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How curation shaped the ‘One | Many’ exhibition at India Habitat Centre

A photo essay and curator profile explain practical choices—selection, sequencing, labels, space, and logistics—that shape how visitors read an art show.

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Curation links artworks, artists, ideas, and audiences through selection, placement, and interpretation to create a coherent visitor experience.

Practical exhibition work includes defining a central question, arranging sight-lines and sequencing, providing varied interpretive materials, and testing audience responses.

Curators must balance artistic quality, thematic coherence, diversity, accessibility, and logistical realities such as budget, transport, and installation.

The useful part

Such exhibitions illustrate how an effective curator connects artworks, artists, ideas, and audiences (see also Part I of our photo essay on this showcase). A curator connects artworks to history, culture, social issues, artistic movements, and the artist's practice. Curators thus build artistic and cultural value by bringing to the fore new artists and challenging established conventions.

How it works

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  • Tactful and strategic selection, interpretation and presentation of artworks can create a meaningful exhibition experience.
  • The present group, some of whose artworks are showcased here, includes Dev Dutta, Debangsu Biswas, Susnato Chatterjee, Titas Das, and Soumen Basu.
  • to quality and relevance of the individual artworks, relationships between the exhibits also need to enabled.
  • A great exhibition is thus more than a collection of artworks – it is a carefully constructed conversation between art, artist, space, and audience.

What to take from it

Centre (IHC) recently hosted the art exhibition titled 'One | Many' (see our coverage of earlier exhibitions at this popular cultural hub in New Delhi here). Such placements encourage dialogue and create opportunities for reflection and learning. world music festival, telecom expo, millets fair, climate change expo, wildlife conference, startup festival, Diwali rangoli, and jazz festival.

Example or evidence

  • My interactions and discussions with other artists have helped me continue my research and develop my practice," he adds.
  • Teaching, research, observation, and making art continue to influence one another in my journey," he explains.
  • "Our latest exhibition, 'One | Many', became our 28th group exhibition," Pal tells YourStory, with pride.
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Details worth keeping

In the earlier 1,015 posts, we featured an art festival, cartoon gallery. Curated by artist Pabitra Pal, it featured the works of 12 artists. This helps audiences discover deeper interpretations of diverse art works.

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