EXHIBITIONS

Sujith S.N. | Act II: Emphasizing Stillness

VAG Virtual 18 August - 18 September 2021 Interested in exploring the subliminal psychology of everyday places and people and reflecting on recent world events involving the pandemic, Sujith observantly recognizes the dwindling of the original panic that had at first possessed our collective imaginations in favor of a new status quo that optimistically or wishfully accepts the... Read more

K. M. Madhusudhanan | Mynaakam

In Touch Edition 5 16 December 2020 - 27 May 2021 A recent set of spontaneous drawings from Madhusudhanan, Mynaakam is inspired by a figural bird from the Puranic Vedas, particularly chapter 18 of the Harivamsa Purana, whose name when translated means ‘the mountains have wings’. It is said that when Lord Indra cut off the wings of the mountain, the... Read more

Jasmine Nilani Joseph | Mobile Studio

VAG Fresh 8 December 2020 - 15 January 2021 Recently a resident artist at the Kochi Biennale Foundation, Sri-Lankan artist Jasmine Nilani Joseph encounters an illuminating analogy between jewellery boxes that act as disembodied storehouses of wealth and abandoned houses that are imagistic, voyeuristic shells, both acting as objects of display and innate, but not immediate, richness. As a... Read more

Treibor Mawlong | Somewhere, Elsewhere, Here

Fresh by VAG 8 December 2020 - 15 January 2021 An emerging artist from the Khasi hills of Meghalaya, Treibor Mawlong’s woodcuts epitomize mise-en-scène compositions drawn forth from memory and recollection. The world’s physical and emotional apparatus serve as inspiration for Mawlong, who relies on autobiographical experience to identify and then articulate larger stories about the human condition. As a... Read more

Atul Dodiya | Selected Works

In Touch Edition 4 22 September - 24 October 2020 Atul Dodiya’s recent oil paintings are a powerful presentation of his consistently evolving meditation on the solitary figure in a landscape; a romanticized, idealized landscape, sometimes barren like the Biblical deserts and sometimes lush like in the Indian miniature paintings inhabited by protagonists in gestures of intensity and exaggeration. The... Read more

Shrimanti Saha | Fire in the Greenhouse and Other Stories

VAG Fresh 31 August - 4 October 2020 Fire in the Greenhouse and Other Stories is an online exhibition of new works by Shrimanti Saha. With this digital presentation – FRESH by VAG – we wish to support our younger artists in these grievous times of a global pandemic as well as pay it forward to communities experiencing... Read more

The Future is not Fixed

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 21 August - 19 September 2020 People have always looked ahead; it might be considered an ineluctable aspect of human nature. They strive to make the coming time better than what it is today. They take action in the hope that a perfect or at least better tomorrow can exist. The reality though is that the... Read more

Anandajit Ray | Miasmatica

In Toch Edition 3 17 July - 15 September 2020 In Miasmatica , Ray pursues symbiotic energies in theme through deliberate distinctions in the focal points or character of a particular series of work. He consumes the generality of the surrounding environment with open-minded largesse, while invoking a humorous approach to what can be noted as intense perceptions. Ray is... Read more

The River Bends Before The Ocean

In Touch Edition 2 5 June - 4 July 2020 Hope is a spell, its evocation varied to the conjurer. It is as constructed as it is conclusive, as self-effacing as self-reliant. In The River Turns Before the Ocean , we bring together an eclectic curation of artists whose visual languages are seeded in the act of emerging, of breaking... Read more

Shailesh B.R. | Notes To Self

Fresh by VAG 12 May - 21 July 2020 Notes to Self is an online exhibition of selected works from Shailesh B.R.. This exhibition is part of our digital endeavour –VAG FRESH–a series of online exhibitions hosted on ourwebsite, through which we will support our younger artists and direct a percentage of proceeds by way of contribution to charities... Read more

Vicky Roy | Bachpan

Fresh by VAG 12 May - 21 July 2020 Bachpan is an online exhibition of black-and-white photographs by artist Vicky Roy, whose lens features lower-income-household children amidst the act of play. Part of the proceeds from this exhibition serve as a contribution to Salaam Baalak Trust, an NGO which supports street and working children in the inner cities of... Read more