And it’s not just India either. - Not All Who Wanders Are Lost, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA Bindi’s don’t mean anything! Bharti Kher uses stick-on bindis as a central motif in her practice. They may often reflexively mirror tropes from public culture or retreat into reflective self-inquiries seeking respite from the chaos of the outside world. - Inside outside, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India Free Binayak Sen. Bharti Kher Artworks. - The Laws of Reversed Effort, Galerie Perrotin, Paris - In the Company of Artists, 25 Years of Artists-In-Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA - Everywhere is war, Bodhi Art Bombay, curated by Shaheen Merali, (cat.) - Messengers, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA  - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA, USA - Squires Gallery, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, - Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia This was the day after schools, colleges and all public buildings were closed due to rising concerns about the spread of COVID-19. Are you experienced? - Passage to India, Frank Cohen Collection at Initial Access Wolverhampton, UK With the wit and irreverence of a prankster and a mad scientist, she brings a camp sensibility to her fables which unfold against the backdrop of a technological and ecological dystopia where machines, humans, animals, and nature are out of joint. Artist-in-Residence During her residency Bharti Kher spent a month in the Museum galleries looking. But as someone who believes that “change is the very nature of our bodies,” Kher is here to remind us that she is … - YFLO Woman Achiever of the Year - Edge of The Century, curated by Amit Mukopadya, British Council, (cat), New Delhi, India - French Government residency, Paris, France curated by Nicolas Bourriaud and Paolo Falcone, Ex Mercato Ortofrutticolo, Pescara, Italy - Portable Art: A project by Celia Forner, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland Arrows, ovals, circles, spirals, squiggles, and zigsags; overlaid with baubles, sequins; big as a medallion, tiny as a dot. - Chalo! Kher found special interest in the pairs of animal forms that appear all around the courtyard as well as the Persian and Arabic diagrams and story illustrations in the Tapestry Room. - Creative Space, Sakshi Gallery, at Habitat Centre, (cat), New Delhi, India Herein lies the transformative power of art to take the ordinary stuff of life and create something altogether new which returns us back to reality with a fresh sense of the divine, immanent all around us. Hungry Dogs Eat Dirty Pudding (detail), 2004, An Absence Of Assignable Cause (The Heart), 2007. artnet and our partners use cookies to provide features on our sites and applications to improve your online experience, including for analysis of site usage, traffic measurement, and for advertising and content management. The association with caste and/or the Hindu religion stems from a confusion or conflation of wearing bindis and receiving a vermilion tikka between the eyebrows at a temple. God’s Oasis’ at Hauser & Wirth Zürich. 1996 - This Breathing House, Freud Museum, London - Borderless Terrain, curated by Alka Pande, India Habitat Center, (cat), New Delhi, India Sculptor, painter, and installation artist Bharti Kher explores the power of objects to evoke and inform psychological experience. - Indian Highway, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway ​- ARKEN Art Prize 2018 - Present, Johyun Gallery, Busan, Korea - Le troisième Oeil, Lille 3000, curated by Caroline Naphegyi, (cat), Lille, France - Zeitsprunge Raumfolgen curated by Simone Wilke, IFA Galerie Berlin and Stutgard, (cat), Germany The bindi, or tikka, is the symbol par excellence of Indian femininity. The colour red is very strongly associated with marriage, with femininity, and sexuality. Throughout her practice she has displayed an unwavering relationship with surrealism, narrative, and the nature of things. - Galerie F.I.A, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2010 - Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - Versus Rodin: Bodies across space and time, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India - Aspects of British Figurative Painting (1988-93), Milton Gallery, London, UK - Approaching Land, Akara Art Gallery, Mumbai, India 1990 Bharti Kher Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK 2012 The Hot Winds that Blow from the West Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA 2012 Reveal the Secrets that You Seek Savannah College for Art and Design, Savannah, USA 2012 Bharti Kher Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Hong Kong, HK 2011 Leave Your Smell Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, FR Now living in New Delhi, India, her use of found objects is informed by her own position as an artist located between geographic and social milieus. Inspired by a wide range of sources and making practices, she employs the readymade in wide arc of meaning and transformation. Bharti Kher’s oeuvre spans more than two decades and includes paintings, sculptures and installations. - The hot winds that blow from the West, Hauser & Wirth, New York 2019 2010 - Khoj Residency, New Delhi, India, 2002 - Sirpur Paper Mills, Hyderabad, India - Silence Violence, A Pulse project, Durban and Niebethesda, South Africa 2000 - Pipe Dreams Workshop 2000, Kosi Kalan, UP, India - Open Circle Workshop, Mumbai, India 1997 - Khoj Artist’s Workshop, (cat), Sikribagh, Modinagar, India, 2018 - Sen Aveek | Bharti Kher: Chimera | Verlag Far Moderne Kunst 2017 - Cavalchini Pierrana | Bharti Kher - Sketchbooks and Diaries | Corraini Edizioni 2016 - Augaitis Daina, Freundl Diana | Bharti Kher - Matter | Black Dog Press 2014 - Poddar Shandhini | Misdemeanours - Bharti Kher | Rockbund Art Museum 0000 - NG Elaine W., KALIDAS Swaminathan | Bharti Kher - bind, eyes open | Perrotin. - Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria - In Her Own Language, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, Australia - The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos, Galerie Perrotin, New York  - Impact, curated by Jim Beard Gallery, Amsterdam at CCA New Delhi, India 2015 - Het offer/ an intimate I: droom en werkelijkheid, De Beverd Museum voor Grafische werkeljkheid, Breda - Tantra : enlightenment to revolution, The British Museum, London, UK Inspired by a wide range of sources and making practices, she employs the readymade in wide arc of meaning and transformation. Try one today!” exhorts a fashion website. 2012 - Djinns, things, places, Galerie Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan Artists engaged with new paradigms of global and national space typically choose one of two paths. - Sub-Plots: Laughing in the Vernacular, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India Born and raised in England, the artist moved to New Delhi in the early 1990s after her formal training in the field, and today, like most of her contemporaries, frequently travels the world attending to exhibitions of her art. - Indian Focus, Espace Claude Berri, Paris - Who’s Afraid of the Artists? Bharti Kher’s oeuvre spans more than two decades and includes paintings, sculptures and installations. This work is one … 2006 Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan - Bharti Kher : Sketchbooks and Diaries, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA - Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, India Rebirth and apocalypse in contemporary art’, Kiev, Ukraine - of, based on, or obtained by (Tradition), Nature Morte, New Delhi Unstable Signs, Yale University School of Art, New Haven CT
Narratives from India in the 21st century: Between Memory and History, Madrid / Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain Among her signature materials, she uses ready-made, colored vinyl bindis to create spectacularly vibrant paintings. Of a minute of a second of a defree, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich Again: wrong, but not entirely. A Thousand Years of Separation, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, England (Travelling Exhibition) - three decimal points. Throughout her career Kher has kept some repeating patterns in her paintings from her student years from the late 1980s to … Address. 2013 2017 The exhibition combines over 120 artworks covering the past 700 years, and examines the relationship between sculpture and the human body. - Hed end aagse Kunst uit India, Central Bureau Vande Hogeschool, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Icons of The Millenium, curated by Lakeeren Art Gallery, Nehru Centre, (Cat), Mumbai, India - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA 2014 - An absence of assignable cause, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India Bharti Kher Some Girls are Like That Only 2004 233×218×10cm. The critic Geeta Kapur characterises a specifically female aesthetic in art, which she describes as “a woman’s worldview on the material reality of things that make up the working substance of life.” Kher’s own work often plays with imagery of the hybridity of life- . See our Privacy Policy for more information about cookies. 2002 bharti kher’s work is part of two current exhibitions: ‘chalo! 168 x 308 x 150 cm. 2010 - Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, India - Maximum INDIA, John Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC - Desire in Art, from the 20th Century to the Digital Age, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland - Distant Nearness, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College, Kansas, USA - New Delhi – New Wave, Primo Marella Gallery, Milano, Italy (cat.) 1995 The artist Bharti Kher Born 1969, London, UK. - Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Art Gallery of Alberta - Alberta, Canada - Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Re-imagining Asia. 1988-91 - Foundation Course in Art & Design Newcastle Polytechnic, BA Honours, Fine Art, Painting 1987-88 - Middlesex Polytechnic, Cat Hill, London, UK, 2020 - Les Artistes Indiens d’Aujourd’hui, Palais Bénédictine, Fécamp, France The blue sperm whale is one of the world’s largest animals. - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Kunsthal - ROTTERDAM, Netherlands view map, The British Museum - LONDRES, United Kingdom view map, Fondation Opale - Lens, Switzerland view map, Born in 1969 in London, United Kingdom - Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque, Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada (Travelling Exhibition) - Relations (Diaspora and Painting), Fondation Phi, Montreal, Canada  Find the latest shows, biography, and artworks for sale by Bharti Kher. - Telling Tails, Galerie F.I.A, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2009 Apr 28, 2018 - Explore Jay Hudson's board "Bharti Kher", followed by 151 people on Pinterest. - Postcards for Gandhi, a Sahmat Exhibition in five cities in India - Quasi-, mim-, ne-, near-, semi-, -ish, -like, Gallery Ske, Bangalore, India 1993 - Hungry Dogs Eat Dirty Pudding, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India This magazine article is about one of the artworks in the exhibition titled Virus XI (2020). A Selection of Works from the Pinault Collection, Palais des Arts de Dinard, France - Art On The Move, a Sahmat Project curated by Vivan Sundaram, in 5 venues in Delhi, India View Bharti Kher’s 125 artworks on artnet. About The Artist. One of India’s most prominent contemporary artists, Kher uses the “medium” of traditional and sperm-shaped bindis in her practice, whether employed in swirling painted gestures or running through her eclectic range of large sculptural installations. Bharti Kher’s practice explores the non-physical by the means of the material world to address, among other things, cultural identity, hybridity, and the spectrum of the female body. Nothing more complicated, you’d have thought, than a full stop. - Points de départ, points qui lient, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada - Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom - Animals in Art, Arken, Ishøj, Denmark - Re-imagining Asia, A thousand years of separation, curated by Shaheen Merali and Wu Hang, at the House of world cultures (cat) The second misconception is that wearing a bindi signals that the woman wearing it is married. - Bharti Kher, Yayoi Kusama, Eva Rothschild, Mindy Shapero, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY - Bad Taste, Apparao Gallery, at The Apeejay New Media Centre, New Delhi, India - Long Happy Hours Thereby Happiness & Other Stories, Gallery Chemould at The Museum Gallery, Mumbai, India Although these are both misconceptions, they hold the seeds of some truth - they are wrong in interesting ways. 1997 - Dot. - I See You, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and has been included in scores of group exhibitions at museums and galleries worldwide. - Fresh Art, the National Fine Art Degree Fair, the Business Design Center, London, UK - Playgrounds & Toys, ART for The World, Geneva, in Delhi with Nature Morte Lives and works in Delhi, India. - 6th Bharat Bhawan Biennal of Contemporary Indian Arts, Bhopal, India “Symbolically and conceptually female and male at the same time...What happens is you are getting a contradictory visual aesthetic,” says Kher. Kher’s works thus appear to move through time, using reference as a counterpoint and contradiction as a visual tool. In the 1960s and 70s, semioticians like Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes taught us to decode the meanings that inhere in objects, studying ‘signs’ like language. - A wonderful anarchy, Hauser&Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK Gagosian Gallery, New York (21st Street) Chelsea | New York | USA Mar 12,2020 - Jul 11,2020 Bharti Kher: The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos 2016 2008 2016 Ojas Art 1A, Qutab Minar, Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-110030 INDIA. - Aar Paar, an exchange between five Indian and Pakistani artists, curated by Shilpa Gupta and Hema Mulji, at Kundan Pan Shop, Karachi, Pakistan My Bengali aunt has only worn black bindis since her husband died, in keeping with the tradition that widows should not wear red. - Art & Textiles – Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany - Textile – Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany - Dark Matter (MM), Museum Frieder Burda Salon Berlin, Germany  - Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany  - The Sculpture Park, Madhavendra Palace at Nahargarh Fort, Jaipur, India 2004 2018 2007 2014 Ojas Art … - Gothenburg Culture Festival Gothenburg, Sweden 2013 What face does this being present to the world, looking into the mirror, and carefully adding that cultural full stop - straight between the eyes? - National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Artifacts have etymologies just as much as words, and when artifacts are used in art, it is those hidden, multiple layers which are brought to the surface. The bindi, which forms a central motif to much of her work, is the perfect touchstone for her: like her, it refuses to be contained by narrow definitions of culture or gender, and it enables her to simultaneously explore the mundane and the marvellous. - Festival der Tiere, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria - Boxwallahs, Art in a Public Space with De Ego, a collaborative work with Subodh Gupta at Sahay Filling Station, Gurgaon/ Mehrauli Road, N.H.8, India - Codes of Culture, SKE Gallery, New Dehli, India - Telling Tails, New Delhi, India - Indian Highway, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark New York, Jack Shainman Gallery, Bharti Kher- An Absence of Assignable Caused, November-December 2007 (illustrated in colour, pp. 2004 - Still moving Image, Devi Art Foundation, curated by Deeksha Nath at the Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India (cat.) - Marvellous Reality, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, India
Shifting Shapes. - The Tree from the Seed: Contemporary art from India, curated by Gavin Jantjes, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, (Cat), Norway Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. - India: Art Now, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark Lives and works in New Delhi, India, . 124-125, detail illustrated in colour, p. 122). - Whorled Explorations, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India An array of found objects expressed her interest in the dual concepts of the mythological and scientific, the secular and ritualistic, and the physical and psychological. - We are Ours: A Collection of Manifestos for the Instant, Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi, India From public culture or retreat into reflective self-inquiries seeking respite from the chaos of the world s... Signs of life of cookies here last are few more complex ideas than bharti kher artworks and.. 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