Art Spectrum Awards

Award Categories

Meet The Finalists
  • Breaking New Ground

    Breaking New Ground

    Award to be presented to an artist or collective who initiated public art projects that have had significant cultural as well as social impact through immersive urban integration.

  • Transformation: Visual Arts

    Transformation: Visual Arts

    To be presented to an artist under 45 years of age who enriched the field of visual arts through innovative aesthetics and technical excellence.

  • Creation: Craft Arts

    Creation: Craft Arts

    Award to be presented to the designer or a design house in the field of textiles using traditional techniques combined with modern technology to redefine design and production process.

  • Sensation: Culinary Arts

    Sensation: Culinary Arts

    Award to be presented to an individual or collective for creative simplicity, sensory complexity, and excellence in the discipline of gastronomy and the use of ‘forgotten foods’.

  • Connection: Performing Arts

    Connection: Performing Arts

    Award to be presented to an individual or collective who made an outstanding contribution of innovation and excellence in the discipline of theatrical story telling.

  • Great Collections

    Great Collections

    This category celebrates South Asia's unique art collections with a focus on art collectors who not just used their personal collections to enrich the arts publicly but also preserved a specific heritage.

Feature

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Shubha Mudgal, the recipient of Padma Shri and many other prestigious awards is leading the music vertical at the Serendipity Festival. As a celebrated musician and curator of the festival, she shares her views on the Art Spectrum Awards: South Asia - 2017.

Meet The Winners Of Art Spectrum Awards: South Asia - 2017
Meet The Winners Of Art Spectrum Awards: South Asia - 2017

Juhi Pandey of Khamir received an award for Creation: Craft Arts category for her effort to create a democratic and empowering space, for exchange of ideas, collaborations, and a shift in consumer perspectives while raising the cultural value of crafts. Khamir is a platform for the promotion of crafts, heritage and cultural ecology of the Kachchh region of Gujarat.

Meet The Winners Of Art Spectrum Awards: South Asia - 2017

Aditya Raghavan, a cheesemaker who was a physicist in his past life received an award from Ujjwal Mathur of TCS, for acing the Sensation: Culinary Arts category with his desire for discovery, passion for technique, and invention with food. Working in farms, he learned the crucial details of cheese making and is now a consultant with a roster of several businesses.

Meet The Winners Of Art Spectrum Awards: South Asia - 2017

Ramakrishnan Ramanathan won an award for Connection: Performing Arts category for his years of service to the theatre community and performing arts. In addition to being counted as one of the best playwrights of today, Ramakrishnan is also the editor of PrintWeek India and Campaign India magazines and has been associated with the print industry for 30 years.

Meet The Winners Of Art Spectrum Awards: South Asia - 2017

Shamsia Hassani achieved an award for Breaking New Ground category. Shamsia's public art initiative in a war torn country encourages art over war and also strengthens and popularises the notion of strong and opinionated Muslim women. Her spirit and artistic vision sets her apart and deserving of the Breaking Grounds award, received from Sherin Dogra of DLF.

Meet The Winners Of Art Spectrum Awards: South Asia - 2017

Waqas Khan, an artist from Pakistan currently based in Lahore, creates large-scale minimalist drawings that can be best described as 'entanglements', with large interconnected webs, spirals, and circles of ink made up of innumerable dashes and dots. He won an award for Transformation: Visual Arts category. Deepanjana Klein from Christie received the award on behalf of him.

Meet The Winners Of Art Spectrum Awards: South Asia - 2017

Jagdish Mittal, the Principal Trustee of the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, located in Hyderabad, won the award for category Great Collections. Seen here is Naveen Mittal collected the award on behalf of Jagdish Mittal, who is an eminent scholar on Indian art and was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990.

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The very first Art Spectrum Awards: South Asia 2017 will focus on the essence of the core values of the serendipity arts festival - arts education, interdisciplinary awareness and progress, and overall excellence in the arts.

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