A photographic portrait of Mumbai-based artist Prajakta Potnis

Prajakta Potnis Residency

Mumbai-based artist Prajakta Potnis will be in residence at Studio Voltaire from October 2024 to October 2025.

Potnis will use this opportunity to revisit previous work and research and contextualise them through a series of research trips and conversations in London’s historic cultural institutions and beyond. She plans to relate ongoing considerations around the narratives of destruction, food scarcity and the resilience of the human body to create new bodies of work.

Prajakta Potnis (b. 1980, Thane, India) lives and works in Mumbai. Potnis’ paintings, videos and time-based installations highlight the fractures within everyday domestic life, particularly in the context of gender and social divides. Her works dwell between the intimate world of the individual and the world outside, effortlessly weaving together the complexities of emotions.

Potnis has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. This will be her first project in the UK.

Potnis is the second recipient of Studio Voltaire and LOEWE FOUNDATION’s year-long international residency. Via the award, Potnis will receive:

A £25,000 stipend to support living costs and accommodation.
A rent-free studio at Studio Voltaire for the 12-month duration of the residency.
Budget for travel, equipment, materials and production.
A bespoke professional development and mentoring programme.

Prajakta Potnis (b. 1980, Thane, India) lives and works in Mumbai. Exhibitions include the 15th Sharjah Biennale (2023), Rencontres d'Arles (2022), Taipei Fine Art Museum (2021), The 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016), Queens Museum (2015), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014), Kadist Art Foundation (2012), and Herning Museum of Contemporary Art (2010).
Solo projects include a body without organs, Project 88 (2020), when the wind blows, Project 88, Mumbai (2016); Kitchen Debate, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2014); Time Lapse, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai (2012); Local Time, Experimenter, Kolkata (2012); Porous walls, The Guild art gallery, Mumbai (2008); Membranes and Margins, Gallery EM, Seoul (2008); Walls in between, The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai (2006). She is represented by Project 88 Mumbai.
The LOEWE FOUNDATION was established as a private cultural foundation in 1988 by Enrique Loewe, a fourth-generation member of LOEWE’s founding family. Today, the Foundation continues to promote creativity, organise educational programmes and protect cultural heritage in the fields of craft, art, design, photography, poetry and dance. The Foundation was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts by the Spanish government in 2002.
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Prajakta Potnis, self close, 2023. Credit Sharjah Art Foundation.