AN INDIAN ART LOVER’S GUIDE TO THE 60TH VENICE BIENNALE
India’s great modernists and path-breaking contemporary artists will be on view at the oldest and largest international art biennale in the world
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India’s great modernists and path-breaking contemporary artists will be on view at the oldest and largest international art biennale in the world
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We meet Bhuri Bai, one of India’s best known contemporary Bhil artists at her workspace in the Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum
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India’s first Magnum photographer, Raghu Rai welcomes us to his workspace and sanctuary in New Delhi where he makes music out of images
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Photo-based artist Prasiit Sthapit tells stories of South Asia’s borderlines and contemporary Nepal
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Hannah Cecil Gurney, Director of de Gournay tells us about the time-honoured craft practices that define the global design house’s work
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Installation artist Asim Waqif welcomes us to his New Delhi studio, home to the residues of past projects and a laboratory for future experiments
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The aesthetic sensibilities of Mumbai-born architect Ashiesh Shah pays homage to craft through imaginative innovation
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From art and architecture to hidden gems – our insider guide to India’s ‘City of Dreams’
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We visit T. Venkanna’s home-studio in Hyderabad where the artist creates potent paintings and prints that expose the violence and beauty of the world around him
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Mumbai-based Sadhna Prasad tells us how ‘displacement’ drives her colourful and fantastical practice. Enter her alternate reality through the film and download the special artist poster below
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Sound-artist Myles and graphic designer Ameya have come together to create an immersive digital environment celebrating the biodiversity of India. Watch the film to get a glimpse into their collaboration and download a special artist poster below
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Artist and writer Dhruv Jani runs independent video game studio, Studio Oleomingus, along with creative coder Sushant Chakaraborty. Watch this film to learn how they retell colonial narratives through video games and download their playable artist poster below
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Multi-media artist Sashikanth Thavudoz shares his perspectives on materiality, the land and ‘Forwardism’
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Mumbai-born Gunjan Gupta’s design practice is deeply experimental but always rooted in the crafting traditions prevalent in the Indian subcontinent
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New media artist Afrah Shafiq joins us from her studio in a 90-year-old Indo-Portuguese style house in lush Goa
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Helmed by Creative Director Karishma Swali, Chanakya School of Craft and Chanakya International are exemplary in their elevation, restoration, and revitalization of Indian craft techniques
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Emami Art presents Not a Dream, Not Peace, Not Love, a solo exhibition of recent works by Kolkata based painter Arindam Chatterjee. Chatterjee is known for his highly experimental and critical works, reflecting our fragile existence in a time of mindless violence, anomie, arbitrary power rule and repression. The paintings in the exhibition show his highly … Continued
February 23-April 30, 2024
Emami Art, Fifth Floor, 777, Anandapur, Adarsha Nagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Exhibit320 presents Imaging Arriving Departing, a group show featuring works by artists Arpita Akhanda, Akshata Mokashi, Jayati Kaushik, Sukanya Ghosh and Yasmin Jahan Nupur. Curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki, the exhibition threads together the ideas and manifestations of imaging as points of arrival and departure. It spotlights the language possible outside of the images which can also … Continued
March 21-April 30, 2024
Exhibit 320, F-320, Lado Sarai, New Delhi-110030
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Tao Art Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition titled So Be It, featuring the works of multi-disciplinary artist Kisalay Vora. The exhibition showcases a culmination of Vora’s introspective journey and artistic exploration and invites viewers to immerse themselves in the artist’s profound reflections and honest artistic expressions. Through a collection of mixed-media pieces, … Continued
April 5-May 1, 2024
Tao Art Gallery, 165, The View, Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Art Musings presents Braided, showcasing works in mixed media by contemporary Indian photographer Sheetal Mallar. Going back to her core relationships, the artist looks at loss and how memories function. The work is about revealing these layers, using photography, drawings and text that remains an ongoing dialogue between her and her mother. The exhibition also … Continued
April 11-May 2, 2024
Art Musings, # 1, Admiralty Building, Colaba Cross Lane, Mumbai, India
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Galerie ISA presents Asa Nisi Masa, a solo exhibition of works by German painter Michael Kunze. The artist’s large scale works are highly complex, layered in meaning and metaphor. His use of light is transcendent in chiaroscuro and his architectonic landscapes are meant to induce shock and awe. The perceptions of Kunze’s works range from futuristic … Continued
March 14-May 2, 2024
Galerie ISA, Ground Floor, Kamani Chambers, Ramji Kamani Marg, Ballard Estate, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Srishti Art Gallery is pleased to present Phantasm, a group exhibition which features works by six contemporary artists across India: Devika Sundar, Harisha Chennangod, Ketaki Pimpalkhare, Rithika Merchant, Sashikant Thavudoz and Unnikrishnan C. Curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki, the show delves into the power of imagination to transcend and transform. It reflects on how art can … Continued
March 31-May 5, 2024
SRISHTI ART GALLERY, No. 267, Road no: 15 Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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The Arts Family London and 079|STORIES, Ahmedabad are delighted to present Con/temporality: Contemporary Aesthetics in Our Times, a selection of South Asian artists celebrating the dynamic spirit of contemporary artistic practices of the region. The show features 10 artists shortlisted for the recent TAF Emerging Artist Award (2nd edition), including three finalists. The exhibition showcases … Continued
April 19-May 10, 2024
079|STORIES, Opp. Shashwat Bungalows, Rajpath Rangoli Road, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad, India
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Gallery Espace is proud to present Cloud Pruning, Valay Gada’s debut solo show at the gallery. The exhibition features recent drawings, sculpture in metal, ceramics and fibre, and an interactive audio-video installation in a bathtub. Created over the past year, the works in the show reflect the artist’s feelings of anxiety and uncertainty, transformed by … Continued
April 5-May 11, 2024
Gallery Espace, 16, Community Center, Near Surya Hotel, Sujan Mahindra Road, New Friends Colony, New Delhi, India
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Nature Morte is proud to present Metamorphosis, a new body of works by Italy born artist Lorenzo Vitturi who works in photography, sculpture, and installation. The exhibition features gigantic soft sculptures floating from above as well as small and delicate still-lifes containing fractal patterns and geometries. These particular works trace back to the artist’s biographical … Continued
March 23-May 11, 2024
Nature Morte, Dhanraj Mahal, Block A, Third Floor Apollo Bandar, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Shrine Empire is pleased to present I have so much poetry inside me, but it is in the wrong language, a solo exhibition curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi featuring works by Chris Basumatary. Basumatary’s practice is inspired by the ideas of corporeality and nature. Through the surfaces of flesh, water, and stone his work presents a … Continued
April 11-May 11, 2024
Shrine Empire, D 395, Lower Basement, Defence Colony New Delhi, India
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Method Kala Ghoda is delighted to present Mute/Unmute a group exhibition featuring artists from across the country. The show emerges as an exploration of the present and the absent, and how that defines perception and anticipation. It scrutinizes the nuanced messaging underlying the presentation of muted and unmuted elements. Find out more about the show … Continued
April 20-May 26, 2024
Method Kala Ghoda, 86, Nagindas Master Rd, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents Crossing Over, a collection by Italian artist and architect Vincenzo De Cotiis that constructs a contemporary urban imagery. Crossing Over builds its urban aesthetic through monochrome colours, graphic gestures and geometric forms. Via a process of reclamation, recycled fibreglass, glass, stone and metal are combined into new assemblies, metamorphosing into deeply poetic … Continued
February 27-May 30, 2024
Carpenters Workshop Gallery, 7070 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States of America
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Chawla Art Gallery presents Spring Soiree, a solo exhibition with works by Ganapati Hegde. Bursting with native flora and fauna—plants, flowers, birds, animals, and insects, the bright and colourful paintings reveal a buoyant and affirmative portrayal of the natural world, infused with the artists personal style. Find out more about the show here.
April 6-May 31, 2024
Chawla Art Gallery, Square One Mall, Saket, New Delhi, India
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Palette Art Gallery presents Paradise Regained, a group show featuring works by 10 artists, all of whom are delving into the theme of nature. The exhibition consists of a suite of detailed paintings showcasing landscapes that have been mined and re-envisioned as the memoirs of experience as well as fantasy. The show tells the viewers that we … Continued
April 24-June 1, 2024
Palette Art Gallery, 14 Golf Links, New Delhi, India
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Galerie ISA is proud to present Shadows and Light, a dual artist show by London-born Lewis Brander and New Delhi-born Vipeksha Gupta. Using primarily the medium of painting, both artists’ process is multi-layered in palette, in texture and in meaning. Distinct in their approaches and oeuvres, what unites the two young artists is an exploration … Continued
April 11-June 1, 2024
Galerie Isa 9, Kamani Chambers, Ground Floor, Ramji Kamani Marg, Ballard Estate, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Vida Heydari Contemporary is pleased present InDNA, an exhibition which brings together works by two contemporary artists – Lu Xinjian and Zhang Ji in India. Drawing upon references from both religious and secular traditions of Indian architecture and philosophy, the show highlights the artists’ transcending relationship with a geographically distant culture as made manifest in … Continued
March 16-June 16, 2024
Vida Heydari Contemporary, Marvel Alaine, Lane 8, Koregaon Park, Pune, India