EXHIBITIONS

Anjolie Ela Menon: Nostalgia 2022

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 22 December 2022 - 31 January 2023 Menon’s exhibition Nostalgia is centered around a triptych celebrating the Divine Mothers – Parvati, Mariam and Yashoda. The artist is intrigued by the aesthetics of mythology and creates a unique visual language in her portrayal of these protagonists, as she drapes the goddesses with free-flowing hair and contemporary garments, making... Read more

Treibor Mawlong | Once Around the Sun

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 28 November 2022 - 28 January 2023 For Treibor Mawlong, an emerging artist from the Khasi hills of Meghalaya, people’s relationships to nature and its elements are as personal and potent as they are to each other. Theirs is a closed-circuit world nurtured by the pride of belonging, inner revolution and necessitated self-sufficiency. Guided by autobiographical events,... Read more

Benodebehari Mukherjee | Through Wakefulness, A Night Rising

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 28 November 2022 - 28 January 2023 The acclaimed Santiniketan pedagogue and artist Benodebehari Mukherjee – whose path-breaking experiments with materials via an integrated approach to art and craft and whose making of a contextual Indian modernism in conversation with international practices were visionary developments as a result of his life’s work – ironically grappled with declining... Read more

Beyond The Beginning

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 28 November - 18 December 2022 Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present a curated body of works by path-breaking artists M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, Krishen Khanna, Ram Kumar and J. Swaminathan titled Beyond the Beginning featuring works from the 1970s and 1980s, described as periods of high modernism in India. The exhibition will be on... Read more

Chameli Ramachandran: Enchanted Garden

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 14 October - 14 November 2022 Chameli Ramachandran carries a piece of Santiniketan wherever she goes. Rabindranath Tagore died in 1941, the year after she was born, but even after his death, much of Rabindranath’s philosophy, his celebration of life in nature, his experiments with education permeated the Santiniketan ambience. Chameli grew up in this very... Read more

A Lick of Night in the Morning | Curated by Dipti Anand

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 27 September - 11 November 2022 A Lick of Night in the Morning is a compelling group exhibition featuring prominent contemporary artists Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Balkrishna Doshi, Gieve Patel, N.S. Harsha, Sudhir Patwardhan and Ranbir Kaleka titled A Lick of Night in the Morning , curated by writer and curator Dipti Anand on display at... Read more

Paramjit Singh: Touched by the Sun

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 23 September - 10 October 2022 Featuring works rendered in oil on canvas, Touched by the Sun runs the gamut of Singh’s quintessential explorations of nature but importantly moves his impressionist vocabulary into the realm of abstraction. Singh studies the colours of fall in New York City over two years, the behaviour of flora and fauna... Read more

DELHI CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK 2022

REMEMBER THE SKIN WHOSE EARTH YOU ARE 31 August - 7 September 2022 Durations of existence are tepid and unclear; neither is every interval of time a watershed, nor is the smallest unit of the hour entirely frivolous. The stretches of time vary, by definition, as eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages but such categories are human interferences, constructed, archived and run through... Read more

Sunil Gupta: Cruising

D-53 Defence. colony, New Delhi 12 August - 16 September 2022 Sunil Gupta is a pioneering photographer, writer, curator and activist, whose often theatrical artistic engagements are armed, autobiographical interventions into mainstream cultural consciousnesses to re-center subjects such as racism, alternative sexuality, migration, queer issues and marginalia. At the heart of Gupta’s practice is narrative assemblage; he explores the nature of... Read more

Anupam Roy: Broken Cogs in the Machine

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 6 July - 5 August 2022 The Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) in collaboration with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Anupam Roy titled Broken Cogs in the Machine and is a culmination of Roy's journey with the FICA Emerging Artist Award, which he received in... Read more

Anju Dodiya: Anatomy of a Flame

FRIEZE No.9 Cork Street, London 1 - 18 June 2022 Anatomy of a Flame features a recent body of work completed over the last two years, simmering with thoughts of longing amidst solitude. Dodiya writes, ‘What breathes within us, nudges us to wake every day and take on the world? There is love. There are reasons. There is the swift... Read more

A Handful of Dust

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 19 May - 18 June 2022 Exhibiting Artists: Jagannath Panda, K.M. Madhusudhanan, N.S. Harsha, Sudhir Patwardhan, Praneet Soi, Gigi Scaria, Sujith S.N., Susanta Mandal, Pranati Panda, Sachin George Sebastian, Shailesh B.R., Biraaj Dodiya, Shrimanti Saha, Priyanka Choudhary In the poem 'One Art' by American poetess Elizabeth Bishop, she writes: The art of losing isn't hard to... Read more

Conversations on Tomorrow

Sadie Coles HQ, London 11 May - 18 June 2022 Conversations on Tomorrow is collaborative exhibition by four galleries Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai; Experimenter, Kolkata; Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai & Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. Presenting works by Ali Kazim, Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, KM Madhusudhanan, Mithu Sen, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Prabhakar Pachpute & Radhika Khimji, the group exhibition explores ideas of... Read more

Manjit Bawa: Kala Bagh

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 26 April - 18 June 2022 Manjit Bawa enjoyed spontaneously drawing his compositions without any definition of their utility within the scheme of painting and considered drawing an integral process in his practice. These drawings would naturally evolve into oil paintings. The artist describes his drawings to be 'a more effective medium, capturing easily the movement... Read more

SOUTH SOUTH | VEZA 02

31 March - 10 April 2022 Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to announce our participation in the second edition of SOUTH SOUTH VEZA, launched on 31 March and running until 10 April 2022. With this edition’s focus on new media, this year’s VEZA is focused on incorporating film, video and digital works by artists from the... Read more

N.S. Harsha: Stomach Studio

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 2 March - 2 May 2022 The Worlding of the Portrait By Gayatri Sinha N.S. Harsha gives us a manner of painting, which has to be read rather than viewed. In the performative act of moving closer and then further away from each work, or reading it left to right, we engage with an extraordinary language... Read more