The Jury for the prestigious Škoda Prize

A Trustee of the not-for-profit Shiv Nadar Foundation, Kiran started her career as an advertising, communications & brand professional. She is an international competitive bridge player and an avid art collector. The latest mantle Kiran has donned is that of the Chairperson of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA).

Almost immediately acknowledged as a ‘hero of philanthropy’ by Forbes Asia Magazine in 2010 for launching India’s first philanthropic private museum of Art, she today looks at her roles at KNMA and the Shiv Nadar Foundation as most vital of all her interests.

An autonomous, artists’ led registered society aimed at promoting intercultural understanding through experimentation and exchange. It is possibly the only such public organization for experimental contemporary art in India. In New Delhi, she has developed a radical space for alternative art practice at the KHOJ studios, which runs workshops, international residency programs and diverse projects. She was the Curator of the Apeejay Media Gallery, the first and only dedicated new media gallery in India from 2002-2008.

He is one of India’s leading artists, and has worked extensively within and outside the art space to promote freedom of expression, to battle communalism and to extend democratic rights. Vivan Sundaram was educated at The Doon School, the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, and at Slade School of London. In London he met the legendary British-American painter R. B. Kitaj, under whom he was trained for some time. Sundaram works in many different media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation and video
art, and his work is politically conscious and highly inter-textual in nature.

Heike Munder is the director and curator of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich and has held the post for the last ten years. She is the founder member of Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, founded in 1995 and was its co-director up to the year 2001. She is also the co-founder of SEECAN, Southeast-European Organization and European organization Art Centres of Europe. Munder has been actively curating art shows whose concerns revolve around psychological spaces and collective memory, hedonistic and glamorous strategies, performative strategies and conceptual humor.

(Information courtesy: The Škoda Art)