INDIA ART FAIR 2026

WHOSE ASLEEP AND WHOSE 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 Sanghvi

Artist Shreni Sanghvi 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.

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

Whispered Continuum: Smriti Dixit

Art Alive Gallery brings to you Whispered Continuum, a solo show of works by Smriti Dixit. Nature, in its quiet persistence, forms the core of Smriti Dixit’s artistic inquiry. Whispered Continuum draws inspiration from the natural landscape and coastal flora near Smriti Dixit’s home in suburban Mumbai, where every creeper, palm, and ripple becomes a … Continued

November 28, 2025-January 5, 2026

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

Sandhya Rāga: A. Ramachandran

Vadehra Art Gallery is honoured to present Sandhya Rāga, a deeply personal and introspective exhibition of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by the renowned artist A. Ramachandran. It features the final works from his studio, including many pieces that have never been exhibited before. This posthumous exhibition has been curated in close collaboration with the late … Continued

December 5, 2025-January 6, 2026

Vadehra Art Gallery, D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi, India

NEED

GALLERIA CONTINUA is pleased to present NEED, Berlinde De Bruyckere’s first solo exhibition in its Paris Marais space, crowning over 25 years of collaboration. The exhibition’s title, NEED, reflects the imperative that runs through De Bruyckere’s work: the necessity to give form to what language struggles to convey, touching upon the extremes of human experience … Continued

October 10, 2025-January 6, 2026 11:00 am

GALLERIA CONTINUA, Paris

Sculpture 2025: Group Show

GALLERY ESPACE presents Sculpture 2025, a group exhibition featuring 15 artists whose works present a snapshot of the depth and variety of sculptural practices by Indian artists at the present time. Curated by Rajendar Tiku, the show features the works of Aditi Kulkarni, Ajay Kanwal, Bhuvanesh Gowda, Debasish Mukherjee, Dipalee Daroz, George Martin P J, … Continued

November 21, 2025-January 8, 2026

GALLERY ESPACE, 16, Community Center, Sujan Mahindra Road, New Friends Colony, New Delhi, India

GRAVITAS: A Journey from Within: Krishen Khanna

Gallerie Nvya presents the exhibition GRAVITAS: A Journey from Within, celebrating Krishen Khanna’s legacy. In Krishen Khanna’s art, the Partition of India is not rendered as spectacle but as silence — the silence that follows rupture. His figures, burdened yet composed, seem to carry entire histories across the canvas. Born in 1925 in pre-Partition Punjab, … Continued

December 5, 2025-January 10, 2026 12:00 am

Gallerie Nvya, 205, Triveni Kala Sangam, Tansen Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi, India

Ski(e)n: Re-membering through Performance and Thread: Abhijna Vemuru Kasa & Insha Manzoor

Dhoomimal Gallery presents The Art of Ski(e)n: Re-membering through Performance and Thread, an exhibition showcasing the works of Abhijna Vemuru Kasa and Insha Manzoor, both alumni of Royal College of Art in London. Curated by Jyoti A. Kathpalia, the exhibition brings together two exciting artists whose practices explore the self and the inscription of traditions, … Continued

December 6, 2025-January 10, 2026

Dhoomimal Gallery, G 42 Connaught Place, Delhi, India

The Body Speaks: Group Show

Art Incept presents a group show titled The Body Speaks, featuring the works of Badush Babu, Deepanjali Shekhar, Indu Antony, Isha Sharma Haritash, and Rinku Choudhary. Curated by Rahul Kumar, the exhibition explores the human body’s ability to convey emotions, stories, and ideas through works that present the body as a canvas, a vessel, and a … Continued

December 5, 2025-January 10, 2026

227, South Point Mall, Golf Course Road DLF Phase 5, Sector 53 Gurugram, India

Silent Conversations: Laxman Aelay

Artisera presents Silent Conversations, a landmark exhibition by renowned artist Laxman Aelay (who designed the logo for the newly formed state of Telangana in 2014), marking a powerful and transformative turn in his decades-long art practice. Widely known for his vibrant figurative style rooted in the indigenous visual culture of rural Telangana, Laxman Aelay’s newest … Continued

November 29, 2025-January 10, 2026

Artisera, 3rd Floor, B.K.N. Ambaram Estates, 648/L, 1st Main, Indiranagar Stage 1, Bangalore, India

Krishen Khanna: The Centenarian Master

The newly founded Antarang Art Gallery presents Krishen Khanna: The Centenarian Master at The Camellias, Gurugram. Celebrating the Progressive Artists’ Group member’s 100th year, this landmark exhibition features recent mixed-media drawings and iconic sculptures. The collection explores humanistic themes through his signature bandwallas, migrant workers, and biblical figures, reflecting the artist’s enduring concern with society … Continued

December 21, 2025-January 11, 2026

Antarang Art Gallery, The Camellias, Tower 8, Promenade Area, DLF Golf Links, Sector 42, Gurugram, India

MASNAVI : LORES ACROSS LANDS: Group Show

Ojas Art presents Masnavi: Lores Across Lands, a group exhibition featuring around 60 works. Masnavi brings together artists from across the globe to explore how folklore continues to shape and be shaped by our times. The world around us is imbued with lores, like the gentle imprints of songs and the quiet murmur of tales … Continued

November 23, 2025-January 11, 2026

Ojas Art, 1AQ, Mehrauli, New Delhi, India

Chhoti Baatein, Bade Sapne: Rajesh Ram

Palette Art Gallery presents the solo exhibition Chhoti Baatein, Bade Sapne, showcasing a deeply resonant body of work by Rajesh Ram, exploring the intersections of identity, memory, ecology, and socio-political life through sculpture and mixed-media. Born in Jharkhand and currently based in New Delhi, Ram’s practice brings a rich, layered understanding of rural India into … Continued

December 17, 2025-January 14, 2026

Palette Art Gallery, 14, Golf Links, New Delhi, India

Echo Chamber: Visakh Menon

BluePrint12 Gallery is pleased to present Echo Chamber, a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York–based artist Visakh Menon. In Echo Chamber, Menon expands his decade-long inquiry into the relationship between abstraction, human labor, machine logic, and perception in an increasingly screen-saturated world. This exhibition situates his recent paintings within a broader inquiry into … Continued

December 5, 2025-January 15, 2026

BluePrint12 Gallery, C - 66, Anand Niketan, New Delhi

Sifr: Gunjan Chawla Kumar

Exhibit 320 is pleased to announce Sifr, a solo exhibition by artist, scholar, and educator Gunjan Chawla Kumar, shaped through the curatorial lens and text of Anushka Rajendran. Sifr brings together an extensive body of work that reflects Kumar’s long-standing engagement with material history, metaphysics, and the elemental relationship between matter and movement. Rooted in … Continued

December 11, 2025-January 15, 2026

Exhibit 320, F-320, Lado Sarai, New Delhi, India

DURATION: Ranjana Thapalyal

Shrine Empire presents a solo exhibition titled Duration, featuring the works of Ranjana Thapalyal. In Ranjana Thapalyal’s practice, the various manifestations of time – as eternal, ephemeral, incidental and durational – accumulate as residue and trace. The linearity of industrial time is set aside to privilege the fluidity of its experience and its qualitative dimensions, the … Continued

December 3, 2025-January 16, 2026

Shrine Empire, D-395, Defence Colony, New Delhi, India

A4A Virtual Residency & Mentorship 2025 — Open Day

Art For Art Foundation (A4A) presents Open Day featuring a mentor-led, small-cohort residency (four artists; Sept–Dec 2025) focused on one-to-one guidance, rigorous critique, and professional writing support. The Open Day is a public, work-in-progress presentation and conversation that shares how mentorship has shaped research questions, materials/methods, and the language around each practice. It marks a … Continued

10-17 January, 2026

A4A Project Space, W-114, Greater Kailash-II, New Delhi, India

Polygonal Tessellations: Tauseef Khan

Nature Morte is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Tauseef Khan. The title of the exhibition, Polygonal Tessellations, refers to the artist’s subject matter: the geometrical patterning found in hyper-decorated mosques throughout the Islamic World. To tessellate refers to creating a mosaic pattern from a variety of shapes. Khan further abstracts these … Continued

December 10, 2025-January 17, 2026

Nature Morte, 287, 288, 100 Feet Rd, Chhatarpur Hills, New Delhi, India