Singh Kulpreet

The Kochi Biennale Foundation is pleased to announce Kulpreet Singh as the recipient of the @hayward.gallery Hayward Gallery/Kochi-Muziris Biennale (HG-KMB) Award. The Award gives a South Asian artist and participant in the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, the opportunity to present their first institutional solo show in the United Kingdom. Singh’s exhibition ‘Indelible Black Marks’ will open at Hayward Gallery’s HENI Project Space on June 16 and run until August 2, 2026. He presents a film installation that explores the urgent link between climate change and agricultural crises. Drawing from his life as a farmer, Singh choreographs the ritual of stubble-burning—setting fire to straw remnants to prepare fields for a new crop cycle. Accompanied by an abstract five-panel painting, created with fire and stubble-ash, the film captures performers hauling large canvases across burning fields to record the exploitation of the land. This presentation is curated by Rachel Thomas, Roden Chief Curator with Ananya Jain, Curatorial Assistant. The exhibition is made possible with the support of RC Foundation, Taiwan (R.O.C.) with additional support provided by the TNQ Foundation, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke and Rachel Verghis, Spare Rib Projects.

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👋🏼 25th Biennale Artist Profile 👀 Kulpreet Singh (India) For Kulpreet Singh, art-making is a way of articulating his relationship to land and his concerns about its ongoing depletion. Inspired by the ecological and cultural histories of Punjab, alongside global traditions of land and environmental art, his multifaceted practice centres the farmers and farmlands of India in the aftermath of the Green Revolution. Working across drawing, painting, sculpture, performance, and film, Singh sees his practice as both social commentary and aesthetic exploration at scale. Within his work, agricultural landscapes become microcosms that reveal the magnitude of the human impact on land. Learn more about the 25th Biennale of Sydney, Rememory, via the link in bio. Image credits: Photograph: Lokesh Dang . Courtesy of the artist. © Lokesh Dang Kulpreet Singh, Indelible Black Marks – I (from the Indelible Black Marks series), 2021–22, laser and letter press ink on rice paper, 60.9 x 48.2 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke © Kulpreet Singh Kulpreet Singh, From the performance "Indelible Black Marks – I" (from the Indelible Black Marks series), 2020–21, letterpress ink on cotton cloth, 7 x 15.84 m. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke. © Kulpreet Singh Kulpreet Singh, From the performance "Indelible Black Marks – I" (from the Indelible Black Marks series), 2020–21, photography. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke. © Kulpreet Singh

The 2026 Asia Arts Future (India) Award recognises Kulpreet Singh (@kulpreet_singh ), whose practice grows out of Punjab’s shifting social and ecological landscape. Working with ash, soot, soil, and stubble, he traces how land absorbs memory, labour, and environmental change, creating works that feel restrained yet charged with lived experience. In this artist film, Ranjana Steinruecke (@ranjana_steinruecke ), Gulammohammed Sheikh (@gulammohammedsheikh ), Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi (@srinivasadityamopidevi ), Birgid Uccia (@acfa_contemporary ), and Ranbir Kaleka (@ranbir_kaleka ) discuss the ways Kulpreet’s material choices, process, and long-term engagement with place shape his evolving body of work. Head to the link in our bio to watch the full video capsule.

Day 1 at the India Art Fair. ‘Extinction Archive’, rooted in Kulpreet Singh’s long engagement with farming, had people slowing down and looking closer. Presented by KNMA and curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, the installation brings extinction into view by placing at-risk animals and plants together in a single, cumulative encounter. We are also delighted to return to IAF as the Official Learning Partner in 2026. Visit the KNMA Learning Space, featuring kNOw School by Anga Art Collective, alongside hands-on, interactive workshops and participatory engagements. A space to pause, make, and think alongside the art. 🎟️ Don't miss the opportunity to see this in person! Book your tickets via the official IAF website. 🗓️ 5–8 February 2026 📍 NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla 🔗 Register for our Learning Space workshops. Link in bio. #KNMA #IndiaArtFair #IAF2026 #ExtinctionArchive #KulpreetSingh

My choice for @artreview_magazine Future Greats. Read excerpts from our 2 hour interview (link in bio). Deeply grateful for the opportunity to be in conversation with Kulpreet. Here also an excerpt from his installation which I filmed @kochibiennale Kulpreet Singh’s multifaceted practice (painting, sculpture, performative collaboration and film) foregrounds issues around land and ecology, through the lens of farming, which is his main occupation in his home-state of Punjab. In his film Indelible Black Marks, Singh stages a large-scale performance by repurposing the annual stubble-burning ritual. Inviting his friends and peers, he orchestrated an engagement of dragging massive canvases across the burning fields, resonating with traditional plowing. Moving amid the stubble also recalls the threshold of temperatures the world will soon cross.

For Kulpreet Singh, farming is not a backdrop to art, but its foundation. A visual artist based out of Patiala, Punjab, Kulpreet’s practice is shaped by long-term engagement with farming and agricultural landscapes. At India Art Fair 2026, KNMA presents ‘Extinction Archive’ – an ongoing body of work by Singh, curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, that brings extinction out of abstraction, and into view. Spanning more than 900 endangered species, the installation documents animals and plant life at risk, rendering visible the scale and accumulation of what is disappearing. Watch the full video on YouTube to hear Kulpreet Singh reflect on the ideas and processes behind ‘Extinction Archive’. Link in bio. 🗓️ 5–8 February 2026 📍 NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla #KNMA #IndiaArtFair #IAF2026 #ExtinctionArchive #KulpreetSingh

In Meera Menezes latest Dispatch From Kochi she features Kulpreet Singh. Singh’s project ‘Indelible Black Marks’ works with a broad range of collaborators and materials to consider the ecological and labour costs of Punjab farming practices. Singh’s work is a processual inquiry working with farmers who burn back crop stubble to ask fundamental questions about sustenance, land and sustainability. Read more about Singh’s multi part project on artandaustralia.com [Images] Kulpreet Singh, ‘Indelible Black Marks’, 2022-ongoing. #ArtAndAustralia #KulpreetSingh #KochiMuzirisBiennale #EnvironmentalArt #ArtAndEcology #ContemporaryArt

Extinction is not a future concern. It is a present reality. This February, KNMA returns to the India Art Fair 2026 with 'Extinction Archive', a compelling presentation by Punjab-based visual artist Kulpreet Singh, and curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi (Curator, KNMA). 'Extinction Archive' confronts ecological loss and distress, refusing to let extinction remain a statistic. By placing this work at the India Art Fair, KNMA invites a pause to witness what is vanishing. 🗓️ 05 Feb to 08 Feb 📍 NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla Book your tickets via the official India Art Fair website. Link in bio. #KNMA #IndiaArtFair2026 #ExtinctionArchive #KulpreetSingh

There are moments when we find ourselves searching for the right word. We speak of extinction, but do we truly know what it looks like? KNMA returns to the India Art Fair 2026, with the 'Extinction Archive' – a contemplative visual chronicle to an environment in decline, marking what is disappearing before absence becomes the only evidence left. Created by visual artist Kulpreet Singh and curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi (Curator, KNMA), 'Extinction Archive' asks a simple but unsettling question: will you look away, or will you bear witness? Experience the scale of loss, with over 900 endangered species brought into focus. Stay tuned for updates. 🗓️ 05 Feb to 08 Feb 📍 NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla #KNMA #IndiaArtFair #ExtinctionArchive #KulpreetSingh #ArtExhibition

Smoke, silence, and survival. Kulpreet Singh’s paintings and a film from his larger project, ‘Indelible Black Marks’ (2022-ongoing), traces the dissonance of stubble burning in Punjab, where farmers are caught between vanishing support systems and relentless over-mechanisation. On view at the KMB main exhibition, Anand Warehouse, Mattancherry. Step in. See it for yourself. #KochiMuzirisBiennale #KochiBiennaleFoundation #ForTheTimeBeing #NikhilChopra #KMB2025

Kulpreet Singh’s (@kulpreet_singh ) practice is born out of Punjab’s shifting social and ecological landscape. His work begins outside the studio - in fields after harvest, in places shaped by labour, in the everyday pressures of rural life. These observations move straight into his materials: ash, soot, soil, and stubble become markers of what the land has carried. His pieces aren’t loud; they hold a steady, lived-in weight that makes you slow down and feel the tension between what’s present, what’s fading, and what’s been quietly stored in the earth. The 2026 Asia Arts Future India Award recognises this grounded, attentive way of working. Through projects like Indelible Black Marks and Fossils of Force, Kulpreet shows how material can hold memory without explanation or spectacle. His work has been shown across India in spaces that foreground research and process, and what stands out is the honesty of his approach; he observes, records, and lets the environment speak for itself. Swipe through for a glimpse of his evolving practice and the questions that continue to shape it. #AAGCA26 #AAGCAat10