As early as 1979, the Kasauli Art Centre was enlivened by international artists who attended the workshops on the invitation of Vivan. John Davies (British) worked at KAC in 1979, and Arwed Gorella, a German artist visited in 1980. The next year’s workshop was attended by the British artists Michael Anderson and Ken Kiff, German Siegfried Neuenhausen, and the French Bernard Moninot and Jaqueline Duriac.
In 1982, Vivan Sundaram, Nalini Malani, Nilima Sheikh, Jogen Chowdhury, Manu Parekh, Sudhir Patwardhan and D.L.N. Reddy travelled to Germany and Italy, where they attended an Indo-German Artists Workshop in Braunschweig and to Tuscany in a trip led by Arwed Gorella. An exhibition of their work ‘Indische Malerei Der Gegenwart’ was shown in Worpswede, Hanover, Hamburg and Bayreuth. In 1983, seven German artists— Johannes Brus, Arwed Gorella, Inge Mahn, Peter Nagel, Hinnerk Schrader, Peter Tuma and Ulli Weiss— attended a workshop at the KAC initiated by Seigfried Neuenhausen and exhibited their work at the Rabindra Bhavan in Delhi. Navina Sundaram travelled with the German artists to Ajanta, Ellora, Baroda and to Kasauli for the documentary film titled ‘Summer Guests: A report on an unusual encounter in the Himalayas’.
