Ranbir Kaleka
Indian multi-media artist
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Ranbir Kaleka (born 1953) is a contemporary Indian multi-media artist based in New Delhi whose work often centers around themes of animals, sexuality and tradition. Initially trained as a painter, his work has increasingly animated two-dimensional canvases within experimental film narrative sequences, and has been exhibited in a range of major international gallery and museum venues.[1][2][3][4]
In 2007, Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Senior Judaica curator, Spertus Museum Chicago commissioned Ranbir Kaleka to make a Holocaust memorial. The site-specific video installation is titled "Consider", a title inspired by the poem of the same name by Primo Levi, and arrived at in consultation with Heimann-Jelinek. The installation consists of two projections, a painting and an audio narrative of oral testimony from Auschwitz.[5][6][7][8]
In 2002 Ranbir Kaleka exhibited at the Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria in the exhibition Kapital and Karma: Recent Positions in Indian Art.[9]
Ranbir Kaleka was awarded the National Award by the President of India at the 22nd National Exhibition of Art organised by the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1979 in Delhi.[10] In 2005 Kaleka showed at the 51st Venice Biennale in the exhibition ‘iCon - India Contemporary’ Co-curated by Julie Evans, Gordon Knox and Peter Nagy.[11][12] In 2019 he was honored with Punjab Gaurav Sanmaan by Punjab Arts Council and Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi.[13]
