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.

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

GARDEN OF MEMORY: Alamu Kumaresan

Anupa Mehta Contemporary Art presents GARDEN OF MEMORY, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Alamu Kumaresan. (Text excerpt from curatorial essay by Lina Vincent) “Chennai based artist Alamu Kumaresan, whose debut solo opened at Bhau Daji Lad museum, explores selfhood, memory and belonging, dwelling on aspects of the familiar and comfortable using the tactile, … Continued

January 8-February 11, 2026

Anupa Mehta Contemporary Art, Ground floor, Royal Terrace, 58, Wodehouse Rd, Colaba, Mumbai, India

GARDEN OF MEMORY

GARDEN OF MEMORY, by Chennai based artist Alamu Kumaresan, curated by Goa Based curator Lina Vincent, opens during Mumbai Gallery Weekend. The curatorial lens explores the complexity of feminine selfhood as represented in works that use a combination of the visual and tactile as means of making; the artist incorporates her mother and grandmother’s work … Continued

January 8-February 12, 2026

ANUPA MEHTA CONTEMPORARY ART GROUND FLOOR, ROYAL TERRACE 58 WODEHOUSE ROAD COLABA MUMBAI

The Collective Memory of Contemporary Change

Tao Art Gallery presents  The Collective Memory of Contemporary Change featuring the works of Chippa Sudhakar. Chippa Sudhakar highlights the co-existence of the rural and urban, the natural and the built, the past and the future, through his malleable terracotta medium. The idea of development is explored through a sensitive lens that takes into consideration … Continued

January 8-February 12, 2026

Tao Art Gallery, 165, The View, Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai, India

Distortion: Sukanya Ghosh & Nandan Ghiya

Distortion is an exhibition featuring intermedia works by artists Sukanya Ghosh and Nandan Ghiya, presented at the British Council Gallery Space as part of the Parallel Programme of the India Art Fair. Both artists have recently exhibited in the United Kingdom—Sukanya Ghosh at the Royal College of Art (2024) and Nandan Ghiya at the Liverpool … Continued

January 15-February 13, 2026

British Council, 17, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi, India

Aranyani Pavilion: Sacred Nature

Aranyani announces the launch of the Aranyani Pavilion, a landmark ecological art and architectural project opening at Sunder Nursery, New Delhi on Wednesday, 4th February 2026. Founded by conservation scientist and creative director Tara Lal, Aranyani is a conservation and creative arts initiative focused on renewing public connection with the natural world. Titled Sacred Nature, … Continued

3-13 February, 2026

Sunder Nursery, New Delhi, India

Piraji Sagara | Solo

January 8-February 14, 2026

Akara Modern, Colaba, Mumbai

“American Invented Everything”

Nature Morte is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by the gallery’s founding director Peter Nagy. The works on view are a portfolio of new silkscreens that have been published by Fabjbasaglia Contemporary Art of Rimini, Italy, to be included in the exhibition curated by the New York curator Richard Milazzo entitled “Sailing to … Continued

January 22-February 14, 2026

Nature Morte, New Delhi

Seeing from the Inside Out: Utkarsh Makwana

Akara Contemporary presents Seeing from the Inside Out, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Utkarsh Makwana. Utkarsh Makwana’s practice locates archetypal tropes within ordinary and often overlooked moments. Unearthing universal archetypes embedded within mythological stories as well as daily encounters, his new body of paintings explores enduring themes of desire, ritual, secrecy, thought patterns, … Continued

January 8-February 14, 2026

Akara Contemporary, 2nd Floor, 3C Amarchand Mansion, 16 Madam Cama Road, Colaba, Mumbai, India

WHEN THINGS OF THE SPIRIT COME FIRST: SONATINA MENDES

Gallery White presents their solo exhibition titled WHEN THINGS OF THE SPIRIT COME FIRST, featuring the works of Sonatina Mendes. “I believe it is often disquieting experiences that make us see more than what we already do. The death of my father made me question the way I perceived interior spaces and the absence or … Continued

December 13, 2025-February 14, 2026

Gallery White, 3rd Floor, Urban One Complex, Vasna Bhayli Main road, Vadodara, Gujarat, India

Still, They Speak: Nagji Patel

Akar Prakar presents Still, They Speak, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Nagji Patel. To stand before a sculpture by Nagji Patel is to encounter a distilled quietude, a stillness, in which the form, balance, and texture are held in perfect tension. In over six decades of his practice, Patel developed a sculptural language … Continued

January 12-February 14, 2026

Akar Prakar, P 238, Hindustan Park Rd, Kolkata, India

Auspice and Abundance: Ritual Paintings from Hazaribagh: Group Show

GALLERY VAYU presents a group show titled Auspice and Abundance: Ritual Paintings from Hazaribagh, showcasing the works of Malo Devi, Putli Ganju, Parvati Devi and Rudhan Devi. In the forested villages of Hazaribagh, walls of homes have long been treated as living surfaces. Moments of harvest and marriage are marked by women painting for blessing. These … Continued

3-15 February, 2026

Gallery Vayu | Vayu: Design for Living, 14, Main Market, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, India

Orbits of Attention

Orbits of Attention – floating in space – what if, in these graphic notations, one breaks down even further the structure of the note/the dot/the Bindu – what would happen then? This exhibition explores a significant post-1960s artistic movement, where artists reinterpreted ancient symbolic forms through modernist abstraction. Their vivid compositions, featuring geometric shapes such … Continued

4-15 February, 2026

B-74, Ground Floor, Block B, Defence Colony, New Delhi

Sustaina India 2026

Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) and Thukral & Tagra present Sustaina India 2026. In the third year of Sustaina India, “Bitter Nectar” examines the politics and complexities embedded in a seemingly simple desire: the pursuit of sweetness, of fruit harvested at its most perfect moment of ripeness. Climate change and its profound impacts … Continued

1-15 February, 2026

Bikaner House, New Delhi, India

LEGACIES: Group Show

Saskia Fernando Gallery presents Legacies. Celebrating the contributions of eight pioneers of Sri Lankan art, Legacies features a tightly curated selection of artworks created between 1930 and 2020. Sri Lankan modern and contemporary art practice resulted from the many encounters it had with its immediate cultural environment. Similar to developments in visual culture across the … Continued

January 14-February 15, 2026

Saskia Fernando Gallery, 41, Horton Place, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka

Nature of Nostalgic Delights: Group Show

Rukshaan Art presents Nature of Nostalgic Delights, an exhibition of 17 artists whose works shelter and depict gestures not only of Mother Nature as our physical world, but also the nature of nostalgia itself: the rhythms, the softening of time, and the gentle, often bittersweet pleasures it echoes. The works aim to gently urge the … Continued

January 8-February 15, 2026

Rukshaan Art, Ballard Estate, Mumbai, India

F N Souza: Sacred and Profane

F N Souza: Sacred & Profane showcases the remarkable range and inventiveness of India’s most iconic modernist across numerous artworks spanning from the kaleidoscopic crisscross gouaches of 1950 to his commanding canvases of the 1960s. In these works, we find traces of the profane in his sacred imagery — an impasto void that shadows a … Continued

2-15 February, 2026

Kumar Gallery, Sainik Farms 22 Western Avenue, Palm Drive Sainik Farms New Delhi, India.