Amol K Patil Born 1987 in Mumbai, India

Grounded in personal and collective histories, Patil’s work excavates the layered experiences of labour, migration and social marginalisation, particularly as they resonate through the hierarchies of caste and class that shaped his upbringing in Mumbai’s chawl neighbourhoods. Drawing on the archival legacies of his grandfather, a Powada poet, and his father, an avant‑garde playwright, Patil treats making as a mode of counter‑memory — inviting audiences into poetic yet exacting reflections on labour, movement and visibility. His projects often operate at the intersection of memory and materiality: kinetic devices, repeated gestures, bodies in motion and architectural traces become tools to unsettle conventional narratives of urban life and human disposability.

Patil’s work has been presented internationally in major institutional contexts. He has held exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery, London (2023), where The Politics of Skin and Movement marked his first UK institutional solo following the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation Award at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley (2025). Further solo presentations include De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg (2024), and Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg (2025).

Patil has participated in major international exhibitions and biennials including 12th SITE Santa Fe International (2025), Berlin Biennale (2025), documenta 15, Kassel (2022), and the Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2024). His work has also been shown at the Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama (2020), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017), and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2015), among other museum and biennial platforms.

This year, Patil will have his first solo show with Galerie Peter Kilchmann, opening on 26 February at their Zahnradstrasse 21 location in Zurich. Titled The Shadow of Lustre, the exhibition continues his explorations of laboring bodies, silent histories and the traces of lived urban experience through sculpture, drawing and video, marking a significant moment in his evolving international trajectory.