Yogesh Barve (b. 1989) is a conceptual artist from Mumbai, India. His artistic practice spans various mediums, including drawing, painting, sculpture, video and other digital technologies alongside the repurposing of found objects.
Barve’s work challenges established norms and binary structures, utilising the slash as a symbol of un/learning, de/constructing, and non/conformism. Barve uses various media to challenge norms and binaries, creating immersive environments that blend personal and public realms. His work aims to democratise and decolonise technology through art. Since 2017, Barve has run a YouTube channel called Dalit Poetry and Literature to bring attention to literature outside the Brahmanical canon.
Barve has been part of 2nd Transnational Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. He has previously exhibited at Para Site in Hong Kong, and at the Kadist Art Foundation and the Fondation Lucien Paye in Paris. In 2015, he was invited for a curation by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Simon Castets and Julie Boukobza for the 89 plus program at the Google Cultural Institute, Paris. He presented works as part of “How little you know about me” by Joowon Park at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea in 2018, Three Questions at Once at Art and Charlie, Mumbai in 2024, amongst other group exhibitions since 2012. He was invited as resident artist at Nordiska Konstförbundet in 2023. He was a participating artist (2012-21) and later the artistic director (2016-18) at Clark House Initiative, Mumbai.
Artist is represented by gallery Art and Charlie, Mumbai, India.