HARSHA DURUGADDA HARSHA DURUGADDA

Come say hello and find “Whorl,” my most recent piece, at the @emami_art booth F03 at the India Art Fair.
VIP Preview: 1st to 3rd February | Public Hours: 3rd to 4th February | Venue: NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla, New Delhi – 110020, India. 

It also features the work of Harsha Durugadda, a multidisciplinary artist based in India. He received The Arts Family Emerging Artist Award in 2023 for South Asia and won the Rio Tinto Sculpture Award 2017 at Sculpture by the Sea, Australia. He's known for having worked with Burning Man and the sculptures at the Bangalore airport. (Source: RMZ Foundation)
It also features the work of Harsha Durugadda, a multidisciplinary artist based in India. He received The Arts Family Emerging Artist Award in 2023 for South Asia and won the Rio Tinto Sculpture Award 2017 at Sculpture by the Sea, Australia. He’s known for having worked with Burning Man and the sculptures at the Bangalore airport. (Source: RMZ Foundation) Link: https://indianexpress.com/photos/lifestyle-gallery/art-mumbais-sculpture-garden-rmz-foundation-harsha-durugadda/4/

An interactive 3D Scene of Brood at Marks Park, Bondi as part of Sculpture by the Sea , Sydney Australia


HarshaDurugadda with Brood SxSBondi2023

Harsha Durugadda, BroodSculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2023. Photo Charlotte Van Peteghem | Read more


‘Piercing the Mountain’ & ‘Coiled Love’ are permanently displayed in Hyderabad, India. Collection of HMDA


Mirage is now installed permanently at the Bangalore Airport Terminal 2.
https://www.architecturaldigest.in/story/bengalurus-kempegowda-international-airport-t2-is-a-terminal-in-a-garden/


Sweeping Horse, Wood & Plastic (Kinetic Work) 2023 | Things are vanishing before us | 16 Sep – 24 Sep, 2023 at Bikaner house, Delhi | A Survey Exhibition | https://gallerydotwalk.com/events-view?id=21/Things-are-vanishing-before-us


Brood is going to be part of Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi  |  20 October – 6 November 2023  | https://sculpturebythesea.com/bondi/artists-and-awards/exhibiting-artists/


Happy to announce that I have recieved the TAF EMERGING ARTIST AWARD SOUTH ASIA 2023

More details on https://www.theartsfamily.com/


The studio has been featured in the The Studio Image Project.

Material Matters, 2022 | 22.08.2022

The group exhibition was part of Delhi Art Week, 2022.

For more information on the exhibition follow the link: https://www.artsy.net/article/delhi-art-week-delhi-art-week-2022-times-india

Announcing a new collaboration with ManuelZoia Gallery based in Milan, Italy


Yuga exhibited during the India Art Fair, 2022

I am pleased to announce my participation in the India Art Fair 2022 with APRE Art House.

28.04.2022 – 01.05.2022

BOOTH F8 | APRE ART HOUSE

NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla, New Delhi, 110020, INDIA

Time Lapse
Curated by Lina Vincent

For more information on the exhibition follow the link: https://indiaartfair.in/

22.02.2019


https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/contemporary-art-2/conversation

https://artservice.auroville.org/artist-in-residency-harsha-duggudu-from-november-1st-at-centre-dart/

At Bikaner Balk at Harsha Durugadda’s wooden sculptures

writes Uma Nair // Read more at https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/plumage/at-bikaner-balk-at-harsha-durugaddas-wooden-sculptures/

TRANSIT

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

7 – 17 OCTOBER 2021

Curated by Lina Vincent

Venue: Bikaner House

Dates: 7th October (Preview 12 noon – 7pm)

Until 17th October (10 am – 6pm)

Poetry collab. – Ajinkya Shenava | Poetly

Read more https://www.aprearthouse.com/exhibitions/

I’m delighted to announce that my art will be on auction in Boundless Space: The Possibilities of Burning Man, an online charitable auction co-produced by Sotheby’s and Burning Man Project. Art will be added on a rolling basis throughout September. Bidding opens Thursday, September 30, and closes on Friday, October 8. View the catalog here: 

https://www.sothebys.com/en/digital-catalogues/boundless-space-the-possibilities-of-burning-man #boundlessspace #BoundlessBurningMan #BurningManXSothebys 

Harsha Durugadda in his sculpture studio
Harsha Durugadda at his newly built sculpture studio – Hyderabad , INDIA

Harsha Durugadda

11 Contemporary Indian Installation Artists, You Should Know- Homegrown

15.03.2021

Harsha Durugadda Press Clipping from Indian Express
Press Clipping from Indian Express
01.03.2021

Nimbus, Sculpture
Nimbus, Sculpture

Soil | Performance | 2019

Conversation, 2019
Solo Show

‘Conversation’, Jujiflora Wood and tyre, 2019



“Selfish-Love” is inspired by Hasidic Rabbi Twerski’s words on the difference between true love is one of giving as opposed to selfish love which only receives. “Love” has all but lost its meaning in our culture. Watch the video on youtube: https://youtu.be/uURgFUqGX9Y

22.06.2019

“Selfish- Love” was awarded the Biafarin Award along with 10 young artists at NordArt 2018. For the selection of 10 artists, NordArt audience votes were also considered.

Since 1999 the NordArt has established itself as one of the largest exhibitions of contemporary art in Europe which takes place annually in the summer months. The NordArt is an overall work of art in its own right and is designed as such each year. More than 200 international artists, selected by a jury, present a comprehensive panorama of contemporary art. Each individual work not only speaks for itself but also creates new perspectives when seen juxtaposed against the unique backdrop offered by the Carlshütte and the adjacent historical sculpture park.

Award Information: https://www.nordart.de/en/nordart-preis.html

12.09.2018

SculpturebytheSea, Cottesloe 2018

Staged on the spectacular Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi is one of Sydney’s most popular events, with 500,000 visitors viewing over 100 sculptures by artists from around the world. Held since 1997, this free to the public exhibition captures the imagination of Sydney and its visitors for three weeks each spring and is the largest annual sculpture exhibition in the world. The exhibition generates an almost unprecedented level of goodwill among the public as they enjoy one of the most unique events in the world.

For more information on the exhibition follow the link: https://sculpturebythesea.com

22.02.2019

Taking place late August, the Cottesloe 2017 Rio Tinto Sculpture Award acquisitive prize was installed in Busselton, Western Australia. An opening ceremony was officially opened by Rio Tinto CEO Chris Salisbury, welcoming the Column of Sound, by Harsha Vardhan Durugadda for permanent placement.

Formally gifted to the City of Busselton – Local Government, the sculpture was re-interpreted to reflect the sounds of Busselton via a frequency of a sound recording taken at Busselton by the artist. The second instalment of this prize from Cottesloe Principal Partner Rio Tinto, the Column of Sound sculpture joins the Dale Miles, Parallel Thinking sculpture located nearby which was the recipient of the award during Cottesloe 2016.

Read more on this website: https://sculpturebythesea.com/exhibitions/busselton-collection/rio-tinto-placement-column-sound-busselton/

01.08.2017

The $50,000 Rio Tinto Sculpture Award has been awarded to Harsha Vardhan Durugadda of India for his work ‘Column of Sound’ at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe (pictured).

The award was announced by Chris Salisbury, chief executive Rio Tinto Iron Ore at the opening of Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe.

Rio Tinto, our Principal Partner, is gifting ‘Column of Sound’ for permanent public placement to the City of Busselton.

Durugadda says of his work, “‘Column of Sound is based on the visual dynamics of an audio wave. Sound – temporal and ephemeral – translated to tactile and eternal. A paradigm shift of our sensory experience.”

This is Durugadda’s first Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe exhibition, having received the Andrea Stretton Memorial Invitation from Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2016.

Founding Director of Sculpture by the Sea, David Handley, AM said, “This is a wonderful work by a fabulous and imaginative artist. It is exceptionally hard and adventurous for an artist to exhibit from overseas, with the added costs and logistics, so I am delighted for Harsha and look forward to him exhibiting many times in the future. He is also a very nice bloke and this award will be a major step in what I believe will be a great career.”

The Rio Tinto Sculpture Award was selected by a judging panel of leading figures in the visual arts:

  • Dr. Stefano Carboni- Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia;
  • Geoffrey Edwards- Former Director, Geelong Gallery, Victoria and former Senior Curator of Sculpture, National Gallery of Victoria; and
  • Dr. Nien Schwarz- Artist & Senior Lecturer, School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University.

Chris Salisbury, Chief Executive of Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore group said, “Rio Tinto is pleased to continue our support of Sculpture by the Sea in 2017, a partnership we embarked on last year, in our 50th anniversary year of shipping iron ore from the Pilbara. Such events like Sculpture by the Sea play an important role in creating a sense of place and encouraging social participation.

Congratulations to Harsha Vardhan Durugadda for receiving the Rio Tinto Sculpture Award for your thought provoking sculpture ‘Column of Sound’.

Durugadda was born in Andhra Pradesh, India and lives in New Delhi. Join us in extending congratulations to the artist.


A time-lapse video showing the fabrication process of my latest large-scale sculpture titled Ignite.


‘Whirling Out’, Harsha vardhan’s debut solo show brought together a body of works incorporating diverse media such as sculpture, video, performance and installations. He believes his work is about the other and even personal history is somehow very peripheral to him. Harsha tries to shift the focus from the individual, particularly the artist himself towards the other; plainly spinning out.

04.01.2016