Ranjit Hoskoté

Ranjit Hoskoté at Leselenz Hausach 2012

Ranjit Hoskoté (born March 29, 1969 in Bombay (Mumbai)) is an English- writing Indian writer , art curator and cultural journalist .

Life

He studied political science , aesthetics and English-language literature .

As a reviewer, Hoskoté wrote reviews of cinema, architecture, art and cultural policy in various international newspapers and magazines, including Poetry Review (London), Wasafiri (Canterbury), Rattapallax (New York), Fulcrum (Cambridge, Massachusetts), West Coast Line (Burnaby ), Art and Thought ( Goethe-Institut Bonn), New Straits Times (Kuala Lumpur), Indian Literature (New Delhi).

Ranjit Hoskoté has curated several exhibitions by Indian artists and chaired the Poetry Circle Bombay . He is the secretary of the Indian PEN club . Ranjit Hoskoté is editor of the English-language daily newspaper " The Hindu " in Bombay.

Works (selection)

• Central time . (Penguin Books India / Viking, New Delhi 2014) ISBN 9780670086818
• 2007 match cancellation (with Ilija Trojanow ) Blessing, Munich
• 2006 The arrival of the birds. Poems Translated and edited from English by Jürgen Brôcan . Edition Lyrik Kabinett at Hanser
• 2006 Vanishing Acts: New and Selected Poems , 1985-2006. Penguin Books India
• 2004 The Complicit Observer: Reflections on the Art of Sudhir Patwardhan . Eminence Designs / Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
• 2001 The Sleepwalker's Archive . Single file, Mumbai
• 2000 The Cartographer's Apprentice (with drawings by Laxman Shreshtha). The Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
• 1998 Pilgrim, Exile, Sorcerer: The Painterly Evolution of Jehangir Sabavala . Eminence Designs, Mumbai
• 1991 Zones of Assault . Rupa & Co., New Delhi

Editing (selection):

• 2002 Reasons for Belonging: Fourteen Contemporary Indian Poets. Viking / Penguin Books

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2001 '' Labyrinth / Laboratory '' (a retrospective by Atul Dodiya with paintings, sculptures and installations). Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo.
• 2005 Jehangir Sabavala: A Retrospective . The National Gallery of Modern Art: Mumbai and New Delhi.
• 2007 Aparanta: The Confluence of Contemporary Art in Goa (with 265 works by 22 contemporary and four historical artists); Old Goa Medical College Building / Escola Medica e Cirurgica de Goa, for the Goa Tourism Development Corporation, Panjim.
• 2008 The 7th Gwangju Biennale (Artistic Director: Okwui Enwezor; Curators: Ranjit Hoskote and Hyunjin Kim); Gwangju, South Korea.
• 2009–2010 Detour: Five Position Papers on the Republic , an exhibition as a "critical honor" on the centenary of Gandhi Hind Swaraj , 1909, with works by Dayanita Singh, Ram Rahman, Ravi Agarwal, Samar Jodha and Sonia Jabbar; Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai.
• 2011 Everyone Agrees: It's About To Explode . The Pavilion of India at the 54th Venice Biennale with works by Zarina Hashmi, Gigi Scaria, Praneet Soi, and the Desire Machine Collective / Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya; Arsenale, Venice.
• 2013 The 4th Former West Congress: Documents, Constellations, Prospects , with Boris Buden, Boris Groys, Kathrin Klingan, Maria Hlavajova, Ranjit Hoskote, Kathrin Rhomberg and Irit Rogoff, House of World Cultures , Berlin.
• 2016 The Quest for Cruzo: A Homage to the Art of Antonio Piedade da Cruz . Sunaparanta, Goa Center for the Arts, Panjim.

Awards (selection)

• 2004 Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee Award
• 1997 British Council / Poetry Society of India Annual Competition
• 1996 Sanskriti Award for Literature

Web links

• Literature by and about Ranjit Hoskoté in the catalog of the German National Library
• How the confluence of cultures works, review of "Kampfabsage" by Ilija Trojanow and Ranjit Hoskote
• Poem of the week: "To the Sanskrit poets" by Ranjit Hoskoté (DIE ZEIT, 52/2006)
• The Periphery and its Avatars: A response to Documenta 11 ( Memento from October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) By Ranjit Hoskote (PDF ofthe Goethe-Institutmagazine Art and Thought )

Source references

1. ↑ official biographical information from Hanser Verlag (2006)
2. ↑ Author's introduction to Hausacher Reading Lenz (2007) ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2007 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. 
3. ↑ Curatorial Essay ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2007 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. , Review , Review ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2007 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.  
4. ↑ Curatorial Essay, Works & Installation Views ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2011 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. 
5. ↑ Ranjit Hoskote, The Quest for Cruzo, http://scroll.in/article/810483/the-quest-for-cruzo-remembering-a-bombay-artist-who-painted-the-rich-but-identified-with -the-poor