Events 2026

Dates: July 17 – 18, 2026

Venue: Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata

The most-anticipated Curators’ Hub returns with the monsoon season, and this year, India Art Fair comes on board as Associate Partner. A two-day programme convening leading curators from across the globe, the Hub creates space for deep thinking, dialogue, and exchange around curatorial practice and exhibition-making today.

Learn more about the Curators’ Hub and find ways to get involved here.

Register Today here.

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Dates: July 16 – August 21, 2026

Venue: Christie’s London, UK

South Asia on the global stage once again – Christie’s presents The Meeting Ground: Scenes from the KNMA Collection, a landmark collaboration with the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), showcasing modern and contemporary multimedia works from South Asia through carefully curated scenes drawn from the museum’s extraordinary collection.

 Know more about the event here.

Image Credit: Tallur LN Interference, 2019

Dates: July 31 – August 01, 2026

Venue: India International Centre, New Delhi

Observing the bicentennial of photography, Image Worlds: Hybridity symposium brings together contemporary artists, curators, writers, and theorists to reflect on how image-making continues to evolve. Using the idea of hybridity as a starting point, this two-day symposium explores changing artistic practices, histories, and ways of understanding images across visual and written forms.

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Register here.

Dates: August 1 – 10, 2026

City: Leh–Kargil Corridor, Ladakh

The world’s highest regenerative art initiative on climate, culture and community,  the Biennale under the theme Signals from Another Star, foregrounds regeneration, learning, and ethical engagement. It unfolds as a non–white–cube initiative across Ladakh’s lived landscapes, bringing together artists from Ladakh and around the world to foster long-term, ethical, and climate-conscious cultural exchange.

Know more about the biennale here. 

Register your visit here.

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Date: August 8, 2026

City: Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Presented by India Art Fair in collaboration with Avtar Foundation for The Arts join Anu Menda, Meha Patel, Jaiveer Johal, and Siddharth Somaiya for a conversation, moderated by Umah Jacob, exploring how regional perspectives, personal philosophies, and collaborative networks are shaping the ways artists, institutions, and cultural ecosystems are supported today.

Date: September 19 – 20, 2026

Venue: Baronet House, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

India Art Fair EDI+IONS is back — and this year, we’re headed to aapnu Ahmedabad.

IAF EDI+IONS reflects our ongoing commitment to strengthening regional arts ecosystems by working closely with local institutions, practitioners and partners, while creating meaningful opportunities for exchange between cities, communities and audiences. Following a successful inaugural edition in Hyderabad, we are delighted to continue this journey in one of India’s most significant centres for art, architecture and design. Over two days, the iconic Baronet House (Sanjay MS Raval Skill Centre) will become a vibrant venue for contemporary art and design, bringing together 15 leading Indian galleries — including five from Ahmedabad — alongside two design participants.

Meet Our Exhibitors:

079 | STORIES ART GALLERY (Ahmedabad)
Akar Prakar (New Delhi/Kolkata)
Archer Art Gallery (Ahmedabad)
Ashiesh Shah (Mumbai)
Ashvita’s (Chennai)
Chatterjee & Lal (Mumbai)
Experimenter (Kolkata/Mumbai)
Iram Art (Ahmedabad)
LATITUDE 28 (New Delhi)
Nature Morte (New Delhi/Mumbai)
PHOTOINK (New Delhi)
Samara Art Gallery (Ahmedabad)
Shrine Empire (New Delhi)
Studio Renn (Mumbai)
Threshold Art Gallery (New Delhi)
Vadehra Art Gallery (New Delhi)
ZOCA (Ahmedabad)

We look forward to welcoming you to Ahmedabad this September.

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Dates: October 23 — November 1, 2026

City: Ahmedabad, Gujarat

The second edition of Ahmedabad Cultural Week (ACW Ed.2 ) responds to the growing urgency of the climate crisis by bringing attention to its far-reaching environmental and social consequences. Through collective activation of cultural spaces. ACW Ed.2 aims to underline the shifting global temperatures and its long term impact.

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Dates: November 25, 2026 – January 2, 2027

City: Santiniketan and Kolkata, West Bengal

Rooted in a rich legacy of culture, art, literature, and interdisciplinary practices, West Bengal’s primary urban-cultural axis from Kolkata to Santiniketan, returns with Bengal Biennale 2026-27. Bringing together over 100+ artists across more than 20 venues, the Biennale presents exhibitions, performances, and public art interventions.

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Dates: December 13 – 20, 2026

City: Panjim, Goa

Serendipity Arts Festival returns to Panjim for its 11th edition, with eight days of visual arts, craft, music, dance, theatre, culinary arts, film, and ideas, unfolding across the city’s most iconic spaces. The Festival has always been about what happens when artists, audiences, and a city come together with openness.

To know more and register, visit here.

Dates: January 29 – March 19, 2027

City: Jodhpur, Rajasthan

SITE Jodhpur, formerly known as Jodhpur Arts Week, brings together art, architecture, ecology, design, craft, technology, folklore, and pedagogy in active collision. More than a festival, it is a site-responsive platform where the city itself becomes the medium, unfolding across its streets, stepwells, and structures as a space for encounter, exchange, and experimentation.

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Dates: February 4 – 7, 2027

Venue: NSIC Exhibition Grounds, Okhla, New Delhi

India Art Fair returns with bigger ideas and bolder voices for its 18th edition from 4 – 7 February 2027. Across four days, the region’s leading galleries, artists, collectors, institutions and creative practitioners will come together to celebrate the richness and diversity of South Asian modern and contemporary art. From landmark presentations and ambitious outdoor commissions to thought-provoking conversations, performances and design, the fair continues to be a platform where ideas are exchanged, new discoveries are made, and lasting connections take shape.

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