Show And Tell

Art collector Shalini Passi’s guide to KochiMuziris Biennale 2018.

- Neville Bhandara

New Delhi-based Shalini Passi is a familiar face on the Indian art scene. She’s an avid collector, and the walls of her sprawling Golf Links home feature works by bigwigs such as Bharti Kher, Jitish Kallat, MF Husain and even Jeff Koons. “When I was at school, I learnt to observe artworks in terms of colour, form and texture. As I grew older, I learnt more about specific styles and movements, and my appreciation developed,” she says. Passi, who recently launched the Shalini Passi Art Foundation—through which she hopes to develop and promote a contemporary Indian aesthetic by giving young creators a platform—has also been a patron of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale since its inception. And having hosted the glittering inaugural dinner for the art behemoth’s fourth edition, which opens this month and runs till March 29, 2019, she shares her pick of what not to miss: