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AFRAH SHAFIQ CREATES A LIVING ARCHIVE INSPIRED BY EMBROIDERY TRADITIONS AND THE WOMEN BEHIND THEM, ACROSS TIME AND CULTURES

In a world where women’s labour largely remains invisible, artist Afrah Shafiq reimagines the humble sampler, an often hidden piece of cloth used by countless women to practice embroidery patterns, as a way to record and map embroidery traditions, arithmetic logic, and coded languages embedded in motifs across time and cultures, in a deeply personal … Continued

IMBALANCE OF ECOLOGY : DEEPAK KUMAR

Deepak Kumar welcomes us into a studio he once only imagined. Tucked within Kaladham, the space serves as both a home and a laboratory

DESIGNERS WE LOVE: Morii Design

India-based studio Morii Design works between craft, intuition, and collective memory. In its practice, embroidery becomes language, time unfolds through process, and inherited knowledge is made present through the hands of many.

Triveni at 75: Sustaining a Living Culture in the Capital

In this special conversation marking 75 years of Triveni’s journey, we sit down with Amar Shridharani, Honorary General Secretary of Triveni and son of its founder, who has preserved and extended his mother’s mission with impeccable commitment. In a candid dialogue, Amar reflects on legacy, architecture, openness, and what it means to sustain a space that remains at once intimate, experimental and fiercely true to its founding vision.

The Work of Remembering

Artist Amol K Patil welcomes us into Project 88, where A Forest of Remembrance unfolds as a space of listening—carrying histories of labour, movement, and resistance across the city.

The Performative Body: Explorations of Space and Time by Arun B.

Arun B. grew up in Kadirur, a village in Thalassery, Kannur District in Kerala, which has a deep connection with the origin of the oldest martial art Kalaripayatu–Kalari and Theyyam–with sounds of chenda, their rituals, chants, colour, dialogues, and materials that they use to create an environment. Later, when he moved to Baroda, the shift … Continued

DESIGNERS WE LOVE: Ghiora Aharoni

New York based artist, Ghiora Aharoni works between cultures, scripts and lived histories. In his practice language becomes form, time bends and inherited memory is made present.

DESIGNERS WE LOVE: PRIYANKA SHAH | SHED

Founded in 2014, SHED operates as a space for enquiry rather than a conventional studio, moving fluidly across furniture, objects, play systems and small architectural works. The studio’s work occupies a territory between the domestic and the speculative, recalibrating familiar forms—tables, game boards and storage pieces—through material experimentation, precise craftsmanship and a questioning of convention. … Continued

Memory, Domesticity, and the Politics of the Visual in Farhin Afza’s work

For Hyderabad-based artist Farhin Afza, family archives are not inert records but living sites where memory, comfort, and violence collide

DESIGNERS WE LOVE: DHRUV AGARWWAL

Ahead of his presentation at India Art Fair 2026, presented through Galerie Maria Wettergren, we speak to Dhruv Agarwwal about nostalgia as a driving force behind his design language, the role of scale in his work and what it means to build contemporary relevance without disconnecting craft from its source

“I AM AN ARTIST BECAUSE I AM A PAINTER” : NILIMA SHEIKH

Artist Nilima Sheikh welcomes us into her home and studio in Baroda, where painting becomes a way of carrying stories across time, place, and memory.

WHO’S ASLEEP AND WHO’S AWAKE: SUDARSHAN SHETTY

Artist Sudarshan Shetty welcomes us into his Mumbai studio, where objects, images, and constructed worlds are brought into careful relation.

Invisible Infrastructures and the Workings of a World Unseen : Shreni

Artist Shreni works with digital systems and speculative ecologies to uncover the invisible infrastructures that sustain urban life. This film traces her process—from foraging data and texture in Mumbai to building a large-scale video installation that imagines what it might look like when a city remembers.

BANGLES & MUSHROOMS: DUMIDUNI ILLANGASINGHE on Fragility, Femininity and Healing

Sri Lankan – born artist Dumiduni Illangasinghe works slowly, attentively, and with deep emotional precision. Currently based in Varanasi, Illangasinghe moves between a formal studio at Banaras Hindu University and temporary, improvised setups in her dorm room. The shift between these spaces mirror her practice – oscillating between material experimentation and inward reflection, between structure and vulnerability.

THE LOGIC OF WONDER: SHAILESH BR

In this BMW Artist Film, Shailesh BR invites us into his world of invention and satire, to challenge belief, choice and the structures that quietly govern our lives.

WHERE I WORK : Mohd. Intiyaz

In a modest home studio filled with art and nostalgia, Mohd. Intiyaz resurrects the lives of forgotten children. In these raw, unflinching portraits that reflect his own migrant past, every brushstroke becomes an act of remembrance and quiet rebellion against a world that looks away.

THE POETRY OF TIME

Humans since 1982 presents The Poetry of Time, the studio’s first solo exhibition in India, opening 19 March 2026 at 079|STORIES in Ahmedabad. Founded in 2009 by Bastian Bischoff (Germany) and Per Emanuelsson (Sweden), Humans since 1982 operates at the intersection of design, art, and technology, exploring temporality as a material for conceptual expression. The … Continued

March 19-April 4, 2026

079|STORIES in Ahmedabad, Gujarat

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY OPEN CALL

Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation presents the second edition of its International Photography Open Call showcase that brings together visual art and photography works in two public exhibitions powered by SIGMA and supported by VR Chennai, Greater Chennai Corporation, and Avtar Foundation for the Arts. The result of an open call, the exhibitions feature a range … Continued

March 15-April 5, 2026

Multiple locations, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

No ‘One’ Maker: Textiles as Community

No ‘One’ Maker: Textiles as Community is a group show, curated by Sreyansi Singh, explores how contemporary textile-making embodies the spirit of collectivism and solidarity through an equal exchange between indigenous practitioners and cross-disciplinary collaborators. The exhibition proposes an alternate way of making that integrates indigenous knowledge, sensitivities, and interests through shared experimentation and reciprocity … Continued

3-8 April, 2026

Inherited Arts Forum, Bikaner House, New Delhi

Jaya Ganguly: A Retrospective (1982–2025)

The Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), in collaboration with Art Magnum presents, Jaya Ganguly: A Retrospective (1982–2025), celebrating over four decades of the artist’s practice. Curated by Rakhi Sarkar, this retrospective brings together a comprehensive view of Jaya Ganguly’s evolving visual language, tracing key phases of her artistic journey, and highlighting her distinctive approach … Continued

2-9 April, 2026

IFBE, Ballard Estate, Fort Mumbai

GREEN WEAPONS: SARA ABBASIAN

Vida Heydari Contemporary presents, Green Weapons, a solo exhibition by Sara Abbasian. The works examine camouflage as both a military strategy, rooted in warfare, and a visual language of power. Through the lens of survival, invisibility is an active force rather than an absence, Abbasian isolates and recontextualizes weapon camouflage systems, drawing attention to their … Continued

March 7-April 11, 2026

Vida Heydari Contemporary, Marvel Alaina, Koregaon Park, Pune, India

Studiolo Collection. Candela A. Soldevilla

Instituto Cervantes New Delhi hosts the exhibition Studiolo Collection. Candela A. Soldevilla , as part of the “Women-led art collection in Spain” programme. This exhibition features 42 works by different artists using different techniques, where the head as the creator, container and transmitter of human thought, takes center stage. Throughout history, the head has been … Continued

February 2-April 12, 2026

INSTITUTO CERVANTES, 48 HANUMAN ROAD, CONNAUGHT PLACE, NEW DELHI, India

Portraits in Time: Power, Presence, and Identity Across Centuries : Group Show

Presented by Great Banyan Art at Bikaner House, Portraits in Time: Power, Presence, and Identity Across Centuries brings together fifty works spanning centuries and geographies, creating a cross-continental, cross-century conversation on representation. Curated by Sonali Batra, the exhibition traces the evolution of the human face as a site of expression, power, and memory, approaching portraiture … Continued

9-15 April, 2026

Bikaner House, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Ekāgratā: S.H. Raza

Akar Prakar presents Ekāgratā, a solo show of works by the much-loved and celebrated artist S.H. Raza, at their Delhi space. For artist SH Raza, painting was an act of meditation, an immersion into colour, memory and inner knowledge. The concept of absolute concentration on a singular point of focus, Ekāgratā, was a central theme … Continued

March 18-April 17, 2026

Akar Prakar, D 43, Block D, Defence Colony, New Delhi, India

BARODA ANNUELLE 2026: GROUP SHOW

Gallery WHITE presents, Baroda Annuelle, now in its fifth edition, turning its attention to a younger generation of artists who have recently graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University, Vadodara and have continued living and practising in the city. Foregrounding the work of Ayantika Sajwal, Abela Ruben, and Manonita Karar, the exhibition reflects … Continued

March 28-April 17, 2026

Gallery White, Vadodara

VOCABULARIES OF A SHIFTING LANDSCAPE: PAVAN KAVITKAR

193 Gallery presents, Vocabularies of a Shifting Landscape, works by Pavan Kavitkar, engaging with landscapes that are neither utterly untouched nor destroyed, but continuously modified. Measured, divided, and rebuilt through human intervention, the works represent scapes as environments we inhabit and inherit. Rendered in watercolours, oil colours, and gouache, drawing on a strong technique based … Continued

January 31-April 18, 2026

193 Gallery, 24 rue Béranger, 75003 Paris, France

ALMOST KNOWN: PUSHPA KUMARI

Chemould Colab presents, Almost Known, the first solo exhibition of works by Pushpa Kumari. The works in the exhibition were made during Kumari’s  2025 Summer–Monsoon Residency cycle at Chemould Colab where she spent time exploring sensitivity as a force beyond identity through her practice. Working with mediums such as ink, watercolour and pencil, she shapes … Continued

March 12-April 18, 2026 6:00 pm

Chemould Colab, Colaba, Mumbai

OF FIRE-HARPOONS: KAVERI RAINA

Experimenter presents of fire-harpoons, Kaveri Raina’s debut solo exhibition in India that brings together a new body of works. Raina’s paintings on burlap evoke the corporeality of past tales–both witnessed and imagined. She transforms the agrarian material into a diaphanous screen, layering acrylic with loose graphite, oil paint, and pastel. Abstracted forms drawn from personal. … Continued

March 12-April 18, 2026

Experimenter, Colaba, Mumbai

The Quiet Never Lies Empty

Akara Contemporary presents The Quiet Never Lies Empty, a solo show by artist Saanthia Bulchandani. Through a series of monochrome ink drawings, artist Bulchandani deliberately withholds explicit causes behind her subjects’ emotional landscape, creating an open invitation for viewers to project their own narratives and inhabit uncertainty. Find out more about the show here

March 13-April 18, 2026

Akara Contemporary, 3C Amarchand Mansion, 2nd Floor, 16 Madam Cama Road, Colaba, Mumbai

Unmapped Pauses : Group Show

Gallery Espace presents Unmapped Pauses, a group exhibition exploring the fluid relationship between image, meaning, and perception. Bringing together diverse immediate art practices, the exhibition reflects on transnational identities, labour, gender, caste, and the shifting dynamics of visibility and sound. The works invite viewers to inhabit moments of pause—between seeing and understanding, presence and absence—while … Continued

March 20-April 20, 2026

Gallery Espace, 16, Community Centre, New Friends Colony, New Delhi, Delhi, India

SPACE MAKING: MAKING SPACE : GROUP SHOW

Gallery Art Motif presents Space Making: Making Space, a group exhibition curated by Mumbai-based interior architect and exhibition designer Kunal Shah. Bringing together a diverse constellation of artists, architects, and designers, the exhibition explores how space is conceived, constructed, inhabited, and reimagined. From models that abstract components of the domestic realm, paintings and sculptures that … Continued

March 21-April 25, 2026

Gallery Art Motif, A1-178 Safdarjung Enclave, Fourth Floor, New Delhi

INNER SANCTUMS: GROUP SHOW

Art Musings presents, Inner Sanctums, a group exhibition featuring works by Jayasri Burman, Smriti Dixit, Shilo Shiv Suleman, and Rakhee Shenoy. Exploring the idea of looking within, these sanctums aren’t walled rooms but feelings just below the surface, where instinct, memory, and imagination come together. With paintings, textiles, tapestries, and assemblages, the materiality of the works … Continued

March 10-April 25, 2026

Art Musings, Admiralty House, Colaba Cross Lane, Mumbai