Gallery Nature Morte is an art gallery

Art gallery

An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...

 that deals predominantly in Indian contemporary art

Indian art

Indian Art is the visual art produced on the Indian subcontinent from about the 3rd millennium BC to modern times. To viewers schooled in the Western tradition, Indian art may seem overly ornate and sensuous; appreciation of its refinement comes only gradually, as a rule. Voluptuous feeling is...

. It currenty (in 2011) has three locations, galleries in New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

, Gurgaon

Gurgaon

Gurgaon is the second largest city in the Indian state of Haryana. Gurgaon is the industrial and financial center of Haryana. It is located 30 km south of national capital New Delhi, about 10 kilometers from Dwarka Sub City and 268 km south of Chandigarh, the state capital...

 (India

India

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), and Berlin

Berlin

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 (Germany

Germany

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). Gallery Nature Morte is partners with Bose Pacia Gallery

Bose Pacia Gallery

Bose Pacia is an art gallery located in New York City, with partners in New Delhi, Gallery Nature Morte, and Berlin, .Established in 1994, Bose Pacia was the first gallery in the West to specialize in contemporary art from South Asia. During the past decade Bose Pacia has held over 70 exhibitions...

 in New York

New York City

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History

The gallery's founder, Peter Nagy originally opened a gallery by the same name in New York City

New York City

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 in 1982. It was one of a group of gallery's that were artist run, and sought to create greater creative freedom in the gallery system. In 1988, this gallery was closed followed shortly by Peter Nagy's move to India. For many years Peter Nagy worked in the arts in India as a consultant. It was not until 1997 that Nature Morte was officially revived in New Delhi.

Gallery Nature Morte in New Delhi was one of the first gallery spaces to be devoted to more experimental Indian contemporary art. It is held responsible for helping promote challenging and experimental forms of art; championing conceptual, photographic, and installation genres within a commercial market that remains fixated on painting. In the gallery's first years it was without a fixed gallery space. Its initial identity in the Indian art world was marked by its international feel and aesthetic. In the years since its conception Nature Morte has grown into one of the most respected galleries in the international art world.

New Delhi

The main gallery space in New Delhi is located at A-1 Neeti Bagh. This space has been the fixed space of the New Delhi gallery since 2003. The gallery's move into the space coincided with the partnering with Bose Pacia Gallery in New York.

Gurgaon

This new space will open in early September 2011 at the Oberoi Gugaon.

Berlin

The Berlin gallery was opened 2008. This gallery in conjunction with Nature Morte's relationship with the New York gallery Bose Pacia has pushed many Nature Morte artists into the larger international art community.

Kolkata

In 2007 and in collaboration with the Bose Pacia Gallery of New York, Nature Morte opened a gallery space in central Calcutta, named Bose Pacia Kolkata. The gallery was closed in 2010 after a fire destroyed the building.

Peter Nagy

Peter Nagy, the gallery's founder, is the gallery's director. He represents the top twenty Indian contemporary artists. Nagy has been referred to as the "poster boy of Indian contemporary art." Much of the gallery's signature flavor and stature is born from Nagy. The Indian artist Subodh Gupta has said of Nagy: "he has fresh eyes and has provided a platform for contemporary artists."

Artists represented

The following artists are represented by the gallery:
Aditya Pande, Ajay Desai, Anita Dube, Arun Kumar HG, Alexis Kersey, Atul Dodiya

Atul Dodiya

Atul Dodiya is an Indian artist.Atul began exhibiting and selling his work in the early 1980s following his graduation from Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree...

, Bharat Sikka, Bharti Kher

Bharti Kher

Bharti Kher is one of India’s best-known contemporary artists. Her work encompasses painting, sculpture and installation, often incorporating bindis — the popular forehead decoration worn by women in India — which in Kher’s hands become an epidermal filter, transforming objects and dissolving the...

, Chitra Ganesh

Chitra Ganesh

Chitra Ganesh is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York.Ganesh was born in New York, the daughter of Indian immigrant parents. She works in various media including drawing and installation, inspired by topics including South Asian history, myth and legend, poetry, imperialism and queer politics...

, Dayanita Singh

Dayanita Singh

Dayanita Singh is an Indian photographer, lives and works in New Delhi and now also is partly based in Goa, who is known for her portraits of India's urban middle and upper class families...

, Diana Michener, Gauri Gill, Hema Upadhyay

Hema Upadhyay

Hema Upadhyay is an Indian artist who has lived and worked in Mumbai, India since 1998. She uses photography and sculptural installations to explore notions of dislocation and nostalgia.-Sweet Sweat Memories:...

, Jagannath Panda, Jayanta Roy, Jitish Kallat

Jitish Kallat

Jitish Kallat is an Indian artist who works in varied media. He was born in 1974 in Mumbai . He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art in Mumbai in 1996....

, Josh PS, Justin Ponmany, L.N. Tallur, Manisha Parekh, Mithu Sen, Probir Gupta

Probir Gupta

Probir Gupta is an artist, politician, curator and activist based in New Delhi. Over the years, the direction of his works has changed course, and he has tried various techniques to convey his messages. Gupta was born in Calcutta. His paintings and installations are often based on pieces of...

, Pushpamala N.

Pushpamala N.

Pushpamala N. is an artist based in Bangalore, India.Pushpamala N. was born in Bangalore. Her work has been described as performance photography, as she frequently uses herself as model in her own work...

, Ramakrishna Behera, Raqs Media Collective

Raqs Media Collective

Raqs Media Collective is a group of three media practitioners - Jeebesh Bagchi , Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta - based in New Delhi...

, Ray Meeker, Reena Saini Kallat

Reena Saini Kallat

Reena Saini Kallat is an artist based in Mumbai, India.Kallat was born in Delhi. She works in photography, sculpture, installation and painting...

, Samit Das, Seher Shah, Sheeba Chhachhi, Subodh Gupta

Subodh Gupta

Subodh Gupta is an artist based in New Delhi. He was born in Khagaul,land famous for ancient mathemetician Aryabhatta in Patna. He studied at the College of Art, Patna in 1983 - 1988, before moving to New Delhi where he currently lives and works. Trained as a painter, he went on to experiment...

, Suhasini Kejriwal, Thukral & Tagra

Thukral & Tagra

Thukral & Tagra is an artist team made up of Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra. T&T, as they are commonly called, work in a wide variety of media including, but not limited to, graphics, videos, music, interiors, product design and paintings....

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