Studio Grant holder in Gothenburg 1 November 2024 – 31 January 2025

Amol K Patil (b. 1987) is a conceptual and performance artist based in Mumbai. After his education in the visual arts from Rachana Sansad Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts, Mumbai, his work has explored the intersection of performance art, theatre, music, kinetic art, and video installation. Patil’s work excavates and investigates family traditions: his grandfather was an interpreter and a poet (Powada Shahir, a troubadour telling epic stories as he went from one village to another); and his father was an avant-garde playwright who addressed issues such as the devastating effects of immigration and its traumas through absurd situations in his plays. Patil, and before him, his family, has considered art as a method of resistance.

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Amol Patil

During this residency, he will continue developing work on drawings and videos. He planned to explore larger-scale drawings. His project will revolve around the racial society conversation and how caste politics works not only in India but his exploring in the European context. His work excavates and develops more about how the labor community and the whole idea of their lives varies from country to country.

Amol K Patil has shown at the De Pont Museum in The Netherlands 2024, Gwangju Biennale 2024, Hayward Gallery in London 2023,Kunstenfestivaldesarts, in Brussels 2023, Documenta Fifteen , Kassel, Germany, 2022, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India 2022-2023, Yokohama Triennale (Yokohama, 2020); Goethe- Institute / Max Mueller Bhavan (Mumbai, 2019), Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan (New Delhi, 2019), The Showroom (London, 2018), Tensta konsthall (Stockholm, 2017), Pompidou (Paris, 2017), Pune Biennale Habit-co Habit (Pune, 2017), New Galerie (Paris, 2016), Japan Foundation (Delhi, 2015); Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 2015), Kadist Art Foundation, (Paris, 2013).