Initiatives
Jaipur Art Week: 24th to 31st January, 2024
Jaipur Art Week aims to create a space for creative dialogue about the contemporary and historical specificity of Jaipur among emerging as well as established artists, makers, and thinkers from the city or those from the community who considers it their home along with practitioners from the rest of the world committed to the context. Inspired by the city's historical legacy of patronage, offering shelter and refuge for artists and artisans who had travelled from near and far to India for work, to continue working when the Mughal Empire was in its decline, Jaipur Art Week will activate historical locations of the Pink City through site-specific installations, and performances by emerging artists who respond to them through the vantage point of their practice. For seven days from 18-24 January 2023, art galleries, museums, design collectives, and institutions from Jaipur will congregate in Jaipur to present works informed by the concerns around the perspectives nurtured by the aesthetics, architecture and cultural conversations of the city.
For the third edition of Jaipur Art Week (2024), PATI has arranged the Open Call to seek proposals from artists based in or from Rajasthan. In order to subtend a diverse curve and observe multifarious approaches, PATI is proud to announce the world-renowned jury of three noted art professionals: Pooja Sood (Director at Khoj), Madeleine Haddon (Curator at V&A East) and the reputed artist Hiba Schahbaz.
Jodhpur Art Week: 8th to 17th November, 2024
Established in 2021, PATI aims to revitalize and galvanize the historic and cultural city, Jodhpur’s legacy of intergenerational creative pursuits and syncretic aesthetics through the Jodhpur Art Week. The week-long cultural programme is committed to facilitating global and contemporary cultural conversations. Jodhpur Art Week will activate various historically relevant architectures in the old city of Jodhpur, and beyond, to host exhibitions conceptualized by an international team of invited curators who are committed to contemporary art and design. In India, where contemporary art practices are primarily sustained by a thriving circuit of commercial galleries in the absence of sufficient institutions and museums or public funding, Jodhpur Art Week will extend local formats of support for emerging artistic practices to invite international and regional galleries, museums and institutions and collaborate with us to present artists’ projects, design, digital art, residencies, collaborations with local artisans in Jodhpur, and site-specific commissions. For ten days from 8-17 November 2024, exhibitions spread across the city of Jodhpur will be accompanied by a programme of performances, critical discussions, and musical events.