Born in 1980, T. Venkanna’s powerful and virulent imagery, together with his prodigious output, has gained him the reputation of being his generation’s most exciting, versatile, and unconventional artists. He holds a Masters in Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Printmaking from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda and Bachelors in Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Painting from J.N.T.U, Hyderabad where he was awarded a Gold medal. His works are in major collections in India, Japan, Russia, Netherlands, France, USA, UK, including the Burger Collection, Switzerland, the Swagemakers collection, Netherlands, the Karen and Robert Duncan Collection, USA , The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, India, amongst several others.
Yassine Balbzioui is a Moroccan multidisciplinary visual artist born in 1972. He graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Casablanca and Bordeaux. Primarily a painter and drawer, Yassine Balbzioui has developed, in a neo-expressionist vein, a body of work characterized by great formal and semantic richness. His pieces often feature the representation of human animality, typically depicted through masks, intersecting with themes of derision, idiocy, and the grotesque. Additionally, the artist spent 12 weeks in an art residency at the Kalhath Institute, further enriching his artistic exploration and cultural exchange.
July Ancel is a French painter born in 1984 in Nice, who now lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2010. July’s paintings are mainly composed of overlays. She moves back and forth on the canvas, reworking the background and figures, covering them with a new background, and continuing this process until the work takes shape; July approaches her paintings as ritual spaces. Her compositions are based on general intuitions, daily observations, and combinations of thoughts. The material of her reflections can vary, and her subjects are arbitrary: myths, stories, popular images, images borrowed from art history, sacred symbols... July Ancel questions the notions of identity, memory, and collectivity through her travels across continents. Furthermore, her artistic journey was augmented by a 16-week residency at the Kalhath Institute, which deepened her exploration and cultural exchange.