# Chatterjee & Lal ## Posts - [Hetain Patel | The Guardian](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2024/08/19/hetain-patel-the-guardian/): Read the full article. - [K G Subramanyan | Architectural Digest | Art Issue](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2024/01/30/k-g-subramanyan-architectural-digest-art-issue/): In the year of KG Subramanyan's birth centenary, Mortimer Chatterjee remembers this boundless creative genius across the histories of art, craft and design. - [Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai | Architectural Digest](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2024/01/30/arshi-irshad-ahmadzai-architectural-digest/): Pahadi paintings, poetry of Lal Ded, and the architecture of Afghanistan — the emerging artist draws from diverse influences but sews it all in a singular, artistic language of her own. - [Nihaal Faizal | Artforum](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2023/11/25/artforum-critics-choice-nihaal-faizals-red-curtains-opening/) - [The Mumbai Art Walk | KINFOLK TRAVEL](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2022/02/22/the-mumbai-art-walk-kinfolk-travel/): Among the winding streets of South Mumbai, a supportive stronghold of serene art galleries offers respite from the city's chaos and, say gallerists Mortimer Chatterjee and Tara Lal, an insight into India's cutting-edge culture. - [Aditya Ruia | Women In Photography](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2021/10/25/aditya-ruia-social-life-of-female-photography-in-india-19th-and-early-20th-century/): Aditya Ruia is an independent scholar and researcher based in Mumbai. - [Nelly Sethna | Architectural Digest](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2021/09/08/nelly-sethna-architectural-digest/): A glimpse of the fibre artist’s three-decade-long career through images of her historical tapestries, curated by Mumbai's Chatterjee & Lal gallery. - [Sahej Rahal | Mid-day](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2021/08/17/sahej-rahal-mid-day/): Can creativity, originally considered an innate human ability, be mimicked by technology? - [Rashid Rana | Eart Project | Manchester International Festival](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2021/07/21/rashid-rana-eart-project-manchester-international-festival/): Rashid Rana has coined the term ‘EART’ to describe moments of self-expression beyond the arts: ways of thinking, being and acting creatively in real life. - [TIFR Art Collection](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2021/07/16/tifr-art-collection/): ACQUISITIONS THE BUILDINGS FOR AN ART COLLECTION The works in the TIFR art collection were acquired either directly from artists or, then, from gallery shows. - [Hetain Patel | Architectural Digest | May 2021](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2021/05/12/hetain-patel-architectural-digest-may-2021/) - [Nikhil Chopra | Art India | March 2021](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2021/03/12/nikhil-chopra-art-india-march-2021/) - [Rustom Siodia | Parsiana | December 2020](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2020/12/08/rustom-siodia-parsiana-december-2020/) - [Live studio session with Sahej Rahal](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2020/07/17/live-studio-session-with-sahej-rahal/): Sahej is primarily a storyteller. - [Hetain Patel | studio international | June 2020](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2020/06/24/hetain-patel-studio-international-june-2020/) - [Sahej Rahal | STIR | June 2020](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2020/06/16/sahej-rahal-stir-june-2020/) - [Virtual workshop on Zoom with Gagan Singh](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2020/05/26/workshopgagansingh/): Culturebagh invites you to register now to attend a two hour virtual drawing workshop, “How to think through drawing”, with Chatterjee & Lal artist, Gagan Singh, on Saturday 30 May, 4 – 6 pm. - [Mark Prime | STIR | April 2020](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2020/04/30/mark-prime-stir-april-2020/) - [Mortimer Chatterjee and Tara Lal on pushing the boundaries of contemporary art: Elle](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2020/04/27/mortimer-chatterjee-and-tara-lal-on-pushing-the-boundaries-of-contemporary-art-elle/) - [Riten Mozumdar in Architectural Digest India](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2020/01/25/riten-mozumdar-in-architectural-digest-india/) - [Nikhil Chopra in Architectural Digest India](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2019/11/28/nikhil-chopra-in-architectural-digest-india/) - [Hetain Patel in Guardian](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2019/11/27/hetain-patel-in-guardian/): In one video he’s leaping from his grandmother’s sofa dressed as Spider-Man. - [Rustom Siodia in The Free Press Journal](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2019/11/26/rustom-siodia-in-the-free-press-journal/): Ever heard of Rustom Siodia, the 20th century painter? Doubt anyone of this generation or earlier have either! - [Nikhil Chopra in frieze.com](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2019/10/11/nikhil-chopra-in-frieze/): Published in Frieze | October 1, 2019 ‘He’s going all rogue on us,’ comments a woman to my right. - [Feature on Nikhil Chopra | Canvas Magazine | May/June 2019 issue](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2019/05/08/feature-on-nikhil-chopra-canvas-magazine-mayjune-2019-issue/): In this issue entitled Whose East is it Anyway?, we focus on rising South and Southeast Asian voices in the UAE cultural landscape, marked by the arrival of new initiatives and institutions centered on the subcontinent. - [SFMOMA ANNOUNCES SOFT POWER—INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION FEATURING NEW COMMISSIONS AND RECENT WORK BY 20 ARTISTS Opening in October 2019—the First Major Exhibition for SFMOMA Organized by Curator of Contemporary Art Eungie Joo](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2019/05/02/sfmoma-announces-soft-power-international-contemporary-exhibition-featuring-new-commissions-and-recent-work-by-20-artists-opening-in-october-2019-the-first-major-exhibition-for-sfmoma/): SAN FRANCISCO, CA (April 10, 2019)—Timely and provocative, SOFT POWER is an exhibition about the ways in which artists deploy art to explore their roles as citizens and social actors. - [With his new work, Nityan Unnikrishnan takes the viewer on a wild ride into his world The artist’s Mumbai exhibition ‘The Way Out’ forces us to ask: is it this world we inhabit or are we trapped in someone’s nightmare?](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2019/05/01/with-his-new-work-nityan-unnikrishnan-takes-the-viewer-on-a-wild-ride-into-his-world-the-artists-mumbai-exhibition-the-way-out-forces-us-to-ask-is-it-this-world-we-inhabi/): Lonely Crowd ‘Down here, next to me, in this lonely crowd…’ – Bob Dylan ‘Intolerably, I dreamt of an exiguous and nitid labyrinth: in the centre was a water jar; my hands almost touched it, my eyes could see it, but so intricate and perplexed were the curves that I knew I would die before reaching it.’ — from The Immortal, Jorge Luis Borges Nityan Unnikrishnan’s work sits in the same open train compartment as the work of Indian painters such as Bhupen Khakhar and Sudhir Patwardhan. - [Monsters are Crawling Out of Mazes: Sahej Rahal’s hybrid beasts look real in a world marked by distortion and false propaganda, suggests Shweta Upadhyay..](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2019/04/15/httpwww-artindiamag-comcurrent_issuesmonsters-are-crawling-out-of-mazes/): Sahej Rahal’s absurd monsters seem to have escaped from a labyrinth. - [Nikhil Chopra in Arts Illustrated](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2018/12/22/nikhil-chopra-in-arts-illustrated/): Published in Arts Illustrated | Volume 6 Issue 4 It isn’t just through the drawings of oceans and mountains, valleys and lakes that he achieves this ethereal quality. - [Impact: design thinking and the visual arts in young India in Hindustan Times](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2018/11/03/impact-design-thinking-and-the-visual-arts-in-young-india-in-hindustan-times/): Published in Hindustan Times | November 1, 2018 The 1950s were a heady time for Indian art and aesthetics. - [Impact: design thinking and the visual arts in young India in The Hindu](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2018/11/01/impact-design-thinking-and-the-visual-arts-in-young-india-in-the-hindu/): If we think of memory as a time machine – every archive becomes a portal. - [Mort Chatterjee for ART India](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2018/10/01/mort-chatterjee-for-art-india/): Published in ART India | Volume 22 Issue 2 Mortimer Chatterjee and Tara Lal have been working for the last two years on the Upme archives. - [Minam Apang in Art Dose](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2018/10/01/minam-apang-in-art-dose/): Published online | 04 Sepember, 2018 Minam Apang used to describe herself primarily as a painter; it was much later that she even thought of the word ‘artist’. - [Sahej Rahal in Mint Lounge](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2018/06/02/sahej-rahal-in-mint-lounge/): Published in Mint Lounge | 02 June, 2018 In Upon Your Bones This Temple, a video game created by Mumbai-born, Delhi-based multidisciplinary artist Sahej Rahal, the player is dropped inside a forbidding, disorienting virtual structure without any instructions or backstory. - [Sahej Rahal for Akademie Schloss](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2018/05/19/sahej-rahal-for-akademie-schloss/): Published Online | 14 May, 2018 For Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM‘s web residencies Indian artist Sahej Rahal created a video game populated by 3D scanned objects. - [Hetain Patel in Sunday Mid Day](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2018/02/19/hetain-patel-in-sunday-mid-day/): Published in Sunday Mid Day | Feb 04, 2018 " We latch on to our heroes for different reasons. I have always been a big fan of Bruce Lee. - [Is a gallery still a gallery without a space ? | Tara Lal for Art Tactic](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2018/02/19/is-a-gallery-still-a-gallery-without-a-space-tara-lal-for-art-tactic/): Running a gallery surrounded by art and working with artists you admire is a great job. No question. - [Uma Nair writes about Nikhil Chopra at Documenta 14 | Architectural Digest](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2017/06/30/uma-nair-writes-about-nikhil-chopra-at-documenta-14-architectural-digest-2/): Published online | June 8, 2017 "The audience at Documenta 14 will be invited to be witness to the transformations that the performance, the intuitive act of drawing, and the intensity of the patterns in persona that will unravel as the experience of aural and visual streams blend into one’s consciousness. - [Girish Shahane writes about Nikhil Chopra at Documenta 14 | Scroll.in](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2017/06/29/girish-shahane-on-nikhil-chopra-at-documenta-14-scroll-in/): Published online: June 24, 2017 "Indian highlights The Indian presence was fairly strong in Athens and Kassel, thanks, presumably, to one of the exhibition’s advisors, Natasha Ginwalla, who is the first Indian to have made it to the top echelon of international curators. - [GVK: Corporate and institutional art collections | Mumbai Mirror](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2016/01/07/1652/): By Mortimer Chatterjee Published in Mumbai Mirror | 04 January 2016 When Terminal 2 of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, operated by GVK, was opened in early 2014, the art collection was presented as one of its most compelling features. - [Citi Bank: Corporate and institutional art collections | Mumbai Mirror](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2016/01/07/citi-bank-corporate-and-institutional-art-collections-mumbai-mirror/): By Mortimer Chatterjee Published in Mumbai Mirror | 28 December 2015 Citi is an American multinational banking and financial services corporation. - [RPG: Corporate and institutional art collections | Mumbai Mirror](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2016/01/07/1631/): By Mortimer Chatterjee Published in Mumbai Mirror | 21 December 2015 The RPG art collection is probably the largest privately owned repository of modern and contemporary paintings and sculptures in India. - [Deutsche Bank: Corporate and institutional art collections | Mumbai Mirror](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2016/01/07/deutsche-bank-corporate-and-institutional-art-collections-mumbai-mirror/): By Mortimer Chatterjee Published in Mumbai Mirror | 14 December 2015 Deutsche Bank is a leading global investment bank, with more than 78,000 employees in over 70 countries worldwide. - [Jindal: Corporate and institutional art collections | Mumbai Mirror](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2016/01/07/jindal-corporate-and-institutional-art-collections-mumbai-mirror/): By Mortimer Chatterjee Published in Mumbai Mirror | 7 December 2015 Sangita Jindal is determined to use her position in society for good. - [Associated Capsules Group: Corporate and institutional art collections | Mumbai Mirror](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2016/01/07/associated-capsules-group-corporate-and-institutional-art-collections-mumbai-mirror/): By Mortimer Chatterjee Published in Mumbai Mirror | 30 November 2015 Before commercial galleries began to flourish in the early 2000s, art collectors needed to be more self-reliant than is the case today. - [Piramal: Corporate and institutional art collections | Mumbai Mirror](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2016/01/06/piramal-corporate-and-institutional-art-collections-mumbai-mirror-2/): By Mortimer Chatterjee Published by Mumbai Mirror | 23 November 2015 The city's lack of adequate institutional spaces to exhibit art is well known. - [Godrej: Corporate and institutional art collections | Mumbai Mirror](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2015/11/16/godrej-tifr-corporate-and-institutional-art-collections-mumbai-mirror/): By Mortimer Chatterjee Published in Mumbai Mirror | 16 November, 2015 Dr. Pheroza J. - [The Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai: Corporate and institutional art collections | Mumbai Mirror](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2015/11/15/the-taj-mahal-palace-mumbai-corporate-and-institutional-art-collections-mumbai-mirror/): By Mortimer Chatterjee Published in Mumbai Mirror | 9 November, 2015 Starting at 7.30pm on the 19th December 2013, Christie’s held its first auction in India, at the Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai. - [TIFR: Corporate and institutional art collections | Mumbai Mirror](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/2015/11/14/tifr-corporate-and-institutional-art-collections-mumbai-mirror/): By Mortimer Chatterjee Published in Mumbai Mirror | 2 November, 2015 Any discussion of great institutional art collections whether in India or, indeed, globally, has to contend with the group of modern Indian paintings and sculptures housed at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), based in South Mumbai. ## Pages - [Home](https://chatterjeeandlal.com/home/): Contemporary and modern Indian art in the heart of Mumbai. 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