EXHIBITIONS

N.S. Bendre

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 16 December 2021 - 12 January 2022 This solo exhibition shows the artist’s remarkable style of watercolour painting and sketching through 51 works. The works on view are from the collection of his son and Mumbai-based artist, Padmanabh Bendre. Bendre’s fondness for simple sketches is showcased throughout this exhibition. These sketches are the origin of his numerous... Read more

Paramjit Singh | Touched by the Sun

Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam 11 - 30 December 2021 In folk tales and fairy tales, a forest of enchantments is called so for the curiosity it envelops and the mysteries it holds. For artist Paramjit Singh all of nature abounds in such liminality, whether apprehended from a book, a window, a midday walk or travels to cities abroad. ‘Nature... Read more

Praneet Soi | Migrations

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 18 November - 31 December 2021 Migrations, the name given to this exhibition underlines a conversation between pattern and figuration, an exploration that has been strongly marked by Soi’s work with craftsmen over the course of the last decade in the valley city of Srinagar, in Kashmir. These engagements have renewed within his work a sensitivity... Read more

A. Ramachandran | Subaltern Nayika and Lotus Pond

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 15 November - 12 December 2021 A painter of nature is not only de ned by his distinct way of looking but also by his distinct way of transcribing what he sees. It allows an artist like Ramachandran to engage with a motif like the lotus pond (or for that matter Cezanne with Mont Sainte-Victoire or... Read more

A. Ramachandran | Subaltern Nayika and Lotus Pond

Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam 14 - 30 November 2021 A painter of nature is not only defined by his distinct way of looking but also by his distinct way of transcribing what he sees. It allows an artist like Ramachandran to engage with a motif like the lotus pond (or for that matter Cezanne with Mont Sainte-Victoire or Monet... Read more

S.H. Raza | Sketching Silence

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 16 October - 9 November 2021 The 89 drawings on view can compete with Raza’s paintings for attention precisely because they are disconcertingly apposite to anything that one may expect. They impress with the potency that they bear, possibly as the only living forms from the natural world that are created in Raza’s vast oeuvre of... Read more

William Dalrymple | In Search of Ancient India

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 8 October - 3 November 2021 The photographs exhibited in this show record the first stage of the travels and research for my new project, The Golden Road, which aims to record the artistic and cultural achievements of ancient India and show how their influence diffused out over first Asia and then the rest of the... Read more

The (Pro)found Object

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 25 August - 24 September 2021 The (Pro)found Object celebrates an artist’s reverent curiosity for curios through the recent works and practices of four exciting contemporary artists. These artists engage with a speckled roster of found objects from published books and appropriated telegrams to personal relics and everyday objects, illustrating a sensory intellectualism necessary for transfiguring... Read more

Sujith S.N. | Act II: Emphasizing Stillness

VAG Virtual 18 August - 18 September 2021 Interested in exploring the subliminal psychology of everyday places and people and reflecting on recent world events involving the pandemic, Sujith observantly recognizes the dwindling of the original panic that had at first possessed our collective imaginations in favor of a new status quo that optimistically or wishfully accepts the... Read more

A. RAMACHANDRAN | A Lifetime Of Lines

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 21 July - 13 August 2021 Deeply influenced by Indian classical art and Nandalal Bose in particular, Ramachandran is a master of Indian aesthetics by painting archetypal Indian imagery and socio-political symbols in a modernist vein. As a student at Kala Bhavan in Santiniketan, Ramachandran studied art under masters like Ramkinkar Baij and Benodebehari Mukherjee. The... Read more

Call Me By Your Name | Conceptualised by Udit Bhambri

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 21 July - 13 August 2021 The puzzles of love involve two master components: the self and the other, which are a kind of couple. It’s in our nature to acknowledge ourselves in or with some kind of other-hood, so much so that companionship, even when experienced alone, becomes a kind of love. The truth of... Read more

Gigi Scaria: No Stone Unturned

In Touch Edition 6 28 May - 30 December 2021 A chronicler of urban spaces, Gigi Scaria explores architectural positivity and liminal landscapes through the life and times of the people purporting its shared narratives. Scaria pursues his compositions through mixed imageries that tread the fine line between being informative and imaginative, hence maintaining a predictive quality that both enhances... Read more

Cloud Burst | Delhi Contemporary Art Week

Bikaner House, New Delhi 8 - 15 April 2021 Our curation titled Cloud Burst features a diverse set of expressions around the general human condition and undertakings, articulated either through more intimate mental and bodily experiences as with Pranati Panda and Treibor Mawlong; an encyclopaedic cataloguing of intellectual and observed references as seen with Shrimanti Saha, Vicky Roy and... Read more

Sachin George Sebastian | Once, there was a seed

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 6 April - 14 May 2021 In this important body of work titled Once, there was a seed, Sebastian brings together new drawings and cut-out sculptures cast in metal and paper. While at first glance the constructions feel fittingly thematic of his practice, in truth Sebastian’s disposition has undergone solipsistic surgery resulting in an expanded experimentation... Read more

Arpita Singh | Homeward

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 18 March - 16 April 2021 Described as a figurative artist and a modernist, Arpita Singh still makes it a point to stay tuned in to traditional Indian art forms and aesthetics, like miniaturist painting and different forms of folk art, employing them regularly in her work. Afflicted by the problems that are faced each and... Read more

Memory Keepers

On Site at Bikaner House 3 - 9 March 2021 As part of On Site, an endeavor focused on presenting critical art practices by important South Asian contemporary artists as we embrace a physical return to celebrated cultural institutions such as Bikaner House in New Delhi, Vadehra Art Gallery is thrilled to present Memory Keepers, featuring oil paintings by Atul... Read more

Erasure | Curated by Susanta Mandal

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 2 March - 2 April 2021 Erasure, curated by artist Susanta Mandal, initiates an exchange of ideas around the thematics of the creative process through an exhibition format, inviting artists Anju Dodiya, Atul Dodiya, Sudhir Patwardhan, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Dayanita Singh, Gieve Patel, Ayisha Abraham, Mithu Sen and Ranbir Kaleka, along with himself, to weigh in on... Read more

(ME)(MORY) | Curated by Dipti Anand

D-53 Defence Colony 20 January - 24 February 2021 (ME)(MORY) is a women’s group show curated by Dipti Anand, featuring nine artists with Subcontinental presences or origins, including Faiza Butt, Ruby Chishti, Anoli Perera, Bakula Nayak, Apnavi Makanji, Rakhi Peswani, Himali Singh Soin, Biraaj Dodiya, and Shrimanti Saha. (ME)(MORY) sets a stage for interdisciplinary conversations around the nature of... Read more

Chameli Ramachandran | Flowers Bloom, Flowers Wither Away, Flowers Bloom Again

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 8 January - 18 February 2021 Flowers Bloom, Flowers Wither Away, Flowers Bloom Again is a long-awaited solo exhibition of watercolours by artist Chameli Ramachandran. Chameli has always nurtured an immersive and entrancing relationship with nature, which repeatedly strikes an impulse to paint the skeletal and spiritual structures of flowers over and over again. In... Read more

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