EXHIBITIONS

K.M. MADHUSUDHANAN | Penal Colony

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 2 December 2017 - 20 January 2018 The exhibition title – Penal Colony – drawn from Franz Kafka’s short story titled ‘In the Penal Colony’ sets the stage for a set of layered references and critiques on colonization and its impacts, and the underlying characteristic of leisure/pleasure in the colonial project. In Kafka’s story the central theme... Read more

BRIANA BLASKO | Within Without

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 2 - 30 December 2017 Read more

VICKY ROY | The Scarred Land: New Mountainscapes

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 2 - 30 December 2017 Curated by photographer Ram Rahman, the series, titled ‘This Scarred Land: New Mountainscapes’, reflects the changing landscape of the Himalayas by capturing its formative changes. Traditionally revered as dev-bhumi (‘land of the lord’), the Himalayas have carried a sacred connotation and the photographs in question intend to capture the interruption... Read more

SUDHIR PATWARDHAN | Spectres

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 27 October - 24 November 2017 Titled Spectres, the show comprises of a significant body of over 80 works by the artist. Patwardhan inspects the concept of public space in India even as he plays with the idea of ‘home’. He navigates the dimensions of that enclosed, private space to create a liminal universe that contains... Read more

Horses in the air

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 23 September - 20 October 2017 The title of the exhibition references the iconic work of Eadweard Muybridge, an English photographer. Known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, Muyrbidge refined his methods of instantaneous photography which he then used to photograph a horse in motion using a battery of cameras with tripwires, each... Read more

JAGANNATH PANDA | Crystal Cities

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 19 August - 12 September 2017 Read more

Shailesh B.R. | Tarka

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 13 July - 12 August 2017 Read more

SHRIMANTI SAHA | Tales of Expulsion

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 8 April - 10 May 2017 A combination of dreams, narratives and characters blend to create dystopian landscapes in Shrimanti’s paintings. Inspired by the writings of Wendy Roniger and Roberto Callaso, Shrimanti’s current body of work treads the fine line between myth and reality told through historical texts. The series focuses on ‘Fire/Agni’ in multiple contexts... Read more

PRANATI PANDA | Weaving Land

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 8 April - 10 May 2017 Concerned with the metaphors of material, Pranati sutures a web of images; some speak of the death and transience in nature, while others evoke movements of insects, birds, flowers. Hand drawn, embroidered and painted upon, the paper and fabric sometimes becomes a soil like surface with microcosmic insects crawling over... Read more

GIPIN VARGHESE | Commonly Caught Species

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 8 April - 10 May 2017 Gipin is concerned with the human condition and paints in this series about jails, invasions, wiping out of animals and indigenous communities from their natural habitats by power in a series of delicate watercolors. In that sense, His works also explore how we impose human systems and institutions on the... Read more

SUJITH S.N. | Archipelago

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 18 March - 1 April 2017 The works in the show are conversations on the city and everyday realities which Sujith has been engaged in for a few years now, but here he sets about articulating them in a more nuanced and abstract manner. The city is no longer the subject but is a given, the... Read more

Paramjit Singh: Drawings and Paintings

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 4 March - 4 April 2017 Vadehra Art Gallery is excited to be presenting Paramjit Singh’s Drawings and Paintings, as part of his solo show. Singh’s brush charts a course on the canvas that gives the viewer panoramic visions of mystic landscapes. The bush, coated with thick pigment, does not rest before it has filled the... Read more

ATUL DODIYA | Girlfriends: French, German, Italian, Egyptian, Santiniketan, Ghatkopar…

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 31 January - 4 March 2017 Through his careful selection of artists and works, Dodiya attempts to transform these diverse portraits, from different historic and geographical zones by engaging with the shared subject matter. He chooses for his series - Francis Picabia’s portraits from the Dada period to the mid-50s, Albrecht Durer’s early 16th century drawings... Read more