Curatorial team

Premjish Achari is a curator and writer based in Delhi and teaches art history and theory at Shiv Nadar University, India. He founded the in-depth curatorial platform called Future Collaborations aimed at theoretically and politically informed curation, and is the co-curator of Bhubaneswar Art Trail 2018, and currently heads the program and the editorial for the exhibition ‘Lokame Tharavadu’ organised by Kochi Biennale Foundation. 

 

He has curated numerous projects in the contexts of India, the UK, and the USA. He received the Inlaks: Take on Art Travel Grant for Young Critics in 2016 and was a Fellow for Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) in 2017 at KHOJ International Artist’s Association. In 2018, he received the Art Scribes Award from Prameya Art Foundation for developing new curatorial paradigms. As part of the Award, he attended a residency at Chateau de La Napoule, France. He was the winner of the Art Writers’ Award 2021 issued by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

 Sibdas Sengupta(born 1994) is a conceptual Artist, Writer, works between Gurgaon, Haryana, and his hometown Cuttack, Odisha. He has done his BFA from B. K. College of Art and Craft, Bhubaneswar, (2017) and MFA from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences from Shiv Nadar University, Dadri(2019). He as an artist works with both artistic and curatorial projects. 

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Sibdas works with subjects matters around transformative affectedness in relation to speed and immediacy; ideas around forgetfulness and historical gaps, rejection and space of abstraction. Sibdas has participated in many group exhibition, such as Indian Art Fair(2020); The earth is still going around the sun, curated by Mile Samdab (2019) and Student Biennale, Kochi Muziris Biennale (2016), among others. Sibdas had also various project displays of his installations such as Second Wave Of Amnesia, Final MFA Solo Project Display, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Noida (2019); response to an absurd land, which doesn't exist, Shiv Nadar University (2018) and The City Under-Wrapped, Shiv Nadar University (2018), among others

 Julius Das (born 1994) is an interdisciplinary artist works with photographs, text-based works, moving images, installations, and primarily with drawings. Julius has completed his BFA from B. K. Collage of Art and Craft, Bhubaneswar (2017) and MFA from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, Dadri (2020).

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 Julius Das works with many diverse subjects like post-war, art historical events, sexuality, citizenship, mass culture with multi-layered conceptual frameworks through artistic and research based projects. Julius is currently working as a product designer at BEAD Studio, Bhubaneswar. Julius has participated in numerous exhibitions, which includes, ‘ID-ENTITY ‘group exhibition at ArtPilgrimLive Gallery, Gurgaon (2018); 'EMPTY IS NEW ENERGY’, a solo exhibition at Bocca Cafe , Bhubaneswar, Odisha (2017); ‘Student Biennale’, Kochi Muziris biennale, Kochi (2016) and ‘HORIZON’, Group Show at Press Club, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (2016)’; among others. Das has attended various artist residencies and workshops, which includes, ‘SPACE STUDIO’, Four-Months Artist Residency 2021,Vadodara (2021); ‘October School- 2018’, contemporary public art project, as part of the network initiated by IFCAR institute of contemporary art research at ZHDK Zurich (2019); ‘Kala-Setu’, Utsha Foundation for Contemporary Art in partnership with the Raza art foundation (2017);  ‘PAGO’, Public Art Project, at Gopalpur Odisha, by Government Of Odisha, Berhampur (2017) and ‘CHALENGAE’ Video Art Residency, Utsha foundation, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (2016), among others.