ALI AKBAR MEHTA
ALI AKBAR MEHTA
Ali Akbar Mehta
Ali Akbar Mehta (b.1983, Mumbai) is a Transmedia artist, curator, researcher, and writer. He examines narratives drawn from zones of conflict and dominant power structures, creating immersive, interactive archival projects. His doctoral research at Aalto University investigates (infra)structural and performative relations between online archives and their users.
His work as performances, installations, talks, and curatorial interventions have been recognised by Helsinki Biennale 2023, documenta fifteen, Tampere Art Museum, Taide Museo ARTSI, Gallen-Kallela Museum, Ainola Museum, Visavuori Museum, Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum, Venice Biennale Research Pavilion, Mänttä Art Festival, ONOMA Summer Exhibition, Galleria Saskia, Myymälä2, Third Space, TAO Art Gallery, Art Heritage, Galerie Mirchandani+Steinruecke, among others.
His work has received grants from the Kone Foundation, Arts Promotion Center Finland, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, and Helsinki City.
He was a co-curatorial Helsinki Biennale 2023: New Directions May Emerge. He is a co-founder of the Museum of Impossible Forms and was its co-artistic director from August 2018 to December 2020. He is currently a research fellow with the Center for Arts Design and Social Research and has held positions of accountability in several artist-led associations and institutional spaces in Helsinki. He holds an MA in ‘Visual Cultures, Curating, and Contemporary Art’, from Aalto University, Helsinki, and a BFA from Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai.