Where The Sky Meets The Earth
- Ceramic Exhibition
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Where the Sky Meets the Earth brings together sculptural ceramics that explore the relationship between the elemental and the imagined, the tangible and the intangible. Rooted in the earth and transformed through the interplay of water, air and fire, clay becomes a medium for expressing landscape, memory, nature and transformation. Through form, texture and surface, the artists evoke a dialogue between solidity and lightness, permanence and change, the terrestrial and the celestial. The exhibition invites viewers to look beyond ceramics as an object of craft and discover its potential as a sculptural language that conveys emotion, imagination and the elemental forces that connect all life.
Featuring
Aarti Manik
Bipasha Sen Gupta
Nimmy Joshi
Partha Dasgupta
Shayonti Salvi
Thomas Louis
Verodina Ferrao De Souza
Curated by Kristine Michael
Aarti Manik
Pondicherry
Having started her career as a professional photographer, Aarti Manik turned to clay in 2012 at Dharavi where she learnt from Hanif Galwani, a seventh-generation master potter. In 2014, she quit photography to pursue a career in ceramics by joining Golden Bridge Pottery (GBP), a studio established in Pondicherry by Deborah Smith and Ray Meeker in 1971. From 2016, she has worked in the UK, USA and Pondicherry and received the Multicultural Award at NCECA in 2019.
Bipasha Sen Gupta
Goa
Bipasha Sen Gupta is an alumna of MSU Baroda and her artistic journey has evolved from a career as a corporate lifestyle trainer to a passionate exploration of diverse mediums. She started with acrylics and tea stains, gradually finding her true calling in clay. Studying ceramics at the Delhi Blue Pottery Trust deepened her understanding of form, texture and fire. Over the past 15 years, this creative path has shaped her identity as an artist and teacher. Her works have been showcased in numerous national and international exhibitions and are part of several corporate and personal collections. Now, she runs her studio in Saligao, Goa, where she teaches, hosts workshops and organises the annual Potters Fest, celebrating creativity, community and the timeless art of clay.
Nimmy Joshi
Goa
Nimmy Joshi graduated with a Bachelor’s in Architecture from the Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology(VNIT), Nagpur. She runs an independent studio in Ucassaim, Goa. Since 2016, her ceramics practice has included teaching, making and selling miniatures and tableware She undertakes commissioned work and has participated in exhibitions of her ceramic work at galleries, cultural centres and festivals in Goa, Mumbai and Bangalore.
Partha Dasgupta
Kolkata
Partha Dasgupta has a BVA from the Government Art College, Kolkata and an MFA in Ceramics from Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. His base in Kolkata provides an opportunity to explore an interest in installations and space design during the annual Durga Puja celebrations. He has collaborated with American artists and experimented with ceramic refractory props and 3D street paintings. Partha has participated in art camps in Bahrain and Korea, held solo exhibitions and participated in major art events. A recipient of several research fellowships and grants from the Ministry of Culture and the Lalit Kala Akademi, he also works with Indian tribal communities. He was recently awarded the NDTV Masterstroke Art Award for Public Art Installation of the Year.
Shayonti Salvi
Mumbai
While studying Interior Design, Shayonti found that ceramics was a medium she was drawn to. In 2013, she trained at The Golden Bridge Pottery, Pondicherry, under Ray Meeker, Deborah Smith and Cory Brown, having previously completed her Diploma in Ceramics at the L.S. Raheja School of Art, Bombay.Her professional endeavours have allowed her to explore various mediums of art pivoting around clay. She has executed public art installations, commissioned installations and been part of numerous Indian and International shows as a ceramic sculptor and has been a recipient of various awards within this sphere. The past decade has seen her study Art, Curation, Aesthetics, Ecology and Earth Architecture.
Thomas Louis
Goa
Thomas Louis studied Ceramic Design at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad between 1996 and 2001. Ever since, he set up studios around India (Bangalore, Bombay, Pune), before finally settling in Goa where he has been working for the last 10 years. Over the course of the past 24 years as a practising potter, Thomas has done projects with museums, restaurants, hotels and private residences. He has worked extensively with the traditional potters in Kutch, Meghalaya, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Goa. He has exhibited in galleries across India - The Cube Gallery, Goa; Piramal Art Gallery, Bombay; Terrafirma, Delhi - to name a few. Thomas also teaches various courses in NID, Ahmedabad and at his studio in Goa. He recently opened his gallery ‘Thomas the Potter’ in Panjim, Goa where his ceramics, drawings and other weird objects that he conjures up are on display. In between studio practice, teaching, industry projects and the craft sector, his fingers are in the dirt all the time.
Verodina Ferrao De Souza
Goa
Verodina Ferrao De Souza graduated in Fine Arts, Painting from the Goa College of Art. She was awarded the Lalit Kala award in 1999 and the State awards in1993, 1999, 2002, 2006 as well as the National Merit certificate in 1991, 1995, 1999. Her work has been widely exhibited in Goa, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Portugal and the USA over a career that spans 40 years. She now works with her daughter Nadia in her studio in Mapusa, Goa.
Where the Sky Meets the Earth brings together sculptural ceramics that explore the meeting point between the elemental and the imagined, where earth-bound material reaches towards the vastness of the sky. Ceramics, born from the earth, become a vehicle for contemplating landscape, memory, nature and transformation. Through the language of three-dimensional form, clay becomes a medium for expressing the meeting of earth and sky, nature and imagination, materiality and spirit.
The works move between solidity and lightness, permanence and change, reflecting the continuous dialogue between the grounded and the infinite. Through form, texture, surface and firing, artists evoke landscape and organic growth as well as states of being. Ceramics becomes particularly evocative within this theme: earth is shaped by the hand, transformed by fire and marked by the unpredictable forces of heat, atmosphere and time. Each sculpture therefore carries within it a meeting of elements—earth, water, air and fire.
The exhibition is ultimately a space of transition: a threshold where the tangible meets the intangible, the terrestrial opens into the celestial and the physical world becomes a metaphor for imagination, aspiration and connection. Together, the works invite viewers to consider ceramics not simply as an object of craft, but as a sculptural language capable of conveying memory, emotion, landscape and the elemental forces that connect all life.
- Kristine Michael
Kristine Michael
New Delhi
Kristine Michael is a ceramic artist, art educator, ceramic art historian, curator and Co-editor of MRIN Magazine for Indian contemporary ceramics. Trained at the National Institute of Design under Dashrath Patel, she has exhibited her ceramics both nationally and internationally. As a curator for ceramics and glass at Serendipity Arts Festival in 2019, 2020, 2024 and 2025, she also curated at the Clayarch Gimhae Museum in Korea in 2023 in collaboration with InKo Centre as well as a retrospective of Vimoo Sanghvi for Prakriti Foundation at Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai and OED Gallery, Kochi in 2025-26. Her published writing can be viewed https://jnu.academia.edu/arnavkris
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TOPIK Test Announcement
The 109th TOPIK Exam is set to take place on November 15, 2026 (Sunday) at SSS Shasun Jain College, T Nagar. The exam is hosted by InKo Centre of King Sejong Institute, Chennai 1and Consulate General of Republic of Korea in Chennai.
The TOPIK Exam is the official exam that measures Korean skills for non-Korean speakers, recognized by the Korean government. Chennai is one of two cities in South India, King Sejong Institute conducts the forthcoming examination in Chennai at Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College for Women, T. Nagar
| Level | Session | Section | Entrance time |
Start time |
End time |
Exam Duration (minutes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOPIK I | 1st Session |
Listening | 09:10 | 09:40 | 11:20 | 100min |
| Reading | ||||||
| TOPIK II | 1st Session |
Listening | 12:20 | 12:50 | 14:40 | 110min |
| Writing | ||||||
| 2nd Session |
Reading | 15:00 | 15:10 | 16:20 | 70min |
For further information, please contact InKo Centre — T: 044 24361224; E: enquiries@inkocentre.org
Annyeong Station
Season:6 Episode-2
Annyeong Station, is a platform in our online infotainment section, for conversation, interaction and exchange. With a focus on Korean popular culture, this online space will periodically present curated interactions with Kculture industry specialists and influencers.
In the second episode of Season 6 of Annyeong Station, we bring you an engaging conversation with Paromita Vohra, an award-winning filmmaker and writer known for her distinctive explorations of gender, desire, feminism and popular culture. In dialogue with host Puja Talwar, Paromita shares her perspectives on the evolving landscape of storytelling, the changing representation of women in contemporary screen narratives and the cultural shifts shaping audiences across India and Korea. Drawing on her work in film and her extensive engagement with questions of identity and social change, this episode offers an insightful exploration of how popular culture reflects and challenges the world around us.
Join us for what promises to be an insightful, sparkling conversation.
Paromita Vora, is a filmmaker and writer who won an award for Khamosh Pani and writes extensively on gender and pop culture.
Beyond the shift from romance to darker, more complex narratives, newer shows are exploring female sexuality, identity and subjects that were once considered taboo. As a filmmaker and writer who has explored gender, desire and popular culture through Unlimited Girls, Q2P and Agents of Ishq, Paromita brings an interesting perspective to these changes, both as a viewer of K-dramas and as someone who has engaged with similar questions in Indian popular culture.
The conversation will explore what has changed in a decade of streaming, how global audiences have influenced storytelling, and what Indian filmmakers and storytellers might learn from the way K-dramas portray women, desire and social change.
Puja Talwar is the Senior Journalist and Editor with over 30 years of experience in Broadcast Journalism. Puja is a Writer, Show Host and Moderator. She hosts the popular series 'Candid Conversations With Puja Talwar' on YouTube and a podcast titled ‘Entertainment Unlimited on Spotify. She lives for coffee, travel and K-dramas!
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Threshold Documentary Film Fellowships
Supported by
Developed and presented In collaboration with
Rough Edges, in partnership with InKo Centre, announces the Threshold Documentary Film Fellowships, to enable films that record, interrogate and celebrate the diverse ways in which we inhabit, negotiate, resist and transgress the boundaries of gender, across the personal and the political, opening up new possibilities for being, becoming and belonging.
Open exclusively to starting out and emerging women, trans, non-binary and queer artists
andfilmmakers based in Tamil Nadu, the Call for Proposals will go live here on 20 November 2026.
Stay tuned!
About Rough Edges
Rough Edges facilitates multidisciplinary feminist cultural research, knowledge production, narrative building, archiving and education through creative documentary films and storytelling by women, trans and queer artists. The initiative is grounded in a commitment to intersectional gender justice, solidarity and affirmative social change.
Rough Edges enables, mentors, produces and disseminates imaginative documentary films on gendered lives and living, exploring diverse, intersecting and complex realities. Through the making and sharing of films, the initiative engages deeply with intention, perspective, process, form and expression and with how these resonate within a structurally intricate and unequal world.
The call for proposals will be announced on Friday, 20 November. Check the page for more information.
For further information, please contact InKo Centre — T: 044 24361224 · E: enquiries@inkocentre.org
Music Series-
Episode 2
IT’S REALLY LIVE AT INKO CENTRE
An Experiential Journey Through Music & Cuisine
For the upcoming edition of It’s Really Live at InKo Centre, we envision an intimate musical evening that weaves together music, storytelling, cultural exchange and culinary experiences for an audience of approximately 40 guests.
The Artist & Musical Experience
Get ready for a captivating musical experience featuring a special performer who brings together five
languages, diverse musical traditions and the art of storytelling in a distinctive, multilingual presentation.
This specially curated performance will take audiences on a journey across languages and cultures,
celebrating the universality of music while highlighting the unique character and expressions of each
linguistic tradition.
A special highlight will be the incorporation of Korean folklore-inspired music and storytelling
seamlessly woven into the multilingual repertoire. Bringing Korean cultural influences into dialogue with
other musical traditions, the performance will offer audiences a unique opportunity to discover shared
narratives, emotions and cultural connections through music.
An evening of unexpected discoveries, familiar emotions and new sounds awaits, where music
transcends linguistic boundaries and becomes a bridge between cultures.
The Culinary Experience: Korean Ramen with an Indian Twist
Complementing the musical journey, Chef Mani will curate a live ramen counter designed exclusively
for this gathering.
The culinary concept brings together Korean ramen traditions and Indian flavours, reimagining the
familiar comfort of ramen through Indian spices, ingredients and flavour profiles.
Prepared fresh at a live counter, the experience will allow guests to engage with the food as it is created,
adding an interactive culinary dimension to the evening.
The Experience
Designed for approximately 40 guests, this special edition of It’s Really Live brings together a five-
language musical journey, Korean folklore and a specially curated Indo-Korean culinary experience.
More than a conventional concert, this promises to be an intimate gathering where guests can discover
new sounds, explore cultural connections and savour an experience filled with surprises.
Entry is free. Limited seating so please click the registration link to reserve your seat.
For further information, please contact InKo Centre — T: 044 24361224 · E: enquiries@inkocentre.org