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Shilpa Gupta (*1976, Mumbai) will receive the Possehl Prize for International Art 2025. To mark the award, which comes with prize money of €25,000, the Kunsthalle St. Annen is hosting the artist’s first museum exhibition in Germany. we last met in the mirror brings together some 25 works created over two decades. “we last met in the mirror examines the multiplicity of knowledge and the ways in which meaning is ascribed, and questions the boundaries of unambiguous definitions in a fluid, permanently shifting world in which we live”, explains Shilpa Gupta. The title of the exhibition is taken from one of the artist’s key works, which plays with text fragments that continuously rearrange themselves into new messages.
In her art Gupta deals with such subjects as censorship, state authority, social and political power structures, and collective responsibility. The starting point for her artistic reflection is often Mumbai, where she is based. This megacity is a microcosm of social inequality, post-colonial fractures and global economic dynamics.
The artist fuses local observations with universal questions and so connects people across cultural and geographic borders. Visitors to the exhibition in Lübeck are invited to reflect their own experiences in the mirror of global developments. It includes installations, sculptures, …
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Image above: Shilpa Gupta, I Live Under Your Sky Too, Zeitbasierte Lichtinstallation, 2004 – laufend, 434 x 991 cm, Courtesy: the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin Foto: Jens Ziehe © Shilpa Gupta.
