About
The Mohile Parikh Center (MPC) is one of the leading centers devoted to the Arts in India today.
Since its inception nineteen years ago in 1990, the Mohile Parikh Center for the Visual Arts (MPCVA) has functioned as an integral part of the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai. With its commitment to creating a dynamic and informed community receptive to the arts, the MPCVA adds a vital dimension to the NCPA.
Over the years the MPC’s numerous activities have become an important part of the city’s cultural calendar. The MPC organizes talks, panel discussions, audio-visual presentations, film screenings, seminars, workshops, and international conferences. The Center published a series of monographs, books, and posters related to works presented during the last nineteen years.
In April 1997, the MPC established the Architecture Forum to foster a spirit of inquiry and introspection amongst architects, students of architecture and citizens.
With its commitment to developing a deeper discourse in the fields of art and architecture, the MPC has strived to connect art, architecture, and related fields in new and creative ways. Through fostering cross-cultural exchanges internationally as well as addressing issues specific to the city of Mumbai, the MPC has consistently explored those perspectives, forms, ideas, processes and materials central to contemporary art, and culture.
In October 2004, the Architecture Forum of the MPC expanded to form the Center for the Contemporary. The Contemporary is committed to the promotion of new ways of seeing and thinking in and through the arts. The center has adopted an interdisciplinary approach using academia, architecture, cinema, indigenous knowledge and folk-traditions to explore contemporary Indian culture.
Children & Culture is a new education model that was initiated in July 2008 to reach out to the children of marginalized and disadvantaged communities. It explores the creative links between the arts and sciences and offers learning and teaching methods through art therapy, painting, found objects, installation, theatre, performance, design, science and language tools.
Pursuing its vision to stimulate thinking and proactive individual action, the Center launched Campus, an initiative in the wider area of continuing education. In March 2009, short courses on the visual arts, humanities and sciences were introduced. Key ideas and concepts of various disciplines are presented in an accessible manner, and seek to broaden the understanding of diverse knowledge systems in the contemporary world.
In January 2010, the MPC will enter its twentieth year with a series of programs in Visual Arts, The Contemporary, Children and Culture, and Campus.
The Team
Shaila Parikh
Founder and Managing Trustee
Prashant Parikh | Anuradha Parikh
Managing Trustees
Amrita Gupta Singh
Program Director
Noopur Desai
Program Executive
Priya Das Malik
Program Associate
Santosh Niwate
Accounts Executive
Jitendra Kudiyaa
Office Assistant