Kiran Nadar Museum of Art will take over Christie's London headquarters in St James's for a month-long non-selling exhibition of South Asian modern and contemporary art. The event, titled The Meeting Ground: Scenes from the KNMA Collection, is free to attend and part of Christie's London summer program of global modern art exhibitions. The exhibition is positioned as a demonstration of institutional openness amid increasing defensiveness among cultural institutions. The works on view provide a glimpse of a large South Asian modern collection built over more than 30 years, spanning 1950s to the present and including artists from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The London show also anticipates the planned 2028 opening of a new KNMA building near Delhi airport, designed by David Adjaye, with Manuel Rabaté appointed to run the museum.
"The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi will take over Christie's London headquarters in St James's this summer for a month-long non-selling exhibition of South Asian Modern and contemporary art."
"Kiran Nadar, the Indian billionaire who owns perhaps the world's largest collection of South Asian Modern art, tells The Art Newspaper that the Christie's exhibition is "the perfect stage" for demonstrating "a kind of institutional openness, particularly at a time when so many cultural institutions around the world are becoming more defensive." After more than 30 years of buying art, she says, her collection "is strong enough...to sustain that openness"."
"The Meeting Ground: Scenes from the KNMA Collection (16 July-21 August) is the latest in Christie's series of London summer exhibitions of global Modern art, held in partnership with private foundations and free to attend. The exhibition anticipates the long-delayed relocation of Nadar's Delhi museum to a vast new 100,000 sq. m space near the airport in the first half of 2028. Designed by the British-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye, the building is now "about 60%" finished, Nadar says."
"According to Nadar, the 180 works on display in London this summer will be "just a glimpse of the depth of the collection," covering 60 Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi artists working from the 1950s to the present day. She describes it as "a slice of our own exhibition history", featuring five distinct curatorial strands. One, for example, will feature Nalini Malani, the subject of the KNMA-backed collateral exhibition at this year's Venice Biennale."
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