{{Short description|Indian multi-media artist}} {{Use Indian English|date=July 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} thumb|Ranbir Kaleka 2012 '''Ranbir Kaleka''' (born 1953) is a contemporary Indian multi-media artist based in New Delhi whose work often centers around themes of animals, sexuality and tradition. Initially trained as a painter, his work has increasingly animated two-dimensional canvases within experimental film narrative sequences, and has been exhibited in a range of major international gallery and museum venues.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Oberhollenzer|first1=Gunther|title=Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art|date=2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Sambrani|first1=Chaitanya|title=Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India|date=2005|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|pages=127–129}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Cotter|first1=Holland|title=Art in Review; Ranbir Kaleka|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/arts/art-in-review-ranbir-kaleka.html|newspaper=New York Times|accessdate=14 June 2017|date=21 October 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Malhotra|first1=Priya|title=Ranbir Kaleka at Bose Pacia|journal=Asian Art News|date=May–June 2008|page=157}}</ref>
In 2007, Dr. Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Senior Judaica curator, Spertus Museum Chicago commissioned Ranbir Kaleka to make a Holocaust memorial. The site-specific video installation is titled "Consider", a title inspired by the poem of the same name by Primo Levi, and arrived at in consultation with Heimann-Jelinek. The installation consists of two projections, a painting and an audio narrative of oral testimony from Auschwitz.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Roy|first1=Tania|editor1-last=Armitage|editor1-first=John|editor2-last=Bishop|editor2-first=Ryan|title=History of the "Mise en Abyme of the Body": Ranbir Kaleka and the "Art of Auschwitz" after Virilio in Virilio and Visual Culture|date=2013|publisher=Edinburg University Press|location=Edinburgh|pages=102–127}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Cohen|editor1-first=Richard|title=Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History|date=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|page=231}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Kaplan|first1=Brett Ashley|title=Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory|date=2010|publisher=Routledge|page=141}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Cohen|first1=Sharon|title=The Arts: A Museum of Great Reflection|url=http://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2008/04/02/arts-museum-great-reflection/|accessdate=4 August 2017|date=2 April 2008}}</ref>
In 2002 Ranbir Kaleka exhibited at the Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria in the exhibition Kapital and Karma: Recent Positions in Indian Art.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hatjecantz.de/kapital-und-karma-1193-1.html?article_id=1193&clang=1|title=Kapital & Karma {{!}} Art since 1945 {{!}} Hatje Cantz|website=www.hatjecantz.de|access-date=2019-11-03}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
Ranbir Kaleka was awarded the National Award by the President of India at the 22nd National Exhibition of Art organised by the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1979 in Delhi.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/story/19800915-i-am-not-a-surrealist-painter-ranbir-singh-kaleka-821411-2014-01-10|title=I am not a surrealist painter: Ranbir Singh Kaleka|first=Aman|last=Nath|date=10 January 2014|website=India Today|language=en|access-date=2022-04-04}}</ref> In 2005 Kaleka showed at the 51st Venice Biennale in the exhibition ‘iCon - India Contemporary’ Co-curated by Julie Evans, Gordon Knox and Peter Nagy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aaa.org.hk/en/collection/search/library/icon-india-contemporary/search/actors:johan-pijnappel/page/1|title=iCon: India Contemporary|last=Archive|first=Asia Art|website=aaa.org.hk|language=en|access-date=2019-11-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.comune.venezia.it/|title=Commemorazione dei defunti e dei Caduti di tutte le guerre e Festa dell'Unità nazionale: il programma delle iniziative|last=|first=|date=|website=www.comune.venezia.it|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-11-03}}</ref> In 2019 he was honored with Punjab Gaurav Sanmaan by Punjab Arts Council and Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/a-moment-in-time-ranbit-kaleka-artist-chandigarh-5608419/|title=A Moment in Time|date=2019-03-03|website=The Indian Express|language=en-IN|access-date=2019-11-03}}</ref>
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