Honoured to Introduce
Abhishek Poddar
Founder-Trustee Museum of Art & Photography (MAP)
Global Visual Arts Community
Bengaluru Chapter
Abhishek Poddar (born 1968) is an Indian industrialist, philanthropist, and art collector. Poddar has served on the advisory committees of the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Bengaluru and is currently on the advisory panel of the Fondation Inde-Europe de Nouveaux Dialogues (FIND), headquartered in Rome, Trustee of the Art & Photography Foundation, Bengaluru and on the Board of the Museum of Art & Photography, Bengaluru. He is also the former Honorary Consul for Poland in Bengaluru. He is also the director of Sua Explosives & Accessories, and the Managing Director of Matheson Bosanquet.
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Founder - Trustee
Museum of Art and Photography (MAP)
2012 - Present . -
MD
Matheson Bosanquet
1995 - Present . 26 Years 4 Months -
Director
Sua Explosives and Accessories Pvt Ltd
1991 - Present . 30 Years 6 Months
Associations
Social Cause
Patronage and Philanthropy
As an active art collector since the early 1980s, Poddar created a significant collection of South Asian art, craft and antiquities, including modern and contemporary art which according to the auction house Christie's is one of the world's most important collections on the sub-continent. In 2018, Poddar donated the majority of the family collection to…
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