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Creating in Community: On Quilting, Kinship, and Quiet Resistance in North Karnataka

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

City Guide: Mumbai

From art and architecture to hidden gems – our insider guide to India’s ‘City of Dreams’

SALT: A GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Hylozoic/Desires (H/D), Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser’s artist duo, explore the various facets of salt — its political history, spiritual resonances and chemical properties as an artistic medium

ARTWORK AS LIVING FORM : RASHMI KALEKA

Take a stroll down Rashmi Kaleka’s world of living art in this BMW Artist Film, and discover what it takes to create an edible forest

CITY AS CANVAS : SAMEER KULAVOOR

Step into Sameer Kulavoor’s world of urban narratives in this BMW Artist Film, and discover how he transforms everyday observations into striking art installations and  publications

MOVING THINGS AROUND : TEJA GAVANKAR

In this BMW Artist Film, artist Teja Gavankar invites us to witness how her spatial interventions unlock the extraordinary in the everyday.

Weaving Speculative Realities with liactuallee

For Mumbai-based fibre artist liactuallee, each stitch is a step toward speculative futures and ecological storytelling. Explore their world of craft, queerness, and hope in this exclusive feature.

NESTLED WITHIN: JANARTHANAN RUDHRAMOORTHY

KYNKYNY Art Gallery presents Nestled Within, a solo exhibition of Janarthanan Rudhramoorthy’s work in which free-floating, untethered and massive metallic beings take centre stage. The Chennai-based artist has a deep fascination with the human form, and his exhaustive explorations showcase its strength, agility and beauty. Airborne and freed from the earth’s gravitational pull, sculptures made … Continued

May 30-June 27, 2025

KYNKYNY Art Gallery, 148, Infantry Rd, Vasanth Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka

DESTINATION INDIA: FOREIGN ARTISTS IN INDIA 1857–1947: GROUP SHOW

DAG presents Destination India: Foreign artists in India 1857–1947. A group show which looks at the work of foreign artists who visited India between the Uprising (1857) and Independence (1947) as examples of a late phase of Orientalist art. The famous landscape painters of a much earlier era, such as William Hodges and Thomas and William … Continued

May 1-June 28, 2025

The Taj Mahal Palace, Arthur Bunder Rd, Apollo Bandar, Colaba, Mumbai

Whimsical Lines: Urban refrain through tribal abstraction : Bhuwal Prasad

Gallerie Nvya presents Whimsical Lines: Urban Refrain Through Tribal Abstraction, a solo show by artist Bhuwal Prasad. The exhibition, which was previously on view at Bikaner House from April 4-9, 2025, continues at the gallery’s space in Saket. Prasad seamlessly fuses indigenous Indian art with contemporary abstraction, creating a vibrant visual language rich in playful … Continued

May 24-June 28, 2025

Gallerie Nvya, 101-103, Square One Designer Arcade, C-2, District Centre, Saket, New Delhi

Enlightenment from an unlikely envelope: Archives of Adil Jussawala

The Guild presents Enlightenment from an Unlikely Envelope: Archives of Adil Jussawalla, curated by Deeptha Achar and Chithra K. S. Drawing from the archives of the poet and photographer, Adil Jussawalla, this exhibition showcases a small selection of his collection of materials—texts, manuscripts, scrapbooks, notes, lists, photographs, books, newspaper clippings, poems, plants, among other things— … Continued

May 3-June 29, 2025

1/A, Pipewala Building, 4th Pasta Lane, Shahid Bhagat Singh Road Colaba, Mumbai, India

A Touch of Carmine

Art Musings presents A Touch of Carmine features a group of contemporary artists, each with their own unique language. Works on display include some early paintings from the gallery’s permanent collection. Find out more here

May 17-June 30, 2025

ART MUSINGS, Admiralty Bldg, Colaba Cross Lane, Mumbai 400005

A Moment in Modernity: Haren Thakur

Art Magnum and Gallery Time and Space present A Moment in Modernity, a landmark solo exhibition of works by artist Haren Thakur, curated by celebrated art historian Dr. Alka Pande. Haren Thakur is recognised as a modernist artist whose work intricately weaves together traditional tribal art forms with contemporary aesthetics. His art reflects a deep … Continued

May 4-June 30, 2025

Art Magnum, 60/2C, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi

Stephen Cox: Solo Show

Grosvenor Gallery presents a solo exhibition of work by renowned British sculptor Stephen Cox RA. Renowned for his monumental stone sculptures that fuse classical Western and non-Western traditions, this exhibition shifts focus to the intimate scale of Cox’s work. On display will be a selection of bronze sculptures, accompanied by preparatory sketches and studies, offering … Continued

June 6-July 4, 2025

Grosvenor Gallery, 35 Bury St, London, UK

A TREASURY OF LIFE : INDIAN COMPANY PAINTINGS C. 1790-1835 : GROUP SHOW

DAG presents A Treasury of Life: Indian Company Paintings c. 1790-1835, a group exhibition featuring an expansive collection of Company Paintings made during the British period. The term ‘Company painting’ was coined some seventy years ago to describe works made by Indian artists working for European patrons in India – typically employees of the various … Continued

April 12-July 5, 2025

DAG, New Delhi, 22A Windsor Place, Janpath Road, New Delhi, India

Raqs Media Collective: Cavalcade

The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago presents Cavalcade, an exhibition of new works by the renowned Delhi-based artist group Raqs Media Collective, based in part on footage of an annual religious festival that takes place in the holy Hindu city of Deoghar, in the Indian state of Jharkhand, Cavalcade … Continued

May 8-July 11, 2025

Neubauer Collegium for culture and society, The University of Chicago, US

Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP

MoMA presents Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP, The solo includes key works that trace the arc of CAMP’s interests over nearly two decades. These include Khirkeeyaan, a work initiated by CAMP co-founder Shaina Anand in 2006, and Bombay Tilts Down (2022), CAMP’s newest large-scale, multi-channel video and sound installation, which was recently acquired by MoMA. … Continued

February 21-July 20, 2025

MoMA, Floor 3, 3 South The Edward Steichen Galleries, New York, USA

Remembering : Arpita Singh

Serpentine Gallery presents Remembering, the first institutional solo exhibition of Arpita Singh’s work in London. The exhibition will showcase works selected in consultation with the artist from her prolific career which expands over six decades. The paintings on view will celebrate Singh’s endless experimentation with colour and mark making to figuratively explore emotional responses to … Continued

March 20-July 27, 2025

Serpentine North Gallery, W Carriage Dr, London W2 2AR, United Kingdom

Intimità Personale

Iram Art presents Intimità Personale by Narayan Sinha where through his sculptures, he is not seeking a nihilism of ideas or just attempting to occupy space through form. Rather this is a conscious effort to find tangible ends to an image that forms in his mind. He grew up in a mofussil town that served … Continued

May 19-August 1, 2025

Block A, Navratna Corporate Park, 502/503, Ambli - Bopal Rd, Ashok Vatika, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

A Moment in Modernity: Haren Thakur

Art Magnum and Gallery Time and Space present A Moment in Modernity, a solo exhibition of works by artist Haren Thakur, curated by art historian Dr. Alka Pande. The show presents a rich retrospective of Haren Thakur’s five-decade-long practice rooted in Santiniketan philosophies and informed by his engagement with tribal and rural communities in eastern India. … Continued

5-11 August, 2025

Jehangir Art Gallery, 161-B, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai