Travelling Exhibition
Critical Zones Mumbai

The travelling exhibition was conceived and first exhibited at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany (2020-2022) based on a concept by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. The original exhibition has been adapted for the local audiences in a close dialogue between the curators, art mediators, and the participating Goethe-Instituts. Each station will include further dialogues and co-creative moments to investigate and analyse what are issues of importance for each particular location, its Critical Zone, and its inhabitants.

Exhibition Walkthrough

In this video, co-curator, Mira Hirtz from the ZKM, Karlsruhe will take us for a special curatorial walk through the exhibition in Mumbai.

We, the exhibition organizers, artists, and local action groups, would like to embark on a journey of discovery with you. Critical Zones. In Search of a Common Ground invites you to find undiscovered kinships and unexpected interlocutors - and to reposition yourself maybe within the overall fabric of the "critical zone". This picture gallery will give you a first glimpse of this journey.

  • Critical Zones - 1 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 2 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 3 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 4 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 5 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 6 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 7 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 8a @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 8b @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 8 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 9 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 10 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 11 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 12 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 15 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 17 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 19 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 18 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 20 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 13 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 14 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

  • Critical Zones - 16 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Anil Rane

Gallery - Opening Event

  • Critical Zones - Opening 1 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 2 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 3 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 4 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 5 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 6 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 7 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 8 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 9 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 10 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 11 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 12 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 13 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 14 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 15 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 16 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

  • Critical Zones - Opening 17 @ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, Photo: Prachi Krishnakant Chandarana

Videos | Events Mumbai

Body of Trees © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai

Movement based workshops by Somya and Gia

Bombay Duck © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai

Journey of the Bombay Duck | Mummifying Mumbai's staple food

Critical Zones - local © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai

Finding the Critical in the Local

Peter Weibel on the exhibition

© Goethe-Institut Mumbai

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