Past
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Gulammohammed Sheikh: Kaarawaan and Other Stories
Bikaner House, New Delhi 19 February - 12 March 2024 'Gulam Mohammed Sheikh is an artist, a writer, and a historian all rolled into one. These three aspects have had different origins but have entered into a fruitful conversation over the years and have jointly shaped his work. The four paintings he contributed to the exhibition Place for People (1981)... Read more -
Come Out: A Special Project by Sunil Gupta
Viewing Room at Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 30 January - 16 March 2024 Sunil Gupta is a pioneering photographer, writer, curator and activist at the helm of identity politics and queer studies with post-modernist, post-colonial lenses arming his inquiries into global cultures. Come Out features a series of never-before-exhibited photographs shot in London from 1985 to 1995, when the Pride movement as a... Read more -
Zaam Arif: Waking Dream
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 30 January - 8 March 2024 Subtle, controlled, in muted browns and blues that hover between the starkness of the quotidian and the haze of dreams, Zaam Arif’s compelling array of images – of mirrors within mirrors, darkened rooms, unmade beds, and the waves of the sea – evoke the crises of our troubled times. Anxieties,... Read more -
Jyoti Bhatt | Revisitations: Engaging the Archive
D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 30 January - 14 March 2024 Jyoti Bhatt’s exhibition will come to his admirers as something of a revelation. A mature career phase showing of small works that bear the imprint of personal relations, ruminations on travels, or complex abstractions, it presents Bhatt with the intimacy of a diarist, and an archivist mining his own vast... Read more -
Architectures of Momentum: Recent works by Rameshwar Broota
Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi 29 January - 15 February 2024 In his gentle, reticent way, Rameshwar Broota has long been a commanding presence on the Indian art scene. His paintings communicate the same combination of a contemplative stillness with an aura of monumentality, even when his imagery and techniques are anchored in conditions of anxiety, anguish, trauma or catastrophe. […]... Read more -
Held By The Land
D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 18 December 2023 - 19 January 2024 Landscape as a subject has undergone a profound transformation over the decades, with our apprehension of the natural world being informed by prevailing historical and cultural contexts, as can be traced through various art historical milestones. In the post-war era landscapes were often depicted as idyllic scenes with a penchant... Read more -
Jagannath Panda | Echoes of Unfathomed Worlds
D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 8 December 2023 - 19 January 2024 Panda explores what lies beyond the realms of predictable vision and other usual sensory encounters. He enters conversations around the natural–unnatural spaces that humanity creates to maintain all living creatures alongside reflections on urban constructions derived from belief, culture and form. Panda’s deconstructive approach to one of the tenets of... Read more