Arijit Bhattacharyya

As the recipient of the Ruckhaberle Award 2024, Arijit Bhattacharyya spent the period from May to July 2025 at Künstlerhof Frohnau. Born in Bally, West Bengal, Arijit now lives in Weimar, Thuringia. His practice brings together installation, textile art, drawing, painting, film, performance, and culinary practices.

His works investigate historical narratives, ecological entanglements, and power structures, while questioning anthropocentric paradigms and proposing alternative, resistant systems. He unsettles established power relations and, through collective collaboration, creates spaces for critical reflection and dialogue that illuminate the hegemonic and capitalist formations of global reality. Arijit is a graduate of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Maharaja Sayaji Rao University of Baroda.