EXHIBITIONS

you miss more than you see | Faiza Butt

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 15 October - 12 November 2024 Faiza Butt’s practice addresses the dichotomy between culture and history. She takes inspiration from cultural iconography and traditions via a global smorgasbord and imbues them with biographical elements or psychological truths from her own life. She then exposes her subjects to a process of aestheticization to explore our visceral impulses... Read more

Blueprints of Illusions | Balkrishna Doshi

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 15 October - 12 November 2024 Balkrishna Doshi’s free-flowing compositions are indeed steeped in a powerful push of memories from childhood, a time of unadulterated presence when our sensory relationships with the world were more potent than they are in our adult lives. His work also grapples with the philosophical questions that come up as one... Read more

Cities: Built, Broken | Sudhir Patwardhan

Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, London 3 - 19 October 2024 “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

Hand Prints | Mind Prints: Gulammohammed Sheikh

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 26 September - 11 October 2024 'Sheikh began making digital prints in the New Media Art workshop held by the ARTunderground gallery in Baroda in 2001 where artists were given computers and facilitators. Always curious about new forms, he became intrigued by this medium which was ‘fast’ compared to the ‘slow’ processes of painting and printmaking.... Read more

The Last Decade | K.G. Subramanyan

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 20 September - 9 October 2024 “K.G. Subramanyan had a career of seventy years. This exhibition presents works from the last decade. Not comprehensively, but a particular aspect of it. The late works of artists with long careers are often characterized as a distinct category, done in a ‘late style’. However, not all long-living artists have... Read more

Delhi Contemporary Art Week 2024

Bikaner House, New Delhi 31 August - 4 September 2024 Gathered for a democratic and diverse audience, our curation includes works across mediums,with a focus on painting and photography,ushering in reflection and discourse on topical narratives growing out of contemporary South Asian culture. Some of the works on display will include installation works by Anita Dube, activating text and the... Read more

Chameli Ramachandran | Offering

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 27 August - 16 September 2024 'Chameli Ramachandran has a very distinctive style of painting. She combines her Santiniketan sensibilities with her Chinese cultural heritage in her work. Chameli was born in Santiniketan and was named by Rabindranath Tagore. Except for a two-year interlude in China, Chameli grew up in idyllic Santiniketan, studying at Patha Bhavana... Read more

Joya Mukerjee Logue | those who walk before me

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 27 August - 17 September 2024 A memory, unbidden and without feet, announces itself presently, carrying the compulsions of our prolific world – from renewal and regeneration to repair and restoration contended in acts both big and small – with all our pasts and futures trailing at its heels.For artist Joya Mukerjee Logue, memory is inextricably... Read more

FICA EAA+ | however the image enters its force remains

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 3 July - 3 August 2024 The intersections produced by and within the image in its widest sense, tend towards the possibilities of many things. It is in this space of production, of something being produced that we find ourselves thinking of space and space-making. When the image enters, it makes apparent an arrival; an assertion... Read more

Architectures of Momentum | Rameshwar Broota

FRIEZE No. 9 Cork Street, London 31 May - 15 June 2024 Architectures of Momentum features a suite of recent paintings by Rameshwar Broota,who in his revelatory period of abstraction is drawn to exploring an inner journey of the human condition,centring his explorations around perception, prophecy and self-awareness. In his paintings, Broota follows a steady process of application and erasure–foregrounding darker colours... Read more

People, Places, Things

D-40 & D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 6 May - 15 June 2024 Belonging to someone, somewhere or something is an experiential arrangement. These social relations form the crux of the human behavioral sciences, which seek to study why human beings engage in certain behaviors over others due to a host of contextual factors, including self-motivations and external influences. But often, from an... Read more

The Coincidence of Time and Being: Ranbir Kaleka and Sumakshi Singh curated by Priya Pall

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 20 March - 13 April 2024 The exhibition attempts to capture that fragile and unsettling moment in time of not knowing yet filled with promise in a distinctly ordered world. The juxtaposition of the two artists’ works may be seen as a mediation of our relationship with time as a physical dimension of our universe and... Read more

Leela Mukherjee: A Guileless Modernist

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 20 March - 30 April 2024 'Born in Sind and educated at Besant School in Benaras, Bombay University and Santiniketan, Leela Mukherjee (1916-2002), along with Pilloo Pochkhanawala and Meera Mukherjee, belongs to the first generation of modern Indian women sculptors. Trained under Ramkinkar Baij and Kulasundar Shilakarmi, a traditional Nepalese sculptor, and working persistently from 1949... Read more

Gulammohammed Sheikh: Kaarawaan and Other Stories

Bikaner House, New Delhi 19 February - 12 March 2024 'Gulam Mohammed Sheikh is an artist, a writer, and a historian all rolled into one. These three aspects have had different origins but have entered into a fruitful conversation over the years and have jointly shaped his work. The four paintings he contributed to the exhibition Place for People (1981)... Read more

Come Out: A Special Project by Sunil Gupta

Viewing Room at Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 30 January - 16 March 2024 Sunil Gupta is a pioneering photographer, writer, curator and activist at the helm of identity politics and queer studies with post-modernist, post-colonial lenses arming his inquiries into global cultures. Come Out features a series of never-before-exhibited photographs shot in London from 1985 to 1995, when the Pride movement as a... Read more

Zaam Arif: Waking Dream

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 30 January - 8 March 2024 Subtle, controlled, in muted browns and blues that hover between the starkness of the quotidian and the haze of dreams, Zaam Arif’s compelling array of images – of mirrors within mirrors, darkened rooms, unmade beds, and the waves of the sea – evoke the crises of our troubled times. Anxieties,... Read more

Jyoti Bhatt | Revisitations: Engaging the Archive

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 30 January - 14 March 2024 Jyoti Bhatt’s exhibition will come to his admirers as something of a revelation. A mature career phase showing of small works that bear the imprint of personal relations, ruminations on travels, or complex abstractions, it presents Bhatt with the intimacy of a diarist, and an archivist mining his own vast... Read more

Architectures of Momentum: Recent works by Rameshwar Broota

Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi 29 January - 15 February 2024 In his gentle, reticent way, Rameshwar Broota has long been a commanding presence on the Indian art scene. His paintings communicate the same combination of a contemplative stillness with an aura of monumentality, even when his imagery and techniques are anchored in conditions of anxiety, anguish, trauma or catastrophe. […]... Read more

Held By The Land

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 18 December 2023 - 19 January 2024 Landscape as a subject has undergone a profound transformation over the decades, with our apprehension of the natural world being informed by prevailing historical and cultural contexts, as can be traced through various art historical milestones. In the post-war era landscapes were often depicted as idyllic scenes with a penchant... Read more