Anish Kapoor returns to India with first major exhibition

London based artist Anish Kapoor, poses near one of his works as part of the exhibition 'My red homeland' at the Centre of Contemporary Art in Malaga. EPA/JESUS DOMINGUEZ.

Anish Kapoor is keen to claim following the announcement by the DCMS, that a new cultural agreement between Britain and India was signed during Prime Minister David Cameron's recent visit:

"While I am delighted the first major show of my work in India is going ahead, I feel I need to make it clear publicly that the planning of the show well pre-dates the election of the present Conservative government. We have in fact been working on this show for more than ten years."


Secretary of State for Culture Jeremy Hunt in India last week to coincide with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on 'Cultural Co-operation' between the UK Government and the Government of the Republic of India. The exhibition was announced by Secretary of State for Culture Jeremy Hunt in India last week to coincide with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on 'Cultural Co-operation' between the UK Government and the Government of the Republic of India.

The exhibition will be organised across two sites, the new galleries of the NGMA, New Delhi, and the Mehboob film studios, Bandra, Mumbai. This will be a major exhibition for Kapoor and nothing on this scale has been seen in India, it will feature a selection of sculptures and installations spanning the breadth of his career, from early pigment-based works of the 1980’s, to his most recent wax installations recently shown at the Royal Academy, which attracted over 275,000 visitors in less than three months, to become the most successful exhibition of a living artist ever held in London.

The exhibition in India is organised by the British Council, in association with the Lisson Gallery, see Kapoor's new works here Lisson Gallery London, the Indian Ministry of Culture and the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi. See review of Kapoor's Royal Academy Show at AbstractPaintingEngland