{"id":44176,"date":"2025-12-12T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/news\/ausstellung-daria-sharmila-mit-solitude-alumna-sharmila-samant-in-mannheim\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:17:07","slug":"ausstellung-daria-sharmila-mit-solitude-alumna-sharmila-samant-in-mannheim","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/news\/ausstellung-daria-sharmila-mit-solitude-alumna-sharmila-samant-in-mannheim\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition \u00bbDaria &#038; Sharmila\u00ab with Former Fellow Sharmila Samant in Mannheim"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"template":"","news_type":[664],"class_list":["post-44176","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_type-news-en"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<b>Former fellow Sharmila Samant presents the exhibition <\/b><em>Daria &amp; Sharmila\u00a0<\/em><strong>at the Off-space Maquis Mami Wata in Mannheim <b>until January 10, 2025<\/b>.\r\n<\/strong><b>\r\nSolitude Alumna Sharmila Samant pr\u00e4sentiert bis zum 10. Januar 2026 die Ausstellung <\/b><i>Daria &amp; Sharmila <\/i><b>im Off-Space Maquis Mami Wata in Mannheim.<\/b>\r\n\r\nSharmila Samant is internationally renowned for her works exploring globalization, postcolonial identities, and consumer culture. In her practice, she transforms everyday materials such as bottle caps into woven textiles, mandala-like installations, and incisive commentaries on global capitalism.\r\n\r\nIn the exhibition <em>Daria &amp; Sharmila<\/em> at Maquis Mami Wata, Samant presents <em>Lux Loca<\/em> \u2013 a constellation composed of discarded bottle caps that forms crystalline structures while simultaneously revealing global desires, consumer habits, and the often-invisible labor behind these materials.\r\n\r\nThe exhibition is a collaboration with Mannheim-based artist Daria Wilfing, whose ceramic works investigate natural materials and sustainable production processes.\r\n\r\n<strong>Duration \/ Opening hours:<\/strong> Until 10 January 2026, Sundays, 4\u20135 pm Finissage &amp; artist talk: 10 January, 8 pm\r\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> Maquis Mami Wata, B\u00fcrgermeister-Fuchs-Stra\u00dfe 6, Mannheim"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"has-bg-yellow","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<strong>Sharmila Samant<\/strong> is a visual artist from Bombay\/India.\r\n\r\nShe graduated with a degree in sculpture from the Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai, in 1989 and obtained a diploma in interior design and decoration from the L.S. Raheja College of Architecture in 1990. She then completed\u00a0a residency at the Kanoria Center for Arts, Ahmedabad, in 1992\u20131993, followed by a residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam\/Netherlands, in 1998\u20132000 and Gasworks, London, in 2001. Samant was a fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude in the Societal\/Communal-based sphere of practice in 2025.\r\n\r\nShe works with a variety of media and forms, such as installations, performance, and photography. Globalization, identity, and consumer culture are issues central to her work. Samant has worked with activist groups and communities, engaging in both collaborative and participatory art projects, expressing her deep empathy for suppressed and marginalized voices.\r\n\r\nShe is the co-founder of a Mumbai-based collective called the <em>Open Circle<\/em>, which aimed to create a platform for meaningful dialogue among artists on an intercultural level and\u00a0sought to address and engage with contemporary socio-political issues through the integration of theory and practice.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/44176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=44176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}