INDIA ART FAIR

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.

DIARIES, SOLILOQUIES AND STORIES WE TELL: GROUP SHOW

Art Incept presents the exhibition, Diaries, Soliloquies and Stories we Tell, bringing together works that inhabit the fragile threshold between remembrance and loss. Each of the five artists navigates a labyrinth of quiet pressures of the social world, cultural inheritance, and personal memory. Highlighting the in-betweenness of identity, neither fixed nor entirely unmoored, the assembled … Continued

6-26 March, 2026

S-137 Panchsheel Park, New Delhi

In Good Company: Maanas Udayakumar

Ashvita’s presents In Good Company, a solo show of works by Maanas Udayakumar. This show traces an intimate yet assured shift in the artist’s practice and brings together a new body of oil paintings that emerge from the same studio environment that shaped his earlier works, but approach it with a markedly different pace and … Continued

6-27 March, 2026

Ashvita's, 4, 2nd Street, Dr Radha Krishnan Salai, Mylapore, Chennai

BLOOM AT DUSK: JODHAIYA BAI BAIGA

Ojas Art presents, Bloom at Dusk, celebrating the artistic practice of Jodhaiya Bai Baiga (1938–2024), one of India’s most remarkable contemporary tribal artists. Rendered in vivid acrylic on paper, canvas, and papier-mâché, Baiga’s works draw from her wish to imagine a beautiful world alive with divine beings and forest dwellers. Recurring motifs include the sacred … Continued

January 23-March 27, 2026 6:00 pm

1AQ, near Qutub Minar, New Delhi

Early Lines, Lasting Forms: Laxman Pai at 100

Akara Modern presents Early Lines, Lasting Forms: Laxman Pai at 100. Marking the centenary of Laxman Pai (1926-2021), this exhibition brings together works from his formative years, spanning from the 1950s to the 70s, decades that shaped his artistic language, established his distinctive niche, and positioned him within the evolving landscape of modern Indian art. Find … Continued

February 19-March 28, 2026

Akara Modern, Colaba, Mumbai, India

The Many Lives of the Cat: Group Show

Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) presents a group exhibition titled The Many Lives of the Cat. From miniature painting traditions to pop culture this curious creature has been the artist’s muse long before it became the internet’s favourite meme-able subject. MAP’s latest exhibition, The Many Lives of the Cat, explores how Indian artists have … Continued

November 8, 2025-March 29, 2026

MAP, 22, Kasturba Road, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar, Bangalore, India

Porgai Sharing Pride

Porgai Artisans Association presents Porgai Sharing Pride, a two-day event that brings together stories of craft, culture, and community through a thoughtfully curated program. The highlight of the event is the screening of the award-winning documentary “Porgai (Pride)”, which offers a powerful glimpse into the lives of the Lambadi women artisans of Sittilingi Valley and … Continued

28-29 March, 2026

Triveni Kala Sangam, Tansen Marg, New Delhi

She Who Saw the Deep: Group Show

The exhibition, She Who Saw the Deep, brings together works by artists Yogita Pendharkar, Leena Dewan, and Varsha Singh, each of whose sculptural practice arises from different interpretations and meet at a common threshold–of looking beneath the surface. Approaching clay as a site of encounter, along with the invisible and often unnoticed memory of the … Continued

25-29 March, 2026

Museo Camera, DLF Phase IV, Gurugram, Haryana

DEATH IS NOTHING BUT LOVE: ARPAN SADHUKHAN

Srishti Art Gallery presents the exhibition, death is nothing but love, featuring Arpan Sadhukhan’s prints, drawings, collages, and sculptures. Probing the ideological contradictions that shape contemporary life, Kolkata-based Sadhukhan approaches printmaking not merely as a medium but as a critical methodology. Influenced by poetry and Marxist philosophy, the writings of Rabindranath Tagore and R. Sivakumar, … Continued

February 21-March 30, 2026

Srishti Art Gallery, 15 Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, Telangana

Vagabond of Quiet Moments: Karan Sidhu

Wonderwall presents Vagabond of Quiet Moments, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Karan Sidhu. Find out more about the show here.

January 29-March 31, 2026

Wonderwall, F 213A Lado Sarai (Ground foor rear), New Delhi, India

Echoes of Change: Young Contemporaries | Four Solo Presentations

Art Centrix Space presents a major multi-artist exhibition taking over the entire CCA Building at Bikaner House from 11th to 18th January ‘26. Marking one of the first significant exhibitions of the year, the presentation brings together four solo exhibitions alongside Echoes of Change: Young Contemporaries, offering a layered engagement with contemporary practices shaped by … Continued

January 11-March 31, 2026

Multiple Locations, New Delhi

Veils of Existence: Group Show

Artdistrict XIII  presents Veils of Existence  bringing together the practices of three artists whose visual languages unfold the layered, often unseen dimensions of human life. Through their distinct explorations—social, cultural, and spiritual—the exhibition becomes a journey through the subtle veils that shape our perceptions, identities, and inner worlds. Find more information here. 

January 10-March 31, 2026

Artdistrict XIII F-213A, Ground Floor, Lado Sarai Old M B Road, New Delhi

Amphibian Aesthetics: Group Show

Ishara Art Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of Amphibian Aesthetics, the inaugural exhibition of the Ishara House at Kashi Hallegua House in Kochi, Kerala. Amphibian Aesthetics emerges from the urgencies of precarity in the Anthropocene – climate collapse, displacement, extinction and hyper-capital – where questions of survival and radicality become inseparable from artistic … Continued

December 13, 2025-March 31, 2026

The Ishara House, Kashi Hallegua House, Kochi, India

FOUR STRINGS (NAAKU TANTI): Siri Devi Khandavilli

Art Centrix Space presents Naaku Tanti: Four Strings, a solo exhibition of works by Siri Devi Khandavilli, a US-based intermedia artist known for blending traditional Indian techniques such as Mysore painting with contemporary sculpture, video, and installation. This exhibition unfolds around Nāda, not as subject or metaphor, but as an underlying condition. In Indian philosophy, … Continued

February 28-March 31, 2026

Art Centrix Space, Jain Farm, 2, near The Heritage School, behind Sector D, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, India

Forms of Modernity: Styles in Indian Art

Kalakaar Art Salon presents, Forms of Modernity, a group show bringing together modern artworks that appear stylistically distinct, and are bound by a shared impulse: the desire to see differently. In the Indian context, modernity emerged through gradual shifts in attention, through artists learning when to observe closely to–construct and fracture form, turn inward, and … Continued

February 3-March 31, 2026

Kalakaar Art Salon, D 64, Block D, Defence Colony, New Delhi

Ekaa – The One: The 64 Yoginis Trail

The 64 Yoginis constitute one of the most conceptually sophisticated, radical, and under-studied knowledge systems in Indian cultural history. Emerging between the 9th and 12th centuries, the Yogini temples — circular, open-air, decentralised structures — challenged inherited hierarchies of power, gender, divinity, and ritual practice. These were not sanctums of worship in the classical sense; … Continued

January 16-April 1, 2026

Multiple Cities, India

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY OPEN CALL

Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation presents the second edition of its International Photography Open Call showcase that brings together visual art and photography works in two public exhibitions powered by SIGMA and supported by VR Chennai, Greater Chennai Corporation, and Avtar Foundation for the Arts. The result of an open call, the exhibitions feature a range … Continued

March 15-April 5, 2026

Multiple locations, Chennai, Tamil Nadu