EXHIBITIONS

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

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