Sahej Rahal
Solo Exhibitions:
Juggernaut, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2019
The Dekkan Trap, MAC, Birmingham, UK in 2018
Barricadia, CCA, Glassgow, UK in 2017
Dry Salvages, PRIMARY, Nottingham, UK in 2017
Adversary, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2016
Forerunner, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2013
Hardboiled Wonderland, Solo exhibition at Kunst (Zeug) Haus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland in 2011
Group Exhibitions:
Technoshamanism, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany in 2021
Radical Gaming – Immersion Simulation Subversion, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, SW in 2021
limitrophy, Foreign Objekt, Online in 2021
Transmediale 2021, Berlin, Germany-Online in 2021
Minds Rising Spirits Tuning, Gwangju Biennial, South Korea in 2021
At The Center of The World There is Fiction, Aici Acolo, Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2020
Continuous Voyage, Sun Wa Centre, Vancouver Biennale, CA in 2019
Feedback Loops, ACCA Melbourne, AUS in 2019
Ghosted, Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM Center for Art and Media, Stuttgart, Germany in 2018
Asymmetrical Objects Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India in 2018
D/CODE, Mumbai, India in 2018
India Art Fair, New Delhi, India in 2018
The 10 Year Hustle, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2017
Contingent Farewell, Kadist SF, USA in 2016
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK in 2016
The Missing One, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2016
Temporal Turn, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA in 2016
Setouchi Triennial, Shodoshima Island, Japan in 2016
Ideas travel faster than light, NIV Art Center, New Delhi, India in 2016
Whorled Explorations, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India in 2014
Spheres 7, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France in 2014
Missing Pavillion, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in 2014
Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada in 2014
Where do I end and you begin, Edinburgh Art Festival 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland in 2014
India Platform, Art Stage Singapore 2014, Singapore in 2014
Bright Noise, Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai, India in 2014
Sacred/Scared, Latitude 28, New Delhi, India in 2014
Listen Up! Public Sound Art, Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India in 2014
We Are Ours: A Collection of Manifestos for the Instant, KHOJ, New Delhi, and Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, India in 2013
Spheres 6, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France in 2013
Residency Open Studios, Macro Museum Rome, Italy in 2013
Take Me Elsewhere, Vanity Projects, Chelsea, NY in 2013
Duende, Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland in 2013
The Arena, the Imagination and the Body, KHOJ Studios New Delhi, India in 2013
Residencies Open Studio Weekend, GASWORKS, London, UK in 2013
Simple Tales III, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2012
fiVe, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2012
Maximalism, Lessing1 Artespace, Zurich, Switzerland in 2011
Project India Group show at False Ceiling gallery, Mumbai, IN in collaboration with 1percenters artist collective UK in 2011
Final year exhibition, Rachana Sansad AFAC, Piramal Gallery Mumbai, India in 2010
Live performances:
Contingent Farewell, Kadist SF, USA in 2016
Bhramana III, Gasworks, London, UK in 2013
Bhramana, Mumbai, India in 2012
Bhramana II, presented by Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2012
Vetala, NGMA, Bengaluru, India in 2011
Film Screenings:
Barricadia, Video Installation, Artists Fair Kyoto, Japan in 2019
Other Species, Other Times: New Video Art from India, Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, TX in 2016
IFA@Delhi: Film Screening of The Common Task, School of Arts and Aesthetics JNU, New Delhi, India in 2016
Sights and Sounds: Film and Video Programme, Jewish Museum, New York, USA in 2015
Monitor 11: South Asian Experimental Film + Video, Toronto, CANADA in 2015
The Foveal Experiment, Cinéma La Clef and L’Etna film lab, Paris, FRANCE in 2015
Mumbai International Film Festival, NCPA Mumbai, India in 2014
Translucent Video Art Festival, Sunaparanta Goa Center for Arts, Panjim, Goa, India in 2014
Imitation/Recognition, Mumbai Film Festival, Mumbai, India in 2013
Hundred Years of Experimentation (1913-2013), Retrospective of Indian cinema and video at Films Division, Mumbai, India in 2013
Sahej Rahal, born in 1988), is primarily a storyteller. He weaves together fact and fiction, to create counter-mythologies that interrogate narratives shaping the present. His myth-world takes the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings,
Sahej Rahal, born in 1988), is primarily a storyteller. He weaves together fact and fiction, to create counter-mythologies that interrogate narratives shaping the present. His myth-world takes the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations, and AI programs, that he creates by drawing upon sources ranging from local legends to science fiction, rendering scenarios where indeterminate beings emerge from the cracks in our civilization.
Rahal’s participation in group and solo exhibitions includes the Gwangju Biennale, the Liverpool Biennial, the Kochi Biennale, the Vancouver Biennale, MACRO Museum Rome, Kadist SF, ACCA Melbourne, CCA Glasgow. He is the recipient of the Cove Park/Henry Moore Fellowship, Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation Installation Art Grant, the Digital Earth Fellowship, and the first Human-Machine Fellowship organized by Junge Akademie ADK.
Academics
Diploma in Fine Arts, Rachana Sansad Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts, Mumbai, India in 2011
Awards
Recipient of Human Machine Fellowship, Junge Akademie, ADK, Berlin, Germany in 2020
Recipient of Digital Earth Fellowship in 2020
Recipient of SSAF Installation Art Grant, New Delhi, India in 2019
Recipient of Henry Moore Cove Park Fellowship, UK in 2017
Recipient of India Foundation for the Arts, Critical Arts Practice Grant, India in 2014
Recipient of Khoj Residency Fellowship, New Delhi, India in 2013
Recipient of ZegnArt & Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum Residency at MACRO Mueum, Rome IT in 2013
Recipient of Gasworks Creative India Residency Fellowship, London UK in 2013
Recipient of INLAKS Fine Art Award, India in 2012
Recipient of fellowship to the FUTUR Foundation artist’s residency programme, Switzerland in 2011
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Sahej Rahal, born in 1988), is primarily a storyteller. He weaves together fact and fiction, to create counter-mythologies that interrogate narratives shaping the present. His myth-world takes the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations, and AI programs, that he creates
Sahej Rahal, born in 1988), is primarily a storyteller. He weaves together fact and fiction, to create counter-mythologies that interrogate narratives shaping the present. His myth-world takes the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations, and AI programs, that he creates by drawing upon sources ranging from local legends to science fiction, rendering scenarios where indeterminate beings emerge from the cracks in our civilization.
Rahal’s participation in group and solo exhibitions includes the Gwangju Biennale, the Liverpool Biennial, the Kochi Biennale, the Vancouver Biennale, MACRO Museum Rome, Kadist SF, ACCA Melbourne, CCA Glasgow. He is the recipient of the Cove Park/Henry Moore Fellowship, Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation Installation Art Grant, the Digital Earth Fellowship, and the first Human-Machine Fellowship organized by Junge Akademie ADK.
Academics
Diploma in Fine Arts, Rachana Sansad Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts, Mumbai, India in 2011
Awards
Recipient of Human Machine Fellowship, Junge Akademie, ADK, Berlin, Germany in 2020
Recipient of Digital Earth Fellowship in 2020
Recipient of SSAF Installation Art Grant, New Delhi, India in 2019
Recipient of Henry Moore Cove Park Fellowship, UK in 2017
Recipient of India Foundation for the Arts, Critical Arts Practice Grant, India in 2014
Recipient of Khoj Residency Fellowship, New Delhi, India in 2013
Recipient of ZegnArt & Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum Residency at MACRO Mueum, Rome IT in 2013
Recipient of Gasworks Creative India Residency Fellowship, London UK in 2013
Recipient of INLAKS Fine Art Award, India in 2012
Recipient of fellowship to the FUTUR Foundation artist’s residency programme, Switzerland in 2011
Solo Exhibitions:
Juggernaut, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2019
The Dekkan Trap, MAC, Birmingham, UK in 2018
Barricadia, CCA, Glassgow, UK in 2017
Dry Salvages, PRIMARY, Nottingham, UK in 2017
Adversary, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2016
Forerunner, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2013
Hardboiled Wonderland, Solo exhibition at Kunst (Zeug) Haus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland in 2011
Group Exhibitions:
Technoshamanism, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany in 2021
Radical Gaming – Immersion Simulation Subversion, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, SW in 2021
limitrophy, Foreign Objekt, Online in 2021
Transmediale 2021, Berlin, Germany-Online in 2021
Minds Rising Spirits Tuning, Gwangju Biennial, South Korea in 2021
At The Center of The World There is Fiction, Aici Acolo, Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2020
Continuous Voyage, Sun Wa Centre, Vancouver Biennale, CA in 2019
Feedback Loops, ACCA Melbourne, AUS in 2019
Ghosted, Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM Center for Art and Media, Stuttgart, Germany in 2018
Asymmetrical Objects Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India in 2018
D/CODE, Mumbai, India in 2018
India Art Fair, New Delhi, India in 2018
The 10 Year Hustle, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2017
Contingent Farewell, Kadist SF, USA in 2016
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK in 2016
The Missing One, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2016
Temporal Turn, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA in 2016
Setouchi Triennial, Shodoshima Island, Japan in 2016
Ideas travel faster than light, NIV Art Center, New Delhi, India in 2016
Whorled Explorations, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India in 2014
Spheres 7, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France in 2014
Missing Pavillion, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in 2014
Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada in 2014
Where do I end and you begin, Edinburgh Art Festival 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland in 2014
India Platform, Art Stage Singapore 2014, Singapore in 2014
Bright Noise, Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai, India in 2014
Sacred/Scared, Latitude 28, New Delhi, India in 2014
Listen Up! Public Sound Art, Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India in 2014
We Are Ours: A Collection of Manifestos for the Instant, KHOJ, New Delhi, and Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, India in 2013
Spheres 6, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France in 2013
Residency Open Studios, Macro Museum Rome, Italy in 2013
Take Me Elsewhere, Vanity Projects, Chelsea, NY in 2013
Duende, Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland in 2013
The Arena, the Imagination and the Body, KHOJ Studios New Delhi, India in 2013
Residencies Open Studio Weekend, GASWORKS, London, UK in 2013
Simple Tales III, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2012
fiVe, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2012
Maximalism, Lessing1 Artespace, Zurich, Switzerland in 2011
Project India Group show at False Ceiling gallery, Mumbai, IN in collaboration with 1percenters artist collective UK in 2011
Final year exhibition, Rachana Sansad AFAC, Piramal Gallery Mumbai, India in 2010
Live performances:
Contingent Farewell, Kadist SF, USA in 2016
Bhramana III, Gasworks, London, UK in 2013
Bhramana, Mumbai, India in 2012
Bhramana II, presented by Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2012
Vetala, NGMA, Bengaluru, India in 2011
Film Screenings:
Barricadia, Video Installation, Artists Fair Kyoto, Japan in 2019
Other Species, Other Times: New Video Art from India, Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, TX in 2016
IFA@Delhi: Film Screening of The Common Task, School of Arts and Aesthetics JNU, New Delhi, India in 2016
Sights and Sounds: Film and Video Programme, Jewish Museum, New York, USA in 2015
Monitor 11: South Asian Experimental Film + Video, Toronto, CANADA in 2015
The Foveal Experiment, Cinéma La Clef and L’Etna film lab, Paris, FRANCE in 2015
Mumbai International Film Festival, NCPA Mumbai, India in 2014
Translucent Video Art Festival, Sunaparanta Goa Center for Arts, Panjim, Goa, India in 2014
Imitation/Recognition, Mumbai Film Festival, Mumbai, India in 2013
Hundred Years of Experimentation (1913-2013), Retrospective of Indian cinema and video at Films Division, Mumbai, India in 2013
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Solo Exhibitions:
Juggernaut, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2019
The Dekkan Trap, MAC, Birmingham, UK in 2018
Barricadia, CCA, Glassgow, UK in 2017
Dry Salvages, PRIMARY, Nottingham, UK in 2017
Adversary, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2016
Forerunner, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2013
Hardboiled Wonderland, Solo exhibition at Kunst (Zeug) Haus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland in 2011
Group Exhibitions:
Technoshamanism, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany in 2021
Radical Gaming – Immersion Simulation Subversion, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, SW in 2021
limitrophy, Foreign Objekt, Online in 2021
Transmediale 2021, Berlin, Germany-Online in 2021
Minds Rising Spirits Tuning, Gwangju Biennial, South Korea in 2021
At The Center of The World There is Fiction, Aici Acolo, Cluj-Napoca, Romania in 2020
Continuous Voyage, Sun Wa Centre, Vancouver Biennale, CA in 2019
Feedback Loops, ACCA Melbourne, AUS in 2019
Ghosted, Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM Center for Art and Media, Stuttgart, Germany in 2018
Asymmetrical Objects Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, India in 2018
D/CODE, Mumbai, India in 2018
India Art Fair, New Delhi, India in 2018
The 10 Year Hustle, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2017
Contingent Farewell, Kadist SF, USA in 2016
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK in 2016
The Missing One, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2016
Temporal Turn, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA in 2016
Setouchi Triennial, Shodoshima Island, Japan in 2016
Ideas travel faster than light, NIV Art Center, New Delhi, India in 2016
Whorled Explorations, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India in 2014
Spheres 7, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France in 2014
Missing Pavillion, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in 2014
Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada in 2014
Where do I end and you begin, Edinburgh Art Festival 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland in 2014
India Platform, Art Stage Singapore 2014, Singapore in 2014
Bright Noise, Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai, India in 2014
Sacred/Scared, Latitude 28, New Delhi, India in 2014
Listen Up! Public Sound Art, Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India in 2014
We Are Ours: A Collection of Manifestos for the Instant, KHOJ, New Delhi, and Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, India in 2013
Spheres 6, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France in 2013
Residency Open Studios, Macro Museum Rome, Italy in 2013
Take Me Elsewhere, Vanity Projects, Chelsea, NY in 2013
Duende, Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland in 2013
The Arena, the Imagination and the Body, KHOJ Studios New Delhi, India in 2013
Residencies Open Studio Weekend, GASWORKS, London, UK in 2013
Simple Tales III, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2012
fiVe, Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2012
Maximalism, Lessing1 Artespace, Zurich, Switzerland in 2011
Project India Group show at False Ceiling gallery, Mumbai, IN in collaboration with 1percenters artist collective UK in 2011
Final year exhibition, Rachana Sansad AFAC, Piramal Gallery Mumbai, India in 2010
Live performances:
Contingent Farewell, Kadist SF, USA in 2016
Bhramana III, Gasworks, London, UK in 2013
Bhramana, Mumbai, India in 2012
Bhramana II, presented by Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, India in 2012
Vetala, NGMA, Bengaluru, India in 2011
Film Screenings:
Barricadia, Video Installation, Artists Fair Kyoto, Japan in 2019
Other Species, Other Times: New Video Art from India, Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, TX in 2016
IFA@Delhi: Film Screening of The Common Task, School of Arts and Aesthetics JNU, New Delhi, India in 2016
Sights and Sounds: Film and Video Programme, Jewish Museum, New York, USA in 2015
Monitor 11: South Asian Experimental Film + Video, Toronto, CANADA in 2015
The Foveal Experiment, Cinéma La Clef and L’Etna film lab, Paris, FRANCE in 2015
Mumbai International Film Festival, NCPA Mumbai, India in 2014
Translucent Video Art Festival, Sunaparanta Goa Center for Arts, Panjim, Goa, India in 2014
Imitation/Recognition, Mumbai Film Festival, Mumbai, India in 2013
Hundred Years of Experimentation (1913-2013), Retrospective of Indian cinema and video at Films Division, Mumbai, India in 2013
