Curator Tarini Malik explores the interwoven network of artists who have shaped South Asian art history.
In this talk, curator Tarini Malik will introduce our exhibition, A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle.
Tracing the artistic journey of Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949–2015), Malik will discuss Mukherjee’s intricate works, which fuse abstraction with the human form, drawing influence from nature, South Asian traditions of architecture and craft, and international modernist art and design.
Malik will explore drawings, paintings, and sculptures by Mukherjee’s peers and mentors — including her parents, Benode Behari Mukherjee and Leela Mukherjee, who taught at Kala Bhavana: the influential art school in Santiniketan, India — as well as leading figures of modern and contemporary art in India such as K.G. Subramanyan, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh, and Jagdish Swaminathan.
Tarini Malik is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Royal Academy of Arts. She was the Shane Ackroyd Associate Curator of the British Pavilion at the 2024 edition of Venice Biennale working with artist John Akomfrah. Previously, she was a curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, the Hayward Gallery and Serpentine Galleries. Malik was Head of Exhibitions for artist Isaac Julien and Research Curator on the 56th Venice Biennale.
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