Rohini Devasher

Rohini Devasher

Connect India

Rohini Devasher is an artist and an amateur astronomer. Her films, prints, sounds and drawings, map the complexities of time and space, through the twin frames of wonder and the strange. Her work has been shown at the Open Data Institute London (2022), Rubin Museum, New York (2021-22), the Sea Art Festival, Busan (2021), Vienna Academy of Fine Art (2021), Goethe Institut Mumbai, the Kunst Leuven City Festival (2021) the 14th Sharjah Biennial (2019), Kaserne Basel (2019) Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (2018), 7th Moscow Biennial (2017), the Spencer Museum of Art USA (2018,16), MAAT Museum of Art and Technology, Lisbon (2016), ZKM, Karsruhe (2016), Bhau Daji Lad City Museum in Mumbai (2016, 2018) Singapore Art and Science Museum (2016), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2016), and the 5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial (2014), the Kochi Biennale (2012), among others.

In 2023, she was awarded the Connect India residency, along with Swiss artist Elisa Storelli. Together, they will carry out a four-week residency at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) in Bengaluru, followed by a three-week stay at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, to develop research towards an artistic project in dialogue with the scientists, engineers and staff of the laboratories.