2024: How artists from the subcontinent spread their wings across the globe
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Earlier this year, Delhi-based Rohini Devasher became the first Indian to be recognised by Deutsche Bank as their ‘Artist of the Year’ for 2024. This led to her first major monographic exhibition in Europe, ‘Borrowed Light’, which opened in Berlin at the PalaisPopulaire in September and will be on display till early March.
In her research-intensive practice, she “highlights her long-standing engagement with astronomy, where light plays a pivotal role. For Devasher, the key to exploring new cosmologies between the human and the non-human lies in examining the interplay between place, observer, and observation," states the exhibition note. In another significant achievement, the seventh edition of the Jameel Prize for contemporary art and design went to Bengali artist Ohida Khandakar for her film and installation Dream Your Museum (2023).
The work is currently being exhibited at the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, London till mid-March. Year-on-year, artists from the subcontinent have been recognised by international art foundations and museums for their practices. 2024 saw this being taken a notch further, especially for women artists, at different stages of their careers, who won laurels for the nuanced perspective and approach that they brought to their work.
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