EXHIBITIONS

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

Jagannath Panda | Echoes of Unfathomed Worlds

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 8 December 2023 - 19 January 2024 Panda explores what lies beyond the realms of predictable vision and other usual sensory encounters. He enters conversations around the natural–unnatural spaces that humanity creates to maintain all living creatures alongside reflections on urban constructions derived from belief, culture and form. Panda’s deconstructive approach to one of the tenets of... Read more

ATUL BHALLA | AUSCULTATION: False Clouds and Real Deluges – I

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 2 November - 1 December 2023 Motivated by the search for social and environmental inquiries through an oeuvre that incorporates sculpture, painting, installation, video, photography and performance, Atul Bhalla has for decades explored the physical, historical and political significance of materials and materiality in urban-impact environments. His practice explores the shifting dynamics of landscapes due to... Read more

Ramachandran | A Retrospective of Sculptures

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 17 October - 12 December 2023 Known for his monumental canvases, colourful oils and watercolours, not much has been seen of the large body of sculptures Ramachandran has created in his long career of art practice starting from 1964 to the present day. For the first time, this exhibition gathers almost all these pieces of work... Read more

Ramachandran: A Retrospective of Sculptures

Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi 17 - 31 October 2023 Known for his monumental canvases, colourful oils and watercolours, not much has been seen of the large body of sculptures Ramachandran has created in his long career of art practice starting from 1964 to the present day. For the first time, this exhibition gathers almost all these pieces of work... Read more

Juul Kraijer: On Wings

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 27 September - 27 October 2023 Dutch artist Juul Kraijer’s images seek to upturn our daily logic and rationality in favour of the incredulity and wonder of a world held beyond belief. She documents staged interactions between a model, often presented androgynously, and other sentient beings like birds and butterflies that appear in possession of their... Read more

Anita Dube: The Devil in the Detail

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 27 September - 27 October 2023 Delhi-based artist Anita Dube ’s oeuvre follows the corporeality of our individual and collective bodies, encapsulated in language, memory, history and mythology, by exploring the body as material and consequence, as possession and agent. Her well-regarded use of ceramic votive eyes, otherwise appearing in religious effigies, seek to resist the... Read more

DELHI CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK

Bikaner House, New Delhi 3 - 7 September 2023 Read more

The Patience of Ordinary Things

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 29 August - 23 September 2023 The Patience of Ordinary Things It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes Or toes. How soles of feet know Where they’re supposed to be. I’ve been thinking... Read more

The Patience of Ordinary Things

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 29 August - 7 October 2023 The Patience of Ordinary Things It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes Or toes. How soles of feet know Where they’re supposed to be. I’ve been thinking... Read more

FICA Emerging Artist Award 2020 Bhaisaji Gadekar: She Talks Through Me

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 21 July - 5 August 2023 The work is a reconvening of embodied memory and gendered selves, formulated as an ongoing meditation on routine and prolongings. Occupying the space of multiple characters within certain histories and performativities of gender in the context of folk theatre, the artist will develop embodiments that unravel, transform and tilt, allowing... Read more

Arpita Singh: Meeting

Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, London 2 - 17 June 2023 Arpita Singh’s works assume new dimension as cartographical autobiographies, accenting imagined characters and landscapes with the flourish of expressionist emotion. With compositions foregrounded in movement, Singh tends to emphasize the potential of individual agency operating within collective constraints, though her mapping doesn’t seem to prioritize any one aspect – whether... Read more

On Purpose

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 27 May - 10 July 2023 The on-set of technology as a development of practical tools often through scientific measures and industrial impact, circle s much further back t han the zeitgeist’s limiting conversation of technology in and of the digital ether. The origins of oil painting are date d to the 7th century CE ;... Read more

Time of the Line

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 2 May - 10 July 2023 A line is a thing of many. It can carry a poem from a spark to its end, or be telling of age when gathered around cheekbones, or ponder a firm goodbye from a dear one holding onto the telephone. It can be nautical, locomotive and narcotic. It can connect... Read more

Jasmine Nilani Joseph | The Sixth Diary

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 20 April - 18 May 2023 When Jasmine Nilani Joseph was a young girl living in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, during the three-decade-long civil war, her parents and siblings were forced out of their home and into the city of Vavuniya, where they lived in a refugee camp and later settled under a housing scheme project. With... Read more

Shrimanti Saha | Reveries in the Atelier

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 15 March - 14 April 2023 Shrimanti Saha’s practice reveals a highly cognitive and deeply perceptual understanding of the world at large, which she approaches through historical and contemporary sources and systems of knowledge – from news reports, Indian miniatures, science fiction, literary criticism, cinema, European art history, comic books, architecture and natural almanacs, among others.... Read more

Arpita Singh | Meeting

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 7 February - 14 March 2023 Arpita Singh’s works assume new dimension as cartographical autobiographies, accenting imagined characters and landscapes with the flourish of expressionist emotion. With compositions foregrounded in movement, Singh tends to emphasize the potential of individual agency operating within collective constraints, though her mapping doesn’t seem to prioritize any one aspect – whether... Read more

Nasreen Mohamedi: From the collection of the Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 3 February - 2 March 2023 A special exhibition of curated works by late Indian modernist Nasreen Mohamedi, from the collection of the Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan, which will be on view during and after India Art Fair 2023. Mohamedi’s close friend and fellow artist Nilima Sheikh will address the audience at the preview, bringing her... Read more

Jasmine Nilani Joseph: Who Decides the Distance?

The Viewing Room, D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 3 February - 2 March 2023 Winner of the Asia Society Game Changer Awards India in 2022, Jasmine Nilani Joseph is an emerging artist from Sri Lanka, whose practice includes drawing, hybrid sculptures and animation videos. Joseph is a skilled draughtsman; her mark-making couples a meditative pointillism with an incisive linearity creating charged impressions of space... Read more

Anjolie Ela Menon: Nostalgia 2022

D-40 Defence Colony, New Delhi 22 December 2022 - 31 January 2023 Menon’s exhibition Nostalgia is centered around a triptych celebrating the Divine Mothers – Parvati, Mariam and Yashoda. The artist is intrigued by the aesthetics of mythology and creates a unique visual language in her portrayal of these protagonists, as she drapes the goddesses with free-flowing hair and contemporary garments, making... Read more

Treibor Mawlong | Once Around the Sun

D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 28 November 2022 - 28 January 2023 For Treibor Mawlong, an emerging artist from the Khasi hills of Meghalaya, people’s relationships to nature and its elements are as personal and potent as they are to each other. Theirs is a closed-circuit world nurtured by the pride of belonging, inner revolution and necessitated self-sufficiency. Guided by autobiographical events,... Read more