Volte Gallery

Nalini Malani
Broken Alice II, 2005
Paint on transparent acrylic sheet

In this work, Nalini Malani employs Lewis Carroll’s fictional character Alice to explore the interaction between women and their environments. Refusing to coalesce into an organized and linear narrative, Malani tells a story which is made interesting through disconnected symbols. The figures reference the Kalighat patta paintings and Manga comics.

Currently on display at Volte Gallery.

A painter, sculptor and enigmatic abstract artist, Evgeny Chubarov translates his emotions and intellectual insights to a new unprecedented visual language. This inspiration led him in creating a visual iconography that thoroughly depicts both a contemporary world and the spiritual traditions of medieval art.
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Evgeny Chubarov‘s work is currently on display at Volte Art Projects.

My Reality Is Different
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Don't miss Nalini Malani's solo exhibition happening now at Arario Gallery, Seoul.

My Reality is Different is on until 21st October 2023

📍Arario Gallery Seoul

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Raghava KK has pioneered a groundbreaking body of diverse works that explore transcendence through the lens of the current digital era.

Featured on CNN’s list of ten fascinating thinkers, authors and provocateurs in 2010, Raghava’s work traverses traditional forms of painting, installation and performance, while his practice embraces new media (artificial intelligence, neuro-feedback, biohacking, board and video games, crypto currencies etc), to express post-human contemporary realities.

Don't miss Raghava KK exhibit his cutting-edge series of impossible juxtapositions as a continuation of his pioneering encounter with Al.

10 - 16 February 2023.
11:30AM - 7:30PM
Venue: 24 Jor Bagh, New Delhi

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Raghava KK exhibits his cutting-edge series of impossible juxtapositions as a continuation of his pioneering encounter with Al.

10-16 February 2023
11:30am - 7:30pm
Venue: 24 Jor Bagh, New Delhi

Temporal Twist (2016)
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Sheba Chhachhi's Temporal Twist looks at the cinematic story as an object. The post-partition story, is one such object which has become the currency of nation building, producing memory and affect in ways that serve different ideological interests at different moments of history. The cinematic story travels is re-­mixed, re-­boots wilting identities.

Anxiety twists locks of hair, the edge of the dupatta, the telling of a tale. Tables turn. Prejudice makes its own convolutions.

To see the full installation visit us for our preview on 1 February, 6pm

Temporal Twists: A Subversive Metalogue will be on view from 2 February - 15 March 2023

Curated by Sasha Altaf

Link in bio to find out more 🔗

Exhibition Opening

Volte Art Projects is proud to present Temporal Twists: A Subversive Metalogue by Sheba Chhachhi.

Wednesday February 1st, 6pm

Temporal Twists: A Subversive Metalogue is Sheba Chhachhi's first solo exhibition in the Middle East. Examining Chhachhi’s remarkable oeuvre in all its diversity over the span of four decades, the show includes seven seminal works created since 1997 featuring photographs, photo-video installations, and her signature animated lightboxes. This exhibition brings together the unsparing and often exquisite meditations on critical questions about gendered bodies, subaltern histories, the relationship between humans and the natural world, and eco-philosophy.

Sheba Chhachhi, Edible Birds: Pinchamayurasana Gangetic Delta Flood (2007)

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In case you haven’t had the chance to see it yet, ’s The Guernica Project remains on view at Volte Art Projects

Visit us midweek during Ramadan between 10AM and 4PM

Elsewhere in Hong Kong the M+ museum is set to re-open with a new display by Volte artist Nalini Malani ()

Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn (.gordijn) and Ralph Nauta () founded studio DRIFT (.drift) in 2007. With a multi-disciplinary team of 64, they work on experiential sculptures, installations and performances.
 
DRIFT manifests the phenomena and hidden properties of nature with the use of technology in order to learn from the Earth’s underlying mechanisms and to re-establish our connection to it.
 
 With both depth and simplicity, DRIFT’s works of art illuminate parallels between man-made and natural structures through deconstructive, interactive, and innovative processes. The artists raise fundamental questions about what life is and explore a positive scenario for the future.
 
All individual artworks have the ability to transform spaces. The confined parameters of a museum or a gallery does not always do justice to a body of work, rather it often comes to its potential in the public sphere or through architecture. DRIFT brings people, space and nature on to the same frequency, uniting audiences with experiences that inspire a reconnection to our planet.

For around 300 years, the Tree of Ténéré was fabled to be the most isolated tree on the planet. The acacia was the only tree for 250 miles in Niger’s Sahara desert, and was used as a landmark by travelers and caravans passing through the hostile terrain. The tree sprouted when the desert was a slightly more hospitable place, and for years was the sole testament to a once-greener Sahara.

Based on local environmental factors such as wind and sunlight, the interactivity of Studio DRIFT’s Tree of Ténéré, an installation inspired by the fabled acacia, is enhanced via the use of DRIFT’s uniquely developed swarm algorithm, creating a dynamic choreography. DRIFT utilizes a unique digital modelina method, that simulates the growth of a tree as in nature, incorporating factors such as the work’s specific location, gravity, and incidence of light to create a piece entirely unique to its location.

Thank you to for featuring an interview with founder and director Tushar Jiwarajka

Learn more about the gallery’s beginnings, the intersection between art, nature, and technology, and Tushar’s big plans for the future

Looking back at our first Art Dubai, we are grateful to all of Volte’s old friends and new friends for joining us at our several booths.

Do not miss today’s conversation between Yugen filmmaker Martha Fiennes () and Oscar nominated writer and director Shekhar Kapur ()!

Taking place in one hour (12pm) at the Art Dubai Digital Lounge

Just two more days to catch our presentation at Art Dubai 2022!

Join us until 9pm today and between 12 and 6pm tomorrow; work by .drift .art .sikander and

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Do not miss the debut of ’s new NFT phygital 3D hologram series: Powerfluff Toys, on show for the next two days at our booth (X-10) in the inaugural digital section of !

In order of appearance:
‘Spy vs spy’
‘What me Satoshi?’
‘Ewwww’
‘Macrohard on fire’
‘I asked for a pony - the hell is this?’
‘You’re fired!’

Volte is excited to announce Martha Fiennes’ () participation in Art Dubai 2022 as the Art Dubai Digital Commision.

Yugen by Martha Fiennes explores the boundaries of a radical new media where art, digital technologies, and film practice fuse together to form new possibilities of creative expression. A select number of Yugen NFTs will be minted and dropped in collaboration with Art Dubai.

The artist will be in conversation with Oscar nominated writer director Shekhar Kapoor () on March 12th, 5pm at Art Dubai Digital Lounge.

Volte Art Projects is pleased to announce our participation in Art Dubai 2022, with work being presented at three individual booths at the fair.

Visit our contemporary booth (F-9) to enjoy works by Sujata Bajaj, Wim Delvoye, Studio Drift, Ranbir Kaleka, Anish Kapoor, Nalini Malani, Shahzia Sikander, and Based Upon

At Art Dubai’s inaugural digital section we will be presenting a solo of Raghava KK’s digital works as part of The Guernica Project (X-10).

For Art Dubai’s commissioned booth, Volte’s very own Martha Fiennes will present her 2018 AI film, Yugen.

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Do not miss Sheba Chhachhi’s Winged Pilgrims: A Chronicle From Asia, an installation that remains on show at ’ gallery space.

Mapping migration, the animated light boxes and robed pilgrim figures reflect on patterns of movement.

The lightboxes offer retooled fables whose central characters are birds from various mythologies. These birds meet their foil in Chhachhi’s reflection on the 2005 panic surrounding the spread of Avian flu which led to the mass culling of birds around Asia and Europe.

Save the date! On Tuesday the 8th of March at 6pm, Volte’s very own Ian Abell of Based Upon () will join independent design adviser, Cyril Zammit (), for a conversation as part of ’s Majlis Talks program.

Make sure to join us at The Yard for a discussion about some of Based Upon’s works that are currently on show at the gallery as well as a look at Based Upon’s signature public and private commissions.

Thank you to Gulf Today for highlighting Raghava KK's The Guernica Project!

Visit us Monday-Saturday between 10AM and 7PM to check out our new exhibition.

Volte Art Projects hosts The Guernica Project by Indian artist Raghava KK A constantly growing series, The Guernica Project comprises paintings, digital prints and a large selection of NFTs, which retell Indian history through cartoon characters and memes.

Thank you to Christies for featuring Volte Art Projects as among the initiatives taking Dubai’s art scene to new levels. We are looking forward to our multiple presentations at Art Dubai 2022. Stay tuned for more announcements coming soon!

Art Dubai: ‘The energy in the city is palpable’ | Christie's The annual art fair showcases works by artists from across the globe in a city where arts and culture venues are booming

Alserkal Lates returns! Get set to feel the lanes in the Avenue buzzing with vibrant exhibitions and exciting concepts on Tuesday, 8 March, from 10am to 10pm.

will be open with extended hours; we will be showcasing our two ongoing exhibitions, The Guernica Project by and Winged Pilgrims: A Chronicle From Asia by Sheba Chhachhi.

Elsewhere on the avenue, you can meet the artists and gallerists at 20+ exhibition openings, experience a sound installation at Concrete by , and explore thought-provoking guest projects, talks and open studios all day long.

Mark your calendars and stay out late with us. Register for free and view the full programme on alserkal.online.

Alserkal Art Week runs from 3-13 March. Alserkal Art Week Lead Partner -

Thank you to everyone who joined us for last week’s opening night of The Guernica Project.

We are grateful to have been able to launch this project in the presence of the artist and to share the evening with some of the gallery’s dear friends and family.

Visit us Monday-Friday between 10AM and 7PM.

We are pleased to see our current exhibition, The Guernica Project by Raghava KK featured on The National's list of eight highlights at the upcoming Alserkal Art Week.

You can visit The Guernica Project at Volte Art Projects, Monday-Friday between 10AM and 7PM.

Alserkal Art Week: eight highlights and must-sees at the Dubai event The programme runs from March 3 to 13, with exhibitions ongoing until summer

Pictured are a selection of NFT prints that are on display at Volte Art Projects as part of The Guernica Project.

The grid of 69 prints features a selection of distinct sections and characters from Raghava KK’s Guernica for the Siri-ocene, a large scale contemporary re-imagination of Picasso’s famous anti-war painting of 1937. These characters and sections of the painting have been minted as individual NFTs.

Visit us Monday-Friday between 10AM and 7PM