EXHIBITIONS

Zaam Arif: Deewaar

Frieze, No. 9 Cork Street, London 9 - 25 October 2025 The title of the Indian action film, Deewaar (translated from the Hindi as “The Wall”) lends its name to an exhibition of paintings by Zaam Arif, whose love of cinema informs much of the work exhibited. The 1975 Bollywood masterpiece Deewaar tells the story of two brothers struggling to survive... Read more

Gulammohammed Sheikh: Hand Prints | Mind Prints

Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, CSMVS Mumbai 16 September - 26 October 2025 'Sheikh began making digital prints in the New Media Art workshop held by the ARTunderground gallery in Baroda in 2001 where artists were given computers and facilitators. Always curious about new forms, he became intrigued by this medium which was ‘fast’ compared to the ‘slow’ processes of painting and printmaking.... Read more

Vasundhara Tewari Broota: Woman Song | Looking Back

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 11 September - 11 October 2025 A gaze upon a gaze, found upon looking into a mirror or writing a diary, has the heady effect of a self meeting itself, moving beyond the physical into the psychic contours of what the form holds within. Vasundhara Tewari Broota’s decades-long painting practice emblemizes such a deconstruction of the... Read more

Sudhir Patwardhan | Cities: Built, Broken - 50 Years of Picturing Life in the City

Durbar Hall Art Gallery, Kerala Lalithakala Akademi, Kochi 8 - 28 September 2025 For the culminative iteration of Cities: Built, Broken , curator R. Siva Kumar adds 50 Years of Picturing Life in the City to the title which further encompasses Patwardhan’s career-wide preoccupation with the urbane and the demographic it shelters. He further writes for the exhibition, ' Sudhir Patwardhan is an... Read more

Contemporary Now | Ashvita's

Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai 30 August - 17 September 2025 'For the first time, Chennai will witness the coming together of five of India’s most influential galleries — Chemould Prescott Road, Vadehra Art Gallery, Chatterjee & Lal, Experimenter, and Ashvita’s — to present a landmark survey of contemporary art in the country. Contemporary Now is both a window and a... Read more

Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2025

Bikaner House, New Delhi 30 August - 4 September 2025 Artists: Anju Dodiya, Astha Butail, Atul Dodiya, Atul Bhalla, Biraaj Dodiya, Gigi Scaria, Faiza Butt, Jagannath Panda, Joya Mukerjee Logue, Praneet Soi, Ranbir Kaleka, Sachin George Sebastian, Shailesh B.R., Shilpa Gupta, Shrimanti Saha, Sudhir Patwardhan, Sunil Gupta, Zaam Arif As a colloquialism, boundaries are often considered restraints. But in structure,... Read more

Tom Vattakuzhy : The Shadows of Absence

D-53, Defence Colony, New Delhi 21 August - 13 September 2025 Tom Vattakuzhy is an artist who is more interested in the intricacies of life than in the niceties of art. His recent paintings are about the place and people among whom he lives. In a majority of them he explores the community’s inner life through images that capture the interpersonal... Read more

Somnath Hore | Reba Hore

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 25 July - 4 September 2025 'We do not choose suffering, and often we do not choose heroism. But suffering often compels us to be heroic. Somnath Hore (1921–2006) was an artist who led a quiet and heroic life. Quiet because he always kept himself away from the glare of the art world; and heroic because... Read more

Views From Within - Space Studio, Baroda

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 25 July - 16 August 2025 Artists: Aditya Chadar, Meenakshi Nihalani, Nalinakshya Talukdar, Naveen Tungana, Riddhi Vasoya, Santanu Debnath, Sonali Sonam, Teja Gavankar, Vipul Badva The exhibition Views from Within poses several slice-of-life scenarios. A crowded room, filled like a glass to the brim with people who occupy it in busy-bodied repetition. A solemn wedge of... Read more

Unedited, Like an Afternoon Dream: Towards Abstraction and Towards Portraiture

D-40 and D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 11 June - 18 July 2025 Structured as a visual thought experiment as an exhibition in two parts: towards abstraction (part I) and towards portraiture (part II), Unedited, Like an Afternoon Dream explores a philosophy of the image following the relationship between representation and truth, reality and human consciousness. For centuries, philosophers have argued passionately and... Read more

Due to an Obscure Reason | Biraaj Dodiya & Gieve Patel

FRIEZE No. 9 Cork Street, London 22 May - 8 June 2025 Dodiya’s process is one that is centered around the durational aspect of making, of sitting with multiple canvases, building and erasing marks. The work is abstract but constantly slippery, almost coming to form before moving again out of our grasp, mirroring an internal flow of ideas or emotions, unceasing and... Read more

Bachpan | Vicky Roy

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 2 - 30 May 2025 Vicky Roy’s humble beginnings took him through the rehabilitation programme at New Delhi’s Salaam Baalak Trust, an NGO that strives towards the support, protection and empowerment of street children. Given the instability and precarity of his own childhood, Roy admits to a life-long fascination with the enthusiasm, courage and resilience... Read more

Sudhir Patwardhan | Cities: Built, Broken

TRI Art & Culture, Kolkata 17 April - 15 June 2025 “Sudhir Patwardhan’s vision of the city of Mumbai as spatial metaphor appears to have come full circle. The vast panoramas of the city under construction that he painted in the 1980s and 1990s, of structures rising from acres of muddy land, now return in a Kafkaesque horror of overgrown metal... Read more

Paper Trails | Glenbarra Art Museum Collection

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 15 April - 17 May 2025 Artists: Akbar Padamsee, F. N. Souza, Ganesh Pyne, Gogi Saroj Pal, Jogen Chowdhury, Krishen Khanna, Prabhakar Kolte, Rajendra Dhawan The works, which primarily include still lifes, studies of forms and abstractions, range from the latter half of the 20th century to the early years of the 21st century, reflecting a... Read more

Sudhir Patwardhan | Cities: Built, Broken

Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 25 - 31 March 2025 “Sudhir Patwardhan’s vision of the city of Mumbai as spatial metaphor appears to have come full circle. The vast panoramas of the city under construction that he painted in the 1980s and 1990s, of structures rising from acres of muddy land, now return in a Kafkaesque horror of overgrown metal... Read more

A Show of Hands | In Memoriam: Gieve Patel

Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai 20 March - 25 May 2025 Artists: Aditi Singh, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Areez Katki, Biraaj Dodiya, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Jitish Kallat, Mahesh Baliga, Nilima Sheikh, Ranbir Kaleka, Ratheesh T., Sudhir Patwardhan, Sujith S.N. A special exhibition held in memoriam of beloved artist Gieve Patel, curated by respected poet, art critic and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote. The... Read more

Anita Dube: तिमंजला घर Three Storey House

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 15 March - 19 April 2025 ‘The exhibition Three Storey House uses the conventional structure of a house to chart out a conceptual/philosophical movement rising upwards from the base – along a pathway of pleasure and pedagogy to ascend to a meditative sublime celebration of love in all its wonderous hues. The movement is also an... Read more

Sankho Chaudhuri | Untitled Metal

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 12 March - 11 April 2025 'Sankho Chaudhuri used and encouraged the use of the formal tools of Cubism to tackle body–space relationships, and to develop an idiom for pedestal sculpture. This role of cubist-constructivist design, once entrenched, conditioned the very notion of sculpture at Baroda for the next twenty years. Experimentations and play with of... Read more

Astha Butail: A Transcendent Force

Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, London 27 February - 15 March 2025 Curated by Linsey Young 'The potential for unity between body and mind is a central concern of the artist and is often expressed through her interest in yogic practices. Contemplating the root of the word Yoga as ‘to yoke’ or of being connected or tied to a higher force remains... Read more

Sudhir Patwardhan | Cities: Built, Broken

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 4 February - 4 March 2025 “Sudhir Patwardhan’s vision of the city of Mumbai as spatial metaphor appears to have come full circle. The vast panoramas of the city under construction that he painted in the 1980s and 1990s, of structures rising from acres of muddy land, now return in a Kafkaesque horror of overgrown metal... Read more

Gauri Gill | The Village On The Highway

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 4 February - 8 March 2025 Gill created the series The Village on the Highway from January to December 2021, as a visual homage to the creative ingenuity of the farmers contesting the proposed deregulation of agriculture that would further imperil their already fragile livelihoods. They remained on the roads leading into New Delhi through the... Read more

Shilpa Gupta

Bikaner House, Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi 2 - 14 February 2025 A solo exhibition by Shilpa Gupta Placing the abstract against the tangible, artist Shilpa Gupta’s practice engages a poetics of resistance that manifests in bodies and objects that have been subject to institutional censure. In her works, sound seeps through trans-historical time, regular objects are disassembled into irrecognition, and the... Read more