Ravi Agarwal – Lecture and conversation. KMD Monday Lectures.

Date: 28.10.2024
Time: 13:00 - 14:15
Place: KMD, Møllendalsveien 61
Host: KMD Monday Lectures and Bergen Assembly



Ravi Agarwal is an artist, environmental campaigner, writer and curator who addresses entangled questions through an interrelation of art, research and activism, focusing on the subject of nature and its futures. Agarwal is a co-convener of Bergen Assembly 2025 together with writer and visual culture researcher Adania Shibli, and Bergen School of Architecture (BAS).

He will present a lecture about his artistic projects and activism, followed by a conversation with Bergen based artist Michael Stumpf.

Ravi Agarwal (Delhi, 1958) has been shown at major museums in solo and group exhibitions, and at international biennales. He has co-curated large public art exhibitions, including the Yamuna-Elbe project (Hamburg and Delhi, 2009) and Embrace our Rivers (Chennai, 2018). More recently he curated New Natures, A terrible beauty is born at the Goethe Institute and CSMVS Museum, Mumbai, and Imagined Documents at the Les Rencontres d’ Arles 2022. Agarwal is also the founding director of the environmental NGO Toxics Link and the founder of The Shyama Foundation, which engages with art and ecology practices in India. He has both written and edited books and journals, including The Crisis of Climate Change (Routledge, 2021), and Marg Journal of the Arts – Art and Ecology (Mumbai, April 2020).

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