art and craft gallery
Vadehra Art
Gallery
Vadehra
Art Gallery was established in 1987 in New Delhi at a time when modern Indian
art was still considered exotic and its access limited to a privileged few. The
gallery was born out of a vision to build an institution dedicated to Indian
art, and the need for a professional platform to connect artists with art
lovers.
The Exhibition: Vadehra Art Gallery
Location: Lajpat Nagar
Time to Visit: Monday
- Saturday
Preferred Timings: 11:00
am - 07:00 pm
Admission Fee: Citizen/foreigner: INR 10/ 150
Photography
charges: Not allowed past entrance
How to Reach: Tourists can either take local buses from various points within the
city to reach this museum or they can hire auto-rickshaws and taxis or metro
rail.
Nearest Railway Station: New Delhi Railway Station
Nearest Metro
Station: Lajpat Nagar Metro Station, Violet Line
Time required for
sightseeing: Approx 30 minutes
Vadehra
Art Gallery stands today as one of the oldest and well respected art galleries
in India, while representing a roster of artists that spans over four
generations. Modern masters like MF Husain, Ram Kumar, SH Raza, Tyeb Mehta and
Akbar Padamsee, who were integral to the founding years of the gallery, find
prime spot in the gallery’s calendar alongside subsequent generation of
modernists like Arpita Singh, A Ramachandran, Gulammohammed Sheikh,
BhupenKhakhar, RameshwarBroota, Paramjit Singh, Ganesh Pyne, Chameli
Ramachandran, AnjolieElaMenon and Mrinalini Mukherjee. Vadehra’s contemporary
programme includes some of the biggest names in Indian art today such as of
AtulDodiya, Shilpa Gupta, AnjuDodiya, NaliniMalani, Ravinder
Reddy, AtulBhalla, PraneetSoi, SumedhRajendran, HemaUpadhyay, BV Suresh,
and JayashreeChakravarthy. Exciting younger contemporaries include
RakhiPeswani, ZakkirHussain, SusantaMandal, Sujith SN, Gipin Varghese and
ParibartanaMohanty.
Keeping
with its wider role as an institution dedicated to the arts Vadehra Art Gallery
paved the way for an active collaboration between private and public art
sectors staring in the 1990s. The gallery organized seminal retrospectives with
the government-run National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) of senior artists Ram
Kumar, Raghu Rai, Devyani Krishna, A Ramachandran and SH Raza. The gallery has
also loaned works to Kunstmuseum, Bern; the Chicago Cultural Centre; the
Women’s Studies Research Centre, Brandies University; Jardind’Acclimatation;
Singapore Art Museum; and, Mori Art Museum, Japan, among others.
As a
key artistic interlocutor to the audiences in India the gallery expanded its
exhibition programme in 2007 to include important names from the international
contemporary art scene. This saw the opening of exhibitions like Bacon Freud Mehta Souza:
an exhibition of works by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Tyeb Mehta and FN Souza
(2007); Distance and Proximity: an exhibition of works of
Bernd and HillaBecher and their students Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth and Candida
Hoffer, among others (2008); JuulKraijer: Recent works (2010); Yoko Ono: My Beautiful Daughters,
with a parallel retrospective The Seeds (2012);
and Wolfgang Laib’s Passageway (2012).
Vadehra
Art Gallery ventured into publishing in 1996, finding a crucial need for
adequate documentation, critical writing, and quality reproduction of images.
In the last two decades the gallery has published 10 books and hundreds of
illustrated exhibition catalogues and artists’ monographs, in addition to
coffee table books, picture books for children, and even an art directory. In
2010 VAG entered into collaboration with the international publishing house
Prestel to produce monographs on Indian artists.
The Vadehra Art Gallery Book|Store was opened in 2008. This one of
a kind space in the city combines a book store and reading room, with a grand
collection of books, journals, catalogues and memorabilia exclusively dedicated
to the visual arts. The book store, in addition to the gallery’s two exhibition
spaces, is located in Defence Colony at the heart of New Delhi, opens the
gallery’s programmes to include film screenings, talks, workshops and
educational outreach.
Annual Event/ Special
Attraction: The gallery arranges special exhibitions for those
who wish to exhibit their works. It also organizes group
visits for students, seminars, film shows, retrospective shows of Indian and
foreign artists and study classes on art appreciation, history and
conservation. For details check with local authorities.
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