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TEXT: YUKTI V. AGARWAL On a characteristically sultry, overwhelmingly humid day, armed with a flask of ice-cold water and a few protein bars, we attempted to navigate what felt like an impossible amount of art in a single visit. Across studios, classrooms, corridors, and exhibition spaces, we encountered an astonishing range of practices: works grappling … Continued
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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
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Deepak Kumar welcomes us into a studio he once only imagined. Tucked within Kaladham, the space serves as both a home and a laboratory
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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For Hyderabad-based artist Farhin Afza, family archives are not inert records but living sites where memory, comfort, and violence collide
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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
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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.
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Artist Sudarshan Shetty welcomes us into his Mumbai studio, where objects, images, and constructed worlds are brought into careful relation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Saskia Fernando Gallery presents Gaman Maliga, Ajantha Ranaweera’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition explores movement, power and transformation through fantastical and spiritual worlds. Inspired by temporary royal residences of medieval Sri Lanka and the country’s mural traditions, Ranaweera reimagines political structures through ambiguous figures and decolonial visual narratives. The works reflect on … Continued
August 26-September 15, 2026
Saskia Fernando Gallery, Sri Lanka
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Indian Arts Corner presents Indigenous Expressions: Living Art Traditions of India, curated by Jas Karan Gupta, brings together contemporary works rooted in India’s diverse indigenous and folk traditions. Featuring artists including Bhuri Bai, Lado Bai, Durga Bai Vyam, Pinju Tahed, Brij Bhushan Dhurve, and Pradeep Maravi, the exhibition explores the enduring connections between art, nature, … Continued
11-15 September, 2026
Indian Arts Corner at Convention Foyer, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
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Gallery Ragini presents Rooted Impressions, a group exhibition bringing together fourteen artists from diverse folk and tribal traditions across India. Working through inherited visual languages shaped by generations of storytelling, ritual and craftsmanship, the artists transform mythology, everyday life, landscapes and lived experience into powerful expressions of cultural memory. While deeply rooted in tradition, these … Continued
August 7-September 15, 2026
Gallery Ragini, Lado Sarai, New Delhi
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Gallerie Splash presents Where the Flowers Keep Their Counsel, Aishwaryan K.’s first solo exhibition in the Delhi NCR, curated by Satyajit Dave. Bringing together drawings and works on wasli and elephant dung paper, the exhibition explores memory, childhood play, botanical forms, queer experience, and everyday life in Bengaluru. Together, the works offer an intimate view … Continued
August 22-September 15, 2026
Gallerie Splash, Gurgaon, Haryana
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Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh, and the Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi present Hola Mohalla, a photography exhibition curated by Dr. Seema Bhalla, featuring photographs by Sanjay Das. Celebrating the spirit, energy, and cultural traditions of the iconic Sikh festival, the exhibition uses striking monochrome images to engage with Le Corbusier’s architecture, creating a compelling … Continued
July 27-September 15, 2026
Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh
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The Knowledge Convergence Foundation (TKCF), founded by collector and art advisor Teesta Bhandare, presents Paradise Promised, an exhibition marking the culmination of its inaugural multidisciplinary and multi-generational residency in Salogra, Himachal Pradesh. The exhibition brings together works created by participating artists in response to the residency and its central theme, alongside works by artists who … Continued
12-16 September, 2026
Teesta Bhandare, the Knowledge Convergence Foundation (TKCF) at Bikaner House, New Delhi
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Trace Gallery, Kolkata presents Where Do I Pause?, their inaugural exhibition by Raj Chowdhury. The exhibition explores the artist’s reflections on fear, hope, memory, and uncertainty following his time in the ICU. Through layered compositions that weave together personal experiences, contemporary events, philosophy, and everyday observations, Where Do I Pause? Is an introspective exploration of … Continued
July 20-September 16, 2026
Trace Gallery, Kolkata
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Akar Prakar presents Becoming, an inaugural group exhibition curated by Siddhi Shailendra. Bringing together works by C. Douglas, Debasish Mukherjee, Ganesh Haloi, Jayashree Chakravarty, Leang Seckon, and Manish Pushkale, the exhibition explores artistic evolution as a continuous process of transformation. Through the dialogue between six distinct practices, it traces the ever-expanding language of modern and … Continued
August 21-September 17, 2026
Akar Prakar, B-74, Second Floor, Defence Colony, New Delhi
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Vadehra Art Gallery presents Women on the Edge of Time, a group exhibition curated by Linsey Young, bringing together the work of nine South Asian women artists. Inspired by Marge Piercy’s 1976 novel, the exhibition explores bodily autonomy, inheritance and the possibility of more equitable futures. Spanning installation, painting, drawing and photography, it considers how … Continued
August 21-September 18, 2026
Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
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Project 88 presents Stories That Never End: Journeying with Shanu Lahiri, a retrospective curated by Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Nobina Gupta. The exhibition traces Lahiri’s work from the 1970s to the 2000s, bringing together paintings, sketches, writings, photographs, and archival material. It explores the stories, memories, and experiences that shaped her artistic life and persona. Her … Continued
August 13-September 19, 2026
Project 88, Colaba Mumbai
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Shrine Empire presents Sounds from the Attic, a solo exhibition by Divya Singh. Her paintings are populated by spectral figures and otherworldly creatures, creating a haunting, dreamlike atmosphere. Singh explores how the past continues to shape the present and influence the future. Through allegory, she reflects on a future disrupted by the rise of fascist … Continued
August 21-September 19, 2026
Shrine Empire, New Delhi
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Project 88 presents Stories That Never End: Journeying with Shanu Lahiri, a retrospective of artist Shanu Lahiri, D.Litt. The exhibition explores her life and artistic legacy through paintings, sketches, scrapbooks, writings, photographs, and archival material. Spanning the 1970s to the 2000s, it traces key themes and phases of her diverse artistic practice. Stories—oral, written, visual, … Continued
August 13-September 19, 2026
Project 88, Colaba, Mumbai
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LATITUDE 28 presents Between Dust and Distant Skies, curated by Rahul Kumar, is a solo exhibition by Pradeep Thalawatta, exploring how images of conflict, migration, memory and everyday life travel across geographical and emotional distances. Through painting, drawing, photography and material-led works, Thalawatta layers found materials, mediated imagery and fragments of childhood and popular culture … Continued
August 21-September 19, 2026
LATITUDE 28, New Delhi
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Akara Modern presents A Lyrical Journey, a solo exhibition by Vinod Shah. The exhibition brings together works by Shah from the 1950s to the 2010s, offering a poetic meditation on what it means to live with, return to, and be transformed by the land over the course of a lifetime. From the king of hearts, … Continued
August 13-September 19, 2026
Akara Modern, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra
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Experimenter presents Grid for a Disappearance, a solo exhibition by Biraaj Dodiya featuring her work that combines painted steel sculptures, photographs, and oil paintings on linen. Through layered material assemblages, the exhibition reflects on the body, repair, fragility, and memory, exploring how traces of injury, care, and resilience shape our relationship to contemporary life while … Continued
July 16-September 19, 2026
Experimenter, Ballygunge Place, Kolkata
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The Raw House and Nexus Art Gallery presents A City in Form: A Dialogue Through Sculpture, a groups show that brings together sculptural practices from across India, exploring how artists engage with form, material, space and scale. Rather than looking at sculpture simply as an object, the show looks at how sculptural practices create conversations … Continued
5-20 September, 2026
The Raw House
