Nikhil Vettukattil ^(IND)

Nikhil Vettukattil (b. 1990, Bengaluru, India), artist and writer who lives and works in Oslo. Using a range of media such as sound, installation, performance, text, sculpture, and video, his practice questions modes of representation and image-making processes in their relation to lived experiences.

He has previously exhibited at venues such as FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna (2023), Kunsthall Oslo (2022), Nasjonalmuseet, 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). He is a member of the art collectives Tenthaus and Carrie, as well as a part of Atelier Kunstnerforbundet and the Institute for Scene Experiments. As part of Tenthaus he is a co-curator of the MOMENTUM 12 Biennale.  

For the NAARCA commission he is working on a project around lifestyles and food, specifically in relation to the ‘Nordic diet’ and the trade of food in the High North. The project aims to raise questions of class, culture, and health in the transition to an ecologically viable nutritional model.