INDIA ART FAIR

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.

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

The Storyteller: Manjit Bawa

Vadehra Art Gallery presents The Storyteller, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Manjit Bawa. Manjit Bawa was a great traveller of the plains of north India especially the Punjab. He would watch local theatre, see the art and talk to people about their oral tradition. The stories of mythology that they related changed slightly from … Continued

January 28-March 2, 2026

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

Indian Masters: A Visionary Foundation

Antarang Art Gallery presents Indian Masters: A Visionary Foundation. In an age of speed, endless images, and instant gratification, we return, again and again, to the modern masters. To stand before them is to enter a space where history, memory, and artistic magnificence converge. Indian modern art emerged in the decades surrounding independence. As the … Continued

January 31-March 3, 2026

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

Kaleidoscope

Galleria Continua is pleased to present 万花筒 / Kaleidoscope, the first solo exhibition in Beijing, China, by the French artist JR, who for over twenty years has been transforming the architecture around the world into spaces of vision, public engagement, and collective imagination. The exhibition brings together a selection of JR’s most emblematic projects from … Continued

December 18, 2025-March 3, 2026

GALLERIA CONTINUA / Beijing #8503, Dashanzi 798 Art Factory, 2 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang Dst.

What Remains: Heritage Between Memory and the Present

Dhi Contemporary presents What Remains: Heritage Between Memory and the Present . Approaching heritage as a living, evolving condition rather than a fixed record of the past. Situated between memory and the present, the exhibition explores how histories are continually interpreted, reshaped, and activated through contemporary artistic practices. The works engage with heritage as a … Continued

January 18-March 5, 2026

Dhi Contemporary Bodhi House, Plot No. 552, Rd. No. 11, Kakatiya Hills, Madhapur.

Intimate Terrains: Michal Glickson & Shanthi Swaroopni

Threshold Art Gallery presents Intimate Terrains, a two-person exhibition tracing the resonant relationship between artists whose practices diverge in form yet converge in ethos. Shanthi Swaroopini (India) and Michal Glikson (Australia) share formative training at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara – an environment that fostered their commitment to material experimentation, embodied … Continued

January 25-March 5, 2026

Threshold Art Gallery, C-221, Sarvodaya Enclave, New Delhi, India

Abr Kyā Chīz Hai/What Really is a Cloud?: Debasish Mukherjee

Akar Prakar presents Abr Kyā Chīz Hai/What Really is a Cloud?, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Debasish Mukherjee. Abr Kyā Chīz Hai/What Really is a Cloud? takes its title from Mirza Ghalib’s evocative verse, echoing enduring questions about place, time, and the unseen forces that shape human experience. Rather than offering answers, the … Continued

February 4-March 6, 2026

Akar Prakar, D-43, First Floor, Defence Colony, New Delhi, India

In-no-sense: Musa Mojahid

Blueprint12 presents In-no-sense featuring the works of Musa Mojahid. Musa’s practice is defined by a meticulous process of textured clay weaving, brought together with extraordinary, ambiguously formed creatures that inhabit a space between the familiar and the fantastical. Drawing on the rich legacy of clay culture alongside Bangladeshi traditional motifs and folk-art references, the work bridges … Continued

January 29-March 7, 2026

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

The World, As We Meet It

Art Incept  gallery  presents “The World As We Meet It,”   featuring the works of Badush Babu, Bedamati Majhi,  Debajit | Deepanjali Shekhar, Jit Chowdhury, KM. Khushboo, Kishwar Kiani, Megha Singh, Rinku Choudhary, Rajat Kumar, Sanal PT, Soura Chatterjee. This exhibition gathers emerging artists at the edge of the present moment, where life feels unresolved, and … Continued

February 4-March 7, 2026

The Edit by Art Incept, S-137 Panchsheel Park, New Delhi

PURVAI: Printmaking in Eastern India – Pedagogy to Practice

Emami Art presents “PURVAI: Printmaking in Eastern India – Pedagogy to Practice” organised in collaboration with Lalit Kala Akademi under the purview of 3rd Print Biennale India. Curated by artist, academician, curator, researcher, and writer Dr Paula Sengupta, this group exhibition traces the curve of contemporary printmaking across Eastern India from the pedagogical space to … Continued

January 9, 2027-March 7, 2026

Emami Art, Kolkata Centre for Creativity, 777, Anandapur EM Bypass, Kolkata, India

Luminous Terrains: Paresh Maity

Art Alive Gallery presents Luminous Terrains, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Paresh Maity. Luminous Terrains brings together an expansive suite of oils, acrylics, and drawings that revisit the ecology and diversity of landscapes across India, Venice, and France. From the serene expanse of Dal Lake in Srinagar and the luminous ghats of Varanasi … Continued

February 28-March 10, 2026 12:00 am

Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Bikaner House, New Delhi, India

The Floor Keeps Count: Sareena Khemka

The exhibition The Floor Keeps Count marks a turning inwards of Khemka’s interest in mapping the vicissitudes of urban environments and seeking possibilities of creation in decay. Prompted by the death of her beloved grandmother and the prospect of losing the house of her childhood, the artist turns her deconstructionist tools to methodically excavate the … Continued

January 29-March 13, 2026

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

The Cabinet of Curiosities: Kaushik Saha

The Cabinet of Curiosities series by Kaushik Saha collects and reframes the ordinary, transforming the everyday into something worthy of scrutiny, wonder, and slow attention. Through compact, layered acrylic works and occasional embedded fragments, Saha composes intimate fields that act like miniature archives. These discrete objects of observation, when arranged together, form an ecosystem of … Continued

January 29-March 13, 2026

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

The Poetics of the Ordinary: Mona Bendre

Art Magnum presents The Poetics of the Ordinary, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Mona Bendre. Curated by Subhra Mazumdar and Gayatri Mathur, the exhibition offers a rare and deeply reflective glimpse into the artistic world of Mona Bendre, whose practice quietly unfolded alongside a life rooted in spirituality, discipline, and sensitivity toward nature … Continued

February 2-March 14, 2026

Art Magnum, 60/2C, 3rd Floor, Indian Oil Complex, Yusuf Sarai, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi, India

Trace: Chanakya School

Experimenter presents Trace, Chanakya School’s debut solo exhibition in India. Through deep engagement with diverse indigenous textile techniques, material investigation, and inherited knowledge systems, Chanakya School’s practice, led by Karishma Swali, forms a conduit between contemporary thought and ancient processes. The exhibition serves in equal parts as an exploration of their interconnected textile histories and … Continued

January 30-March 14, 2026

Experimenter – 45 Ballygunge Place, Kolkata, India

Historia Denaturalis: Ravi Agarwal

Gallery Espace presents Historia Denaturalis featuring the works of Ravi Agarwal. He returns to questions which he has been pursuing in his artistic practice since the last two decades. Immersion. Emergence (2006-), a photographic, conceptual, and spiritual engagement with the Yamuna River which had unfolded and expanded over several years of repeated visits and observations, … Continued

January 31-March 14, 2026

Gallery Espace, New Delhi

With her Hair Running Wild: Seema Kohli

Gallerie Nvya presents With her Hair Running Wild, featuring the works of a selection of artworks by Seema Kohli, marking different phases of her artistic journey—from a time when she was reduced to making quick sketches during the night, to her trepid explorations of colour at Triveni, to the bold palettes and patterns that have come … Continued

January 18-March 15, 2026

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