EXHIBITIONS

K. M. Madhusudhanan | Mynaakam

In Touch Edition 5 16 December 2020 - 27 May 2021 A recent set of spontaneous drawings from Madhusudhanan, Mynaakam is inspired by a figural bird from the Puranic Vedas, particularly chapter 18 of the Harivamsa Purana, whose name when translated means ‘the mountains have wings’. It is said that when Lord Indra cut off the wings of the mountain, the... Read more

Treibor Mawlong | Somewhere, Elsewhere, Here

Fresh by VAG 8 December 2020 - 15 January 2021 An emerging artist from the Khasi hills of Meghalaya, Treibor Mawlong’s woodcuts epitomize mise-en-scène compositions drawn forth from memory and recollection. The world’s physical and emotional apparatus serve as inspiration for Mawlong, who relies on autobiographical experience to identify and then articulate larger stories about the human condition. As a... Read more

Jasmine Nilani Joseph | Mobile Studio

VAG Fresh 8 December 2020 - 15 January 2021 Recently a resident artist at the Kochi Biennale Foundation, Sri-Lankan artist Jasmine Nilani Joseph encounters an illuminating analogy between jewellery boxes that act as disembodied storehouses of wealth and abandoned houses that are imagistic, voyeuristic shells, both acting as objects of display and innate, but not immediate, richness. As a... Read more

FRIN/GE | Curated by Shaleen Wadhwana

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 27 November 2020 - 15 January 2021 FRIN/GE is a group show curated by Shaleen Wadhwana, an independent arts educator and cultural heritage professional, whose curatorial practice explores meta-narratives in global history and artistic responses to contemporary social issues. Featuring a total of 25 artworks across a wide range of all-encompassing media, from paintings, textile, programming code... Read more

Atul Dodiya | Selected Works

In Touch Edition 4 22 September - 24 October 2020 Atul Dodiya’s recent oil paintings are a powerful presentation of his consistently evolving meditation on the solitary figure in a landscape; a romanticized, idealized landscape, sometimes barren like the Biblical deserts and sometimes lush like in the Indian miniature paintings inhabited by protagonists in gestures of intensity and exaggeration. The... Read more

Jogen Chowdhury | Works from Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 4 September - 1 October 2020 Jogen Chowdhury is a travelling exhibition featuring a collection of forty significant works by the artist from the Glenbarra Art Museum in Himeji, Japan. The exhibition spans four decades of work by Jogen, comprising works on paper, with ink and pastels, his most preferred medium, with the earliest work on... Read more

Shrimanti Saha | Fire in the Greenhouse and Other Stories

VAG Fresh 31 August - 4 October 2020 Fire in the Greenhouse and Other Stories is an online exhibition of new works by Shrimanti Saha. With this digital presentation – FRESH by VAG – we wish to support our younger artists in these grievous times of a global pandemic as well as pay it forward to communities experiencing... Read more

The Future is not Fixed

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 21 August - 19 September 2020 People have always looked ahead; it might be considered an ineluctable aspect of human nature. They strive to make the coming time better than what it is today. They take action in the hope that a perfect or at least better tomorrow can exist. The reality though is that the... Read more

Anandajit Ray | Miasmatica

In Toch Edition 3 17 July - 15 September 2020 In Miasmatica, Ray pursues symbiotic energies in theme through deliberate distinctions in the focal points or character of a particular series of work. He consumes the generality of the surrounding environment with open-minded largesse, while invoking a humorous approach to what can be noted as intense perceptions. Ray is interested... Read more

The River Bends Before The Ocean

In Touch Edition 2 5 June - 4 July 2020 Hope is a spell, its evocation varied to the conjurer. It is as constructed as it is conclusive, as self-effacing as self-reliant. In The River Turns Before the Ocean, we bring together an eclectic curation of artists whose visual languages are seeded in the act of emerging, of breaking through,... Read more

Vicky Roy | Bachpan

Fresh by VAG 12 May - 21 July 2020 Bachpan is an online exhibition of black-and-white photographs by artist Vicky Roy, whose lens features lower-income-household children amidst the act of play. Part of the proceeds from this exhibition serve as a contribution to Salaam Baalak Trust, an NGO which supports street and working children in the inner cities of... Read more

Shailesh B.R. | Notes To Self

Fresh by VAG 12 May - 21 July 2020 Notes to Self is an online exhibition of selected works from Shailesh B.R.. This exhibition is part of our digital endeavour –VAG FRESH–a series of online exhibitions hosted on ourwebsite, through which we will support our younger artists and direct a percentage of proceeds by way of contribution to charities... Read more

No Man Is An Island

In Touch Edition 1 24 April - 23 May 2020 As part of IN TOUCH EDITION 1, Vadehra Art Gallery presents No Man Is an Island, a timely and evocative curation centered on exploring inwardness through inter-relation, featuring artworks by leading contemporary Indian and international artists. If human potential is to glimpse infinite possibilities then we are not limited to... Read more

Sujith S.N. | Seer - Seen

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 6 - 27 March 2020 Sujith S.N.’s solo show, Seer–Seen, is a series of landscapes engulfed by the temporality of loitering and purpose, of documentation and discourse, of perspectives and views. The following excerpt on Sujith’s new body of work is from the essay, ‘The Oddness of Identification: Sujith S. N.’s Landscapes like Painting’ (2020)... Read more

S.H. Raza & Akbar Padamsee | Yugma III

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 29 February - 24 March 2020 Yugma – meaning pairing or togetherness in Sanskrit – is the third iteration in a series of exhibitions that showcases S.H. Raza alongside a friend and contemporary, exploring the personal and artistic relationship between the two artists. In memoriam of Akbar Padamsee’s passing, YUGMA III is an homage to the... Read more

Atul Dodiya | Stammer In The Shade

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 29 January - 29 February 2020 Atul Dodiya’s highly anticipated solo show titled ‘Stammer in the Shade’ is an electric presentation of his world-renowned shutters alongside his consistently evolving romance with the solitary figure and landscape in his canvases. Dodiya has long been identified with his practice of adroit quotation from the archives of art history,... Read more

Ravinder Reddy | Soma

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 24 January - 20 February 2020 In an exhibition titled SOMA, world-renowned artist and sculptor Ravinder Reddy exhibits his extensive collection of nude sculptures crafted over several years. Soma, meaning ‘body’ in Greek and ‘nectar’ in Sanskrit, is a discursive blend of value and affect, with Eastern and Western connotations resounding in both Reddy’s ideological and... Read more