“We have Stories to Tell…” | Roobina Karode in partnership with SACHI

“We have Stories to Tell…”

At the Cusp of Transformation: Narratives from the KNMA Collection

The scope of modern and contemporary art from South Asia has grown exponentially in recent decades, prompting both historical reflection and institutional attention.

This talk by Roobina Karode, the distinguished Director and Chief Curator of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), reflects on the museum’s journey of building the collection and the critical curatorial inquiries it has opened within the art ecosystem of India and beyond.

The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is a pioneering private museum established in 2010, exhibiting modern and contemporary works from India and the subcontinent. The museum’s vast collection of nearly 10,000 works will be housed in the new KNMA — a global destination for the arts in the making, launching in 2027.

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  Roobina Karode

  Curator, educator, and art critic Roobina Karode is the Director and Chief Curator of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi, India since its founding in 2010. Her focus on women artists and their significant representation in the KNMA collection inspired seminal retrospectives that traveled from KNMA to the Reina Sofia Museum, Spain and the Met Breuer, New York.

   

  A Fulbright Fellow at Mills College, California (2000), Karode was the Curator for the India Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). Her extensive curatorial work also prioritizes underrepresented, intergenerational artists she considers crucial to the discourse of modern and contemporary Indian and South Asian art.

   

   

   

Image: Jangarh Singh Shyam: A Conjuror’s Archive. December 4, 2018–January 11, 2019, KNMA, Saket, New Delhi.