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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.

INDIA ART FAIR ART TOUR GUIDES TRAINING PROGRAMME 2025-2026

Apply now to be part of our Art Tour Guides Training Programme designed and conducted by Shaleen Wadhwana. Become part of the Public Art Tours team during India Art Fair 2026 (IAF) and guide diverse audiences from across the globe. Learn from the IAF team’s vast experience! WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR? If you are: … Continued

On Quilting, Kinship, and Quiet Resistance in North Karnataka

Can a quilt be a site of belonging? A prayer? A protest? For Bangalore-based artist – art historian Anitha Reddy and the community of Siddi women she works with, the answer is yes.
We sat down with Anitha Reddy to trace the contours of her community-centered artistic practice and her work with the Siddi women in Uttara Kannada

SWALI CRAFT PRIZE | 2025 – 2026

Karishma Swali and the Chanakya Foundation, in partnership with India Art Fair, are honoured to present The Swali Craft Prize – an homage to the enduring and evolving language of craft. Grounded in technical mastery, conceptual depth, cultural resonance, and sustainable impact, the prize recognises craftsmanship as a precise skill and a profound mode of … Continued

COMMUNITY BUILDING AS ARTISTIC PRACTICE: KARACHI LAJAMIA

Co-founders of the experimental pedagogical project, Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani tell us what it means to make work from within community life.

FROM VERSE TO VELVET : ANITA DUBE

In this BMW Artist Film, we meet conceptual artist Anita Dube, whose journey from art historian and critic has been marked by a commitment to personal expression, materiality, and a deep engagement with social histories.

CITY AS MUSE : SOONI TARAPOREVALA

In this BMW Artist Film, Sooni Taraporevala invites us to trace Bombay’s layered histories through her lens, uncovering the stories that continue to shape her work. 

India Art Fair and the South Asian contemporary art boom

Since its inception in 2008, India Art Fair has been a champion of the region’s artists, galleries and arts initiatives. Fair Director, Jaya Asokan takes us through the fair’s legacy.

HUMA BHABHA ON SCULPTING CORK AND BRONZE

We speak to US-based artist Huma Bhabha about how she makes and sees her monumental ‘monstrous’ sculptures

DESIGNERS WE LOVE: STUDIO RAW MATERIAL

We speak to Dushyant Bansal and Priyanka Sharma of Studio Raw Material about their design philosophy rooted in regional specificity, collaboration and improvisation

ARTIST DUO CREATES IMMERSIVE MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATIONS INSPIRED BY BIOLUMINESCENCE: NON-LINEAR AND CURSORAMA

We speak to the winners of the 2025 ‘The Future is Born of Art’ Commission, led by BMW India and India Art Fair

DESIGNERS WE LOVE: ALAIIA GUJRAL

Delhi-born Alaiia Gujral on redefining design as a space for heritage, innovation and collaboration

City Guide: Mumbai

From art and architecture to hidden gems – our insider guide to India’s ‘City of Dreams’

SALT: A GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Hylozoic/Desires (H/D), Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser’s artist duo, explore the various facets of salt — its political history, spiritual resonances and chemical properties as an artistic medium

ARTWORK AS LIVING FORM : RASHMI KALEKA

Take a stroll down Rashmi Kaleka’s world of living art in this BMW Artist Film, and discover what it takes to create an edible forest

Where Energies Meet: Vijay Pichumani

Art Houz presents Where Energies Meet, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Vijay Pichumani. In this new body of work, Vijay Pichumani extends the contemplative journey of his earlier “Blossom” sculptures, where meditating forms embodied the five elements of nature, their flower-heads symbolising universal truths of being. Here, the artist turns inward to explore … Continued

November 22-December 13, 2025

Art Houz, No 123, The Brothers of Holy Cross, Chennai, India

The Animator’s Lab: KNMA

“The Animator’s Lab” is a one-day creative workshop happening at KNMA Saket, designed to immerse participants in the imaginative world of animation. Led by award-winning animator Kartik Mahajan of IBK Productions, the session introduces how stories are born from simple sketches and raw ideas to express visual worlds. Through engaging discussions, demos, and hands-on exercises, … Continued

December 13, 2025 11:00 am — 5:00 pm

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, No. 145, DLF South Court Mall, Saket District Centre, Sector 6, Saket, New Delhi, India

Navivasi (New Fragrance): Ajay Dhapa

Rukshaan Art presents Navivasi (New Fragrance), a solo exhibition featuring the works of Ajay Dhapa. Drawing from personal experience, Ajay Dhapa’s works engage elegantly and lightly with expressing the socio-political milieu of his hometown. Brought up in a multi-religious locality where different communities live in perfect harmony and interdependence, his paintings, he says, are expressions … Continued

November 8-December 14, 2025

Rukshaan Art, Ballard Estate, Mumbai, India

Shadows of Breath: Ravikumar Kashi

Threshold Art Gallery presents Shadows of Breath, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Ravikumar Kashi. Shadows of Breath is an exploration of the intimate relationship between paper and the invisible, yet visceral experience of inner life. This collection of works begins with a simple premise: that paper can serve as an analogy for the … Continued

October 31-December 14, 2025

Threshold Art Gallery, Sarvodya Enclave, New Delhi, India

The Land Sings Back: Group Show

Drawing Room presents their latest group show The Land Sings Back, curated by Natasha Ginwala. The Land Sings Back reimagines our relationship to our breathing planet through the work of thirteen artists with ancestries across South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Engaging with these cultural vocabularies through a lens of environmental justice, the exhibition approaches drawing … Continued

September 25-December 14, 2025

Drawing Room, Unit 1B New Tannery Wy., London, United Kingdom

Nothing Human Is Alien To Me: Aban Raza

Galerie Mirchandani Steinruecke presents its exhibition Nothing Human Is Alien To Me, which marks Aban Raza’s first solo exhibition in New Delhi. “The tightly adjacent bodies are at rest after a day of protest, marches or group meetings. Aban brings to her work a passionate engagement with colour and the early influence of the German … Continued

October 31-December 15, 2025

Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Defence Colony, New Delhi, India

Whispered Continuum: Textile Workshop with Smriti Dixit: Art Alive

Art Alive x Young Collectors’ Programme presents a textile upscaling workshop with artist Smriti Dixit, centered on the transformative potential of textiles. Rooted in an ethos of renewal, the workshop invites participants to engage directly with discarded and pre-used textiles, fabrics that carry traces of daily life, memory, and wear. These fabrics become the raw … Continued

December 17, 2025 4:00 pm — 6:00 pm

Art Alive Gallery, S-221, Gamal Abdel Nasser Marg, Block S, Panchsheel Park South, New Delhi

Cartographies of Mischief: Group Show

Cartographies of Mischief reflects the unruly geographies of the artist’s studio at a moment when space itself has become precarious, insistently political, and portable. As homes and studios shrink within contemporary urban economies, these overlapping geographies reveal both comfort and constraint, spaces of belonging that demand attention. Through the works of Asma Kazi, Aditya Chadar, … Continued

1-19 December, 2025

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

NO RACE, NO COLOUR: PUSHPAKANTHAN PAKKIYARAJAH

Experimenter presents No Race, No Colour, Sri Lankan artist Pushpakanthan Pakkiyarajah’s first solo exhibition in Mumbai. “Pan-African revolutionary leader and agronomist Amílcar Cabral’s critical humanism was established around an ethics of care for the soil, tracing coloniality’s roots in soil destruction and principles of extractivism—which in parallel perpetuates systemic violence and dehumanization of the colonized[i]. … Continued

November 11-December 20, 2025

Experimenter - Colaba, Mumbai, India

உடல் | Udal: Reading the Body from the Avtar Collection: Group Show

Avtar Foundation for the Arts and Gallery Espace 24 presents உடல் | Udal: Reading the Body from the Avtar Collection, in collaboration with and at Alliance Française, Madras. The exhibition brings together a wide range of South Asian artistic engagement with the ‘body’ as a theme from the collection of the Avtar Foundation for the … Continued

4-22 December, 2025

Alliance Française, 24, College Rd, Subba Road Avenue, Nungambakkam, Chennai, India

AMORPHIDIAN: CHRISTIAN ACHENBACH

Galerie ISA presents Amorphidian, marking the second solo exhibition of German painter and sculptor Christian Achenbach (b. 1978, Siegen, Germany). This new showcase features Achenbach’s largest work to date, Kreola, spanning over five meters. Rooted in the major movements of 20th-century art history and viewed through the lens of postmodernism, Achenbach’s landscapes are not tied … Continued

November 11-December 22, 2025

Gallery ISA, Ground Floor, Kamani Chambers, Fort, Mumbai, India

Room for Banana Republic: Group Show

Art Centrix Space presents Room for Banana Republic, an 8-artist group show curated by Manan Shah. Bringing together artists Gurdeep Brar, Hemangini Maharaul, Hemant Gavankar, Jagannath Panda, KP Pradeepkumar, Martand Khosla, Pinaki Ranjan Mohanty, and Valay Gada, the exhibition reflects on the fragile dialogue between state authority, ecological imbalance, and the politics of aspiration. Expanding … Continued

November 23-December 22, 2025

Art Centrix Space, Jain Farm, Behind Sector D2, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, India

অ ব মা ন ব / a v a m ā n a v a (a v a m ā n a v a): Arindam Chatterjee

Emami Art is pleased to announce অ ব মা ন ব / a v a m ā n a v a, Arindam Chatterjee’s second major solo exhibition. Deeply psychological yet ingrained in our shared experience, the set of around thirty works – mostly on paper – explores profound human ethics and Francis Bacon’s concept of … Continued

November 7-December 24, 2025

Emami Art, 777, Anandapur, Adarsha Nagar, Kolkata, India

IMAGINARIUM 5.0: The Promise of the Depth of Being

Emami Art presents IMAGINARIUM 5.0: The Promise of the Depth of Being, the fifth edition of Emami Art’s annual open call exhibition. The exhibition presents works by ten young and emerging artists—Abela Ruben, Aman Kumar, Anurag Paul, Farhin Afza, Manoj Kumar Pannala, Mitali Das, Pankaj Sarma, Rahul Sarkar, Sanyukta Kudtarkar, and Tejal Kawachi—selected from over … Continued

November 7-December 24, 2025

Emami Art, 777, Anandapur, Adarsha Nagar, Kolkata, India

The Geometry of Ash: Anju Dodiya

Chemould Prescott Road presents The Geometry of Ash, a solo exhibition by Anju Dodiya. In Anju Dodiya’s solo show The Geometry of Ash, she showcases a new body of work which comprises a series of large-scale color infused fabric panels and a playful suite of works on paper. She creates an emotional theatre with compartments in images … Continued

October 31-December 24, 2025

Chemould Prescott Road, 3rd floor, Queens Mansion, Ghanshyam Talwatkar Marg, Azad Maidan, Fort, Mumbai, India

What Memory Built in Colour: Dasha Buben & Thilini Jinadasa

Gallery Pristine Contemporary presents What Memory Built in Colour, a two-person exhibition featuring artists Dasha Buben and Thilini Jinadasa. The exhibition brings together Berlin-based Belarusian artist Dasha Buben and Sri Lankan contemporary artist Thilini Jinadasa, whose abstract practices draw on memory, emotion and the evocative power of colour. Featuring Vivid Memories of Things That Never … Continued

November 8-December 24, 2025

Gallery Pristine Contemporary, A-178, Basement, Saini Bhawan, Kotla Mubarakpur, New Delhi, India