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Talking Art

India’s Outsider Artist, Looking In: Bharti Kher

Bloomberg | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 8

Feminist, mythology narrator and quasi-anthropologist are just some of the titles that describe artist Bharti Kher, currently at the center stage of the Indian contemporary art scene. Kher was born in London in 1969 and earned a BFA at Newcastle Polytechnic before moving to India in 1993. She currently lives and works out of New Delhi. Unique Indian sentiments and colors are abundant in her art, which address topics of culture and tradition with a refined contemporary sensibility.

The artist takes inspirations from India’s history and philosophy, but also from more mundane daily moments. With her original takes, the issues are transformed into sublime art forms that defy classification. She kindles new thought in viewers of India and across the globe, inviting them into a mysterious, beautiful world of art.

About ASIA

ASIA | Art Spectacle International Asia is an independent online magazine covering contemporary art from Asia-Pacific to the Middle East.

Founder and Editor C. A. Xuân Mai Ardia is a Vietnamese-Italian from Padova, Italy. She currently resides near Venice, Italy, but she has lived around the world for more than 20 years. London was her home throughout university and her first forays in the art world and gallery work, until she moved to Shanghai in 2006 where she worked for Pearl Lam Galleries (then Contrasts Gallery) until 2009.  She has lived between Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Padova, Italy in 2009-2016, where she worked at Galerie Qyunh, Craig Thomas Gallery and contributed to Art Radar.

Mai holds a BA in Chinese | History of Art and Archaeology and an MA in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK, as well as an MSc in Development Studies | Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the School of Development, Innovation and Change (SDIC), University of Bologna, Italy. She has worked in the conservation of world cultural heritage in Rome and in contemporary art galleries in London, Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh City. Her articles have been published in Art Review Asia, Art Radar, The Culture Trip and CoBo Social.

Mai joined the Art Radar team as Copy Editor in May 2013, and became Staff Writer in November of the same year. Continuing to contribute her writing to Art Radar, she took up the role of Managing Editor from November 2015 to December 2018, when Art Radar ceased publication.

To continue on and contribute to the dissemination of contemporary art ideas and practices from Asia, Mai founded ASIA in Spring 2019.

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