Rashmi Kaleka
Born 1957, Nairobi, Kenya. Lives and works in Delhi.1974–79 SAID/BA, Twickenham College of Art and Technology, Surrey, England. Worked in design and advertising in London and Delhi for fifteen years before moving to India, where she works as a full-time artist and permaculturist. Certified as a Permaculture Designer under Rico Zook since 2018.
Farm8, in Aya Nagar, functions as a living laboratory and artist residency where permaculture principles and adaptive architecture converge to explore the interdependent relationship between urban ecology and creative practice.
Selected exhibitions
- 2025
- AgriForum: Acts of Re/Collection — Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen Assembly triennial, Norway. Convened by Ravi Agarwal and the Bergen School of Architecture, facilitated by Vidya Shivadas. Deemak.
- 2024
- Sheher, Prakriti, Devi — Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai. Curated by Gauri Gill. Deemak.
- 2018
- INDIA: Contemporary Photographic and New Media Art — FotoFest 2018 Biennial, Houston. Curated by Sunil Gupta and Steven Evans.
- 2015
- Samtidigt (Concurrent India) — Museum of Ethnography, Hamburg (MARKK). Curated by Jonas Stampe. Chhota Paisa.
- 2014
- Soundphiles: Many Echoes, Many Worlds — Delhi Sound Files, 10th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival, New Delhi, and Dharamshala International Film Festival. Kabari Walla.
- 2013
- The Presence of Sound (La presencia del sonido) — Villa Iris, Fundación Botín, Santander. Curated by Nuria Querol and Nida Ghouse. Chhota Paisa.
- LATERAL — KONA Alternate Space, New Delhi. Curated by Heidi Fichtner. Breed.
- Bird Flew — solo, Nature Morte, Chirag Enclave, New Delhi. Presented by Peter Nagy. Bird Flew.
- 2012–13
- India: Art Now — ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen. Chhota Paisa.
- 2012
- Critical Mass: Contemporary Art from India — Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Curated by Tami Katz-Freiman and Rotem Ruff. A Place for Hawkers.
- KhojLive12 — blueFROG, The Kila, New Delhi. Chhota Paisa, with Hans Koch.
- 2011
- See if it can Happen — audio-visual installation with Hans Koch. Supported by Pro Helvetia, New Delhi.
- Samtidigt (Concurrent India) — HAM Helsinki Art Museum. Kabari Walla.
- Color Trilogy (Trilogy: The Colour Blue, Black, White & The Red) — Abadi Art Space, New Delhi. Bird Flew.
- 2010
- Finding India — Art for the New Century — MOCA Taipei. Hawkers Ki Jagha.
- 2009
- India Art Summit — British Council, New Delhi. Hawkers Ki Jagha (A Place for Hawkers).
Talks
- 2026
- Ingest and Growth — Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi. The talk was part of the opening evening of Sentience of Small Beings, an exhibition by NAU Foundation.
- 2009
- Urban Asian Cities: A Symposium on Culture of Cities & Architecture in Asia — KRVIA, Mumbai. Panelist and guest speaker, presenting multimedia research on the fading sounds and patterns of habitation within rapidly transforming urban landscapes.
Collection
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen.
Film
Artwork as Living Form: Rashmi Kaleka — BMW Artist Film with India Art Fair, 2024.
Contact
[email protected]
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The farm: farm8.phime.in ↗ · Aya Nagar, New Delhi 110047