The gallery launched Generator, a cooperative art production fund. Extraordinary times call for new thinking," says Priyanka Raja, director of Kolkata’s Experimenter gallery.
On Wednesday, the gallery launched Generator, a cooperative art production fund. While the modest fund has been set up to award micro-bursaries $500-2,000 ( ₹38,000-151,400) to keep art production going, its terms are highly impressive.
There are no limits on age, nationality, location or medium and Experimenter’s own artists are debarred from entering (“They have us," says Priyanka).
Grantees will be selected by a jury comprising artists and a gallery directors. Priyanka and her husband, Prateek Raja, co-directors of the gallery, tell me they had been toying with