Amar Kanwar

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Amar Kanwar ( Hindi : अमर कंवर; * 1964 in New Delhi ) is an Indian documentary filmmaker and artist . Using the means of documentary film and video installation , he takes up topics of the present and history of the Indian subcontinent. He is particularly devoted to the Indo-Pakistani wars following the partition of India after independence. Works by Kanwar were shown at four documenta exhibitions.

Life

Amar Kanwar began making documentaries in the mid-1980s. The impetus for this was provided by the massacre of Sikhs following the assassination attempt on Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 and the Bhopal disaster in December of the same year. Kanwar's film A Season Outside (1998) takes up these two events.

To date, Amar Kanwar has made more than 40 films and video installations. His films have won awards at the film festivals of San Francisco ( Golden Gate Award ), Mumbai ( Golden Conch ) and Turin (1st prize). In 2005 Kanwar was awarded the newly established Edvard Munch Award for Contemporary Art , which is given by a foundation of the Norwegian Ministry of Culture. Kanwar lives and works in New Delhi.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2013/2014: Amar Kanwar: The Lightning Testimonies. , Art Institute of Chicago .
  • 2008: Amar Kanwar - the torn first pages , Haus der Kunst , Munich. The trilogy was also shown in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and in 's-Hertogenbosch .
  • 2007: Whitechapel Laboratory - Amar Kanwar , Whitechapel Art Gallery , London. The trilogy A Season Outside , To Remember and A Night of Prophecy was shown .
  • 2006: Trilogy: Amar Kanwar , Kunstindustrimuseet Oslo . The works A Season Outside (1998), A Night of Prophecy (2002) and To Remember (2003) were shown.
  • 2003: Amar Kanwar - Of Poems and Prophesies , Renaissance Society , Chicago. Three works were shown: A Season Outside (1998), A Night of Prophecy (2002) and The 30th of January (2003).

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In conversation: Amar Kanwar with Phong Bui ( Memento of February 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive ). In: Brooklyn Rail, February 2004. (Retrieved November 6, 2008.)
  2. ↑ Amar Kanwar wins Edward Munch Award for Contemporary Art In: Office for Contemporary Art Norway. (Accessed November 6, 2008.)
  3. ^ Museum page on the exhibition , accessed on April 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ Amar Kanwar - the torn first pages , Haus der Kunst, Munich, October 8th - November 9th, 2008. Online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved November 6, 2008.)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hausderkunst.de  
  5. ↑ Whitechapel Laboratory - Amar Kanwar , Whitechapel Art Gallery, August 8 - September 14, 2007. Online ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved November 6, 2008.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whitechapel.org
  6. ↑ Trilogy: Amar Kanwar . MUSEUM, February 4 - March 5, 2006. Curated by Gavin Jantjes.
  7. ↑ Amar Kanwar - Of Poems and Prophesies , Renaissance Society, Chicago, January 12 - February 23, 2003. Online ( November 19, 2008 memento on the Internet Archive ) (Retrieved November 6, 2008.)
  8. ↑ Art Focus 5 , Jerusalem, September 24 - October 23, 2008. Curated by Raphael Zagury-Orly, Ami Barak and Bernard Blistène. Online ( Memento of September 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Retrieved November 6, 2008.)
  9. ^ Documenta 12 , Kassel. June 16 - September 23, 2007. About the works by Amar Kanwar shown on the official documenta blog: Online ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved November 3, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.documenta12blog.de
  10. ↑ New Asian Art , Museum of New Art - ZKM, June 15 - November 4, 2007. Curated by Wonil Rhee. Catalog published by Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2007. ISBN 3-7757-2073-1 . Online (Retrieved November 6, 2008)
  11. ↑ Populism . Curated by Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero and Nicolaus Schafhausen . Catalog published by Lukas & Sternberg, New York 2005. ISBN 1-933128-05-4 . (All websites accessed November 6, 2008.)
  12. ↑ Patriot , Contemporary Museum Baltimore, April 15 - June 11, 2005. Curated by Cira Pascual Marquina. Online ( Memento of October 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Retrieved November 6, 2008.) Four of the nine exhibited artists (Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, and Amar Kanwar) also took part in d12 two years later .
  13. ↑ body.city , House of World Cultures, Berlin, 20 September to 16 November 2003. Catalog published by Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2003. ISBN 3-9808851-9-4 . Online (Accessed November 3, 2008)
  14. ^ Territories , Kunst-Werke Berlin, June 2 - September 7, 2003. Curated by Anselm Franke, Eyal Weizman, Rafi Segal and Stefano Boeri. Catalog published by König, Cologne 2003. ISBN 3-88375-734-9 .
  15. ^ Documenta11 , Kassel, June 8th - September 15th, 2002. Curated by Okwui Enwezor . Catalog published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2002. ISBN 3-7757-9085-3 . Online ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved November 6, 2008.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.documenta12.de
personal data
SURNAME Kanwar, Amar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian documentary filmmaker and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH New Delhi