AN INDIAN ART LOVER’S GUIDE TO THE 60TH VENICE BIENNALE
India’s great modernists and path-breaking contemporary artists will be on view at the oldest and largest international art biennale in the world
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India’s great modernists and path-breaking contemporary artists will be on view at the oldest and largest international art biennale in the world
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We meet Bhuri Bai, one of India’s best known contemporary Bhil artists at her workspace in the Madhya Pradesh Tribal Museum
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India’s first Magnum photographer, Raghu Rai welcomes us to his workspace and sanctuary in New Delhi where he makes music out of images
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Photo-based artist Prasiit Sthapit tells stories of South Asia’s borderlines and contemporary Nepal
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Hannah Cecil Gurney, Director of de Gournay tells us about the time-honoured craft practices that define the global design house’s work
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Installation artist Asim Waqif welcomes us to his New Delhi studio, home to the residues of past projects and a laboratory for future experiments
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The aesthetic sensibilities of Mumbai-born architect Ashiesh Shah pays homage to craft through imaginative innovation
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From art and architecture to hidden gems – our insider guide to India’s ‘City of Dreams’
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We visit T. Venkanna’s home-studio in Hyderabad where the artist creates potent paintings and prints that expose the violence and beauty of the world around him
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Mumbai-based Sadhna Prasad tells us how ‘displacement’ drives her colourful and fantastical practice. Enter her alternate reality through the film and download the special artist poster below
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Sound-artist Myles and graphic designer Ameya have come together to create an immersive digital environment celebrating the biodiversity of India. Watch the film to get a glimpse into their collaboration and download a special artist poster below
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Artist and writer Dhruv Jani runs independent video game studio, Studio Oleomingus, along with creative coder Sushant Chakaraborty. Watch this film to learn how they retell colonial narratives through video games and download their playable artist poster below
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Multi-media artist Sashikanth Thavudoz shares his perspectives on materiality, the land and ‘Forwardism’
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Mumbai-born Gunjan Gupta’s design practice is deeply experimental but always rooted in the crafting traditions prevalent in the Indian subcontinent
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New media artist Afrah Shafiq joins us from her studio in a 90-year-old Indo-Portuguese style house in lush Goa
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Helmed by Creative Director Karishma Swali, Chanakya School of Craft and Chanakya International are exemplary in their elevation, restoration, and revitalization of Indian craft techniques
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Grosvenor Gallery presents Endurance, a solo exhibition featuring works by Shanti Panchal created between 1989 – 2022. The earthy tones dominating the palette reflect the artist’s upbringing in a Gujarati village, inspiring a deeply personal visual language. His paintings depict family life, where privacy was a foreign concept, yet each character carved out inner sanctuaries … Continued
May 10-June 2, 2024
Grosvenor Gallery, 35 Bury Street, St. James's, London, United Kingdom
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Rajiv Menon Contemporary presents The Past is a Country: Indo-Nostalgia in Contemporary Art, an intergenerational group exhibition bringing together artists from South Asia and its diasporas to examine the intersection of politics, identity, history, and emotion through a culturally-specific lens of nostalgia. With work across mediums and of varying scale by nineteen artists, the exhibition contextualizes … Continued
May 15-June 3, 2024
Rajiv Menon Contemporary, 3110 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, USA
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Jhaveri Contemporary is pleased to present Ouroboros, a solo exhibition by Yamini Nayar which is presented conjointly with Thomas Erben in New York. Guided by the knowledge of her ‘hand’, the artist builds materially-invested, often life-size assemblages using ubiquitously available materials such as paper, plaster, studio detritus and printed ephemera. During this cumulative process of … Continued
May 9-June 15, 2024
Jhaveri Contemporary, 3rd Floor, Devidas Mansion, B K Boman Behram Marg, Apollo Bandar, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Latitude 28 presents Come With Your Own Light, a solo exhibition featuring works by Baroda based artist Komal Mistri. In this exhibition, through photographic works, Mistri has documented unheard voices behind the closed doors of a labour room. Creating an archive of emotions, the artist takes on the role of a confidante and collates the … Continued
April 12-June 15, 2024
Gallery LATITUDE 28, F - 208, F/F, Lado Sarai, New Delhi, India
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Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition People, Places, Things which features works across mediums including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video and mixed media, created by artists across generations. Spread across two gallery spaces, the show delves into the energy of intimate environments and immediate interactions, zooming into the narrative cuts–often interior, … Continued
May 6-June 15, 2024
Vadehra Art Gallery, D - 40 and D - 53 Defence Colony, New Delhi, India
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Experimenter presents (Un)Settled, a dual-artist exhibition by Kanishka Raja and Rathin Barman. The exhibition draws its title from Barman’s monumental sculpture Unsettled Structure, and explores the oscillation between being ‘settled’ and ‘unsettled’, mapping the transitory nature of both interior and exterior, personal and spatial, across time and location. Both artists have both used their memories … Continued
April 26-June 15, 2024
Experimenter, 45, Ballygunge Place, Ballygunge, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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MAG Contemporary is pleased to present Kodachrome Memories, an evocative exhibition that invites viewers into the intimate realms of the artists’ pasts. Each work in the show is a reflection of the artist’s journey through time, a visual representation of memories that are both deeply personal and strikingly relatable. The exhibition is a visual journey … Continued
May 8-June 16, 2024
Modern Art Gallery, Shop No. 29, Santushti Shopping Complex Panchsheel Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, India
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Vida Heydari Contemporary is pleased present InDNA, an exhibition which brings together works by two contemporary artists – Lu Xinjian and Zhang Ji in India. Drawing upon references from both religious and secular traditions of Indian architecture and philosophy, the show highlights the artists’ transcending relationship with a geographically distant culture as made manifest in … Continued
March 16-June 16, 2024
Vida Heydari Contemporary, Marvel Alaine, Lane 8, Koregaon Park, Pune, India
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Tao Art Gallery is excited to present Kaleidoscope, a group exhibition featuring works by artists Asma Kazi, Aryka Fyzee, Kanika Gupta, Kartikey and Radhika Hamlai. The exhibition brings together a mix of experimental contemporary artists using acrylic and mixed media on canvas to convey worlds of alternate surreality. Through the abstract, vivid patterns and optical … Continued
May 5-June 17, 2024
Tao Art Gallery, 165, The View, Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Nature Morte presents Battle Royale, a group exhibition which features excessively large works that communicate authority, power, and prestige. The paintings in the exhibition showcase wildly divergent styles: in the case of Nidhi Agarwal, cartoonish figuration is fused with aggressive abstraction; the landscapes of Basist Kumar are both ethereal and other-worldly; and Neeraj Patel has … Continued
May 8-June 23, 2024
Nature Morte, The Dhan Mill, Chhatarpur Hills, New Delhi, Delhi, India
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DAG is pleased to present The Babu & The Bazaar in Mumbai, following its successful debuts at the gallery in New Delhi, and Kasturbhai Lalbhai Museum, Ahmedabad, both in 2023. The exhibition, an expansive showing of nineteenth and early twentieth century Bengal art, features watercolour ‘Kalighat’ pats—both religious and secular in their subjects—placed against comparable … Continued
May 4-June 29, 2024
DAG, The Taj Mahal Palace, Apollo Bander, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Gallery XXL is pleased present Witness and Evidence : deliberations on ruins, an exhibition showcasing works by Indian artist Sajid Wajid Shaikh and Spanish artist Jofre Oliveras. The exhibition offers a space for a gathering to deliberate upon confusions that emerge from witnessing ruins, to explore historical losses that seek a preservation, and futures that are … Continued
May 19-June 29, 2024
Gallery XXL, 21, Arsiwala Building, Wodehouse Road, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Aicon is proud to present A Cloud of Flowers, the first solo exhibition of Achuthan Kudallur in New York. From his early expressionist figurative paintings of the 1970s through his abstract canvases of the 2000s, the exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of the career of this significant force in India’s contemporary abstract art movement. Find … Continued
May 23-June 29, 2024
Aicon, 35 Great Jones Street, New York, United States of America
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Aicon is pleased to present Delicately Does It, a group exhibition that focuses on the work of several artists who have spent their careers mastering their craft in impossibly complicated and intricate ways, primarily on and with paper. For these artists, paper can be both surface and medium, fragile, and impervious. Through precise actions such … Continued
May 23-June 29, 2024
Aicon, 35 Great Jones Street, New York, United States of America
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The Guild is pleased to present The Chaos Trilogy III: Out of Here, That’s My Goal. Curated by Premjish Achari, this exhibition features the works of Baiju Parthan, Gigi Scaria, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Namita Vishwakarma, N. N. Rimzon, Rajkumar Korram, Ranbir Kaleka, Ravi Agarwal, Sathyanand Mohan and Shantibai. In this show, the artists examine the ecological … Continued
April 20-June 30, 2024
The Guild, 1028, Ranjanpada, Next to Sai Temple, Mandwa, Alibaug Road Alibaug, Maharashtra, India
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Gropius Bau is pleased to present With How Love Moves, the first major institutional solo exhibition of Pallavi Paul. As an artist and film scholar, Paul engages the camera as her primary tool to interrogate how regimes of “truth” are produced and sustained in public life. Through her multimedia practice encompassing film, installation, performance, drawing, … Continued
March 22-July 21, 2024
Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, Berlin, Germany