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How art festivals benefit when galleries across cities collaborate

Launched in 2014, PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation. In the earlier 1,020 posts, we featured an art festival, cartoon gallery. world music festival, telecom expo, millets fair, climate change expo, wildlife conference, startup festival, Diwali rangoli, and jazz festival.

Chennai recently hosted the art festival 'Contemporary Now' spread across 10 venues in the city. The third edition of this festival included exhibitions, panel discussions, and curated walkthroughs in a number of galleries.

The diversity of artworks on display was testimony to the collaborative effort involving galleries from other Indian cities as well. Galleries from Kolkata, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, and Mumbai shared their art works for the Chennai festival.

The participating galleries included Experimenter, Archer, Vadehra Art Gallery, Ojas Art, Art Alive, TARQ, Chatterjee & Lal, Chemould Prescott Road, and Project 88. They represent different dimensions of India's art landscape: preservation of traditional practices, historically significant modern art programmes, and experimental contemporary practices.

Founded in 2009 by Prateek and Priyanka Raja, Experimenter is a contemporary art gallery with spaces in Kolkata and Mumbai. It is known for its intellectually ambitious and experimental approach to art, engaging with themes such as identity, politics, history, memory, and social change.

Beyond exhibitions, Experimenter supports critical discourse through artist talks, workshops, and publications. Its annual Curators’ Hub encourages emerging curatorial talent.

Established in Ahmedabad in 1978, Archer Art Gallery grew out of an atelier founded by artist Anil Relia. It is particularly recognised for its work with limited-edition prints, including serigraphs of prominent Indian artists.


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