The Fourth Wall
2026-01-08 11:00 - 2026-02-18 18:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | SAKSHI GALLERY, 3rd Pasta Lane, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400005, India
Event Name: The Fourth WallArtists: Multiple artists from Sakshi Gallery’s history including Alok Bal, Amit Ambalal, Arunkumar HG, Atul Dodiya, Chintan Upadhyay, Gargi Raina, Jayashree Chakravarty, Manjunath Kamath, Nalini Malani, Nataraj Sharma, NS Harsha, Ravinder Reddy, Rekha Rodwittiya, Riyas Komu, Sudhir Patwardhan, Sumedh Rajendran, Surendran Nair and Vivek Vilasini Curated By: Presented by Sakshi Gallery (no individual curator listed)
If the invisible barrier between audience and art could be dismantled, The Fourth Wall symbolically invites you to step into the evolving narratives that have shaped a major chapter in Indian contemporary art. This exhibition looks back at four decades of Sakshi Gallery’s history, reflecting on how artistic practices, personalities and collaborations have transformed the gallery’s role in the national and international art scene.
The show brings together works — and archival moments — from key figures who have defined the gallery’s programme since its founding in 1986. From early experiments in painting and sculpture to more recent expansions into new media and conceptual practice, the exhibition traces the shifting vocabularies of creativity that have emerged across generations of Indian art.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to witness how artistic expression has grown alongside institutional ambition and cultural exchange. Visitors can experience not just individual works but the resonant arc of ideas, relationships and turning points that have shaped contemporary artistic dialogue in India.

Azal se Abad tak: a journey between two eternities
2026-01-08 11:00 - 2026-02-20 18:00 | Chatterjee & Lal, Sir H.C. Dinshaw Building Third Floor 16 Horniman Circle Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400 001, India
Event Name: Azal se Abad Tak: A Journey Between Two EternitiesArtists: Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai
If time is both a circle and a line that carries us from origin to endless possibility, Azal se Abad Tak: A Journey Between Two Eternities explores that passage through art that meditates on continuity, impermanence and the rhythms of existence. The exhibition invites viewers into a space where minimal form and contemplative detail elicit reflection on what remains constant even as worlds shift.
Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai’s practice foregrounds a slow and intense engagement with notions of eternity and temporal flow. Across multiple parts installed within the gallery’s spaces, his work balances stark minimalism with intricate, calligraphic surfaces that encourage calm and attentive viewing.
The exhibition offers an opportunity for quiet reflection on the interplay between beginnings and durations beyond measure. Visitors are invited to slow their pace, dwell with subtle forms and consider how art can mirror deep philosophical questions about time, memory and unending possibility.

A Painter with a Camera
2026-01-08 11:00 - 2026-02-21 18:30 | Subcontinent, A-3, 2nd Floor, Apeejay Chambers Murzban Road, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
A Painter with a Camera
Artists: Jyoti BhattCurated By: Khushboo Jain

If a camera becomes more than a recorder of reality, it becomes a brush that paints in light and shadow. A Painter with a Camera brings together a focused selection of photographic works that foreground photography as sustained artistic experimentation rather than mere documentation. The exhibition invites viewers to see the photographic surface as a space of creation, layering, alteration, and visual inquiry.
Jyoti Bhatt’s practice foregrounds experimental analogue processes developed between the 1960s and 1980s, including multiple exposures, collage, masking and hand painting. His works draw from his background as a painter and reveal a sustained engagement with material and perception in photographic form.
The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience Bhatt’s innovative approach to photography long before digital manipulation became standard, emphasizing process, material intelligence and a challenge to conventional visual language.

Double Consciousness
2026-01-08 11:00 - 2026-02-21 18:30 | Jhaveri Contemporary, 3rd Floor Devidas Mansion 4 Merewether road Apollo Bandar Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
Double Consciousness

Artists: Lubna Chowdhary

If identity and perception are shaped by multiple cultural lenses, Double Consciousness invites viewers into a space where what is seen and what is felt coexist in dynamic tension. The exhibition explores layers of meaning in ceramic form, suggesting a simultaneity of structure and sensation that reflects hybridity and duality in life and art. Its works operate on multiple registers, engaging both the intellect and the senses in a continuous dialogue about perception and self.
Lubna Chowdhary’s recent body of work encompasses sculptural ceramics that balance geometric precision with richly layered glazes. Drawing on her transnational upbringing and heritage, her pieces evoke doubleness—simultaneously legible and evocative—where architectural forms, grids and tactile surfaces invite both analysis and embodied experience.
The exhibition offers a rare chance to reflect on how identity, memory and form intersect in material practice. Visitors are encouraged to engage closely with the surfaces and structures that blur the boundaries between idea and sensation, revealing how art can embody multiple viewpoints at once.

Gardens of Song
2026-01-08 11:00 - 2026-02-21 19:00 | Art Musings, 1 Admiralty Building, Colaba Cross Lane, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400005, India
Gardens of Song

Artists: Maya Burman

If flowers could speak and patterns could sing, Gardens of Song opens an immersive landscape where colour, form, and motion converse like voices in a chorus. This solo exhibition weaves intricate tapestries of floral and figurative motifs that draw the viewer into realms of play, rhythm, and interconnectedness. It invites you to experience art as a living garden where memory, movement, and motif unfold in visual lyricism.
Maya Burman’s work spans the last seven years of her practice and is characterized by densely patterned watercolours where everything is subordinate to floral, decorative rhythm. Her compositions marry figures in moments of play with lush natural elements, reflecting a transcultural lineage that draws on European art nouveau traditions and the vibrant heritage of eastern Indian dance and movement.
The exhibition offers a rare chance to wander through worlds that feel both dreamlike and deeply grounded in artistic craft. Visitors are invited to linger with scenes of joy, movement, and lyric wonder as patterns seem to hum with life and every surface resonates like a garden in bloom.

Fragment and Division
2026-01-08 11:00 - 2026-02-21 19:00 | Nature Morte, Block A, Third Floor Apollo Bandar, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
Event Name: Fragment and DivisionArtists: Kamrooz Aram
If form carries the memory of its making and surface becomes a record of time, Fragment and Division reveals painting as a field where multiple histories and visual logics intersect. The exhibition explores how motifs, patterns and architectural cues can shift from decorative reference into expressive force, opening up surfaces that unfold like palimpsests rich with trace and tension.
Kamrooz Aram presents nine new paintings that examine how pattern and surface operate beyond ornament to excavate their own inheritances. Each work emerges through revision and layering, where remnants of earlier decisions remain visible — pointing to labor, instability and the unstable logic of visual memory itself.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to experience painting as a living archive of choices and erasures. Visitors are invited to see how repetition, symmetry and disruption work together to reflect on how art history, cultural reference and material practice converge in contemporary visual experience.

The Shape of a Pause
2026-01-08 11:00 - 2026-02-21 19:00 | Project 88, Ground Floor, BMP Building N.A. Sawant Road, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400005, India
Event Name: The Shape of a PauseArtists: Anpu Varkey
If a pause is more than a break and becomes a moment of reflection in the flow of life, The Shape of a Pause invites the viewer into that lived stillness where gesture, surface and memory intersect. The exhibition explores how slowing down can reveal the continuity between outward mark-making and inner contemplation, transforming space into a reflective field.
Anpu Varkey is a muralist and painter whose practice spans over fifteen years of site-responsive and gestural mark-making. In her first solo show at Project 88, she presents two large-scale murals and a selection of oil paintings on canvas that translate her longstanding gestural vocabulary into the enclosed durational space of the studio.
The exhibition offers visitors an opportunity to experience how movement and stillness can coalesce into visual rhythm and thought. Through expansive murals and canvas works produced over the past three years, The Shape of a Pause encourages reflection on the interplay between exterior intervention and interior space, inviting a slower encounter with form and mark.

AN AXIS FOR A REVOLUTION
2026-01-08 11:00 - 2026-03-10 19:00 | Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, 101, 1st floor, Commerce House, SS Ram Gulam Marg, Ballard Estate, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
Event Name: AN AXIS FOR A REVOLUTIONArtists: Vinod Balak
If upheaval could be painted not just as rupture but as generative transformation, AN AXIS FOR A REVOLUTION positions the canvas itself as ground zero for perceiving chaos, memory and society in flux. The exhibition invites viewers to linger within scenes that lean toward the enigmatic and the uncanny, where figures, settings and objects operate like clues in a larger, unsettled narrative that folds history into present urgency.
Vinod Balak’s practice combines densely detailed figurative imagery with layered symbolic and narrative elements that traverse personal, social and mythic terrains. His works often resist simple reading, demanding sustained looking as motifs of objects, flora, fauna and human forms interweave into complex worlds that are at once mysterious, evocative and charged with ambiguity.
The exhibition offers viewers a chance to experience painting as reflective terrain where aesthetic intensity and interpretive depth converge. Through prolonged engagement with these richly wrought images, visitors are encouraged to consider how art can function as both mirror and catalyst for reckoning with violence, transformation and collective imagination.

Have We Forgotten How to Feel?
2026-01-08 12:00 - 2026-02-19 18:00 | Chemould CoLab, 2nd Floor, Sugra Manzil, Best Marg Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400039, India
Have We Forgotten How to Feel?

Artists: Rachita Dutta
If the emotional landscape of adulthood is a terrain we rarely traverse with honesty, Have We Forgotten How to Feel? unfolds those difficult terrains with humour, vulnerability and intuitive craft. This exhibition asks whether, in the rush of routine and seriousness, we have lost the ability to encounter feeling in all its awkward, unresolved and surprising forms. It opens a space where emotion, memory and the unspoken find voice through texture and symbol.
Rachita Dutta presents her first solo show marked by hand-stitched embroidery and textile works that draw from childhood myths, domestic rituals and emotional memory. Recurring motifs such as seeds, birds and matchboxes become vessels of tenderness, unease and quiet resistance as the act of stitching slows down the viewer’s encounter with feeling.
The exhibition encourages viewers to reconnect with feelings that are often suppressed, overlooked or taken for granted. By foregrounding emotion through tactile, labour-intensive surfaces, the show reveals how memory and sensation remain central to artistic expression and our understanding of ourselves.

Cityflix
2026-01-14 08:00 - 17:00 | Fulcrum, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
Cityflix
Artists: Ranjit Kandalgaonkar

If the city is a constantly shifting sequence of moments and gestures, Cityflix captures the fleeting scenes that often go unnoticed in urban life. The exhibition documents those in-between fragments and pauses that quietly shape the rhythm and character of the city, inviting viewers to reflect on the invisible choreography of everyday metropolitan movement.
Ranjit Kandalgaonkar focuses his lens on transient gestures and ephemeral structures seen within the flow of the city’s motion. His visual fragments create an intimate portrait of urban life that feels both revealing and fleeting, highlighting the city’s unstable logic and subtle transformations.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to engage with the poetry of the everyday urban moment, where small gestures, temporary structures and quiet shifts speak as loudly as monumental landmarks. Visitors are encouraged to consider how cities evolve not only in grand events but through the silent impulses that subtly remake them.

Brobdingnag Paradox
2026-01-16 11:00 - 18:30 | TARQ, KK (Navsari) Chambers, Ground Floor 39B AK Nayak Marg, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
Brobdingnag Paradox
Artists: Pratap Morey
If the city’s ever-expanding skyline feels both monumental and overwhelming, Brobdingnag Paradox collapses that feeling into a visual tension between scale and perception. This exhibition uses photographic collage to explore how continuous cycles of construction, compression and urban growth shape not only the landscape but our psychological experience of the city. Its title evokes the enormous yet paradoxical nature of modern metropolitan life, where vastness and minuteness coexist in a single view.
Pratap Morey’s practice constructs large-scale photographic collages based on sustained observation of construction sites across Mumbai. By playing with scale—turning skyscrapers into palm-sized fragments and elevating tiny elements—the works reflect a city that feels both grand and fragmented. Through repetition, surface patterning and spatial compression, Morey reveals the seductive allure and hidden instability embedded in architectural forms.
The exhibition offers a fresh way to see urban space, inviting viewers to reconsider how construction, repetition and visual density shape our sense of place. Visitors are encouraged to look closely and discover how abstraction becomes a method of understanding contemporary city life, where movement does not always equal progression.

Kala Ghoda
2026-01-31 10:00 - 2026-02-08 22:00 | Kala Ghoda, 29/143 K Dubash Marg Kala Ghoda - Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
Event Date31 January to 8 February 2026
Event VenueKala Ghoda Arts District, Fort and surrounding precincts, South Mumbai
Event OrganizerKala Ghoda Association
Kala Ghoda Arts Festival is Asia’s largest multidisciplinary street arts festival bringing together visual art, music, dance, theatre, literature, heritage walks and workshops across over 25 indoor and outdoor venues in South Mumbai. The nine day celebration transforms the historic Kala Ghoda precinct into a vibrant cultural hub with installations, street programming and community events that reflect the city’s creative energy.
The festival features a wide array of artists, collectives and performers across visual arts, installations, public sculptures, heritage walks, film, performance and workshops. Participating venues include Jehangir Art Gallery, David Sassoon Library, CSMVS Museum and open spaces throughout the district.
Why You Should VisitA free and vibrant cultural celebration that offers something for everyone from immersive art installations to performances and heritage experiences in the heart of Mumbai’s historic art district.
