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

Roots and Rhythms: Living Art Traditions of India

Indian Arts Corner presents Roots and Rhythms: Living Art Traditions of India. Curated by Jas Karan Gupta, Roots and Rhythms brings together artistic practices that continue to be created, lived with, and passed down across generations. Emerging from different regions and communities, these traditions are united by their deep connection to everyday life, belief systems, … Continued

21-27 February, 2026

Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India

নাট্য সম্মেলন” – An Archive of our Fragmented Sphere

Art Exposure proudly presents Shimul Saha’s solo exhibition ‘ নাট্য সম্মেলন – An Archive of our Fragmented Sphere’, curated by Arijit Bhattacharyya. In this exhibition, Saha unfolds fragments of our contemporary world through an imaginary archive of objects in their polyphonic prevalence. The exhibition invites viewers as active participants in the making of meaning. Narrated … Continued

January 23-February 28, 2026

Kolkata

Between the Strands, Time Bends and Warps: Group Show

This display features the second part of the 20th anniversary show of Gallery Ragini, Between the Strands, Time Bends and Warps, curated by Meena Vari. Marking twenty years, Gallery Ragini’s anniversary exhibition reflects its legacy while envisioning its future. Bringing together seminal and emerging artists, it juxtaposes established and experimental practices to present Indian contemporary … Continued

January 29-February 28, 2026

Gallery Ragini, Ground Floor, F 208, Nai Basti, Lado Sarai, New Delhi, India

ARE YOU HUMAN?: Bodies–Machines–Publics

Khoj International Artists’ Association is pleased to announce the launch of Are You Human?, a two-site international exhibition that explores the increasingly porous boundaries between bodies, machines, and public space. Presented at Khoj Studios (January 30– February 28, 2026) and DLF Avenue Mall, Saket, for a public viewing (January 30– February 10, 2026), the exhibition … Continued

January 30-February 28, 2026

Multiple Locations, New Delhi

Ascension

Lakeeren Contemporary presents Ascension  presented by Sarika Bajaj .This exhibition is about flight—not as escape, spectacle, or conquest, but as an ethical and ecological act. In Sarika Bajaj’s solo exhibition, flying becomes a proposition for freedom that resists the extractive logics of patriarchal power and environmental exploitation. Situated within the intensifying realities of climate crisis, … Continued

January 6-February 28, 2026

Lakeeren Contemporary Grand Hyatt, Vakola Pipeline Rd, Siddharath Nagar, Vakola, Santacruz East, Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Ascension: Flight, Freedom, as Ecological Praxis: Sarika Bajaj

Lakeeren Contemporary presents Ascension: Flight, Freedom, as Ecological Praxis, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Sarika Bajaj. Ascension is an exhibition about flight—not as escape, spectacle, or conquest, but as an ethical and ecological act. In Sarika Bajaj’s solo exhibition, flying becomes a proposition for freedom that resists the extractive logics of patriarchal power and … Continued

January 6-February 28, 2026

Lakeeren Contemporary, Grand Hyatt, Vakola Pipeline Rd, Siddharath Nagar, Vakola, Santacruz East, Mumbai, India

A Day in Making

Shrine Empire presents A Day in Making featuring the works of  Neerja Kothari, who presents 131 durational drawings, each representing eleven minutes and together spanning a full twenty-four hours. Installed as a continuous sequence, the works trace the shifting rhythms of a day—its intensities, lulls, and quiet returns. Like waves, the drawings ebb and flow: … Continued

4-28 February, 2026

Shrine Empire, D-395, Dron Marg, Block D, Defence Colony, New Delhi, Delhi

At The Edge, The River Bends unfolds: Mahima Kapoor

MAG Contemporary presents At The Edge, The River Bends unfolds, featuring the works of Mahima Kapoor. Out of thin air, out of light, in the gap between moments—Mahima Kapoor’s debut solo exhibition unfolds like a breath suspended in time. Her practice is a dialogue between contradictions, where materials pull and push against each other, resisting … Continued

January 17-February 28, 2026

MAG Contemporary 29, Santushti Shopping Complex, Panchsheel Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi

BIOGRAPHY: Prashant Pandey

Gallery Maskara presents Biography, a solo exhibition by Prashant Pandey featuring over 70 new sculptural works created from discarded cigarette buds. For more than ten years, Pandey has worked with urban waste as a primary material, transforming remnants of consumption into intricate, organic forms. In Biography, he depicts each recovered cigarette butt as a trace … Continued

January 8-February 28, 2026

Gallery Maskara, No. 6/7, 3rd Pasta Lane, Colaba, Mumbai, India

A Collection of Behaviours: Group Show

LAMB Gallery presents a group show titled A Collection of Behaviours. A Collection of Behaviours at LAMB Gallery extends this lineage into contemporary material practice, foregrounding the ways light acts through form. The exhibition presents sculptural lamps by twelve artists from Brazil, Mexico, Europe, the United States and the United Kingdom who treat light as … Continued

December 11, 2025-February 28, 2026

Lamb Gallery, 32 St. George Street, W1S 2EA, London, UK

The Floor Keeps Count

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-February 28, 2026

Exhibit 320, Lado Sarai, New Delhi

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