“How can I put it? I’m endlessly obsessed with the question of the interior… Of course I was in psychoanalysis for 20 years, so some of this stuff did come up.”
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Anish Kapoor
Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor is a British Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the United Kingdom to begin his art training at Hornsey College of Art and, later, Chelsea School of Art and Design.
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Born 12 March 1954 · Q327293
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If I have an ambition it is to reach well beyond the art world and do something in India which will have a much, much bigger public. But most exhibitions are not free. So what do you do? Do you let street people in? My argument is that you let them in. But success is hard to manage in the sense that the works are fragile.
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2026· 6 entries
“If I have an ambition it is to reach well beyond the art world and do something in India which will have a much, much bigger public. But most exhibitions are not free. So what do you do? Do you let street people in? My argument is that you let them in. But success is hard to manage in the sense that the works are fragile.”
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Secret London: Secret London’s Guide To The Hayward Gallery Lates: Anish Kapoor
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Public attention spiked: 2,804 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 812, with 7 article edits. Editors noted: Corrected spelling mistake in career section
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Public attention spiked: 3,529 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.3× the usual 812, with 1 article edits.
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The Hayward Gallery, London, will exhibit Anish Kapoor featuring works from Kapoor’s five decade career
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2025· 3 entries
Hyperallergic: Jewish Museum Reopens With Rare Works by Anish Kapoor
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The Jewish Museum, New York, hosted, 'Anish Kapoor: Early Works’ showing his pigment sculptures from the 1970 and 1980s
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2024· 2 entries
Awarded Wilhelm Lehmbruck Award (2024).
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Liverpool Cathedral hosted an exhibition of Kapoor's work, entitled Monadic Singularity, to mark its 100th anniversary
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2023· 1 entry
Kapoor married Oumaima Boumoussaoui
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2020· 2 entries
Forbes: Anish Kapoor’s Largest Outdoor Sculpture Show Includes New Work Plus Famous Sky Mirror
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Kapoor unveiled a new exhibition at the grounds of Houghton Hall in Norfolk
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2018· 1 entry
And in early 2021, the Venice city council approved construction plans for the foundation to convert the palazzo into an exhibition venue, artist studio and repository for a number of the artist's works from the foundati
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2017· 1 entry
Kapoor designed the statuette for the 2018 Brit Awards
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2016· 5 entries
Observer: Anish Kapoor Talks Void Forms and Vag
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Awarded LennonOno Grant for Peace (2016).
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Artnet: Anish Kapoor Angers Artists by Seizing Exclusive Rights to ‘Blackest Black’ Pigment
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His art exposition in MUAC (Mexico City) was a success, with literary contributions from Catherine Lampert, Cecilia Delgado, and Mexican writer Pablo Soler Frost
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Was a recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace
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2015· 2 entries
Architectural Digest: Recent works by British artist Anish Kapoor are on view at a compelling new show
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Was a topic of controversy due to its "blatantly sexual" nature
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2014· 3 entries
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford (2014).
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And the 2017 Genesis Prize for "being one of the most influential and innovative artists of his generation and for his many years of advocacy for refugees and displaced people"
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Kapoor began working with Vantablack, which was thought to be one of the least reflective known substances
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2013· 1 entry
Anish Kapoor in Istanbul, curated by Norman Rosenthal and presented at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum from 10 September 2013 to 2 February 2014, became Kapoor’s first major exhibition in Turkey and the first devoted specifical
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Padma Bhushan (2012).
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2011· 4 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2011).
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Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2011).
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Kapoor exhibited Dirty Corner at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan
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Kapoor had a solo touring exhibition with the Arts Council, part of their "Flashback " series of shows
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2010· 3 entries
Turning the World Upside Down, Jerusalem was commissioned and installed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem
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As part of the show Turning the World Upside Down, along with three other major mirror works
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Kapoor retrospective exhibitions were held at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in New Delhi and Mumbai's Mehboob Studio, the first showcase of his work in the country of his birth
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2009· 3 entries
Kapoor purchased a 14,500 sq ft (1,350 m2) Georgian-style residence at Lincoln's Inn Fields for about £3
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Kapoor created the permanent, site-specific work Earth Cinema for Pollino National Park, the largest national park in Italy, as part of the project ArtePollino – Another South
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Kapoor became the first Guest Artistic Director of Brighton Festival
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2008· 2 entries
The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston held the first U
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Kapoor created Memory in Berlin and New York for the Guggenheim Foundation, his first piece in Cor-Ten, which is formulated to produce a protective coating of rust
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2007· 1 entry
Showed Svayambh (which translated from Sanskrit means "self-generated"), a 1
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2006· 2 entries
And Kensington Gardens in London in 2010; Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough; Leviathan, at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011; and ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park an
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And 2020, page 122-133) ISBN 9781913947590 OCLC 1420954826
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2004· 1 entry
Participated in The 5th Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, Korea
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2003).
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2001· 1 entry
Sky Mirror, a large mirror piece that reflects the sky and surroundings, was commissioned for a site outside the Nottingham Playhouse
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2000· 1 entry
One of Kapoor's works, Parabolic Waters, consisting of rapidly rotating coloured water, was shown outside the Millennium Dome in London
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1995· 1 entry
Kapoor married German-born medieval art historian Susanne Spicale
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1994· 2 entries
Studied at European Ceramics Work Center (1994–1994).
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“Architects have always hoped to find a way to skip that stage between design and finished building.”
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1992· 1 entry
Kapoor contributed to documenta IX with Building Descent into Limbo
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Turner Prize (1991).
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1990· 1 entry
The Turner Prize in 1991, the Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government in 2012, a knighthood in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to visual arts, an honorar
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1979· 1 entry
And, in 1982, was Artist in Residence at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
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1973· 1 entry
Left for Britain to attend Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art and Design
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1971· 1 entry
Moved to Israel with one of his two brothers, initially living on a kibbutz
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-03-12.
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