Kakar ART | Blog
Katharina Kakar | Visuals
"An unashamed sensual sculptural language."
Chris Dercon, Tate Modern, London, 2015
Videos
"I loved the video…found it humorous and touching. I showed it to the people in my office and they could not stop laughing."
Roger Ballen, photo artist, Johannesburg
about the video "Ella Talking Art", 2016
Installations & Sculptures
 Untitled, 2014copper, dried fish, condoms 74 x 35 x 35 cm |  Crossing the Lakshmana Rekha, 2015wax body parts, rose pedals circle, 3 meters in diameter |  Screw You, 2015wax heads, copper nails private collections in New Delhi, Oslo, New York, Hamburg, Teheran, Kanha Museum of Art |
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 Hung Out to Dry, 2015plastic, traces of wax and pigment, stainless steel frame, 140 x 68 x 68 cm |  Between Going and Staying, 2015Series of 5 pillars, chilli balls copper, dried chillies, oil paint, lacquer 1,50 x 2,50 m |  Kama Interrupted, 2015three iron tables, Kamasutra books, copper items, paint, digital picture frame 100 x 170 x 40 cm |
 The Power to Create, 2015bronze coconuts, bronze pomegranate, bronze fish |  Saptamatrika, 2015Series of seven, fiberglass, copper, burned clay |  Shringara – Fragments, 2015plastic stripes with printed texts fragments and pictures 300 cm x 250 cm |
 Goddesspainted pillar, wax hands |  Migrating Beast, 2018bronze sculpture |  Circling the Universe, 2015bronze figures, brass head on pedestal 50 x 50 x 75 cm courtesy of Kanha Museum of Art, Madhya Pradesh |
 Connected, 2015fiberglass figures, plastic tubes on pedestal 50 x 50 x 75 cm |  December 16, 2012 (2015)old wooden item from a traditional metal workshop, eaten by white ants, copper rod 123 x 53 cm |  GoddessFound iron objects, 2013 |
 GoddessFound iron objects, 2013 |
"Kakar’s works are cheerful, provocative, sexy and scary at the same time."
Dr. Britta Schmitz, Chief Curator, National Gallery
in Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, 2015
photo credit: Rohit Chawla
Wall Hangings
 Body Lines - Pain, 2018mixed media 1m x 50cm, box |  Unheard, 2015copper, wax, LED-lights, wooden frame 66 x 12 x 36 cm |  Body Lines - Inside My Veins, 2018mixed media, 1m x 50cm, box |
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 Body Lines - Inside My Veins, 2018detail |  Untitled (Ocean), 2015series of five copper, patina 1,20 m in diameter, private collection, Goa |  Memory of the Future, 2015wax skulls, pigments, 70 x 70 cm |
 Desire, 2015series of five 50 x 50 cm private collection, New Delhi / Kanha Museum of Art |  Shakti Pith, 2014Series of 15, copper, patina, acrylic paint private collection, New Delhi / Waterfront Resort, Goa |  Untitled, 2013chilies, turmeric, paint on wood, 70 x 68 cm |
 UntitledThree panels, copper, pepper on wood, led lights, 2,50 m x 4 m, Waterfront Resort, Goa |  Untitled, 2015copper, patina, horse hair 50 x 50 cm private collection, Oslo/Norway |
“Empathically explores the issue of feminine space as a territory shifting between the continuously assailed social space and the domestic patriarchal one.”
Dr. Jyothindra Jain,
Indian Art and Culture Historian, New Delhi
Drawings
This series of drawings are inspired by the Indian concept of shringana. The drawings deal with women’s sensuality and sexual desires.
All my ink drawings are based on motifs from Indian miniatures, at times combined with old Indian love poetry. I developed my own style or “handwriting” in an unknown language by creating patterns that are repeated in different ways.
 Untitled, 2014Private collection, New Delhi |  Untitled, 2014ink on paper, courtesy of artist |  Desire, 2014ink on paper, courtesy of artist |
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 Morning Bath, 2014ink on paper, 53 x 62 cm, private collector, Latvia |  Ganesha, 2014ink on paper, private collection, New Delhi |  Woman and Child, 2015ink on paper, courtesy of artist |
 Women and Flower, 2014ink on paper, private collection, New Delhi |  Ganesha, 2014private collection, courtesy of artist |  Ganesha, 2014private collection, New Delhi |