Profile Of Art Exhibitions Handled By Star Worldwide Movers
 

Star Worldwide Movers is the only Company in India, offering a truly specialised and professional service for “fine art” handling & transportation. With a team of skilled packers and supervisors, specially trained in the packing and handling of works of art, we are able to offer a premium quality service, totally built around your specific requirements.

 
Star has the necessary infrastructure, including purpose built vehicles for transporting works of art, handling equipment, pallet trucks, fork lifts, dollies and an excellent warehouse with air conditioning storage facilities, and in house carpentry shop for storing, packing and crating of works of art. With offices at New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, we offer an all India network for handling & transportation of works of art.
 

Star has regularly worked for The National Museum, New Delhi, The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi & Mumbai, Mathura Museum, Indian Museum, Kolkata, Salarjung Museum, Hyderabad, besides several other government and private art institutions / Galleries.

 

We are fully conversant with the export and re-import procedures, Customs regulations and other formalities involved with the forwarding of works of art overseas and their return to India. Furthermore, we will undertake to assist the lending and host Museums/Institutions with all the necessary formalities/clearances from the local authorities and to provide total support to cover all aspects of shipping these works from/to India and until their return to the respective lending Museums / Galleries.

 

Over the past few years we have been privileged to handle and transport some of the most prestigious art events in India and overseas. Some of these are:

 
   
“Tibetan Tankhas” – Tibetan House, New Delhi
Presently happening – 2005
 

A collection of nine Tibetan Tankhas of 19 th Century by Tibetan House will be passed through our hands and exhibited at Rubin Museum, New York, USA.

 
“Edge of Desire – Recent Art in India” – Art Gallery of Western Australia, Australia
October 2004 to January 2005
 
This exhibition featured 28 works from renowned Indian artists as well as exceptionally talented and hitherto unknown artists discovered from the interiors of India.
 
“Royal Portrait - Equestrian Miniature Painting” – Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
October 2004 to January 2005
 

An exhibition of Marwari Miniature Paintings from 19 th Century A.D. lent by Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur.

 
“Global Local’ – British Council Division, New Delhi
June 2004 to March 2005
 

A travelling exhibition mainly focusing various designs in variety of items, being held in a range of cities like Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Bhopal etc. over a period of almost one year.

 
“Indian Popular Culture / Sub Terrain” – Asian Week Festival
September 2003 to February 2004 House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany.
 

Eminent Indian artists and collector, such as Dr. Jyotindra Jain, Vivan Sundaram and N.N. Rimzon, lent over 200 collections & installations for this exhibition.

 
“Zoom Art in Contemporary India” – Transmedial 2004 Festival
March 2004 Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
 

Works by leading Indian artists such as Reena Saini Kallat, Navjot Altaf, Anita Dubey, Vivan Sundaram, Atul Dodiya were part of this exhibition which was coordinated by Nancy Adajania.

 
Raja Ravi Verma Collections” – National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
January 2003
 

An exhibition of Raja Ravi Verma Collections consisted of 38 paintings from the 19 th Century, taken from the collection of Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum Trust, Baroda.

 
“K.G. Subramanyan - Retrospective” – New Delhi and Mumbai
April 2003 National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
 

This exhibition was a collection of more than 200 works of art using various materials and media.

 
“Bhupen Khakhar Retrospective” – National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
November to December 2003
 

This exhibition was travelling exhibition and a tribute to Mr. Bhupen Khakhar travelled in the various cities of India including New Delhi, Mumbai, Baroda Surat and Ahmedabad etc.

 
“Raga – North India – Glory of Princess Tribute to God” – National Museum
December 2002 to July 2003 New Delhi
 

An exclusive exhibition of musical instruments from as early as 18 th Century A.D. These instruments were collected from different cities of India including Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai Alwar, Jairpur and many others, which were exhibited at “Museum of Music”, Paris, France.

 
“The Art of Mathura” – NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.), Japan
October 2002 to September 2003
 

This was consisted of antiquities from the 1 st Century to 5 th Century AD, taken from the Mathura Museum, Mathura and National Museum, New Delhi. It was transported to various Japanese cities for display, and then to Germany, from where they returned to India.

 
“The Tree from the Seed” – Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo, Norway
January to April 2002
 

This involved 11 living Indian artists such as Atul Dodiya, Jitish Kallat, Surender Nair and others.

 
“Kapital & Karma” – Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
March to June 2002
 

An exhibition featuring 10 renowned contemporary Indian artists, including Atul Dodiya, Anandjit Ray & others.

 
“Moving Ideas – An India Canada Dialogue” – Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design
November 2001 to March 2002 Vancouver, Canada
 
An exhibition of several renowned contemporary Indian artists, including Bhupen Khakhar, Atul Dodiya, Sheila Gowda & Ramana Hussain.
 
“Atul Dodiya – Asian Contemporary Artist Solo Series II” – Japan
June 2001 to August 2001 The Japan Foundation Asia Center
 

This large exhibition was of the exclusive works of Atul Dodiya, one of the most famous names in contemporary Indian art.

 
“Century City” - Tate Gallery, London
February to May 2001.
 

This exhibition consisting of various works of renowned Indian Contemporary artists, including Atul Dodiya, Bhupen Khakhar, Sudhir Patwardhan, Sen Kapadia.

 
“ Germany’s Festival in India” – Goethe Institute, Germany
October 2000 to March 2001.
 

The Festival consisted of several major art exhibitions, including a German Contemporary Art exhibition of over a 100 works of the most renowned German contemporary Artists, an exhibition of Medieval German Art, as well as several other art & Culture related events.

 
“Four Great Civilizations of the World: Indus Civilzation”
NHK, Japan and Nippon Express (Fine Art Division), Tokyo
August, 2000 to March, 2001.
 
This exhibition of 213 very rare and priceless objects from 3 rd millenium BC from various locations within India were packed and transported from India to Japan. The objects are valued at over 11 million US Dollars.
 
“Supreme Court of India” – National Museum, New Delhi
March to October 2000
 

This exhibition commemorating 50 years of the Supreme Court of India was exhibited at various venues within India, including New Delhi, Patna, Kolkata, Cuttack, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai & Mumbai.

 
“City of David” – National Museum, New Delhi
November 1999 to January 2000.
 

This exhibition consisted of extremely rare and priceless objects, of very fragile nature and was exhibited at New Delhi & Mumbai.

 
“The Silk Road & The World of Xuanzang” – The Asahi Shimbun, Japan
May to December 1999.
 

This exhibition consisted of 46 objects of extremely rare and fragile sculptures from various Museums in India, including The National Museum, New Delhi, Mathura Museum, Indian Museum, Kolkata and Amravati Museum.

 
“The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms” – Victoria & Albert Musuem, London, UK
March to July 1999
 

This exhibition consisted of rare and very valuable loans from the Patiala Museum, Chandigarh Museum and The National Museum, New Delhi.

 
“Dr. Jehangir Nicholson’s Collection” New Delhi
April to May 1999
 
This exhibition consisted of approx. 250 works of art, mostly paintings of renowned Indian Artists, from the private collection of Dr. Jehangir Nicholson.
 
“Treasures of Indian Art” – Germany’s Tribute to India’s Cultural Heritage,
National Museum, New Delhi
Kolkata & Mumbai, 1998-1999
 
This exhibition was held at various locations in India, starting with New Delhi in August, 1998. The works from the Berlin State Museum include invaluable and priceless art objects. We were selected for this prestigious exhibition on the basis of our impeccable record in “The Padshahnama” and “ The Enduring Image” exhibitions.
 
“The Enduring Image” – National Museum, New Delhi & Mumbai
October 1997 to May 1998.
 

Treasures from the British Museum, inaugurated by HM Queen Elizabeth II. This exhibition was the largest ever held by The British Museum, outside of the UK and involved extremely rare and sensitive works, valued at over UK Pounds Sixty million.

 
“The Padshahnama” – National Museum, New Delhi / The Royal Collection Trust,
January 1998 Windsor Castle
 

An exhibition of rare Mughal manuscripts of the 17 th century, lent by HM Queen Elizabeth II, from The Royal Library, Windsor Castle.

 
“Private Mythology - Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art”, Tokyo
The Japan Foundation Asia Center
October 1998
 

This exhibition included works of eight contemporary Indian artists from various private lenders/institutions at several locations within India.

 
“At the End of the Century” – Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles 1998
 

This traveling exhibition consisted of works of reputed architects from around the world, including India.

 
“Telling Times” – Bath Festival Trust,
UK – 1997-1998
 

Curated by Ms. Rasna Bhushan, this exhibition involved artists from five different cities in India.

 
“9 th Trienalle” – Lalit Kala Academy,
New Delhi 1998
 

Various artists, including Julian Opie and works from Singapore Art Museum were participants.

 
   
Shipping of Fine Art To and From India
   
International Registrars Symposium 2,
Chicago, November, 10-12, 2007
   
   
 
 
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