Indian Centre for Cultural Diplomacy (ICCD) is India’s pioneer organization promoting cultural diplomacy at the global level. ICCD is a registered organization under the Karnataka State Registration and Stamps Department, Official's Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd, India with a key objective to and work in accordance with, support, aid, and promote schemes and programs of the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Culture, and Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India. ICCD is an organization that aims to strengthen cultural ties between nations through the exchange of cultural ideologies, enhancing the visibility of art & culture, establishing G2G cultural connections, a union of objectives, alliances, and collaborations thereby galvanizing the people to people connect so that efforts made at the root level could have an impact at the top level of cultural diplomacy.
Neha Talwar is the president of Artux Society® which is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act (XXI of 1860). The society actively participates in helping the formulation of policies and programs pertaining to India’s external cultural relations, strengthening them and thereby enhancing mutual understanding between India and other countries. Its primary objective is to promote cultural exchanges with other countries and people and to develop relations with nations in the field of art and culture.
Neha Talwar is the president of the Underground Talk, which is a calendar event with the India Habitat Centre. ‘Underground Talk’ is a series of conversations between eminent guests from the art fraternity each month. These talks focus on subjects of burning interest to the public, giving the creative fringe of society an opportunity to articulate intelligent opinion in the mainstream, foster learning, and inspiration, and provoke conversations that matter. The concept and the outreach of the Underground Talk encourage the amalgamation of thoughts and ingenious processes to stimulate constructive discourses. UGT unravels the intricacy of art heritage and the untold pedagogy around it, serving as a platform for better cognizance, guidance, and consultation for one and all.
Neha Talwar is handling the art and artistic requirements of a scholarly project in collaboration with the JNU. The project is from the Jean Monnet Module of the Erasmus+ program under the European Commission which seeks to involve artists, academia, scholars, civil society, and other stakeholders from the EU and India. The larger aim of the project is to exchange and understand each other’s art and culture through the organization of creative events and programs. Values and issues espoused by the EU and shared by India, such as freedom of expression, peace, rule of law, democracy, biodiversity, energy, climate change, child rights, diversity management, shall be promoted to facilitate increased exchange and collaboration between cultural networks of the EU and India. Neha Talwar is one of the chairs in the proposed activities comprising a seminar, conference, and a demonstrative workshop along with the curation of art exhibitions and organization of art camps in the respective countries of Europe.
As an art consultant, Neha Talwar has officially refurbished SAU Art Gallery in a modern new Avatar to encourage and recommend art exhibitions, art and culture workshops, and educational seminars for the benefit of art lovers, students, and other direct and indirect beneficiaries of art across the globe. The assignment traces art and cultural values of the silk route, the Bactria, the Persians, Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic, the Achaemenid empire, the rule of the Parthian and Sassanian dynasties gave the art and culture of the South Asian region a new Eurasian twist of sculptures, miniature paintings, tribal rugs and textiles, Sikh art, and Folk and Cultural artifacts which got incorporated in the traditional art aesthetics of this region to bring out the most beautiful, artistic and aesthetic curation under her supervision.
Neha Talwar is the Art & Design consultant to PARAS Spices Pvt. Ltd. where she is responsible for creating artistic design elements for space curation through sculptures along with the work, factory, and office areas. She also adds aesthetic values to the retail brand ORIKA spices and curates installations under the CSR initiative of the company for public spaces. PARAS Spices Put. Ltd. has over 30 years of celebrated experience being the trusted ‘ingredients and spices’ solution provider to the world’s largest food companies in the Culinary Industry, QSR Industry, Horeca Sector, Flavour Houses, Beverage Industry, Nutraceutical Industry, Bakery Industry, Frozen/RTE Industry, and Snacks Industry
Neha Talwar has been a connoisseur, critic, and curator in the Indian art circuit for the past two decades. Her expertise empowers the organization with productive opportunities, streamlined management, and innovative ideas to set up unique exhibitions and ensure smooth functioning at the Gita Art Gallery which has been promoting, buying, and selling Indian heritage art of pre-modern and modern artists since 1964. Earlier it was situated in The Oberoi Hotel, Delhi. Now in a modern-day avatar, it is an Art gallery at posh Sadhna Enclave in South Delhi with an approximate area of 3000 square feet. The area is equipped with more than 75 running meters of display space, modern-day security, and constant control of air quality and temperatures. Professional Curators, display managers, and gallerists are available to ensure the comfort of the artist.
GAG Moderne holds exhibitions of contemporary artists. G.A.G Moderne is determined to bring the very best in Indian contemporary art to the world. The gallery promotes works sourced directly from artists across the globe. The focus on Quality is intense and seeks to partner with only the gifted, creative & the most technically sound modern and Neo-modern artists showcasing the Avant-Garde art. Our search for such works is supported by industry-leading curators with the requisite art education & training. The Private Sales channel of GAG Moderne actively facilitates a wide range of buying & selling activities that enable seasoned as well as entrant collectors to access assets that are off-the-market and offered on regular occasions on flexible terms.
Neha Talwar individually practices a distinctive style of creating artworks from textures and layers of fabrics and textiles in which she uses an amalgamation of prehistoric dyes with indigenous art forms and Geographical Indications of India like Punjab’s Phulkari, Lucknow’s Chikankari, Bengal’s Nakshi Kantha, Bagru hand block printing technique in Rajasthan, and Pipli appliqué work from Odisha, India’s Khadi and other traditional styles. Her artworks portray a journey narrated by the textiles, a time trip of characters inhabiting the feel and medium of the fabric. Her quest is to highlight the possible concomitance between humans and the textiles, the convergence of the inanimate and the animate, the inorganic, and the organic, the known and the unknown. The fabrics in the art take human form to reflect human values, impressions of psychology, the abstraction of passion, expressions of poverty, etc. She provokes thought through art. Her recent lithium-powered paintings, solar + wind sculptures, and installations revolve around the importance of renewable energy and reducing the carbon footprint. The message in her art is to address socially relevant issues like gender equality, affordable and clean energy, good health, and climate action.
| Ongoing | Art Project | ACE Jean Monnet Co-funded by Erasmus+ program of the European Union to elaborate, under the pretext of arts on the values and issues espoused by the EU and shared by India, such as freedom of expression, peace, rule of law, democracy, biodiversity, energy, climate change, child rights, diversity management |
| Israel | Art Project | demonstrative workshop as a study of the impact of contemporary street art on 21st-century children and a comparative analysis of the impact of Baroque Art |
| France | Art Project | Seminar to Initiate a ‘design thinking’ dialogue to evaluate the impact and indulgence of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Fresco Cycles in modern-day contemporary art and architecture |
| Germany | Art Camp | An art camp Indo-European artists influenced by the European art forms practiced from post-impressionism to Art Nouveau |
| Germany | Art Exhibition | Art Exhibition of Indo-European artists working with the prehistoric biodiversity of natural pigments juxtaposed with Realism art of everyday life |
| Brussels | Seminar | A Debate for the need for a Neo-Enlightenment, Intellectual, an artistic and cultural movement to highlight the importance of renewable energy in everyday life |
| Africa | Art Exhibition | From Gondwana to Eurasia artworks celebrating the indigenous connection of artisans amongst the African Continent and India |
| Art Installation | Installation of a Renewable energy sculpture at Amritsar International Airport to celebrate India’s vision for green energy and reducing the carbon footprint for climate control | |
| 2021 | Conference | As Vice-Chairperson of ICCD, signed an MoU with the Latin American Caribbean Federation of India, in conference themed - The Eurasian economic Union & Latin Ameria and the Caribbean: A Transcontinental Partnership, held on 27th June 2021, at Pullman Aerocity, New Delhi. |
| 2021 | Conference | Invited as a representative of the art and cultural ecosystem to exchange ideas at the India-EAC Dialogue: India's Emerging Ties with East African Community (EAC), held on 3rd September 2021, at ITC Maurya, New Delhi. |
| 2021 | Conference | Invited as a panelist at the India - West Africa Business Conclave - 2021, organized by the Indian Economic Trade Organisation (IETO) held on 15th December 2021, at Niryat Bhawan, New Delhi. |
| 2021 | Conference | Invited as a culture expert at the conference to talk about the possible cultural alliances between India and the Arab Countries on the occasion of the UN Arabic Language Day on 20th December’2021, at Niryat Bhawan, New Delhi |
| 2021 | Forum | Participated in the India - Mexico Business Forum - 2021 as a guest, held on 14th December 2021, at Niryat Bhawan, New Delhi. |
| 2021 | Summit | Participated in the India - Sierra LeoneTrade Summit - 2021 as a guest, held on 13th December 2021, at Niryat Bhawan, New Delhi |
| 2021 | Conference | Co-organised an online international conference on the theme “Global Dynamics and Contemporary Challenges: Europe and India” in collaboration with Jawahar Lal University, JEAN MONNET NETWORK - REACTIK & other institutional partners, that held on October 20 - 21, 2021. |
| 2021 | Conference | Co-organised an online international conference on the theme “Emerging Trends In Socio‐Cultural Outlook, Information Policies And Education In India And Europe” in collaboration with Jawahar Lal University, JEAN MONNET NETWORK - REACTIK & other institutional partners, that held on August 11-12, 2021. |
| 2020 | Art Talk | Organized Underground Talk - a conversation with prominent intellectual, author, Philosopher, Gandhian, and Biographer of Bhupen Khakhar, Mr. Sudhir Chandra at India Habitat Centre |
| Art Talk | Organized Underground Talk - a conversation with Senior dancer of Jaipur Gharana of Kathak Guru Prerana Shrimali at India Habitat Centre | |
| 2019 | Art Exhibition | Deceptive Rhapsody showcasing Neo modern, experimental and Avant-Garde art at SAU Art Gallery, Chanakyapuri |
| Art Exhibition | Adjudicated the SAS Annual Art Exhibition organized by the Deptt. Of Art Education, Jamia Milia Islamia University at MF Hussain Art Gallery | |
| Art Talk | Organized Underground Talk - prominent intellectual, diplomat, writer, and politician Ambassador Pavan. K. Varma | |
| Art Project | Bipolar Asylum highlights the tangible as well as the intangible impact of climate control on my child who is constantly pulled between the two poles of technological development and freedom, questioning the very ethics of urbanized upbringing. | |
| Art Talk | Organized Underground Talk - a conversation with an eminent artist, painter, and theatre actor, Lalit Kala Akademi Awardee and recipient of Padma Shri award Manu Parekh | |
| Art Exhibition | Psycho showcasing comic, graphic, holographic, and experimental art at GAG Moderne, Panchsheel Park | |
| Art Project | Transgender Vernacular is a study to explore the extent of gender equality amongst the definitions of these nouns of found objects. The ultimate aim is to understand the transgender nature in the vernacular and extend the study in other languages. | |
| Art Talk | Organized Underground Talk - a conversation with prominent poet, art critic, and translator Prayag Shukla | |
| Art Exhibition | Anupasthiti ki Upasthiti (Presence of Absence) showcasing experimental textile art at Gita Art Gallery, Sadhana Enclave | |
| Art Talk | Organized Underground Talk - a conversation with leading art collector and academician Ramashankar Singh | |
| Art Project | The fabricated anomaly of racist design is an art project that replicates the journey of different fabrics through local artisans on the silk route, on the Indo-Pacific route, from India to Europe, and vice versa throughout colonization and along the African continent | |
| Art Exhibition | Conundrum of Contours showcasing textile and experimental international art at SAU Art Gallery, Chanakyapuri | |
| Seminar | Discussion with scholars, academicians, students, and JNU professors to establish a trade synergy between India and European Union along the lines of art and culture chaired by Professor Sheetal Sharma, Centre of European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University | |
| Art Talk | Organized Underground Talk - a conversation with a creative designer, scenographer, art curator, and Padma Bhushan awardee Rajiv Sethi | |
| Art Project | Dictatorial Democracy scripts an unimaginable journey into the future to create benchmarks for human society to evolve and survive the impending annihilation in order to interrogate a possible success of a dictatorial democracy in the coming times | |
| Art Talk | Organized Underground Talk - a conversation with noted poet, essayist, literary-cultural critic, cultural and arts administrator, and a former civil servant Ashok Vajpeyi | |
| Art Exhibition | Paradox of Silence showcasing the latest works of eminent artists at Gita Art Gallery, Sadhana Enclave | |
| Past Participations | Art Fair | Korea International Art Fair showcasing textile art on the geographical indication Salem silk and Khadi |
| Art Camp | Kal Ke Kalakar art camp organized by Sahitya Kala Parishad of prominent female artists creating artworks on gender equality at Sangeet Shyamala, Vasant Vihar | |
| Art Camp | Kal Ke Kalakar art camp organized by Sahitya Kala Parishad of prominent female artists creating artworks on gender equality at Sangeet Shyamala, Vasant Vihar | |
| Art Project | Workshop on creating aesthetic designs through artworks based on terrariums creating independent ecosystems at Zorba the Buddha | |
| Art Exhibition | Edelweiss Palette Art Show exhibiting art on upholstery fabric of emerging and prominent artists | |
| Art Camp | AIFACS Senior Artists Art Camp of senior and prominent artists organized by AIFACS at AIFACS, New Delhi India | |
| Art Exhibition | India Korea Art Exchange showcasing the artworks representing cultural exchange between India and South Korea at the South Korean Embassy | |
| Art Project | My planet is upside-down is an impossible abstraction of the contours of my thought represented on the fabric, occasionally figurative. | |
| Art Exhibition | Kal Ke Kalakar organized by Sahitya Kala Parishad showcasing prominent female artists creating artworks on gender equality at Sangeet Shyamala, Vasant Vihar | |
| Art Camp | Kal Ke Kalakar Art Camp organized by Sahitya Kala Parishad participants included prominent female artists creating artworks on gender equality at Sangeet Shyamala, Vasant Vihar | |
| Art Exhibition | VAMA showcasing leading women contemporary artists organized by Sahitya Kala Parishad celebrating women artists of India | |
| Art Project | Rusted Ecosystem Of The Biodiverse Moon Farmer celebrates rust collected by the moon from the debris of human advancement of weapons and space machinery finds consciousness when introduced to human farmers and establishes a symbiotic relationship with the skin by taking different forms, shapes, and textures | |
| Art Exhibition | Korea Passion meets India exhibiting artworks from top contemporary Korean and Indian artists at Korean Cultural Centre | |
| Art Exhibition | Khajuraho International Art Exhibition exhibiting artworks of Oil on Upholstery fabric and participating in the group exhibition of eminent artists at Khajuraho | |
| Art Exhibition | Annual Art Exhibition showcasing artworks of Senior artists organized by Sahitya Kala Parishad at AIFACS, New Delhi | |
| Art Camp | Part of an Artist Art Camp of senior artists organized by DP Dhar Foundation at Srinagar, Kashmir | |
| Art Exhibition | Art Spotting V showcasing oil on upholstery fabric at Gallery Art Positive, Lado Sarai | |
| Art Project | Shadow Caves And The Cave’s Shadow The project is inspired by the famous Cave theory of Plato and creates a new dimension working with the shadows of found objects and organic life forms | |
| Art Exhibition | Siddhi showcasing artworks of eminent and emerging artists organized by Gallery Yellow Ochre at The Stainless Gallery, New Friends Colony | |
| Art Exhibition | Eternal Hues showcasing artworks of textile art and oil on upholstery fabric at Gita Art Gallery, Sadhana Enclave | |
| Kochi Muziris Biennale | Crosscurrents exhibiting artworks of leading artists in collateral with Kochi Muziris Biennale organized by Gallery OED | |
| Kochi Muziris Biennale | Curation of the art exhibition Crosscurrents exhibiting artworks of leading artists in collateral with Kochi Muziris Biennale organized by Gallery OED | |
| Art Exhibition | Solo Show Glimpses of Neverland as an ode to Romanticism through passionate feminine metaphor of eternal childhood, immortal motherhood, and a spirited wife at Shridharani Art Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam | |
| Art Exhibition | Under One Roof showcasing artworks of eminent and emerging artists in textile art Shridharani Art Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam | |
| Art Project | Seventh Sense Of The Spectrum The project investigates the spectrum of light in order to find the science and art behind its connection with human sense to create a seventh Sense of the spectrum. The art is created with sunlight and its created dimensions, textures, and perspectives on the object. The ultimate goal is to find the color of God | |
| Art Exhibition | Multiverse showcasing artworks of eminent and emerging artists at the Open Air Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi | |
| Art Exhibition | An exhibition showcasing the artworks of leading and emerging artists organized by Sahitya Kala Parishad at the IGNCA | |
| Art Exhibition | Nuances showcasing artworks of eminent and emerging artists at the Open Air Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam | |
| Art Exhibition | Dhoomimal Annual Art Exhibition exhibiting artworks of eminent and emerging artists at the Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi | |
| Art Exhibition | The August Show showcasing artworks of eminent and emerging artists at the Open Air Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi | |
| Art Camp | The Ashok Art Camp of eminent and emerging artists organized by The Ashok and All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society at The Ashok | |
| Art Exhibition | VAMA showcasing leading women contemporary artists organized by Sahitya Kala Parishad celebrating women artists of India at the IGNCA | |
| Art Exhibition | Then and Now showcasing artworks of eminent and emerging artists at the Open Air Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam | |
| Art Fair | United Art Fair exhibition of emerging artists with artworks of Oil on Upholstery fabric at Pragati Maidan | |
| Art Exhibition | International Confluence Art Exhibition of paintings on fabric organized by Art Eterne at Lalit Kala Academy | |
| Art Camp | Art Camp of prominent and emerging artists organized by Indian Council for Cultural Relations ICCR at Friends Colony | |
| Art Exhibition | Feminine Mystique - Women Art Exhibition showcasing artworks of leading women artists organized by DLF Place Saket and Empowerment organization at DLF Place Saket | |
| Art Exhibition | Together with exhibiting artworks of prominent and emerging artists at Rabindra Bhawan, Lalit Kala Academy | |
| Art Camp | Art Camp of emerging and eminent artists organized by Uruswati Art Gallery at Sohna Road, Gurgaon | |
| Art Exhibition | Voices showcasing artworks of eminent and emerging artists at the Open Air Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi | |
| Art Exhibition | Under One Roof showcasing artworks of eminent and emerging artists in textile art Shridharani Art Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam |
