Faandee | फांदी

Category: for Artists

Writing, Research & Curatorial Support, Studio Documentation, Mentorship, Portfolio Development, Communication Design, Exploring Opportunities

The art world exists because you create. Whether your practice is young, established or a mature one, we can support your creative journey by documenting your studio practice, by writing on it for diverse publications, and curating your exhibitions.

If you’re a young artist, we empower you to build your portfolio, exploring apt opportunities suitable to your practice, facilitating your creative journey through apt mentorship and a co-learning process.

For a mid-career artist we can support you in ideation, and materialising projects that require acute administrative vision and an ongoing documentation.

Senior artists with decades of experience in creating and inspiring the artworld, we salute your contribution and we’d love to build a comprehensive archive establishing your legacy. Through studio documentation, conservation assessment, writing, designing and publication we ensure that your work and value is not lost to the time. Organising retrospective exhibitions, well thought outreach, publishing a catalogue, or monologue is an endearing mission for us.

If you have unique ideas and we can come on board, reach out to us.

  • Bharatan Archives – A Family & Artists’ Archive

    Bharatan Archives – A Family & Artists’ Archive

    Modern Indian art is shaped through several celebrated and many unknown hands. Maledath Bharatan a Textile Chemist from Kerala who initially finds a job at Mumbai, then joining the Communist Party of India, actively works under the cultural wing to inspire artists toward radical social awareness. M. Bharatan though lesser documented have worked closely toward…

  • अपने हिस्से में सूरज – Rajesh Pullarwar

    अपने हिस्से में सूरज – Rajesh Pullarwar

    Apne Hisse Me SurajThe light of acknowledgement Actions – yours and mine shape our identity. Often given, imposed, but also acquired;  in a democratic, republican state, how, who, and what decides the value of an individual citizen is a gloomy thought. Rajesh Pullarwar a believer in a just state empowered by its constitution contemplates what identity…

  • [Coat]ed Desires- Retrofitting Sarpa Satra – Nitin Hadap

    [Coat]ed Desires- Retrofitting Sarpa Satra – Nitin Hadap

    Many contemporary art practices are multidisciplinary forms. Dr Nitin Hadap has evolved his art practice through sartorial studies, art history and an illustrative mythology based interpretation. This was a unique display was a combination of theatre as a venue, wearable clothing canvases stitched based on traditional Indian garments of Barabandi, Choga, Angarkha and painted with…

  • Indelible Black Marks

    Indelible Black Marks

    by Patiala based multidisciplinary artist Kulpreet Singh.

  • Suhas Bahulkar – Artist Archive

    Suhas Bahulkar – Artist Archive

    Suhas Bahulkar- an artist, art historian known for documenting and publishing history of several artists from Maharashtra and Bombay School through the”Encyclopaedia of Visual Art of Maharashtra: Artists of Bombay School and Art Institutions” and several other books.  His personal studio practice and public projects are documented by Faandee, offering a comprehensive archiving and cataloguing…

  • Oral Histories: On Forests, Seeds, and Streams. Vayeda Brothers & Spore Initiative, Berlin

    Oral Histories: On Forests, Seeds, and Streams. Vayeda Brothers & Spore Initiative, Berlin

    Oral Histories: On Forests, Seeds, and Streams Vayeda Brothers & Spore Initiative, Berlin April 2024 | A year long exhibition programme Warli art, renowned for its indigenous graphic vocabulary, forms the foundation of the artistic practice of Tushar and Mayur Vayeda. As young artists deeply engaged with themes of agroforestry, the Vayeda brothers work to…

  • Haptic Tales – Stories of Visual Sensory Renditions

    Haptic Tales – Stories of Visual Sensory Renditions

    Faandee curated a booth for an art fair at the Nehru Centre. Thematically based on the sense of touch – the exhibition of non objective paintings by artists Vishakha Apte, Hansodnya Tambe, Sandip More, Nilesh Shaharkar, Archana Sharma were showcased highlighting the idea of Haptic experiences through visuals.  The display engaged the viewers toward the …

  • Penetrating Delirium – Redeeming Practice from the Quotidian

    Penetrating Delirium – Redeeming Practice from the Quotidian

     | Ti Quest- Nehru Centre Artists in lack of patronage tend to sidetrack their studio practice for supporting their families. Navigating through domestic and professional duties, often female artists juggle the chores and let their work stay dormant. With Faandee as the Knowledge partner to the project Ti-Quest, ‘Penetrating Delirium -Redeeming Practice from the Quotidian’…

  • For the Love of Printmaking – International Symposium (Online)

    For the Love of Printmaking – International Symposium (Online)

    November 2023 India’s first ever online international symposium dedicated to printmaking was co-conceptualised and implemented by Faandee with IPEP India under the darshak: a decade of printmaking and viewership. It was a remarkable gathering of 22 scholars from 11 countries, with a presentation of 17 papers, contributing valuable insights into Printmaking theory, criticism and contemporary…

  • darshak: a decade of printmaking and viewership

    darshak: a decade of printmaking and viewership

    at Bihar Museum, Patna & Govt. Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh To celebrate the core values of promoting printmaking, non-commercial barter approach and shared artistic values cherished by IPEP India for a decade (2013-2022), Faandee collaborated to set up an archival exhibition of all 10 portfolios through an engaging series of online and in exhibition…