Cultivate Art brings the Young Collectors Weekend Global to Bengaluru for the first time
Founded in 2017, Mumbai-based Cultivate Art aims to bridge the gap between young art collectors and artists. Their latest art exhibition, Young Collectors Weekend Global, comes to Bengaluru for the first time ever. The show will be launched on May 22, and introduce the works of 18 emerging artists to art lovers in the city.
'Young Collectors Weekend Global is not a traditional group show that is curated on a particular theme,' says Farah Siddiqui, founder of Cultivate Arts. 'It is an amalgamation of art, where we consciously bring in different artists whose works are vastly different from each other. Visitors can expect textile and ceramic art, sculptures in terracotta and clay, as well as watercolours and other paintings.' .
Curated by independent art critic and writer Girish Shahane, Young Collectors Weekend Global 2025 will feature sculptor artist, Harsha Durugadda, installation artist, Sareena Khemka, miniature-style painter Divya Pamnani and multidisciplinary artist Raka Panda.
Other featured artists include, ceramic and cartography artist, Rewati Shahani, mixed media painter KP Pradeep Kumar, textile and ceramic artist Aninda Varma, indigo textile artist Hansika Sharma, ceramicist and paper sculptor, Mansie Shah, conceptual artist Megha Madan, fusion painter Rajnish Channesh, watercolourist Ahalya Rajendran, sculptor Richa Arya, printmaker Zarrin Fatima Shamsi, visual artists, Anni Kumari and Amjum Rizve, Baroda-based artist, Ahalya Rajendran, and multidisciplinary artist Meera.
'We have seen the work of these artists over the years and believe they should be exposed to collectors. We do not work in isolation but believe in collaboration and building the art market,' says Farah.
'The show is open to everyone because we want to meet more people, observe their tastes and have conversations with them about contemporary art,' she says.
The exhibition will include guided walks and a panel discussion with art collectors, Manju Sara Rajan, Abhinit Khanna and Arjun Agarwal on May 23. 'They are all collectors with differing perspectives and it will be interesting to see their view on the works of art and their personal engagement with culture.'
Initiated in 2020, the Young Collectors Weekend Global has been hosted previously in Delhi and Mumbai. 'This year, we wanted to bring it to Bengaluru because the South has its own cultural sensitivity through its dance, theatre and music forms. Many of our best artists are from the South and we wanted this curation to help us understand the collectors and artists in this city.'
Cultivate Art was founded in 2017, Farah says, with a mission to discover talented artists and expose them to new audiences both through online and offline initiatives to expand their accessibility.
With this new permanent space inside Abstract Art Gallery, Farah hopes to bring more curations to the city this year.
Young Collectors Weekend Global is at the Abstract Art Gallery, Cunningham Road, from May 22 to June 5. Entry free. For more details, call 9820602823 or follow cultivateartglobal on social media.
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