Altaf, Mithu Sen and Atul Dodiya displayed at the museum, along with marveling at the architectural maquettes, especially of the now demolished Hall of Nations from 'Delhi Moderns' exhibition.