Ankon Mitra

Ankon Mitra is a trained architect and practices as a landscape designer and a sculptor/installation artist. He has built an international reputation as a pioneer of the folding technique through his diverse projects. His studio’s work has been exhibited in India, Italy, France, UK, USA, Japan, the Netherlands, Brazil, Switzerland, Singapore, U.A.E, The Maldives, Malta, and China, most recently at the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands and Arte Laguna, Venice (2021) , the India Pavilion of the London Design Biennale at the Somerset House (2022) and the Shanghai Paper Art Biennale (2023). His work is being showcased at the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial in Perth, Australia later this year. His sculptures and installations are part of public developments and private collections (outdoor as well as indoor) all over the world. A TEDx speaker and a warrior for 'making connections across disciplines' with his brainchild - ‘Oritecture - Origami + Architecture’, Mitra shares a unique vision of a universe forming and dissolving from acts of folding. His folding practice encompasses materials as diverse as metal, paper, plastics, leather, fabric, concrete, terracotta, glass, wood veneer and stone. He passionately believes in the two maxims - Geometry Aims at the Eternal (Plato), and The Universe is Mathematics (Max Tegmark). He is Director (Landscape) at Hexagramm Design PL and his extensive folding practice evolved from his professional work in landscape art and architecture. He teaches the aesthetic, material, technical and structural aspects of folding at IITs, NIDs and other colleges of art, architecture and engineering in India, S-E Asia and the Middle-East. He also teaches Landscape Ecology and Permaculture to Anant Fellowship students at the Anant National University, Ahmedabad as a visiting faculty.