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TEXT: YUKTI V. AGARWAL On a characteristically sultry, overwhelmingly humid day, armed with a flask of ice-cold water and a few protein bars, we attempted to navigate what felt like an impossible amount of art in a single visit. Across studios, classrooms, corridors, and exhibition spaces, we encountered an astonishing range of practices: works grappling … Continued
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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
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Deepak Kumar welcomes us into a studio he once only imagined. Tucked within Kaladham, the space serves as both a home and a laboratory
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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For Hyderabad-based artist Farhin Afza, family archives are not inert records but living sites where memory, comfort, and violence collide
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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
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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.
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Artist Sudarshan Shetty welcomes us into his Mumbai studio, where objects, images, and constructed worlds are brought into careful relation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Art Exposure presents Postcards and More, a solo exhibition of Nandalal Bose’s masterpieces. The exhibition offers an intimate glimpse into the artist’s everyday practice through works created on postcards—spaces where observation, experimentation, and personal expression converge. These works illuminate the breadth of Bose’s creative vision, revealing how the poetic sensibility that informed his monumental achievements … Continued
3-28 July, 2026
Art Exposure, Kolkata
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Chemould Prescott Road presents Asymmetrical Synthesis, a solo exhibition by Prabhakar Kolte, curated by Jesal Thacker. The exhibition brings together Kolte’s recent paintings alongside writings, poems, lectures and archival videos, offering a glimpse into the artist’s creative journey. Through these works, the artist explores the coexistence of contrasting ideas without seeking balance or resolution. Find … Continued
9-29 July, 2026
Chemould Prescott Road, Fort, Mumbai
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The Light and the Lotus: Relics of the Awakened One presents a landmark exhibition centred on the sacred Piprahwa relics of Lord Buddha. Marking the historic reunification of ancient gem relics repatriated to India after 127 years with authentic archaeological materials from the ancient Kapilavastu site, the exhibition brings together more than eighty objects spanning … Continued
January 3-July 31, 2026 9:00 am — 8:30 pm
Rai Pithora Cultural Complex, Mehrauli, New Delhi
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Muziris Contemporary presents Holding Space, a group exhibition featuring works by Jofre Oliveras, Angel Baiju, Anikesa Dhing, Harsimran C. Juneja, Meera George, and Chacko. The exhibition examines the ways private convictions shape public spaces, institutions, and lived realities. Through diverse perspectives and visual languages, the works considers faith as a series of negotiations unfolding across … Continued
June 11-July 31, 2026
Muziris Contemporary, Colaba, Mumbai
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Milaaya Art Gallery presents Antar, a group exhibition featuring embroidered interpretations of works by Seema Kohli, Jagannath Panda, Ranbir Kaleka, Waswo X. Waswo, Viraj Mithani, Shaurya Kumar, and others. The exhibition reimagines contemporary artworks through the medium of hand embroidery, highlighting it as a powerful vehicle for storytelling, inviting viewers to engage with questions of … Continued
June 20-July 31, 2026
Milaaya Art Gallery, Kemps Corner, Mumbai
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Art Musings presents Ephemeral, an exhibition featuring works by Ajay Dhandre and Krishnendu Porel. The exhibition reflects on what it means to be human in a time when neither the past nor the present can be fully held onto. Bringing the practices of the two artists into dialogue, Ephemeral engages with questions of existence, memory, … Continued
June 5-July 31, 2026
Art Musings, Colaba, Mumbai
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Kalakaar presents Intimate Gestures: Indian Masters on Paper, bringing together works on paper by modern and contemporary Indian masters, F. N. Souza, M. F. Husain, Ganesh Pyne, A. Ramachandran, Nilima Sheikh, Prabhakar Barwe, and many more. The exhibition shifts attention to paper as a site of experimentation, immediacy, refinement, and direct expression, as a vital … Continued
May 29-July 31, 2026
Kalakaar, Defence Colony, New Delhi
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GR Gallery presents Made To Appear, a two-person exhibition featuring new bodies of work by Viraj Khanna and Brian Robertson. The exhibition considers how contemporary life is increasingly shaped by performance, perception, and image-making. Through embroidery, painting, and material experimentation, the artists navigate the space between lived experience and constructed narratives, inviting reflection on social … Continued
June 18-August 1, 2026
GR gallery, New York
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Vida Heydari Contemporary presents What Remains Tender, a two-person exhibition featuring Samim Alam Beg and Vivek V C. The exhibition reflects on memory, persistence, moving between what is held and what is lost, what persists and what recedes, building a space shaped by attention, resonance, and the quiet act of persistence. Together, the artists trace … Continued
June 20-August 1, 2026
Vida Heydari Contemporary, Koregaon Park, Pune
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Blueprint12 and Space118 Art Foundation present The Shifting of Silence, a group exhibition featuring 32 emerging contemporary artists from across India. Amid growing upheavals and constant noise, the artists, their works, and the exhibition turn towards the fragile intelligence of natural systems, inviting viewers to listen more closely to what is changing, what is disappearing, … Continued
July 30-August 2, 2026
LTC Building, Bikaner House, New Delhi
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TRI Art & Culture in association with Vadehra Art Gallery presents Hand Prints / Mind Prints, a retrospective of Gulammohammed Sheikh’s lifelong engagement with printmaking, curated by Pushpamala N. The exhibition traces Sheikh’s practice across woodcut, linocut, lithography, etching-aquatint, silkscreen, and digital media spanning seven decades. The art works foreground printmaking as a site of … Continued
May 29-August 2, 2026
TRI Art & Culture, Ballygunge, Kolkata
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Dhi Contemporary presents Protocols of Living, a group exhibition featuring works by Gayathri T Santosh, Prajwal Naitam, Soumen Ray, and Subhendu Karmakar. The exhibition examines themes of alienation, displacement, reflecting on the visible and invisible systems, structures, and habits that shape contemporary existence, in everyday life. Find out more about the exhibition here.
June 20-August 3, 2026
Dhi Contemporary, Bodhi House, Madhapur, Hyderabad
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APRE Art House presents Hunar | هنر, a group exhibition featuring works by Marium Agha, Masuma Halai Khwaja, Abid Aslam, Arieno Kera, and Zahra Mansoor. Taking its title from Allama Iqbal’s concept of hunar, skill understood not as technical accomplishment alone but as the spiritual force through which civilisations survive, the exhibition explores the image as an active … Continued
July 9-August 7, 2026
APRE Art House, Colaba, Mumbai
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Vadehra Art Gallery presents Towards Minor Gestures: Intensities In The Making, a group exhibition featuring the 2024 recipients of the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) Emerging Artists Award (EAA+). Bringing together practices shaped through a peer-led model of dialogue, exchange, mentorship, and making, the exhibition spans image-making, space-making, research, documentation, and participatory encounters. The … Continued
July 8-August 7, 2026
Vadehra Art Gallery, Defence Colony, New Delhi
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Prameya Art Foundation presents The Wall is Water at Shrine Empire Gallery. It is Shahana Rajani’s first solo presentation in the country, with Ustad Abdul Aziz, Abdul Sattar and Aziza Ahmad, curated by Anushka Rajendran. The exhibition foregrounds the mystic practices and lineages of drawing and painting through which fishing communities of the Indus Delta keep … Continued
July 7-August 8, 2026
Prameya Art Foundation at Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi
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Gallery Art & Soul, in collaboration with Strangers’ House Gallery, presents Mati, Prof. Prakash Bhise’s retrospective solo exhibition. The exhibition features a selection of monumental abstract canvases curated by Sumesh Sharma, with advisory support from Prabhakar Kamble and Bhushan Bhombale, Bhise’s students. Bhise turns the narrative towards our roots, reflecting on how we wash and … Continued
July 21-August 11, 2026
Gallery Art & Soul, Worli, Mumbai
