印度艺术的现代主义时刻

吉塔·卡普尔（Geeta Kapur ）是生活工作于德里的批评家和策展人，她的文章被广泛选编与收录。她的著作包括《当代印度艺术家》（1978），《K. G.苏布拉曼扬》（1985），《批评家指南：在航行中实践》（即将出版）。

卡普尔是《艺术与思想》刊物的创始编辑，《第三文本》的顾问组成员，她也是Marg和ARTMargin的顾问编辑和董事。她的策展项目包括印度国家美术馆（德里和孟买）和伦敦皇家艺术学院举办的对印度现当代艺术的调查性展览。主题性展览包括：“剥夺”，约翰内斯堡双年展（1995）；“孟买”，世纪之城，泰特现代艺术馆（联合策展，2001）；“潜在地带”，世界文化宫，柏林（2003）；“美学捆绑”，Chemould 画廊，孟买（2013—2014）。她是威尼斯双年展（2005）、达卡双年展（2006）和沙迦双年展（2007）的评委会委员；她曾是纽约古根海姆美术馆亚洲艺术协会的顾问，现为香港亚洲艺术文献库和伦敦泰特亚洲研究中心的顾问委员会成员。

卡普尔在世界各地演讲，曾担任印度高等研究院（西姆拉）、尼赫鲁纪念美术馆和图书馆（德里）、剑桥大学克莱尔学院和尼赫鲁大学（德里）的访问教授。2009 年她获得印度政府颁发的莲花士勋章。

Geeta Kapur

Geeta Kapur is a Delhi-based critic and curator. Her essays are extensively anthologized; her books include Contemporary Indian Artists (1978); K.G Subramanyan (monograph, 1985); When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India (2000); Critic’s Compass: Navigating Practice (forthcoming). She was a founder-editor, Journal of Arts & Ideas; member, advisory council, Third Text. She is advisory editor (and trustee) of Marg, and ARTMargins. Her curatorial projects include survey exhibitions of modern and contemporary Indian art at Lalit Kala Akademi, National Gallery of Modern Art (Delhi and Mumbai), Royal Academy of Arts (London). Thematic exhibitions include: ‘Dispossession’, Johannesburg Biennale (1995); ‘Bombay/Mumbai’, Century City, Tate Modern (co-curation, 2001); ‘subTerrain’, House of World Cultures, Berlin (2003); ‘Aesthetic Bind’, Chemould, Mumbai (2013-14). She was Jury member for the Biennales of Venice (2005), Dakar (2006), Sharjah (2007). She was advisory member Asian Art Council, Guggenheim Museum, New York; and is now advisory board member of Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; Tate Research Centre: Asia, London. She lectures internationally and has held Visiting Fellowships at the Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla; Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi; Clare Hall, University of Cambridge; Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009.