KNMA the Famous Museum of Art in India Wishes you a Happy New Year with Series of Artist- Led Medium Workshops!

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art presented a two-day online workshop ‘Fragile, Handle with Care’- A workshop on working with letters and texts facilitated by artist Anuja Ghosalkar. The workshop looked at the act of reading everyday documents with care, as a performative act. Participants were encouraged to share these documents and work creatively with the group. 

This program is part of Methods, an ongoing series of artist- led medium workshops. KNMA is one of the best museums in India that opened for the public in January 2010, as the first private museum of art exhibiting Modern and contemporary works from India and the sub-continent. 

KNMA as a non-commercial, not-for-profit organization has been promoting Fine Arts in India. This museum of art in India exemplifies the dynamic relationship between art and culture through its exhibitions, publications, educational, and public programs. The workshop at one of the best museums in India entailed participants to look into their collection of letters, emails, post cards, greeting cards, handwritten or typed, on fraying paper or scribbled on note pads - fragile documents of ourselves and our exchanges with those close to us. The intent was to read these documents together and through it access our personal collections and find a performative language in the act of reading. Reading here constituted the literal act or interpretation, by re-writing, underlining, folding, drawing over words, texts. The workshop was a response to the objects, materials presented, but with fragility. 

This workshop stemmed from a performance that Anuja Ghosalkar has designed and curated since 2016, called The Reading Room. In The Reading Room, there are no performers, a closed audience of ten to 12 people bring in letters from their personal collections and read them alongside ones curated from the public domain. At the end of each Reading Room the letters are donated to Ghosalkar - that become part of future readings. Over the years Ghosalkar has collected over 80 letters - intimate letters between mothers and daughters or between lovers, official correspondence, historical exchanges, printouts of emails with emojis, form part of this collection. 

KNMA encourages participation of the local community through various workshops and activities organized within and outside the museum premise to promote Fine Arts in India. We hope to actively expand its reach to a wider community and be accessible to diverse groups.

Promoting the Culture of Visiting Modern Art Museum in India

We live in an age of experimentation. It pays to try new things and that's why we need to overcome our preconceived notions about what is meant for us and what isn't. This applies to art and museums as well. For one reason or another, we hesitate to visit an art museum in India, thinking it isn’t our kind of place. But different forms of fine arts in India have been part of our life from the advent of civilization. You will find traces of incredible fine arts through different layers of history and cultural timelines at all monuments and historical places of India. A visit could just be the start of your love affair with it. We hope this little story of ours will encourage you to visit a museum and take in the art! 

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art has been promoting museum-going culture and fine arts in India through different initiatives hoping a lot more people will give a modern art museum in India as much a chance as any international museum they love to visit during their foreign trips. Kiran Nadar Museum of Art opened for the general public in January 2010 and is also the first private museum of India and the sub-continent. 

As per the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art team, a lot of us have a predisposition about art. We are intimidated by it, presuming that we will not understand it. As a result, we often avoid visiting a modern art museum in India, thinking art museums are not for us. However, like so many other things around us, art is best experienced, not explained. It is your interpretation that counts. Instead of attempting to decode it, we should simply enjoy it. 

 

To start you can plan a visit with family and friends to Kiran Nadar Museum of art museums as there is no entry fee to KNMA Delhi and Noida.

KNMA is not only the Best Museums in Delhi but is Also the First Private Art Museum of India

KNMA tops the list of private art museums that are a part of the shift occurring in the art world across the globe with an increasing number of collectors bringing out their collections to the public. This 34,000 square feet space is promoting fine arts in India and has housed several critically acclaimed exhibitions that have celebrated Modern and contemporary art in the country and abroad. KNMA upholds the tradition of art patronage and continues to expand that definition through its education initiatives. It also collaborates with schools, colleges, NGOs, trusts. This diffusion of knowledge is achieved through regular workshops where adults and children alike get to learn about new art forms and techniques as well as benefit from their interactions with the artists who frequently head these programs. Screenings of films, stimulating curatorial programs, and curated walks form an integral part of the museum’s ever-expanding itinerary. 

The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is a leading not-for-profit arts organization in the country and is also the best museum in Delhi. KNMA has gained recognition across the world for its unique vision through regular collaborations with major international museums, loaning of artworks from the KNMA collection to international exhibitions and festivals, and supporting new artistic and cultural production in innovative ways. KNMA has become a place to project and showcase the tremendous cultural potential of the South Asian region. 

KNMA also encourages partnerships with other museums from across the world to promote fine arts in India. KNMA believes that the cultural spaces in India and South Asia can benefit greatly from the collaborations between museums. KNMA’s support for the arts reflects not just their commitment to culture and philanthropy but also a service to knowledge production, skill-building, and creating innovative models for public-private partnerships. KNMA collaborations with other museums are also shared opportunities to associate with the best creative minds and help create platforms where the limits of art-making and thinking can be pushed.