2008

In collaboration with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, and School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

In 2006 Hans Belting and Peter Weibel initiated the project Global Art and the Museum (GAM) at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. The project links two topics that are usually discussed separately: the global production of art and the global expansion of art museums.

Among other activities this project will organize four international workshops in four selected areas of the world where the different situations promise new insights into the process of globalization. The workshop in New Delhi follows the first workshop held in São Paulo in August 2008. A focus of the GAM project is to explore the specific situation in India today, encompassing Indian audiences and Indian collectors, to learn about the relations between modern narratives of art history and alternative traditions in viewing Indian culture. The workshop will bring together different voices of the contemporary Indian art scene, including art critics, art historians, anthropologists, art curators, artists and collectors and will address the new configuration of the art world currently taking shape in India.

Hans Belting is emeritus professor for Art History and Media Theory. Born in Andernach, Germany in 1935, Hans Belting studied Art History, Archaeology and History at the universities of Mainz and Rome. He earned his PhD. in Art History and was a Harvard University Visiting Fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Institute in Washington. He taught at various universities in Germany and the U.S.A as well as in South America. Until his retirement he was a professor at the Academy for Design (Hochschule fuer Gestaltung) in Karlsruhe, Germany He is a member of the Medieval Academy of America, the American Academy for Arts and Sciences, the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin, and the order Pour le mérite for science and arts.

Participation by invitation only

For more information on the project Global Art and the Museum please visit: www.globalartmuseum.de

 For further information on the workshop in New Delhi please call 011 23329506 ext. 110