Art historian and curator Alka Pande admits that August 7 is going to be a very busy day. Three events will be coinciding that day: the second edition of the Bihar Museum Biennale 2023, which will witness a slew of Indian and international museums showcasing their work across four days of symposiums; the Together We Art exhibition, which will spotlight artists from G20 countries along the theme of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’; and finally, the foundation day of the museum itself, which first opened its doors to the public in 2015.
As the curator of the Biennale, Pande hasn’t had a second to breathe. (The first was held in 2021, and helped the Bihar government popularise the fledgling museum, designed by the Pritzker-Prize winning Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki at a cost of ₹500 crore — as possibly the largest public museum in South Asia, both in scale and collection.)
