Artist
Nikhil Vettukattil
Nikhil Vettukattilb. 1990, Bengaluru, India) is an artist and writer who lives and works in Oslo.
He uses a range of media such as sound, installation, performance, text, sculpture, and video, his practice questions modes of representation and image-making processes related to lived experiences. He has previously exhibited at venues such as Kunsthall Oslo (2022), K-U-K, Trondheim (2021), CAPC, Bordeaux (2021), Art Hub Copenhagen (2021), K4 Galleri, Oslo (2021), Louise Dany, Oslo (2020), EKA Gallery, Tallinn (2020), Kristiansand Kunsthall (2020), and Le Bourgeois, London (2019). Forthcoming exhibitions include Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, and the National Museum of Norway, both taking place in June 2022. He is a member of Tenthaus and Carrie's art collectives and a part of Atelier Kunstnerforbundet (2021-2023).
Assorted projects
Assorted projects
Nikhil Vettukattil's interest in images and representation spans several media, including the printing press and its consumption and generation of knowledge, saturation, and new technologies of modeling and scanning reality and writing. In a world governed by efficiency and easy communicability for marketing and selling purposes, he also responds with a collaborative practice by engaging with existing groups and forming new support structures to enhance a different perspective on reality. He brings together constellations of pictures and world conceptions to create a reverberate afterimage. He complicates given perception through sound, recodification, and socially engaged practices binding the work to communities that can provide meaning to the very art-making and unmaking as a critical practice.