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.

Come Eat With Us?: Group Show

SAC Art Amsterdam in partnership with Art and Charlie presents Come Eat With Us? the works of Deepak Dhiman, Reem Masri, Savia Lopes, and Yogesh Barve. The exhibition brings together narratives of domesticity, identity, community, memory, loss, resilience, and joy. Through painting, sculpture, and image-making, the works explore how personal and collective experiences intersect, inviting … Continued

June 5-July 5, 2026

SAC Art Amsterdam, Panamakade 200, Amsterdam, Netherlands

She: Group Show

The Pristine Contemporary presents She, a group show featuring seven women artists from the subcontinent— Afina Ashraf, Alishba Binte Faysal, Jahnvi Singh Rohet, Krisha Bhuva, Mahnoor Salman Khan, Mays Al Moosawi, and Pem Lham. The artists explore a woman as a force who evolves through love, labour, memory, and selfhood, often negotiating between roles without … Continued

May 25-July 5, 2026

Pristine Contemporary, New Delhi

Sukoot ≠ Uzr | Silence Is Not An Apology: Nur Mahammad

Anupa Mehta Contemporary Art presents Sukoot ≠ Uzr | Silence Is Not An Apology, a debut solo exhibition of Nur Mahammad. The exhibition explores identity, displacement, memory, and belongingness through the lens of silence as an architecture of landscape. Drawing from Indo-Islamic design and Persian miniature traditions, it brings historical visual languages into conversation with … Continued

June 11-July 9, 2026

Anupa Mehta Contemporary Art, Colaba, Mumbai

Alchemy of Absolute Intimacy: Sayanee Sarkar

Emami Art presents Alchemy of Absolute Intimacy, Sayanee Sarkar’s solo exhibition. Through a series of paintings on canvas, paper, and wood panels, the artist explores ideas of body, gesture, and intimacy. The exhibition reflects on intimacy as a space of emotion, memory, and connection,  allowing us to think about presence, absence, and the many ways … Continued

May 22-July 10, 2026

Galleries 2 & 3, Ground Floor, Emami Art, Kolkata

Bombay Blooms – Six Paintings: Lady Winifred Strangman

sub:continent presents Bombay Blooms, an exhibition of works by Lady Winifred Strangman, curated by Ruta Waghmare Baptista. The exhibition highlights the artist’s close observation of Bombay’s flora and fauna, rendered in true-to-life colours and rich detail. The art works reflect Strangman’s engagement with the natural world, while archival material and a historical timeline situates her … Continued

May 30-July 10, 2026

sub:continent, Azad Maidan, Fort, Mumbai

An Ancient Ballad : Group Show

Emami Art presents An Ancient Ballad, a group exhibition featuring artists, L.M. Sen, K. C. Pyne, Arunima Choudhury, Ajit Kumar Das, Alakananda Sengupta, Chandra Bhattacharjee, Partha Dasgupta, Raja Boro, Rahul Sarkar, Sayandeep Kangsabanik, Subrata Biswas, and Tapas Biswas. The exhibition is an archive of decisions taken by these artists to engage with their process of … Continued

May 22-July 10, 2026

Emami Art, Kolkata

The Way You Like It: Thisath Thoradeniya

Saskia Fernando Gallery presents The Way You Like It, a solo exhibition by Thisath Thoradeniya. The exhibition unfolds as a play dreamt on paper. Through expressions of warmth, suspense, humor, and fear, Thoradeniya considers the human condition as an absurd theatre. The works navigate moments of uncertainty and recognition, while remaining conscious of the impossibility … Continued

June 11-July 11, 2026

Saskia Fernando Gallery, Srilanka

Rahula, a Translucent History: Ashwin Badodiya

Strangers House Gallery presents Rahula, a Translucent History, a solo exhibition by Ashwin Badodiya. The work traces the life of Buddha and the emancipatory legacy of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar through Japanese wash technique, using translucent layers of watercolour. Badodiya highlights themes of suffering, social justice, through Buddha’s personal narratives shaped by loss, self-teaching, and … Continued

June 11-July 12, 2026

Strangers House Gallery, Colaba, Mumbai

Neo Urban Avatar: Birendra Pani

IIC Art Gallery, in collaboration with Purushottam Public Trust, presents Neo Urban Avatar: A Mythopoesis of the Contemporary Times: II, a solo exhibition by Birendra Pani. The exhibition features 35 paintings, drawings, and prints, rooted in Indian aesthetic traditions. The art works reflect on the changing conditions of contemporary life through a mythopoetic lens, where … Continued

1-14 July, 2026

IIC Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi

Eastward – Explorations Along Mumbai’s Eastern Seaboard: Sunhil Sippy

Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke presents Eastward: Explorations Along Mumbai’s Eastern Seaboard, Sunhil Sippy’s solo exhibition. Drawn from an archive developed over more than a decade, the photographs engage with questions of time and landscape, revealing overlooked worlds along Mumbai’s eastern edge. Moving between analog and digital processes, the works bring into view sites shaped by … Continued

May 15-July 15, 2026

Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Ballard Estate, Mumbai

There Are Rivers in the Sky: Saruha Kilaru

Shridharani Art Gallery, Triveni presents There Are Rivers in the Sky, a solo exhibition by Saruha Kilaru. The exhibition explores water as memory, an enduring presence that carries traces of landscapes, ecologies, histories, and lived experience across time. Working across glass, textiles, printmaking, sculpture, and installation, Kilaru’s practice reflects on perception, materiality, and the interconnectedness … Continued

11-17 July, 2026

Shridharani Art Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, Tansen Marg, New Delhi

Mimesis: Thukral & Tagra

Ashvita’s presents Mimesis, a new body of work by Thukral & Tagra. The work reflects on the translation of lived moments into pixels, bars, and fragmented visual forms, bringing together the material language of painting as an art form, and the abstractions of digital systems. It explores questions of intimacy, surveillance, care, and human presence, … Continued

June 5-July 17, 2026

Ashvita's, Chennai

The Self, Speaking: Group Show

Art Explore presents The Self, Speaking, a group exhibition bringing together six artists, Mansha Bedi, Avani Bakaya, Nisha Manavi, Sangeeta Grover, Sangeeta Singh, and Shivani Garg. The exhibition explores how inner lives are shaped by contemporary living, with each artist approaching selfhood as something continually made, assembled, situated, and alive to its time. Find out … Continued

2-18 July, 2026

Art Explore, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi

Dear Tiger: Zimbiri

Nature Morte presents Dear Tiger, solo exhibition by Bhutanese contemporary artist Zimbiri. The exhibition reflects on the ways identity is shaped, inherited, performed, and transformed through lived environments. Drawing upon traditional Bhutanese materials, the works weave together personal histories, cultural memory, and symbolic imagery. Tigers and deer recur throughout the exhibition, becoming metaphors for the … Continued

June 11-July 18, 2026

Nature Morte, Colaba, Mumbai

Never Was a Shade: Group Show

Project 88 presents Never Was a Shade, a group exhibition curated by Prajna Desai. Bringing together contemporary artists through an open call, the exhibition reflects on the existential power of trees, considering their persistence, presence, and influence beyond human needs. Inspired by ideas of “tree-ishness,” the project explores how trees shape our understanding of beauty, … Continued

May 14-July 18, 2026

Project 88, Colaba, Mumbai

A Winter Summer: Sohrab Hura

Experimenter presents, A Winter Summer, Sohrab Hura’s solo exhibition that brings together seminal bodies of work Snow and The Song of Sparrows in a Hundred Days of Summer alongside Land of a Thousand Struggles and Pati. Emerging from different seasons, places, and moments—A Winter Summer examines the contrasts and connections that both divide and unite them, while revealing the layers of contradiction, deceit, … Continued

April 24-July 18, 2026

Experimenter, Colaba, Mumbai