Salt Lines: Hylozoic/Desires
2025-12-06 10:00 - 2026-02-08 17:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Byculla East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400027, India
Salt Lines is an exhibition by artist duo Hylozoic/Desire that excavates the forgotten history of the Inland Customs Line, a 4,000-kilometre colonial barrier imposed by the British in the nineteenth century to enforce their monopoly on salt. Part living hedge and part guarded frontier—often referred to as The Great Hedge of India—the line traversed the subcontinent, separating British-controlled territories from princely states and restricting the movement of this vital commodity.

Working at the threshold of historical record and speculative imagination, Hylozoic/Desire (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser) probe this porous and unstable border through research-driven, multidisciplinary practice. Their work reanimates the social, ecological, and political dimensions of the salt tax, foregrounding labour, surveillance, and environmental transformation embedded within colonial infrastructure. Through archival fragments and reimagined narratives, the artists offer a meditation on extraction, control, and resistance—histories that culminated in acts such as Gandhi’s Dandi March in 1930.

The exhibition is presented at the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, formerly the Victoria and Albert Museum, established in 1857 to promote trade and industry within the British Empire. This historically charged setting lends added resonance to the exhibition’s themes, situating Salt Lines within a space deeply entangled with colonial commerce and knowledge production. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with RMZ Foundation and India Art Fair, and supported by the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts.

The exhibition is guided by Curatorial Advisor Tasneem Mehta, whose longstanding engagement with critical museology, cultural history, and public institutions informs the conceptual framework of Salt Lines. Her curatorial approach brings historical rigour and contemporary relevance into dialogue, situating the Inland Customs Line within broader narratives of colonial power, trade, and resistance, while inviting reflection on how histories of extraction and control continue to shape present-day cultural and ecological realities.

Under the Sun
2025-12-06 10:00 - 2026-02-22 23:00 | Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, G Block, Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400098, India
Event Name: Doug Aitken: Under the SunArtists: Doug AitkenCurated By: Roya Sachs and Mafalda Kahane
If time were a landscape to be traversed rather than a line to be measured, Under the Sun unfolds as a three-part meditation on memory, perception and transformation. The exhibition invites viewers to move through past, present and future not as abstract concepts but as lived environments shaped by material, light and image.
Doug Aitken is an American multidisciplinary artist known for immersive film, sculpture, light and installation work that probes how humans interact with technology, space, history and each other. With a practice spanning moving image, sound, architecture and crafted materials, his work dissolves boundaries between media to create layered sensory experience. Under the Sun includes major new commissions made in collaboration with Indian artisans — from hand-embroidered textiles inspired by sacred rivers to wooden sculptures and immersive lightwork — reflecting a dialogue between tradition and innovation.
The exhibition offers a rare chance to encounter art that operates as both narrative and environment, where handcrafted surfaces and cutting-edge digital media converge. From carved material landscapes to mirrored film chambers and hypnotic light sculptures, visitors are encouraged to reflect on how we anchor ourselves in past traditions, experience the accelerated present and imagine emerging possibilities.

Dream Vision
2025-12-30 08:00 - 2026-01-11 17:00 | National Gallery of Modern Art, Cowasji Jehangir Public Hall, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400032, India
Event Name: Dream VisionArtists: Nikas Safronov
If the boundary between waking and dreaming dissolves into colour, symbol and inner vision, Dream Vision invites you into an immersive space where classical art meets multimedia perception. This solo exhibition presents a body of work that blends realism, symbolism and subconscious imagery to explore memory, culture and emotional resonance beyond conventional narratives.
Nikas Safronov, a celebrated contemporary Russian painter and People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, has created or selected 45 paintings that trace the evolution of his artistic language – from academic foundations and symbolism to his signature Dream Vision style. The works on display include interpretations of Indian history, spirituality, mythology and architectural heritage, enhanced with immersive sound, lighting and digital elements.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to engage with a rich dialogue between tradition and innovation. Visitors can experience how classical canvas works extend into interactive spaces animated by AI, spatial sound and sensory design, inviting viewers not merely to observe but to step into the art and consider their own inner landscapes and cultural connections.

Rituals of Impermanence
2026-01-06 10:30 - 2026-02-01 19:30 | Nine Fish Art Gallery, The New Great Eastern Mills 25-29 Dr. Ambedkar Road Near Rani Baug Byculla, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400027, India
Event Name: Rituals of ImpermanenceArtists: Jayesh Sharma
If memory and tradition are held not as fixed monuments but as fleeting gestures caught between presence and absence, Rituals of Impermanence invites viewers into a visual meditation on the fragile endurance of cultural practices. The exhibition captures not only bodies and forms but the echo of lived histories as they fade, shift and reconfigure in the changing rhythms of time.
Jayesh Sharma presents work from an eight-year photographic project documenting the tradition of Kushti wrestling and the akhadas where it has long been performed. Over the course of the project, the focus shifted from the wrestlers themselves to the empty spaces they inhabit, revealing how absence and decay come to carry the history and spirit of practice.
The exhibition offers visitors a chance to sit with images that speak of what remains and what slips away, where the architecture of ritual becomes a living testimony to impermanence. Through stark imagery and quiet observation, Rituals of Impermanence prompts reflection on change, remembrance and the ways cultural memory is held in spaces as much as in people.

Becoming UnBecoming
2026-01-08 08:00 - 2026-01-25 17:00 | ARTISANS’, 52 - 56 V B Gandhi Marg, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
Becoming UnBecoming
Artists: Santosh Kumar Das
If becoming is a journey of transformation and unbecoming a return to one’s elemental self, Becoming UnBecoming traverses the terrain between fantasy and identity. The exhibition invites viewers to enter a space shaped by memory, imagination, and the metaphysical, where lineage and self-discovery coexist in visual dialogue. It reflects on how personal histories and collective narratives shape who we are and who we may yet become.
Santosh Kumar Das draws from his roots in Mithila (Madhubani) painting traditions and his training in both Indian and Western art. His works reveal an ongoing fascination with transformation, with childhood wonder, mythic presence, ritual and imagination informing a visual language that dissolves boundaries between the real and the imagined.
The exhibition offers a rich encounter with art that bridges ancestral visual traditions and contemporary thought. Visitors can experience deeply resonant narratives of change, identity and poetic introspection, as each piece evokes the magical interplay between material, memory, and self.

ENDURING FORMS
2026-01-08 08:00 - 2026-02-07 17:00 | AKARA MODERN, 4/5 Churchill Chambers, 1st Floor 32 Mereweather Road Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
Event Name: Enduring FormsArtists: Piraji Sagara
If form holds memory and material speaks of time lived in hand and mind, Enduring Forms reveals the quiet voice of sculpture shaped through decades of practice and persistence. The exhibition brings together a selection of wooden and marble works created between the 1980s and 1990s, inviting viewers to trace the artist’s sustained dialogue with shape, surface and balance.
Piraji Sagara (1931–2014) was an influential artist and educator whose practice foregrounded reverence for material and line. This solo show — the first presentation of his sculptural works since his passing — highlights a lesser-known yet deeply personal facet of his visual vocabulary, underscoring his contribution to modern Indian sculpture.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to encounter works that endure beyond their making, where each form seems to hold echoes of history, touch and contemplation. Visitors can reflect on the quiet power of material presence, and how durable forms carry forward questions of memory, presence and the body’s imprint in space.

UNSTILL LIFE
2026-01-08 08:00 - 2026-02-15 17:00 | Method Kala Ghoda (Mumbai), 86, Nagindas Master Road, Kala Ghoda, Fort,, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 40001, India
Event Name: Unstill LifeArtists: Dheer Kaku
If stillness is a myth and everything we build reflects inner restlessness, Unstill Life reimagines the traditional still-life genre to reveal the instability beneath surface calm. The exhibition focuses on the challenge of finding true quiet in a world where shared spaces and moments of repose have all but vanished, reflecting on how architecture and memory intersect in emotional and psychological space.
Dheer Kaku’s practice draws from personal history and architectural observation to explore how interior and exterior structures embody both physical and emotional states. His works evoke the tension between order and erosion, drawing, erasing and reworking forms to reveal how even the most composed surfaces are in flux.
The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on how stillness is shaped by memory, space and time, showing that what appears stable is already in motion. Unstill Life offers a meditative encounter with form and flux, encouraging a deeper appreciation for art that reveals change within stillness.

What Do Birds Dream at Dusk
2026-01-08 10:00 - 2026-01-25 18:00 | Chemould Prescott Road, 3rd Floor, Queens Mansion G Talwatkar Marg, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
What Do Birds Dream at Dusk

Artists: Mithu Sen
If the very act of seeing is shaped by power, narrative and omission, What Do Birds Dream at Dusk unsettles what we take for granted about vision and visibility. The exhibition foregrounds blindness as a political condition—not merely a lack of sight but a result of selective seeing, curated truths and collective denial in societies where media, militarism and comfort distort perception. It invites viewers to question who controls what is visible and what remains unseen, and to confront the erasures embedded in how narratives are constructed.
Mithu Sen’s practice dissolves conventional boundaries between viewer and artwork to explore the politics of vision and perception. Drawing inspiration from works such as Pieter Bruegel’s The Blind Leading the Blind, her mixed-media installation engages with theoretical texts and uses Braille, layered imagery and performative disruptions to challenge assumptions about seeing, knowing and understanding.
The exhibition offers a rare chance to unlearn the visible and attend to what is normally overlooked or obscured by design. Through darkened chambers, disrupted pathways and visceral encounters, What Do Birds Dream at Dusk transforms spectators into active participants and encourages a deeper reflection on the power structures that shape how we perceive the world.

Lone Runner’s Laboratory
2026-01-08 10:30 - 2026-02-21 18:30 | Experimenter Colaba, First Floor, Sunny House 16/18 Merewether Road Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
Lone Runner’s Laboratory
Artists: Prabhakar Pachpute
If the terrain of the world is shaped as much by extraction as by memory, Lone Runner’s Laboratory unfolds a space where the material and psychological landscapes of labour, endurance and vulnerability converge. This exhibition navigates between rugged panoramas of altered earth and the interior worlds of those who live closest to its shifts, posing questions about resilience, agency, and the imprint of power on body and land.
Prabhakar Pachpute’s practice moves across sculpture, painting and installation to explore the socio-ecological impact of mining and labour while humanising the figures entwined within systems of control and exploitation. His immersive works combine symbolic forms with evocative gestures to probe the tension between survival and hope in environments shaped by extraction.
The exhibition invites visitors to sit with unresolved questions about responsibility, empathy and systemic conditions that shape lives and landscapes. Through a mix of stark forms and carefully constructed environments, it offers a reflective encounter with art that grapples with ethical urgency and emotional complexity.

Seeing from the Inside Out
2026-01-08 11:00 - 2026-01-14 18:30 | AKARA CONTEMPORARY, 3C Amarchand Mansion, 2nd Floor 16 Madam Cama Road Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
Event Name: Seeing From the Inside OutArtists: Utkarsh Makwana
If perception is more than what meets the eye and interior landscapes shape how we see the world, Seeing From the Inside Out invites viewers into a reflective encounter with memory, ritual and myth. The exhibition explores how ordinary and overlooked moments carry universal archetypes, urging us to navigate realities constructed from experience, desire, secrecy and impermanence.
Utkarsh Makwana adapts the intricate sensibilities of miniature painting traditions to larger formats, crafting compositions where mythological narratives and daily encounters merge. His work investigates how perception operates across diverse scales, blurring boundaries between the interior and exterior while drawing attention to the quiet dramas that structure human experience.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to slow down and engage deeply with paintings that unfold like meditative journeys through thought and memory. Visitors are encouraged to linger with the layered imagery and symbolic forms that reveal how inner states inform how we see the world and ourselves.

A map folded open
2026-01-08 11:00 - 2026-02-08 20:00 | Art and Charlie, 71A Pali Village, Bandra (West), Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400053, India
A map folded open

Artists : Sabeen Omar, Urna Sinha, Mahen Perera
Curated By Zeenat Nagree

If a map is folded open, it reveals peril and possibility: An invitation to see where its lines may lead, a chance to measure the approximate distances between events, to follow memory where it lingers, and to return to the darkness of shadows and the whispers of leaves.

The three artists featured in this exhibition embrace peculiar methodologies of tracing routes. Sabeen Omar transforms fragments of used or discarded textiles into glimmering monuments—to the past, to the touch and presence of bodies, to home and the creation of other worlds from it. Urna Sinha paints and photographs sites of grief and longing, infusing the mundane with the weight of transience. For her, waiting and wandering is a way of attending—to skin and surface, and to the dreams and hallucinations that emerge from routine. Mahen Perera seeks encounters where form and feeling become the centre of knowing. His sculptures record gestures of his experiences that are suspended between desire and withdrawal.

The Collective Memory of Contemporary Change
2026-01-08 11:00 - 2026-02-12 18:30 | Tao Art Gallery, 165, The View,Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400018, India
The Collective Memory of Contemporary Change
Artists: Chippa Sudhakar
If memory shapes the landscapes of our lives, art becomes a map of collective experience. This exhibition reflects on the intersections of memory, change, and the environment, inviting viewers to navigate narratives both personal and shared. It explores how histories, cultural shifts, and transformations leave traces in our perception of the world.
Chippa Sudhakar works with terracotta and mixed media to explore the dialogue between rural and urban life, past and future. His forms balance abstraction and figuration, tracing the imprint of collective experiences and the evolving landscapes around us.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to reflect on how change is both visible and invisible, tangible and ephemeral. Visitors are encouraged to engage with material, form, and memory, experiencing a visual meditation on transformation and continuity.

Face to Face: A Portrait of a City
2026-01-08 11:00 - 2026-02-14 19:00 | DAG (Mumbai), Arthur Bunder Rd, Apollo Bandar, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
Event Name: Face to Face: A Portrait of a CityArtists: Multiple historical and modern portrait artists including Frank Brooks, V. B. Pathare, M. V. Dhurandhar, M. F. Husain and others Curated By: Presented by DAG (curator not listed)
If the many faces of a city could tell its story, Face to Face: A Portrait of a City steps into that conversation by charting 30 portraits that reveal Bombay’s evolving social fabric, cultural history and artistic landscape from the 19th to the 20th century. Through portraits of rulers, reformers, artists, everyday citizens and community leaders, the exhibition shows how Bombay—shaped by empire, commerce and migration—repeatedly reimagined itself across time.
The works in this exhibition range from academic realism introduced by colonial institutions to more expressive approaches developed by Indian practitioners, highlighting shifts in style alongside the city’s changing identity. Figures such as Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Parsi philanthropists, Maharashtrian theatre icons and other influential personalities appear alongside lesser-known but equally vital contributors to Bombay’s civic life.
The exhibition invites visitors to see portraiture not merely as likeness but as a way of reading history and collective memory, where each face operates as a doorway into social, political and cultural worlds. By bringing these portraits together, the show offers a layered visual biography of the city and a reflection on how identity, belonging and aspiration have taken shape in one of India’s most dynamic metropolises.

GUL
2026-01-08 11:00 - 2026-02-15 19:00 | 47-A, 47-A Khotachi Wadi, Girgaum, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Event Name: GULArtists: WOLF (Ritu Singh and Surya Singh)
If a garden can be both paradise and testimony to loss, GUL reimagines the traditional Mughal charbagh as a sculptural sanctuary rooted in memory, grief and renewal. The exhibition transforms discarded materials into a garden that defies decay — where broken form, poetic gesture and fragile beauty silently insist on hope amidst ecological and cultural erosion.
WOLF is the collaborative studio of artists Ritu Singh and Surya Singh based in Jaipur. They use found and recycled materials — including scrap brass, mirrors, ceramic pieces, insects and distressed textiles — to weave together works that act like altars, fragments of memory and living metaphors for repair. Their practice places traditional motifs alongside post-industrial discards to reflect on ecological grief and cultural continuity.
The exhibition invites viewers to walk into its symbolic garden and experience how beauty grows from remnants and care. By turning loss into a space of reflection and resistance, GUL offers a poetic encounter where decay becomes an act of devotion, and care a quiet form of sustainability.

The Fourth Wall
2026-01-08 11:00 - 2026-02-18 18:00 | 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.

Garden of Memory
2026-01-08 12:00 - 2026-02-11 20:00 | Anupa Mehta Contemporary Art, Ground Floor, Royal Terrace, 58 Wodehouse Road, Colaba, Adjoining Charagh Din,, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400005, India
Event Name: Garden of MemoryArtists: Alamu KumaresanCurated By: Lina Vincent
If the threads of memory could be stitched into sanctuary and selfhood, Garden of Memory unfolds as a tactile meditation on belonging, lineage and the quiet power of everyday gestures. The exhibition presents a space where visual narratives and material histories intertwine, inviting viewers to reflect on the layers of remembrance that shape identity and place.
Chennai-based artist Alamu Kumaresan merges her own lived experience with the inherited practices of her grandmother, mother and aunts, using embroidery on textiles as a durational process. Her work blends drawing, applique and richly coloured threadwork to reconstruct feminine memory and gesture, bringing forth a lineage of expression that spans generations.
The exhibition offers an opportunity to slow down and witness how the tactile and the visual can record and transmit personal and collective memory. Visitors are invited to engage with works that balance intimacy and expansiveness, where every stitch and colour carries both history and presence.

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.

Paintings and sculptures by Palash Bag and Subhendu Ghosh
2026-01-13 11:00 - 2026-01-19 19:00 | Jehangir Art Gallery, 161B, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400021, India
Event Name: Group Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures by Palash Bag and Subhendu GhoshArtists: Palash Bag, Subhendu Ghosh
If painting and sculpture are the twin languages through which modern forms of expression speak to us, Group Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures by Palash Bag and Subhendu Ghosh brings these voices together in a shared space of material exploration and visual dialogue. The show invites viewers to consider how form, surface and narrative interact across two- and three-dimensional expressions and how each artist’s practice responds to personal and cultural experience.
Palash Bag studied at The Indian College of Art & Draftsmanship and holds a Masters in Fine Arts from the Government College of Art & Craft, Calcutta. His sculptural works often balance playful equilibrium with reflections on survival and societal interactions, expressed through dynamic bronze and mixed-media forms. Subhendu Ghosh holds a BVA and MVA from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata and has exhibited widely across India. His paintings and drawings range from mixed-media abstracts to figurative works that explore nature, human relationships, inner life and metaphoric narratives.
The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to engage with two distinct artistic voices working across painting and sculpture. Visitors are encouraged to experience how three-dimensional presence and two-dimensional surface converse within and across the gallery space, inviting reflection on balance, form, gesture and the material essence of artistic making.

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.

Magic Jungle
2026-01-17 11:00 - 2026-02-14 18:30 | Jhaveri Contemporary, 3rd Floor Devidas Mansion 4 Merewether road Apollo Bandar Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
Event Name: Magic JungleArtists: Vasantha Yogananthan, Joydeb Roaja, Muhanned Cader, Suleman Aqeel Khilji
If the wildness of nature could whisper its untold stories through paint and ink, Magic Jungle unfolds those narratives by bringing together artistic visions that navigate the threshold between real landscapes and imagined realms. The exhibition reflects on our varied interactions with the environment, considering ideas of ecological balance, agency, memory and myth as they shape both human life and natural terrains.
The featured artists each respond to the idea of the jungle and natural world from distinct perspectives: Vasantha Yogananthan hand-paints photographic works inspired by myth and forest journeys across South Asia; Joydeb Roaja’s ink drawings intertwine figures and indigenous histories with the land; Muhanned Cader paints lush, questioning landscapes shaped by social and environmental concerns; and Suleman Aqeel Khilji’s atmospheric works blend memory and imagined space against earthy backgrounds.
The exhibition offers a chance to engage with richly layered works that consider both the majesty and fragility of nature, inviting visitors to meditate on how myths, memory and ecology converge in art. Through varied mediums and voices, Magic Jungle encourages reflection on our role within environments that are at once familiar and mysterious.

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.

Laxman Pai at 100
2026-02-19 09:00 - 2026-03-28 18:00 | AKARA MODERN, 4/5 Churchill Chambers, 1st Floor 32 Mereweather Road Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400001, India
Who Was Laxman Pai?
Laxman Pai was a leading figure in Indian modernism, known for his lyrical landscapes, intimate portraits and evocative depictions of Goan life. Associated with the Progressive movement’s broader evolution in India, his work bridged tradition and modern expression.
His paintings often captured:
• Rural and coastal Goan landscapes• Women in contemplative settings• Cultural rituals and local life• Nature infused with emotional atmosphere
Pai’s mastery of colour and composition gave his works a quiet yet powerful presence that continues to influence collectors and scholars.

About the Exhibition: Laxman Pai at 100
This centenary exhibition brings together works from different phases of Pai’s career, offering viewers a rare opportunity to witness the evolution of his style and thematic concerns.
The show highlights:
• His distinctive colour sensibility• The lyrical quality of his brushwork• His engagement with cultural identity• The balance between realism and poetic abstraction
By presenting works across decades, the exhibition situates Pai within the larger narrative of Indian modern art while reaffirming his independent artistic voice.

Why This Exhibition Is Important in 2026
Centenary exhibitions are rare and historically significant. Laxman Pai at 100 not only honours an individual artist but also invites reflection on the trajectory of Indian modernism over the last century.
For collectors, this exhibition offers insight into a master whose works continue to hold strong cultural and market relevance. For students and researchers, it provides a contextual understanding of post-Independence artistic movements.

Who Should Visit?
This exhibition is ideal for:
• Modern and contemporary art collectors• Art historians and researchers• Students of fine arts• Interior designers seeking timeless Indian art references• Anyone interested in India’s modern art legacy

Why You Should Visit
A rare centenary showcase celebrating a master of Indian modernism, offering a deeper understanding of his enduring artistic legacy.
