The third edition of Jaipur Art Week will animate the city with a vibrant contemporary arts programme from 24th to 31st January 2024. Open and free for everyone, Jaipur Art Week will reinforce creativity as an important part of everyday life, inviting communities locally and from afar to be creative, learn and explore regardless of their association or generation.
In 1883, the Jaipur Exhibition made a significant change in how the world perceived India. For the first time, it celebrated Rajasthan’s culture on its own terms, exhibiting the work of the state’s artisans and the work of artists from the Jaipur School through a national lens, elevating their practice to international fame. Established as a center for trade, Jaipur has always embraced an ethos of cultural modernity and openness, however, the Jaipur Exhibition defined the city as a progressive model and not just an urban center.
Revealing a unique perspective on Indian contemporary art today, by the people actively making it, Jaipur Art Week embraces this heritage. Exploring alternative curatorial structures, it will showcase the work of 20+ emerging and mid-career artists (many exhibiting professionally for the first time), selected through an Open Call throughout venues across the city. The jury members for the 2024 edition were: Pooja Sood, Director at Khoj, Madeleine Haddon, Curator of Victoria & Albert East, and Hiba Schahbaz, Artist.
Hosting a week-long programme of exhibitions, site-specific installations, performances, open studio visits, architecture and food walks, artist-led exhibition tours, workshops with artists and artisans for all ages.
During the Art Week, ‘Hindolo’, a monumental new public artwork by Jaipur-based artist Bhimanshu Pandel will be announced. Commissioned in collaboration with interior design company Frozen Music, where Pandel has been an artist-in-residence, the work draws on the form of the Khejri tree through pre-colonial reminiscences observed in the intricacies of our folk traditions to explore our understanding of human coexistence in nature. One of the most common tree species in Rajasthan, the Khejri’s ability to remain evergreen in arid climates makes it vital to preserving local ecosystems. Hindolo’s abstract form explores the tree’s critial life force for desert communities, finding sensitivity and depth in the concerns we all face in today’s time.