BGB 2020 I Dates Resheduled

In response to the latest guidance of public health officials from the Government of India and to protect artists, audiences and team members from the spread of COVID-19, the 3rd edition of Bodhgaya Biennale 2020 which was set to take place between December 25, 2020, and January 10, 2020, has officially been postponed.

The Bodhgaya Biennale 2020, themed as " futures at the tipping point: in the face of inequalities" - curated by Anindita Dutta, will now take place in the same venue in the Bodhgaya in November-December 2021.

Biennale Team will continue to monitor closely this evolving situation and keep you informed about the new dates for the Bodhgaya Biennale with due notice allowing you to prepare the necessary.

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Bodhgaya Biennale has felicitated veteran artists of Bihar

22 february 2020. Bodhgaya Biennale & College of Art & Craft, Patna jointly organized a function to felicitate two very eminent and veteran artists of Bihar Sri Anandi Prasad Badal & Padmshri Sri Shyam Sharma at the college campus. Significant to note that the organizing team of Bodhgaya Biennale has decided to felicitate artists of eminence every year prior to the mega event of Bodhgaya Biennale. And hence, was this function. On the dais of the felicitating function seated were Mr Chanchal Kumar (I.A.S.), Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, Bihar as the Chief Guest, Mr. Mithilesh Mishra (I.A.S.), IG Prison, Bihar as the Guest of Honour, Mr. Vinay kumar, Founder Director,Bodhgaya Biennale,Mr. Alok Dhanwa, noted Hindi poet, who presided over the function. Artists has been welcomed and introduced by the Biennale Director Mr. Vinay Kumar and vote of thanks was given by the Principal, College of Art & Craft, Mr Ajay Pandey. A sizeable gathering of eminent artists and art-lovers were there to grace the occasion.

Bodhgaya Biennale has nominated Ms. Yasmeen Siddiqui and Ms. Robin Pickett as Curatorial Advisor

Ms Anindita dutta on behalf of Bodhgaya Biennale has announced Ms. Yasmeen Siddiqui and Ms. Robin Pickett as Curatorial Advisor for the 3rd Edition of the Biennale.

Ms. Yasmeen Siddiqui is the founding director of Minerva Projects, whose objective is to support interdisciplinary artists who have expressed the desire to analyze their practice, and where curatorial ideas are tested in service to publishing books. In tandem with this work, Siddiqui writes and edits, having her work published in Hyperallergic, ART PAPERS, Cairo Times, Medina Magazine, Flash Art, Modern Painters, NKA and The Brooklyn Rail. Current projects include a book-length manuscript on the subject of home and a series of essays considering authoritarianism through the works of artists and authors. She is also co-editing the anthology The Storytellers of Art Histories (Intellect Books, 2021). Siddiqui is a core faculty member at the School of Visual Art at Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York and the Master of Arts in Critical Craft Studies at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.

Speaking over her association with Bodhgaya Biennale 2020 Ms. Yasmeen Siddiqui said that “the mission of Minerva Projects is to publish books that elucidate the work of artists, art histories, and curators. The imprint Minerva Press is honored to publish a volume reflecting on the third Bodhgaya Biennale (2020-2021). The primary goal of this book will be to shine a light on the way folk arts, crafts, and contemporary arts infuse each other while struggling for supremacy, visibility, prominence, and commercial value. The Bodhgaya context is a striking situation that permits and in fact flourishes when these art forms co-exist, aware of each other, indebted to the other. Minerva Press has begun the preliminary work of identifying authors, artist, thinkers, and activists for this volume, which is committed to destabilizing hierarchies that demarcate and constrain these kinds of art within the larger context of visual culture”

Ms. Robin Pickett has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Art/Graphic Design). After having owned her own design business for over a decade in Indiana, USA, she has now been exploring art through fiber and cultures and is fascinated by the commonalities between humans all over the world. Her aim is to celebrate the threads that tie us all together.

Ms. Robin Pickett will be BGB advisor and mentor who has committed herself with sharing her enormous knowledge in exhibition design with Bodhgaya Biennale 2020.

“The Pickle Jar “, Story telling by Siddhartha Maskeri at Canvas Centre

21 December 2019. The Pickle Jar.....story ; written and narrated by brilliant artist and educator Siddhartha Maskeri, yesterday at Canvas centre .Patna. social scientist and analyst Vishwranjan, young historian Dr Imtyaz Anzum, senior Photographer Suman shriwastav and filmmaker Ravi raj Patel and Administrative officer Deepak Sahu have participated in the post - performance interactive session along with the kids .

The Pickle Jar Adventure" is the name of the story narrated by famous story-teller Mr Siddharth Maskari at Canvas Patna this evening. The mentioned story is written by Mr Maskari himself and had become so popular that he was invited by a French Organization to engage the story-session in France.

The session here at CANVAS was attended by many children and grown-up people including artists fraternity. Everybody present enjoyed the session followed by inter-active session between the story-teller and the audience.