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Founded in 2004 by Reena and Abhijit Lath, Akar Prakar is a modern and contemporary art gallery with spaces in New Delhi and Kolkata. As part of our gallery programming and extended engagements in the arts, Akar Prakar has hosted several visual art exhibitions through collaborations with international museums and curators, creating a space for indigenous representations of Indian modern and contemporary artists. Operating between its two galleries, Akar Prakar curates narratives drawn from the subcontinent’s modern and contemporary art movements, representing artists such as Ganesh Haloi, Jayashree Chakravarty, C. Douglas, Manish Pushkale, Manir Mrittik and Debasish Mukherjee. Recently, the gallery extended its roster of artists to Southeast Asia, including eminent Cambodian artist Leang Seckon. Over the years, Akar Prakar and our artists have participated in art exhibitions at institutions and museums in different parts of the world, including the National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi; Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai; Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi; 8th Berlin Biennale; documenta 14; Musée des Arts Asiatiques, Nice; Musée National des Arts Asiatiques Guimet, Paris; DRAF, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Palazzo Madama, Turin; Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Buchheim Museum of Imagination, Bernried am Starnberger See; Louvre Museum, Abu Dhabi; and Marres, Maastricht to name a few. Other than curating exhibitions of modern and contemporary artists, Akar Prakar has been involved with publishing projects in the form of monographs and books on masters and contemporary artists, co-published and distributed by Mapin Publishing. Akar Prakar is also supporting numerous award-winning children's book publications on Indian artists with Art1st Publications. In 2019, Akar Prakar launched the first edition of ‘artVarta Research and Publishing Grant’, supporting the work and research of emerging scholars, curators and artists in the field of publishing in arts and culture. In 2023, Akar Prakar launched the ‘artVarta Residency’ to foster cultural and artistic exchange with artists from South Asian and Southeast Asian countries. The grant aims to support a one-month-long programme for artistic production followed by a solo exhibition at our galleries.