Partners/Collaborators
Britto Arts Trust
BRITTO ARTS TRUST is an artists’ run non-profit network officially founded in 2002 in Dhaka, Bangladesh with a global reach. It is permanently spaced in Green Road, Dhaka but works extensively in different locations across the country.
Britto is an expansive and sustainable contemporary art environment and culture that seeds and promotes multiple interdisciplinary practitioners, groups and networks for the Bangladesh art scene. It provides an International and local forum for the development of professional art practitioners, a place where they can meet, discuss, experiment and upgrade their skills on their own terms. Britto works as a catalyst for supporting and promoting new ideas.
Britto Arts Trust is a collective of 6 Trustees and 27 Members. They are all together 33 people.
Galerie 3000
Galerie 3000 is a honeypot and an inflorescence in one. The people of Galerie 3000 are bumblebees of the art world, the art discourse and bustling viewers. The exhibition space is a manifest point which, on the one hand, shows results and, on the other, is a visible point of connection for the bumblebee colony. Here we find a temporary home and reference in the connection to the outside world. The current understanding of Galerie 3000 emphasises the exchange, the shared experience and the comparison of artistic practice and vision as much as the result and as much as the discourse. Art does not have to be visible, it just has to be. Whether alone in the centre of the lake, or in the livestream, from Art Summit 3000, from the conference room, in the exhibition space or in the blog, the important thing is that the art is there and that the bumblebee people get nectar and can share it. Galerie 3000 is divided into 3000 layers, the first 1000 are the exhibition space, the second 1000 layers are the lived, cultivated and cherished swarming and networking and the top 1000 layers are the summit meetings.
The operational core of Galerie 3000 is a fluid group of people who run the exhibition space and look after the bumblebee colony. The global network is run as a collective from within the group and working groups prepare their soup with ladles of the right size. Joy and fulfilment are the driving force and courage and passion are the currency in this cosmos.
Zoe Perritaz, Schadrack Damassoh, Neal Byrne Jossen, Caroline von Gunten, Simon Lieberherr and Andreas Egli.
Theertha
Theertha is an artists’ led initiative, founded in 2000, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Theertha is an autonomous, artist-led non-profit initiative based in Colombo. Theertha has undertaken a considerable amount of art activities since its inception in 2000. First, started by 11 visual artists to facilitate international art exchange through international artist workshops in Sri Lanka, it has expanded its activities to include art education through art teacher training, publications on art/culture, workshops for artists, international and local exhibitions. Through these activities, Theertha has intervened positively to create awareness on contemporary art and its ideologies among the art students and the artists’ community-based in Colombo and selected communities in the regional areas. Through their art publication, they also have tried to disseminate discussions on current art/ culture issues to a larger community within Sri Lanka.
Theertha, who supports the art of the 90’s trend which challenged the existing aesthetics, methodologies, and ideology in art making has always emphasized and encouraged innovative and experimental ideas among artists. Theertha has showcased some of the innovative artworks done by contemporary artists. Through the patronage of Theertha the relatively new art forms to Sri Lanka such as performance art and installation got the opportunity and forums to expand and evolve.
Theertha activities that need exhibition spaces increased considerably over the years, While, Sri Lankan art community grew and the global connections have expanded the goals, aspirations, and needs of artists, the infrastructure to support greater visibility and art presentations mechanisms to local and international audiences have been slow to meet international standards and requirements. Therefore, Theertha established its own alternative art space ‘Red Dot Gallery’ in 2007 in order to showcase the experimental and contemporary art produced within its programs.
The collective is run by Jagath Weerasinghe, Godwin Constantine, Bandu Manamperi, Pradeep Chandrasiri, Pushpakumara koralagedera, Prassan Ranbahu and Anura Krishantha.
HH Art Spaces
HH Art Spaces is an artist-run movement based out of Goa, India. Through international art residencies, site-specific OPEN Studio events, workshops and commissions, HH has consistently pushed contemporary live and performance practices in the South Asian region. It was set in motion in October, 2014 by Romain Loustau, Madhavi Gore and Nikhil Chopra as a physical space based in North Goa, which facilitated and curated residencies and workshops. During this time HH housed a range of visual artists, musicians, dancers, theatre practitioners, writers, olfactory and culinary artists. Over time, HH has added newer members to the team - Shivani Gupta, Shaira Sequeira Shetty and Mario D’souza as resident curator.
In our current avatar, HH Art Spaces works nomadically via commissioned projects, institutional grants and partnerships. In the last 9 years, HH has hosted and worked with approximately 120 national and international artists, conducted onsite and offsite workshops and exhibitions, held 22 OPEN Studios and collaborated with organisations within and outside India, including Fondazione Elpis, Serendipity Arts Trust, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, India Art Fair, Chatterjee & Lal gallery, KHOJ International Artists’ Association, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Theertha International Artists’ Collective, Kolkata International Performance Art Festival (KIPAF), Magnetic Fields Festival, Sunaparanta Centre for the Arts, Goa; and Japan Foundation, Alliance Française, Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
HH Art Spaces has emerged as the only platform for the live arts in South Asia. As a collective, we function as artists, mentors, producers, facilitators, and cultural catalysts.
Mario D’souza
Mario D’Souza is a curator and writer based between New Delhi, Goa, and Kochi, India. He is Director of Programmes at the Kochi Biennale Foundation and on the Curatorial team of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India.He is also resident curator at HH Art Spaces Goa. He was formerly curator at Khoj International Artist’s Association, New Delhi, where he curated several exhibitions, including This Must be True (co-curator) and Evidence Room (2017). In addition, he conceptualized and led Asia Assemble (2017) and co-curated the symposium Art – Science – Fiction (2018). His research interests include: political imaginaries; the nation building project; cultures and aesthetics of dissent; public acts of assembling; legal and extra-legal systems; and evidence and truth.
Recent curatorial projects include Antibodies with HH Art Spaces, The Tetley Museum, Tate Hyundai Research Center and Live Art Development Agency supported by British Council; How to Live Together? With HH Art Spaces, Britto Arts Trust, Theertha and Galerie 3000 supported by Pro Helvetia; and Haze at Foundation Elpis in Milan.