Arijit Bhattacharyya

I generally don't post images of how I do things, because I am often very clumsy and catastrophically chaotic. One of the blessings of having going through a laptop shuffle is that, you encounter things that you are not supposed to encounter. Here are some images from the preparation of mural for 'A Handful of Truths in a Mouthful of Lies' curated by @ovulodrmsgl And generously supported by @kuenstlerhof_frohnau And warmly hosted by @kuenstlerischeforschungberlin The images are from my friend and collaborator @minaa_mohseni Ps: Trust me I was working and not pretending to work for the photographs 🤣

Artist/Curator Talk & Closing Weekend of Arijit Bhattacharyya’s exhibition "A Handful of Truths in a Mouthful of Lies" The exhibition is open from Friday, January 16 to Sunday, January 18, daily 12–7 pm. Admission is free. On Saturday, January 17 at 5 pm, Arijit Bhattacharyya will be in conversation with curator Övül Durmuşoğlu. The talk will be held in English. We would love to see you at Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung, Uferstr. 13, 13357 Berlin. The exhibition was produced by Künstlerhof Frohnau in the context of the Ruckhaberle-Förderpreis. Kindly supported by the Berlin Senate for Culture within the framework of the Basisförderung für Projekträume.

'A demonstration against the arrests in the last solidarity protests in Berlin' Distemper paint on wall, 2025, Size variable according to space Part of 'A Handful of Truths in a Mouthful of Lies' curated by @ovulodrmsgl with generous support from @kuenstlerhof_frohnau and hosted by @kuenstlerischeforschungberlin Painted with assistance from @minaa_mohseni and Zuriñe Mariño Ciruelo Photographs by Silke Briel

Arijit Bhattacharyya: A Handful of Truths in a Mouthful of Lies Opening on Saturday, December 6 at 7 pm 6 December 2025 to 18 January 2026 Künstlerhof Frohnau hosted by the Berlin Artistic Research Program Uferstrasse 13, 13357 Berlin Opening hours: Friday to Sunday 12 to 7 pm and by appointment This exhibition brings together murals, paintings, drawings, video and a new publication produced during Arijit Bhattacharyya’s residency at Künstlerhof Frohnau. The residency and publication form part of the Ruckhaberle Förderpreis, which was granted in 2024 in cooperation with the Berlin Reinickendorf Municipality. The project includes contributions by Rimil Umul Collective, Shubhangi Derhgawen, Faheem Hemboum, Amtus Stanislaus Kuyil and Jad Salfiti, and is curated by Övül Ö. Durmusoglu. Developed in collaboration with Pedro Jośe D’Agosto, Samriddhi Banerjee, Joachim Bartsch, Kaya Behkalam, Nilanjan Bhattacharya, Swagata Bhattacharyya, Suparna Bhattacharjee, Belia Zanna Geetha Brückner, Achyut Kumar Chatterjee, Zuriñe Mariño Ciruelo, Soma Dasgupta, Santanu Dey, Rike Frank, Soumik Ghosh, Timo Grimberg, Moritz Grünke, Shibayan Halder, Mina Mohseni, Ratul Nandi, Narendran Nair, Bipul Roy, Sasanka Roohdar and Prateek Vijan. #ArijitBhattacharyya #KünstlerhofFrohnau #BerlinArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtistResidency #ArtExhibitionBerlin #BerlinArtScene #RuckhaberleFörderpreis #RuckhaberleAward #Murals #Painting #Drawing #VideoArt #ArtPublication #OpeningSoon #BerlinEvents

Poems of the moving wind - The Banana Bamboo chronicle The Poet, The Labourer and The Protestor (Characters in order of appearance) Card board, Acrylic paint and Bamboo Site specific Installation and Performance In collaboration with @provinciale_11 Special thanks to @therealfrancescarossi for the support

Join us this Sunday at 5 pm for the lecture performance Dogmatic Asanas at the Maxim Gorki theatre Berlin. Excerpts from Bodies Bend Backwards A video Installation from a longer research project by @lmrwttch Lea Maria Wittich and Arijit Bhattacharyya Currently on view at @maxim_gorki_theater Edited by @b__swagata Swagata Bhattacharyya, @lmrwttch Lea Maria Wittich and Arijit Bhattacharyya Camera @soumik5044 Soumik Ghosh @khandakarohidastudio Khandakar Ohida @b__swagata Swagata Bhattacharyya @sisumon Mon Sisu Sitrawaha Lea Maria Wittich Arijit Bhattacharyya Colour correction @sabyamohmayahai Sabyasachi Bhattacharjee Sound @shibayanhalder.93 Shibayan Halder @suvojitroy4 Souvojit Roy @mudeebakery Mudassir Sheikh Arijit Bhattacharyya Voice-over @sunfloweronice Adhika Ferdinand Production manager Adhika Ferdinand and Shibayan Halder Subtitles Maitrayee Haldar Found Footage Brandy kv RSS yog Kerala pranth yoga|| Vyayam yog Michaela Merz AfD: Wir sind das Volk - Frankfurt 14.09.2013 Supported by Kulturstiftung des Freistaats Thüringen Kreativfonds der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Ausgleichsfonds der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar ©Lea Maria Wittich Arijit Bhattacharyya 2025

We are more than excited to invite you to the opening of the KIOSK FOR A MAGIC FUTURE by IMAGINARY COLLECTIVE as part of the 7th Berliner Herbstsalon – ЯE:IMAGINE: THE RED HOUSE (October 2 – November 30, 2025, curated by Shermin Langhoff) @maxim_gorki_theater 2.10. / 5 - 11 PM OPENING 3.10. / 6 - 9 PM REUNION-DINNER KIOSK FOR A MAGIC FUTURE is initiated and curated by Danica Dakić, Ina Weise, Lea Wittich and Arijit Bhattacharyya and features works by alumni and former teachers of the MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar @bauhaus_uni With: 
AWOL Collective (Belén Arellano Cañizares, Stefan Ralevic, Giuliana Marmo), Minhee Ahn, Moawya Al Khadra, Nathalia Azuero, Arijit Bhattacharyya, Raisa Bosich, Vanessa Brazeau, Boris Buden, Nicolas Buenaventura, Miguel Buenrostro, Antonije Burić, Natalia Castillo Rincón, Constanza Carvajal & Daniel Theiler & Angelika Waniek, Vienne Chan, Emily Cheung, Isaac Chong Wai, Santiago Contreras Soux, Danica Dakić, Burak Erkil, Adhika Ferdinand, Runze Feng, Katheryn Gohmert & Timm Burkhardt, great artists doing okay (Lena Skrabs & Paloma Sanchez Palencia), Devadeep Gupta, Anke Hannemann, Lucero Hernández Valadez, Camilo Londoño Hernández, Leila Keivan Hosseini, Rand Ibrahim, Jonathan Joosten, Kavachi, Nima Keshtkar, Stefan Klein, Nađa Kračunović, Sujin Lim, Jodie Luk, Vasili Macharadze, Maria Paula Maldonado, Ghida Masri & Hala Masri, Vitor Mattos, Atsuko Mochida, Chya Jamal Mohammed, Maria Obermeier, Víctor del Oral, Mila Panić, Bojana Pejić, Mon Sisu Satrawaha, Pati Sayuri, Nora Spiekermann, Natsumi Sugiyama, Joephy Sze Ting Wong, Saša Tatić, Michael Usling, Farzane Vaziritabar, Claire Waffel, Ina Weise, Jakob Margit Wirth & Zora Hünermann, Lea Maria Wittich See you in the future! Danica Dakić, Ina Weise, Lea Wittich, Arijit Bhattacharyya Visuals: ©Lea Maria Wittich

Taimara Ghati, near Bundu in the outskirts of Ranchi on February 19th Gouache, Watercolour, Colour Pencil and Graphite on Paper

For years, I have followed the careful work of journalist Amtus Stanislaus Kuyili, who has been documenting the lives of those whose bodies have begun to grow plants—lives marked by raids, unlawful detention, and the constant shadow of police violence. One of them is Tarulata Ghosh, a trade unionist from West Bengal. She was taken in what officials called a hygiene raid. Witnesses recall batons, shields, and the shouts of officers as people were forced to the ground. Tarulata was dragged away without charge. Soon after, flowers began to grow from her skin. Her sense of time faltered, memory faded. Isolation followed, then confinement in a state-run facility that called itself medical but felt more like a prison. What happened to her is not isolated. Across the world, this community lives under siege—a waged war of forced labour, closed borders, and the deliberate dismantling of their solidarity networks. They are named dangerous simply for existing. For the past year, I have gathered fragments: paintings, sculptures, testimonies, and the reconstructed footage of Tarulata’s violent interrogation. Together, this archive stands as cultural evidence—records that may outlast the lies told about them. Soon, these fragments will reach Germany in the form of ' A Handful of Truths in the Mouth full of Lies.' Perhaps we will have the courage to look at it together. These pictures were taken by my dear friend @maksud.mondal10 during my residency period at @kuenstlerhof_frohnau in Berlin.

Interview with Arijit Bhattacharyya, winner of the Dieter Ruckhaberle Prize 2024, by @kirstin.rabe Happy to have you here @arijitbh @kuenstlerhof_frohnau #kuenstlerhoffrohnau #arijitbhattacharyya #dieterruckhaberleprize

Whose food is this ?

In the recent years, I have had very personal conversations with the closest people I have in my life about being parent and the loss and grief that one experiences regarding it. I have always circled back to this question, how do we deal with the loss of a child as parent? Are we allowed to be in pain ? Mourning father, from the series, ' A Boka's Dandelions in the plastic jug' (imagined as a sculpture and a play) water colour, graphite, pencil colour and gouache on 50cm * 65cm acid free paper 2025