Photos: 2018 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India
Arpita Singh, recipient of the 2018 Asia Arts Vanguard Award
Arpita Singh receives the 2018 Asia Arts Vanguard Award from Krishen Khanna, recipient of the 2017 Asia Arts Vanguard Award
Benitha Perciyal (right) receives the 2018 Asia Arts Future Award
Kochi Biennale Foundation cofounders Bose Krishnamachari and Riyas Komu, recipients of the 2018 Asia Arts Vanguard Award
Left to right: Sangita Jindal, Co-Chair, 2018 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India; Riyas Komu; and Bose Krishnamachari
Sun Xun receives the 2018 Asia Arts Future Award from Bao Yifeng, cofounder of ART021
From left to right: Preema John, associate director of programmes, Asia Society India Centre; Boon Hui Tan, vice president of global arts & cultural programs and museum director, Asia Society, New York; 2018 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India honorees Riyas Komu, Arpita Singh, Bose Krishnamachari, and Benitha Perciyal; and Bunty Chand, chief executive officer, Asia Society India Centre
2018 Asia Arts Game Changer India honorees, from left to right: Riyas Komu, Arpita Singh, Bose Krishnamachari, and Benitha Perciyal
From left to right: Pheroza Godrej, Co-Chair; Riyas Komu; Arpita Singh; Bose Krishnamachari; Benitha Perciyal; Sangita Jindal, Co-Chair; and Bunty Chand
2018 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India guests
Cordula Von Keller and Katya Terebenin
From left to right: Noelle Kadar, international director of India Art Fair; Kent Charugundla; Boon Hui Tan; and Marguerite Charugundla
Frank Lazari and guest
Anju and Atul Dodiya
Abir Karmarkar, recipient of the 2017 Asia Arts Future Award, and Michelle Yun, senior curator of modern and contemporary art, Asia Society, New York
Ina Puri and Bunty Chand
CoBo Art Collector group
Preema John and Riyas Komu
Sun Xun
Pheroza Godrej, Co-Chair of the 2018 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India
Sangita Jindal, Co-Chair of the 2018 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India
From left to right: Bose Krishnamachari, Gayatri Rangachari Shah, and Alex Kurivilla
Stephanie Fong and Chrstel M. H. Sjoestroem
From left to right: Bose Krishnamachari, Anjum Singh, Arpita Singh, Paramjit Singh, Krishen Khanna, and Jeroo Mango
From left to right: Subodh Gupta, Boon Hui Tan, Gulpreet Kohli, Andreas Teoh, Bose Krishnamachari, and Bharti Kher
Tani Bhargava
Jessica Arisohn
Jeroo Mango and Jagdip Jagpal
Michael Low and guest
From left to right: Shwetal Patel, Claudia Maja, and Lucia Corrushi
Vidya Shah performing at the 2018 Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India
On February 8, 2018, Asia Society India Centre and Asia Society Museum, New York, presented the second Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India, honoring Benitha Perciyal and Sun Xun with the Asia Arts Future Award, and Kochi Biennale Foundation (represented by Bose Krishnamachari and Riyas Komu) and Arpita Singh with the Asia Arts Vanguard Award. The evening began with a performance by singer and composer Vidya Shah, who sang songs from the period when India’s Progressive Artists Group was active. More than 180 artists, art appreciators, collectors, gallerists, and curators gathered to celebrate the occasion. Among the guests were Canadian High Commissioner Harinder Sidhu, artists Reena and Jitish Kallat, and Member of Parliament Uma Gajapati Raju.
In addition to the festive evening, Asia Society India Centre presented a work by teamLab, the 2017 Asia Arts Future Award recipient, at the 2018 India Art Fair. This marks the first presentation in India of a work by the art collective of 450 engineers and artists. Consisting of four synchronized TV screens, Fleeting Flower Series (2017) mesmerized visitors of all ages and nationalities with its cycle of pixelated animals gently breaking into flower petals and then recombining into animals.