External | India Times: Covid impact: Kiran Nadar Museum postpones Indian contemporary art exhibition in Moscow

Kiran Nadar, founder, KNMA said,“We are committed to this project and are confident that in March 2021, we will all gather in Moscow to present contemporary Indian art to Russia and the world.”

Extension.India was scheduled to open at The State Tretyakov Gallery in June 2020. 

As a result of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, major events and gatherings have been postponed world over, to be held in better times. An addition to the list is Extension.India, an extensive exhibition of Indian contemporary art, that was scheduled to open at The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in June 2020. It has been postponed to March 2021. 

The State Tretyakov Gallery is presently closed to the public until further notice on account of the Covid-19 pandemic. Extension.India is a joint project of Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), The State Tretyakov Gallery, and the Indo-Russian Cultural Foundation. 

Kiran Nadar, founder, KNMA said: “The whole world is currently waging an unprecedented battle against the pandemic; many countries are under quarantine. Under the circumstances, we have jointly decided to postpone the exhibition. We are committed to this project and are confident that in March 2021, we will all gather in Moscow to present contemporary Indian art to Russia and the world.” 

Calling the exhibition “an incredible showcase of contemporary Indian art from over 60 artists under the curatorship of Roobina Karode and the Russian team from the Tretyakov,” Nadar thanked Tretyakov’s director, Zelfira Trefulova and her team, as also the Indo-Russian Cultural Foundation Chairman Alex Popov and his team. “I thank all those who are working hard to make this happen,” she said. 

Tregulova explained, “Only these extraordinary circumstances could force us to defer this important exhibition, especially after many months of work by the international team with artists from across India. However, we look forward to the opening next spring, knowing that the exhibition will break new ground in the understanding of the power and breadth of India’s contemporary art scene.” 

The exhibition, when it opens next year, will bring together more than sixty cross-generational Indian artists including internationally acclaimed figures alongside emerging, younger generation artists including Nalini Malani, Vivan Sundaram, Bhupen Khakhar, Anish Kapoor, Amar Kanwar, G. Ravinder Reddy, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Anita Dube, Shilpa Gupta, Dayanita Singh and Jitish Kallat, among others. 

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