As a complement to the exhibition CONNECTED-CONNECTEDNESS at Gallery ONKAF, the curator of the exhibition, Anke Mellin, presented a lecture on the theme “Material Encounters”, accompanied by a discussion with Ranbir Kaleka.
Place: KIRAN NADAR MUSEUM OF ART
145, DLF South Court Mall, Saket, New Delhi, Delhi 110017
The event was curated as a collaborative effort initiated by KNMA with Ministry of Culture and Media, Hamburg – Germany and Gallery ONKAF, New Delhi.

“As climate crises, pandemics and war change our lives, we find ourselves fundamentally rethinking the value systems of the last century. Today, we are called to broaden our perspective to countries and regions, to form new cultural solidarities, and to cultivate the kind of imagination that transforms civilizations. At the same time, we must also rethink the role of art and society as a whole at this time when human influence on the world order has increased so much. How can we overcome the complex entanglements of the existing geopolitical framework and move toward a more sustainable, liberated, and deliberate future?

The exhibition project “CONNECTED-CONNECTEDNESS” at ONKAF Gallery, Delhi, tries its hand at sustainable curating: practically with less air travel, with few physical loans, without a printed catalogue, and with exhibition elements from previous exhibitions. It offers discussion on ecology, nature and new forms of knowledge generation to address the biggest challenge of today’s world, climate change in the Anthropocene era. And it offers discussion about the question about „what happens when you plan and put together an exhibition? To begin, one calculates the amount of carbon emitted at each step of creating an exhibition.”
– Anke Mellin