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Museum of Art and Photography (MAP)
A new space for art, culture and community in the heart of Bengaluru
I am sorry it’s late, but let’s celebrate
International Women’s day.
The exact date we met.
3 weeks of us taking public transport.
If you have something to celebrate, MAP may just be the right place to do it.
You can start by going for a leisurely lunch at Cumulus, our rooftop restaurant. The food’s great, but remember to keep space for the Chocolate Namelaka. After that, walk off those calories by visiting one of our exhibitions. There’s VISIBLE/INVISIBLE: Representation Of Women in Art through the MAP Collection and Eckhart Muthesius and Manik Bagh: Pioneering Modernism in India. Or our latest exhibition, We don’t end at our edges.
For the digitally minded, we have a multimedia gallery on the first floor and a host of digital experiences on the lower ground floor, where you can also grab a good cup of coffee.
Complete your visit with a little something from our museum store where you can get items as varied as playing cards with artworks, to photo-essay books like Eckart Muthesius and Manik Bagh: Pioneering Modernism in India. Everything at the store is special as it is always connected to our collection, and can be the perfect memento of a day well spent.
But don’t leave just yet.
We also have some exciting programmes lined up this week to time your visit. The influence of patronage on the arts, a series of film screenings that explore gendered experiences, a unique workshop, the launch of MAP’s youth journal Pulse, and a talk on the intersection of art, tech and policy.
So come over and celebrate curiosity.
Harish Vasudevan,
Acting Director,
Museum of Art & Photography (MAP)
Upcoming Events
Talk | Modernist Architecture in India: A Reflection of Royal Patronage
March 13, Thursday, 6:00 pm
Join conservation architect Shikha Jain, and writer and heritage conservationist Meera Iyer as they unveil the significant role that India’s princely states played in introducing modernist design to Indian cities.
Film Screenings | Imprints
March 15, Saturday, 4:00 pm
Join us for the screenings of 3 short films which poignantly explore complex and interconnected gendered experiences. The screenings will be followed by a conversation between the filmmakers and Arundhati Ghosh.
Workshop | A Room of One’s Own
March 16, Sunday, 2:00 pm
Draw inspiration from a guided walk of the exhibition, Manik Bagh, and participate in a hands-on activity of creatively redesigning your own bedroom.
Youth Engagement | Love, Punctuated
March 16, Sunday, 6:30 pm
Join us for an evening of community, connection, and more to celebrate the launch of the fourth volume of MAP’s online journal for young adults – Pulse.
Talk | Refracting Data Work: Art and Policy
March 18, Tuesday, 6:00 pm
Come for an engaging session that connects the impact created by technology, policy and the arts. The session will have presentations by artists Marialaura Ghidini, paulie/paul anthony george and Priyam Vadalia. This will be followed by a transdisciplinary conversation moderated by Mila T Samdub.
Read
6 Representations of Women in Art
“In 1926, when the statuette of a woman was discovered in Mohenjo-daro, it was another addition to an already vast and varied body of artworks depicting women.
Women have been a popular subject for artists across centuries in all parts of the world. From early cave paintings to prehistoric sculptures to later works in textiles, living traditions, contemporary paintings and more, women have often served as creative inspiration. But were there no women artists? Or when painters were creating a piece did women have much of a say in how they were represented?
Take a closer look at 6 artworks from the MAP Collection — currently on view at Visible/Invisible: Representations of Women in Art through the MAP Collection. — to reconsider the role of women as both muse and artist.”
Online Exhibition
Shanthamani M: Past Continuous
It is said that Bengaluru made history in 1905 as the first city in India to get streetlights. It is also said that interpretations of the Kannada word ‘Bengaluru’ include the land of burnt forests, bende-kaadu-uru (shortened to benkaduru), city of guards, bengavala-luru and city of Venkataraman, benkat-uru.
It is these stories that Shanthamani M’s online exhibition brings to the fore. It visualises a moment in time, of artists coming together and documenting their surroundings – the people who inhabit neighbourhoods, vanishing skill sets, nature, and the everchanging metropolis.
All images, unless otherwise stated, courtesy MAP.
Image Credits:
Still from UMBRO (2024), Prachee Bajania, Courtesy: Rough Edges
Image for Art and Policy talk by paulie/paul anthony george
Image from Shanthamani M: Past Continuous by Shanthamani M