Borrowed Light. Rohini Devasher, Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2024

From 19 September to 2 November 2025, MUDEC in Milan will present, together with Deutsche Bank and in collaboration with 24 ORE Cultura, the exhibition “Borrowed Light” by Indian artist Rohini Devasher, winner in 2024 of the prestigious international “Artist of the Year” award that the Bank dedicates to contemporary art. The exhibition is curated by Britta Färber, Global Head of Art & Culture at Deutsche Bank, and represents the artist’s first solo exhibition in an Italian institution.

For the fourth consecutive year, the “Artist of the Year” award returns to MUDEC in Milan, consolidating the significant collaboration between Deutsche Bank and 24 ORE Cultura, born in 2022 and based on a common focus to contemporary languages and topics.

To bring an increasingly wide audience closer to the main themes and methods of Rohini Devasher’s artistic practice, the exhibition “Borrowed Light” is accompanied by a rich cultural schedule produced by Deutsche Bank and focused on the themes of observation and perception, which includes a series of free activities for families, the public of secondary schools and universities, including interactive guided tours and experiential workshops.

For 2024, the “Artist of the Year” is Rohini Devasher (New Delhi, 1978), the first Indian artist to receive this award, selected at the suggestion of Stephanie Rosenthal, Director of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project. An amateur astronomer as well as an artist, for years she has been carrying out a research practice that explores the intersections between art, science and philosophy, developing projects that bring visual culture, technology and scientific knowledge into dialogue. Thanks to her interdisciplinary approach and the integration of the languages of contemporary art into everyday life, Rohini Devasher’s works are profoundly current, in full harmony with the identity and values of Deutsche Bank’s collection.