Tropical Minimalism “The Space Between – Jyoti Naoki Eri on sculpture, Ma and the gifts of time” September 2, 2026 Jyoti’s interview and works were featured in a newly established Sri Lanka/Dubai based online magazine called Tropical Minimalism. https://tropicalminimalism.com/jyoti-naoki-eri
By Gautam Emani The Auroville Film Festival 2024 promises to be an electrifying immersive experience, if we are to go by the jolly good show of the opening ceremony. It sizzled and popped. What josh! The most scintillating part was the Kalaripayattu performance. With swords, and shields and steel whips and spears, I thought someone […]
Hey peoples!! So, to get a feel, an “aura” even, of the myriad films in the festival, I took a gander at the Auroville Film Festival website (filmfestival.auroville.org) and looked at their synopses and trailers and where possible looked up the full films on YouTube.com. Here is my humble selection of the best that the […]
13th August to 30th September 2023 “The Lands for Auroville are to be bought and can be bought.The Money is needed, will you help.”-The Mother We welcome you to participate in this summer’s Art for Land Exhibition which will take place in August, at the Unity Pavilion, to conclude Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations. […]
For the second time, the Kalakendra Gallery of the Bharat Nivas in Auroville has organized an exhibition on the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8th 2023. The title of the exhibition is “Invoke the beautiful in all pervading Shakti Energy”. Prior to Covid, the exhibition was reserved for female artists as it is […]
Roots from the Sky ⵣ by Cedric Bregnard Centre d’Art, Monday, three o’clock in the afternoon.About fifteen people are working on the photograph of the Auroville banyan tree which is spread out over seven meters in front of the large picture window.Some are sitting on the floor, some standing, others are mounted on chairs. The […]
by Christoph Kluetsch for AV Art Service On February 17 2023 Centre d’Art opened the exhibition “CHRONOTYPE” with Experimental photography of the late Giorgio Molinari. The show is dedicated to a special technique developed by Giorgio Molinari. Marco and Pietro explained the technique during the opening. Two strong light sources in form of high-power projectors […]
Centre D’art “The Divine Seed” by artist Saravana Deivasegamani by Christoph Kluetsch for AV Art Service At the beginning of Saravana Deivasegamani’s exhibition ‘Divine Seeds’ there are 9 bronze objects on the floor. They are in the center and represent 9 grains that are just beginning to sprout. Navadhanyam is the title of this work. Hindu […]
by Christoph Kluetsch for AV Art Service Art beyond darkness – Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022/23 Why do we need a biennale? I have often asked myself this question. Before Covid, I had been to many major international cultural events. During Lockdown, I co-organized an artist-in-residence program to think about what the implications, threats, and opportunities of […]
A major show of the works from Amitabh Sengupta is on display at Kalakendra Art Gallery, Bharat Nivas, Auroville. In cooperation with Sarala’s Art Centre 70 paintings predominantly from the last decade can be seen. For the opening of the exhibition on Dec 16th 2022 the Secretary of Auroville Foundation and the director of the […]
Why are we doing this to ourselves? Centre D’art “Unseen Realities” by artist Aparna Ashok Article by Christoph Kluetsch for AVArtS The exhibition “Unseen Realities” by Aparna Ashok in the Centre D’art, Auroville is oppressive. The entrance of the gallery is closed, the visitor is asked to enter via the back entrance. At the entrance […]
Gilles Grimaître plays Avant-garde at CRIPA in AurovilleBy Christoph Kluetsch, for AV Art Service Gilles Grimaître visited Auroville for a few days during his Pro Helvetia artist residency in Bengaluru, Chennai and Puducherry to engage with Carnatic music. The program he chose for the evening of Dec. 17th, 2022, was a passionate, loving introduction to usually not so […]
Solo show at the Centre d’Art Auroville Article by By Christoph Kluetsch Aabhas Mahindre’s exhibition “From my organized chaos” is currently on display at Centre d’Art in Auroville (until 3 Dec 2022). Aabhas Mahindre is showing works from the Covid Lockdown period. Over 600 works on 5×7 inch paper were created. On view in the […]
Temptress – By Aarnav Bos A new LP by Berlin-based Auroville youth One person’s paradise can be another’s prison. Conceptually this is a very simple idea to wrap one’s head around, but a surprisingly difficult one to accept and integrate fully. Wine and music is one thing, but beauty? Values? “We must draw the line somewhere…” […]
André Schöne’s installation at La Petite Maison in collaboration with Svaram represents an artistic principle that is neither old nor new, established nor ground-breaking. It is an expression of something that has been expressed many times before, yet is always in some way unrecognizable. “I’m not so interested in creating something new,” the musician/producer mused. “Whatever comes […]
“Sound objects” is how Berlin electronic music artist André Schöne calls the instruments produced at Svaram here in Auroville; the term lends a ready insight into his indelibly fresh take on acoustic-electronic fusions. The ‘crossover’ continuum has steadily become a no-man’s-land (that is, for the faint of heart), the landscape littered with all too many […]
Group painting exhibition at Kalakendra Art Gallery Presented by Art World-Sarala’s Art Centre and Bharat Nivas Until March 18 2022 Unity in Diversity is a spacious idea, and therefore one well suited to Auroville and its artists. Wandering through Kalakendra’s latest and aptly titled new exhibit, I found myself wondering- what other verbal umbrella could fit […]
Artist in residency, Harsha Durugadda from November 1st at Centre D’art was interviewed by Dhani Muniz Like so many more interesting artists, Harsha Durugadda’s work comes from a place of intense focus. This focus on the world around him does not lead him to conservatism; rather, it sharpens his view of his surroundings. With an […]
Auroville Musician Series by George Docking Suite; THE Expatriate, An interview with Dhani Muniz Introduce yourself. What is your background in Auroville? Hi, I’m Dhani Yukteswar Muniz, 23 years old and from a (very) mixed Brazilian-Indian background! In terms of Auroville, I was about two months away from being born here when my parents up […]
Walk In The Clouds A review of the exhibition by Jasmine Storey Held at Last School, July 20 to August 7 2021 There is something in Jasmine Storey’s installation that smacks of a particular lineage; not in a stiff-collared academic sense, but one more transcendental, Borgesian- indeed, “every writer creates his own precursors.” Well, the […]
In Rabindranath Tagore, India found and lost the greatest artistic symbol it never knew it needed. There is even an ongoing unwillingness, among his countrymen, to admit the full range of his talents; perhaps it was the snake-oil mysticism in which they saw him cloaked by deprecating foreign commentators that put them off? Or the […]
I’ve heard the phrase “I have no country” quite a bit… In a place like Auroville, it’s an inescapable sentiment. Built right into “Imagine”… I got a shirt with part of the line about dreamers written on it from one of the Visitor Center shops when I was 6, and refused to stop wearing it […]
After a healthy bit of frustration, I recently decided to try and make it a point to go to all exhibitions with a clear head- not even necessarily stone-cold sober, but without having read even the tiniest blurb about the artwork itself, what it’s about, nothing. The dry run is the master take. It was […]
Installations are the Biggest Deal in the contemporary art world. In terms of both influence and prestige, they’ve arguably outstripped old standbys like painting and sculpture (and it really wouldn’t be much of an argument), while lending an entirely new air to the galleries, museums, plazas and public spaces they populate, each piece a bigger […]
Morton Feldman, the more I dive into his life and work, seems increasingly like a quiet prophet that is still being digested by humanity. His fierce individualism was indeed just that- he was not interested in taking theoretical concerns to their limits, like his musical adversary Pierre Boulez. Feldman, together with John Cage, Christian Wolff, […]
