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AN INDIAN ART LOVER’S GUIDE TO THE 60TH VENICE BIENNALE

India’s great modernists and path-breaking contemporary artists will be on view at the oldest and largest international art biennale in the world

TRADITION FOR THE FUTURE: BHURI BAI

We meet Bhuri Bai, one of India’s best known contemporary Bhil artists at her workspace in the Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum

“MY NAME IS A PHOTOGRAPHER”: RAGHU RAI

India’s first Magnum photographer, Raghu Rai welcomes us to his workspace and sanctuary in New Delhi where he makes music out of images

“SOUTHASIA IS ONE WORD”: PRASIIT STHAPIT

Photo-based artist Prasiit Sthapit tells stories of South Asia’s borderlines and contemporary Nepal

DESIGNERS WE LOVE: de GOURNAY

Hannah Cecil Gurney, Director of de Gournay tells us about the time-honoured craft practices that define the global design house’s work

“CONFUSION CAN BE A PRODUCTIVE SPACE”: ASIM WAQIF

Installation artist Asim Waqif welcomes us to his New Delhi studio, home to the residues of past projects and a laboratory for future experiments

DESIGNERS WE LOVE: ASHIESH SHAH

The aesthetic sensibilities of Mumbai-born architect Ashiesh Shah pays homage to craft through imaginative innovation

City Guide: Mumbai

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

LIVING IN AN ENDLESS DREAM: T. VENKANNA

We visit T. Venkanna’s home-studio in Hyderabad where the artist creates potent paintings and prints that expose the violence and beauty of the world around him

THE SKY IS NOT ONLY BLUE: SADHNA PRASAD

Mumbai-based Sadhna Prasad tells us how ‘displacement’ drives her colourful and fantastical practice. Enter her alternate reality through the film and download the special artist poster below

HARMONY IN A MELTING POT: MYLES x AMEYA

Sound-artist Myles and graphic designer Ameya have come together to create an immersive digital environment celebrating the biodiversity of India. Watch the film to get a glimpse into their collaboration and download a special artist poster below

GAME GRAMMAR: DHRUV JANI

Artist and writer Dhruv Jani runs independent video game studio, Studio Oleomingus, along with creative coder Sushant Chakaraborty. Watch this film to learn how they retell colonial narratives through video games and download their playable artist poster below

INTRODUCING THE 2024 ‘THE FUTURE IS BORN OF ART’ COMMISSION WINNER: SASHIKANTH THAVUDOZ

Multi-media artist Sashikanth Thavudoz shares his perspectives on materiality, the land and ‘Forwardism’

Designers We Love: Gunjan Gupta

Mumbai-born Gunjan Gupta’s design practice is deeply experimental but always rooted in the crafting traditions prevalent in the Indian subcontinent

Where I work: Afrah Shafiq

New media artist Afrah Shafiq joins us from her studio in a 90-year-old Indo-Portuguese style house in lush Goa

Designers We Love: Karishma Swali and Chanakya School of Craft

Helmed by Creative Director Karishma Swali, Chanakya School of Craft and Chanakya International are exemplary in their elevation, restoration, and revitalization of Indian craft techniques

Blooming at the end of the world: Keita Miyazaki

Akara Contemporary presents Blooming at the end of the world, a solo exhibition of sculptures by Tokyo born artist Keita Miyazaki. Made from the body of the dismantled and obsolete machine, Miyazaki’s sculptures are botanical, with suggestion of movement that is nearly imperceptible. They indicate growth and renewal, hybridity and glitching. Their presence rearranges the order … Continued

March 14-April 20, 2024

Akara Contemporary, 3C Amarchand Mansion, 2nd Floor, 16 Madam Cama Road, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra

Workshop: Origin Stories with Dhruv Jani

Join India Art Fair Digital Artist in Residence, Dhruv Jani in this session and confront your impact on the natural world in his new interactive game, It Takes a Long Time to Grow a Mountain. Then use iPad to create your own playable fiction in honour of Earth Day. Sign up for free at http://apple.co/origin-stories

April 23, 2024 7:30 pm — 9:00 pm

BKC, Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Drigganita: Kaimurai

Blueprint12 is pleased to present Drigganita, a solo exhibition by Kaimurai. Kaimurai’s works, executed in natural indigo, are a dialogue between organic forms and flow of energy experienced in the Western Ghats, Ancient South Indian art, rituals, architecture and Carnatic music. Drigganita is a series of works inspired by deep inner consciousness, akin to the … Continued

17-24 April, 2024

CCA, Ground Floor, Bikaner House, Pandara Road, New Delhi, India

Temples of Democracy: Mahbubur Rahman

Blueprint12 is delighted to present Temples of Democracy, a solo exhibition by Bangladesh based artist Mahbubur Rahman. Rahman works with a range of mediums such as painting, photography, sculpture as well as performances, and his works have consistently questioned his post war identity and the fabric of social structure in Bangladesh. Find out more about … Continued

17-24 April, 2024

CCA, First floor, Bikaner House, Pandara Road, New Delhi, India

Workshop: Lessons in Birdsong with MYLES & Ameya

Join India Art Fair Digital Artists in Residence, MYLES and Ameya for a special session to explore the patterns and messages in birdsong in their immersive installation, Ornithoscope. Then use iPad to create your own visuals inspired by what you find. Sign up for free at http://apple.co/lessons-birdsong

April 24, 2024 7:30 pm — 9:00 pm

BKC, Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Workshop: Reimagine the Natural Order with Sadhna Prasad

Join India Art Fair Digital Artist in Residence, Sadhna Prasad in a special session to celebrate Earth Day. Together you will reimagine the forces of nature with iPad in a digital mural inspired by her new work, I’ll Be Back (போயிடு வரேன்). Sign up for free at apple.co/reimagine-natural-order or at the link in my bio. #TodayatApple

April 25, 2024 7:30 pm — 9:00 pm

BKC, Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Metamorphosis: Lorenzo Vitturi

Nature Morte is proud to present Metamorphosis, a new body of works by Italy born artist Lorenzo Vitturi who works in photography, sculpture, and installation. The exhibition features gigantic soft sculptures floating from above as well as small and delicate still-lifes containing fractal patterns and geometries. These particular works trace back to the artist’s biographical … Continued

March 23-April 27, 2024

Nature Morte, Dhanraj Mahal, Block A, Third Floor Apollo Bandar, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

NOT A DREAM, NOT PEACE, NOT LOVE: ARINDAM CHATTERJEE

Emami Art presents Not a Dream, Not Peace, Not Love, a solo exhibition of recent works by Kolkata based painter Arindam Chatterjee. Chatterjee is known for his highly experimental and critical works, reflecting our fragile existence in a time of mindless violence, anomie, arbitrary power rule and repression. The paintings in the exhibition show his highly … Continued

February 23-April 30, 2024

Emami Art, Fifth Floor, 777, Anandapur, Adarsha Nagar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

IMAGING ARRIVING DEPARTING: GROUP SHOW

Exhibit320 presents Imaging Arriving Departing, a group show featuring works by artists Arpita Akhanda, Akshata Mokashi, Jayati Kaushik, Sukanya Ghosh and Yasmin Jahan Nupur. Curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki, the exhibition threads together the ideas and manifestations of imaging as points of arrival and departure. It spotlights the language possible outside of the images which can also … Continued

March 21-April 30, 2024

Exhibit 320, F-320, Lado Sarai, New Delhi-110030

So Be It: Kisalay Vora

Tao Art Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition titled So Be It, featuring the works of multi-disciplinary artist Kisalay Vora. The exhibition showcases a culmination of Vora’s introspective journey and artistic exploration and invites viewers to immerse themselves in the artist’s profound reflections and honest artistic expressions. Through a collection of mixed-media pieces, … Continued

April 5-May 1, 2024

Tao Art Gallery, 165, The View, Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Braided: Sheetal Mallar

Art Musings presents Braided, showcasing works in mixed media by contemporary Indian photographer Sheetal Mallar. Going back to her core relationships, the artist looks at loss and how memories function. The work is about revealing these layers, using photography, drawings and text that remains an ongoing dialogue between her and her mother. The exhibition also … Continued

April 11-May 2, 2024

Art Musings, # 1, Admiralty Building, Colaba Cross Lane, Mumbai, India

ASA NISI MASA: Michael Kunze

Galerie ISA presents Asa Nisi Masa, a solo exhibition of works by German painter Michael Kunze. The artist’s large scale works are highly complex, layered in meaning and metaphor. His use of light is transcendent in chiaroscuro and his architectonic landscapes are meant to induce shock and awe. The perceptions of Kunze’s works range from futuristic … Continued

March 14-May 2, 2024

Galerie ISA, Ground Floor, Kamani Chambers, Ramji Kamani Marg, Ballard Estate, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

I have so much poetry inside me, but it is in the wrong language: Chris Basumatary

Shrine Empire is pleased to present I have so much poetry inside me, but it is in the wrong language, a solo exhibition curated by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi featuring works by Chris Basumatary. Basumatary’s practice is inspired by the ideas of corporeality and nature. Through the surfaces of flesh, water, and stone his work presents a … Continued

April 11-May 11, 2024

Shrine Empire, D 395, Lower Basement, Defence Colony New Delhi, India

Crossing Over : Vincenzo de Cotiis

Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents Crossing Over, a collection by Italian artist and architect Vincenzo De Cotiis that constructs a contemporary urban imagery. Crossing Over builds its urban aesthetic through monochrome colours, graphic gestures and geometric forms. Via a process of reclamation, recycled fibreglass, glass, stone and metal are combined into new assemblies, metamorphosing into deeply poetic … Continued

February 27-May 30, 2024

Carpenters Workshop Gallery, 7070 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States of America

Spring Soiree: Ganapati Hegde

Chawla Art Gallery presents Spring Soiree, a solo exhibition with works by Ganapati Hegde. Bursting with native flora and fauna—plants, flowers, birds, animals, and insects, the bright and colourful paintings reveal a buoyant and affirmative portrayal of the natural world, infused with the artists personal style. Find out more about the show here.

April 6-May 31, 2024

Chawla Art Gallery, Square One Mall, Saket, New Delhi, India

InDNA: Group Show

Vida Heydari Contemporary is pleased present InDNA, an exhibition which brings together works by two contemporary artists – Lu Xinjian and Zhang Ji in India. Drawing upon references from both religious and secular traditions of Indian architecture and philosophy, the show highlights the artists’ transcending relationship with a geographically distant culture as made manifest in … Continued

March 16-June 16, 2024

Vida Heydari Contemporary, Marvel Alaine, Lane 8, Koregaon Park, Pune, India