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

On Quilting, Kinship, and Quiet Resistance in North Karnataka

Can a quilt be a site of belonging? A prayer? A protest? For Bangalore-based artist – art historian Anitha Reddy and the community of Siddi women she works with, the answer is yes.
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

The Presence of Absence: WORKS FROM THE SALONI DOSHI COLLECTION

Space118 Art Foundation, opens its doors to the public with The Presence of Absence – works from the personal collection of Mumbai-based patron Saloni Doshi. The exhibition, curated by renowned interior architect Kunal Shah, offers an expansive view into a world of form, colour, and riveting narratives that emerge from fragments of familiar yet unrecognised … Continued

November 13, 2025-February 16, 2026

Space118 Art Foundation, 118, Wadibunder Road, Mazgaon, Mumbai, India

Between Skin & Silence: Group Show

Nero Art Hub presents Between Skin & Silence, a group show curated by renowned artist Ranbir Rathi. This evocative showcase brings together the creative voices of Anamika, Naman, Sophie Muret, and Lorraine Thiria, each weaving their own interpretation of intimacy, vulnerability, and the quiet resonance of silence. Together, their works create a visual equilibrium, a … Continued

4-18 February, 2026 12:00 am

Nero Art Hub, 79 Amrit Nagar, South Ex, Part 1, New Delhi, India

The Still Life of Sentiments: Group Show

Gallery Art Positive is delighted to present the exhibition The Still Life of Sentiments, curated by Priyanshi. The exhibition will feature a living room and a study/anti-room, filled with art, furniture, greenery, lights, hidden laughter, books, and design pieces. The gallery will be styled to create a comfortable yet exciting atmosphere, inviting audiences to take … Continued

January 29-February 18, 2026

Gallery Art Positive, F-213B, Old M.B. Road, Lado Sarai, New Delhi, India

Remember Her Name: Group Show

Kadari Art Gallery presents Remember Her Name, a research-led textile exhibition by artist and art historian Anitha N. Reddy. The exhibition brings together a sustained body of collaborative work developed with Siddi women quilters in Karnataka, foregrounding questions of historical erasure, diaspora, and collective memory through textile as both material and method. Reddy’s practice emerges … Continued

January 9-February 19, 2026

Kadari Art Gallery, Plot No, 97/A, Road No. 14, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, India

Have we forgotten how to feel?

Rachita Dutta marks her first-ever solo show with this exhibit titled “Have we forgotten how to feel?” This show demonstrates her way of navigating the everyday complexities of adulthood, approached with humour and a childlike sense of wonder. Find more information here.

January 8-February 19, 2026

Chemould CoLab, Mumbai

The Fourth Wall

Sakshi Gallery presents The Fourth Wall . To mark the beginning of Sakshi’s 40th year, The Fourth Wall looks back at Sakshi’s legacy, bringing together artists, ideas and landmark moments that have defined its program in its four decades in the contemporary art circuit. In doing so, the exhibition explores how art-making has evolved during … Continued

January 8-February 20, 2026

Mumbai

What We Carry

Curated by Khushboo Jain In a commune lies shared moments of meals, memories, silences, and gestures. They hold faith in the small acts that make a world: the passing of a bowl, the laying of a cloth, the breaking of bread, the waiting for someone to arrive. This exhibition gathers works that dwell in the … Continued

3-20 February, 2026

Art Incept, 227 South Point Mall, Golf Course Rd, DLF Phase 5, Gurugram, Haryana

ਸੂਤ ਤੇ ਸਾਹ · Sut te Saah: Stories Woven in Phulkari

Latitude 28 presents ਸੂਤ ਤੇ ਸਾਹ · Sut te Saah: Stories Woven in Phulkari, an exhibition curated by Shreya Sharma. The exhibition journeys through the arc of human experience: birth, love, community, ritual, and remembrance, through the many forms of Pre-Partition Phulkaris and Baghs of Punjab. Taking its title from the folk verse, “Sut te … Continued

January 29-February 20, 2026

Latitude 28, F-208, First Floor, Old MB Road, Lado Sarai, New Delhi, India

HER STORY: Group Show

KYNKYNY Art Gallery presents Her Story a group exhibition featuring 19 women artists centered on the theme of Memory. This project seeks works that explore how memory shapes who we are – how it is held in the body, embedded in materials, passed down through generations, or reconstructed through imagination. From personal recollections to shared … Continued

January 23-February 21, 2026

KYNKYNY Art Gallery, 104 Embassy Square, 148 Infantry Road, Bangalore, India

Place No Trace / Trace No Place: The Luminous Twilight

Om Soorya’s landscapes materialise as expansive, immersive and enchanting realms. From a distance, they register as coherent, monumental structures; up close, they fragment into intricate topographical and architectural details, transforming the act of viewing into a performative experience, as the eye moves continuously across the surface without settling into a static point of rest. In … Continued

January 24-February 21, 2026

Palette Art Gallery 14 Golf Links, New Delhi - 110003

A Painter with a Camera: Jyoti Bhatt

Subcontinent presents a solo exhibition by Jyoti Bhatt titled A Painter with a Camera. A Painter with a Camera brings together a focused selection of photographic works by Jyoti Bhatt that foreground an essential dimension of his practice: photography as a site of sustained experimentation rather than mere documentation. Find out more about the show … Continued

January 8-February 21, 2026

Subcontinent, Apeejay Chambers, Fort, Mumbai, India

What Do Birds Dream At Dusk?: Mithu Sen

Chemould Precott Road presents What Do Birds Dream at Dusk, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Mithu Sen. The show explores blindness not as a medical state but as a political condition—shaped by selective seeing, curated truths, and collective denial. In a world where media edits reality, where militarism frames vision, and where comfort replaces … Continued

January 8-February 21, 2026

Chemould Prescott Road, 3rd floor, Queens Mansion, Ghanshyam Talwatkar Marg, Azad Maidan, Fort, Mumbai, India

The Shape of a Pause: Anpu Varkey

Project 88 is pleased to present the works of muralist and painter Anpu Varkey in her first solo show at the gallery, The Shape of a Pause. The Bangalore artist will be displaying two large-scale murals and a selection og paintings on canvas. Across the last fifteen years, Anpu Varkey’s practice has unfolded through a … Continued

January 8-February 21, 2026

PROJECT 88 Ground Floor,BMP Building, N.A. Sawant Marg Colaba, Mumbai.

What Surface Remembers

Vida Heydari Contemporary Gallery presents What Surface Remembers featuring the work of Ravi Morya. In my practice, the surface is a living, breathing archive—absorbing, sheltering, and revealing the layered marks of history and the echoes of daily existence. Every painting is both an encounter with the outside world and an introspective journey, drawing equally from … Continued

January 18-February 21, 2026

Vida Heydari Contemporary, Pune, India

DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS: LUBNA CHOWDHARY

Jhaveri Contemporary presents DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Lubna Chowdhary. From calligraphy to sculpture, most artworks provoke a feeling of doubleness in the viewer. There’s a legible image or idea, and then a mood, something more sensual and affective, that is difficult to articulate. An image might transport a viewer to … Continued

January 8-February 21, 2026

Jhaveri Contemporary, 3rd Floor, Devidas Mansion, Colaba, Mumbai, India

Continuum: A Passage Through Life And Afterlife: Vipeksha Gupta

Galerie ISA presents Continuum: A Passage Through Life And Afterlife, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Vipeksha Gupta. One recognizes the fraught polemics of thrusting a proclamation by Jackson Pollock on any artist, let alone one born nearly a century later, in a context where notions of craft and cosmos are inherently intertwined and … Continued

January 8-February 21, 2026

Galerie ISA, Ground Floor, Kamani Chambers, Fort, Mumbai, India