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The View from Here
28 May - 28 Jun 2025 “Every image embodies a way of seeing.” — John Berger, Ways of Seeing What we see depends on where we are. The View from Here , at this moment and in this space, is shaped by what has come before and by what lies just ahead. Despite its programme being... Read more -
Probir Gupta: Migrants in the museum
31 Jan - 11 Feb 2025 Anant Art presents Migrants in the Museum, a solo exhibition by Probir Gupta, opening on 31 January 2025 at Travancore House, New Delhi. Probir Gupta’s practice is deeply rooted in social and political discourse, addressing themes of migration, displacement, and historical memory. Through his powerful paintings, sculptures, and installations, he... Read more -
Laxmipriya Panigrahi: Untethered Cartographies
29 Jan - 10 Feb 2025 Anant Art presents Untethered Cartographies, a solo exhibition by Laxmipriya Panigrahi, opening on 29 January 2025 at Bikaner House, New Delhi. Through her intricate watercolours, Laxmipriya creates lush, immersive landscapes where the terrestrial and the otherworldly collide. Her works transform natural elements into dreamlike compositions, inviting viewers to explore the... Read more -
Himmat Shah: Ninety and After
Excursions of a Free Imagination 26 Sep - 6 Oct 2024 The exhibition Himmat Shah | Ninety and After: Excursions of a Free Imagination , showcases a selection of Himmat Shah's sculptures and earlier drawings along with recent drawings created between the years 2020-2021. In addition, it also features Himmat Shah's significant works from the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art collection,... Read more
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Pushpabaug
10 Aug - 5 Sep 2024 Pushpabaug brings together evolving artist practices emerging from Vadodara, a city with a storied history of nurturing avant-garde art. Named after the iconic address of the Faculty of Fine Arts at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, the exhibition captures the zeitgeist of a generation in flux. It is a... Read more -
Propositions in Paper
The First Iteration of the JK Paper Award exhibition by the Anant Foundation for the Arts 6 Jul - 1 Aug 2024 Anant Foundation for the Arts presents its inaugural award exhibition, Propositions in Paper 2024: The JK Paper Award for the Arts . Featuring a solo presentation by the award winner, Sandeep Suneriya, and a group exhibition by Anshu Singh, Debojit Roy, Rutvi Vakharia, and Sriparna Dutta-recipients of the Certificate of... Read more -
Accumulations
Recent Works by Alexander Gorlizki 18 Apr - 30 May 2024 The solo features works by NY-based artist Alexander Gorlizki. The exhibition includes works across varied mediums—paintings, painted-over photographs, sculptural objects, textiles, video, and installations. Executed by Alexander and his numerous collaborators, the works in the exhibition intend to draw the viewer to an otherworldly fantastical realm. Read more -
Our Conspiring Hosts: Of Rivers, Vines, and Microbes
Curated by Adwait Singh 28 Mar - 8 Apr 2024 The group show is curated by Adwait Singh, featuring the works of Bhimanshu Pandel, Devadeep Gupta, Garima Gupta, Imaad Majeed, Karan Shrestha, Maksud Ali Mondal, Paribartana Mohanty, Salman Bashir, Sonia Mehra Chawla and Temsuyanger Longkumer. The exhibition courts the eco-horror genre with its formulations of weird natural phenomena teasing the... Read more
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Some Stories Listen
Recent works by Malavika Rajnarayan 6 - 19 Feb 2024 The solo exhibition showcases recent works by Malavika Rajnarayan where she uses the human figure to create narratives that are infused with feminine sensibility. Her visual language is informed by miniature painting traditions, where the poignancy of ideas are conveyed through beauty, grace and poetry. 'Improvisation is integral to my... Read more -
Sense And Sensibilities: A Reflective Realisation
Curated by Dr. Y.S. Alone 20 Jan - 16 Mar 2024 Visual representations emerged from transcendental realms have produced imaginations distant from reflective realisations. Consequently, visual sensibilities guided by hegemonic metanarratives are deeply connected to the embedded thought process that neither view and understand contradictions nor empower to address it pictorially. It is self-consciousness in the cultural sphere that has resulted... Read more -
By The Phoenix: Through The Fire
Curated by Kristine Michael 20 Jan - 16 Mar 2024 'By The Phoenix: Through The Fire', curated by Kristine Michael is a group show featuring nine women artists - Anju Paliwal, Benitha Perciyal, Élodie Alexandre, Falguni Bhatt, Jyoti Singh, Madhur Sen, Srinia Chowdhury, Veenu Shah, Vineeta Oswal - comprising of both established artists in their mediums and young talents bringing... Read more -
May I have your a-Tension, please?
Recent works by Abhishek Narayan Verma 1 - 31 Dec 2023 The solo exhibition is a presentation of recent works by Abhishek Narayan Verma. The exhibition opens at Bikaner house, on 01 December 2023, and will be on view until 04 December 2023. Following this, the exhibition will shift to our Noida gallery space and will continue there from 07 December... Read more
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The Figure of Sound
Curated by Preeti Bahudur 8 - 18 Nov 2023 ‘The Figure of Sound,’ a group show of eleven artists introduces an interesting provocation: how does art respond to the stimuli of sound? Conceptualised and curated by Dr. Preeti Bahadur Ramaswami, the works of art elaborate on auditory sensations that shape our visual perceptions – these are visualities that recall... Read more -
Improbable Being/Unlikely Realm
Recent works by Harsh Nambiar 7 Oct - 12 Nov 2023 We are catapulted into a world where a cast of characters of the artist’s own invention transcends the realm of the believable; these are anatomical forms, conspicuously out of the ordinary. Harsh intends for the viewer to conjure their own flights of fancy. The figures belong to a different order... Read more -
How Green Was My Valley?
Kishori Kaul :A Retrospective Exhibition 12 - 30 Sep 2023 I trapped my breath in the bellows of my throat: a lamp blazed up inside, showed me who I really was. I crossed the darkness holding fast to that lamp, scattering its light-seeds around me as I went. - Lal Ded Born in 1939 in Srinagar, Kishori Kaul spent her... Read more -
Ice-Cream Melting at the Bouncy Castle
Curated by Shankar Tripathi 2 - 30 Sep 2023 ‘Why have you not outlined it perfectly?’ An innocuous, almost trivial question is what I found myself asking when I first came across Anikesa’s paintings. Wide-eyed, I stood transfixed in front of a towering cathedral of bright colours; her canvas was an altar of our quotidian reality where items like... Read more
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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
21 Jul - 19 Aug 2023 Aastha Dutta | Bhanu Jindal | Gurdeep Brar | Kriti Malini | Meet Varvada | Nikesh Ola | Pavni Anand | Rahul Juneja | Sanika Rajpure | Shikha Soni | Tejasvi Shah | Vasudev Nair All That Is Solid Melts Into Air presents a group display of inter-mediatic engagements from... Read more -
Nisba
17 Jun - 15 Jul 2023 Anant Art is excited to announce its upcoming group exhibition featuring fifteen remarkable art practices from the subcontinent and beyond. Titled ‘nisba,’ the exhibition plays on the Arabic adjectival noun’s meaning of relation, familial bonds, and rhizomatic connections, bringing artworks from varied geographies and thematic understandings under the same roof.... Read more -
The Place called Body | Aditya Puthur
curated by Aditi Ghildiyal 16 Apr - 14 May 2023 The concept of the body has always piqued Aditya Puthur’s interest, and he has transformed it into his muse. He questions the body's existence as mere flesh and blood—to him, it is a story of decay, disease, and death. Or maybe a manifestation of our consciousness. Whatever the answer may... Read more -
Dhalav | Works by Niroj Satpathy
curated by Shankar Tripathi 16 Apr - 14 May 2023 ‘Dilli bohot hi khatarnak sheher hai. Yahaan kuch bhi ho sakta hai,’ Niroj whispers excitedly, when I ask him about an archaic Gorkha dagger that one of his otherworldly sculptures wields. Occupied by fur-lined creatures and six-feet tall prometheans, the doors to his studio apartment swivel open onto the threshold... Read more
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The Art Family Award Show
5 Feb - 25 Mar 2023 In the inventive crucible of South Asian art today, we stand witness to a vanguard of artistic practices that have risen to prominence. The Arts Family, a not-for-profit organisation based in London, instituted the TAF Emerging Artist Award South Asia in 2021 to recognise the spirit of practices immanent to... Read more -
Mycelial Legacies | Exhibition of women artists from the faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara
Curated by Deeksha Nath 29 Jan - 12 Feb 2023 Anita Dube, Archana Hande, Archana Shastri, Avantika Bawa, Ayisha Abraham, Gargi Raina, Hema Upadhyay, Hemali Bhuta, Ira Chaudhuri, Jyotsna Bhatt, Katyayini Gargi, Kavita Shah, Kishori Kaul, Latika Katt, Lavanya Mani, Madhurima Patni, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Nasreen Mohamedi, Nibha Sikander, Nilima Sheikh, Puja Mondal, Rakhi Peswani, Ratnabali Kant, Rekha Rodwittiya, Rini Dhumal,... Read more -
Intangible World of a Stranger - Tito Stanley SJ
27 Nov - 30 Dec 2022 Welcome to the twilight zone, the suspended moment of mystique wherein lies Tito Stanley’s fantastical worldview. It is a land of contradictions, replete with flashes of vibrant tenderness and discombobulation that is all at once startlingly familiar and comforting, and yet unknown and disturbing. It is what Mikhail Bakhtin called... Read more -
Naya Anjor
Curated by Arushi Vats 2 - 12 Nov 2022 Anant Art is pleased to announce Naya Anjor, a group exhibition curated by Arushi Vats welding distinct artistic approaches that are keeping vigil against the extractive occupations of mountains, forests and rivers in South Asia. Inspired by a song by Faguram Yadav, a poet at the heart of Chattisgarh Mukti... Read more
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Breaking the Mould - Emerging artists from Baroda
Curated by Aditi Ghildiyal and Shankar Tripathi 20 Sep - 23 Oct 2022 ‘you shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.’ - e.e. cummings At the core of Breaking the Mould is the indomitable spirit of this year’s graduating students... Read more -
ROOMS FULL OF MIRRORS | Probir Gupta
Anant Art in collaboration with Emami Art 2 - 30 Sep 2022 Emami Art, in collaboration with Anant Art, presents Room Full of Mirrors, a series of works by artist Probir Gupta. This is Probir’s major outing in his hometown Kolkata. The exhibition will show new paintings and installations and some critical earlier pieces. Probir dispenses with linear discourse and a representational... Read more -
Simulacrum
28 Jul - 8 Aug 2022 In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been. We all have reasons for moving. I... Read more -
REHANG
Curated by Uthra Rajgopal 21 - 31 Oct 2021 Textiles in contemporary art speak a powerful language. From a single thread to whole lengths of cloth, they transmit an aura which goes beyond words. And across South Asia, the magical qualities of thread have been known for thousands of years. In this exhibition, we encounter a journey of materials... Read more
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Spiralling into the Absurd
11 - 28 Feb 2021 How many times do we wonder and ask ourselves the meaning of our lives, its purpose and the mysteries that surround it? One of the well-known depictions of the absurdity of our existence is found in Samuel Beckett’s two-act play, ‘Waiting for Godot’. Written in 1952, a time of changing... Read more -
Telling Tales: A Journey into Narrative Forms
Curated by Aditi Ghildiyal 25 Feb 2020 - 15 Mar 2021 Since the beginning of time we’ve told stories through art. They become an important source of communication and in fact one can trace the trajectory of narrative art to understand how culture has evolved over the centuries. Storytelling is one of the most basic human tendencies. Earlier art was essentially... Read more
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SIMULACRUM {Anant Art X DAW}
24 - 31 Aug 2022 In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been. We all have reasons for moving. I... Read more -
Arrested Affections
Nilanjan Das 31 Mar - 5 May 2022 In his recent series “In search for a comfort zone” Nilanjan Das assumes the role of an urban planner, redefining and rectifying public spaces into aligning them with acceptable standards of morality. His works compel the viewers to re-look their surroundings, and identify the intangible markers of public surveillance hidden... Read more -
Memory Keeper
Irfaan Channa 10 Feb - 10 Mar 2022 “To remember is to create, and, therefore, to remember is to be a poet” – Ocean Vuong Irfan Channa’s graphite artworks provide a direct semblance to the lyricism of poetry and fineness of a visual artist. For him, poetry becomes a medium through which he revisits his spatial memories before... Read more -
The Blind Witness
Recent works by Rajnish Chhanesh 16 Dec 2021 - 16 Jan 2022 Across his new series titled Blind Witness , artist Rajnish Chhanesh takes on the role of a visual archivist illustrating the idiosyncrasies and fallacies of human society. These immensely intricate paintings retain his signature style of entwining contemporariness with traditional miniature paintings, but with a fresh take. Here the artist... Read more
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A Song in Asides
works by Malavika Rajnarayan 11 Nov - 11 Dec 2021 Malavika Rajnarayan’s recent works, A Song in Asides, is a series of postcard-sized watercolours that have emerged from her travel and lived experiences. Each work translates into a line of poetry on paper and spills into larger, interconnected narratives that are stitched together by strokes of kantha embroidery. The works come together as surreal snippets, mirroring the reality of a dream. Read more -
The Moon Bearer - A New Saga
Works by Abhishek Narayan Verma 14 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 The Moon Bearer: A New Saga underlines the existential concerns of the artist’s lived experiences during the initial lockdown of 2020. The first wave had turned the bustling city of Vadodara silent, propelling its inhabitants into involuntary isolation. The artist, confined in his studio, frequented the terrace at night for... Read more -
RITUALISING THE DISFIGURED: MEMORIALS OF HEALING FROM SRI LANKA
CHATHURI NISSANSALA 12 Aug - 12 Sep 2021 Chathuri Nissansala’s artistic oeuvre furthers the inquiry raised by her mother, Shiromi. As a second-generation civilian, a witness to the civil war and its impact on contemporary politics and social culture, her multidisciplinary practice questions the subjects of nationalism, patriarchy, and religion in Sri Lanka. While investigating the complex politics... Read more -
Her Mind Lives in a Palace
Recent works by Ekta Singha 5 Jul - 8 Aug 2021 Ekta Singha’s recent body of work continues her exploration with familial nostalgia and a yearning for a bygone era. As a second generation Bengali migrant from Bangladesh, Ekta delves into the collective memory of her family’s past to recreate a reservoir of memories, from which she extracts her imagery. The... Read more
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Deserted Scapes
Works by Bhartti Verma 28 Jun - 27 Jul 2021 Bhartti Verma’s paintings have an immersive quality to them that serenade the viewer into her world. Suffused with mystery, her interiors show signs of habitation and abandonment at the same time, while giving us glimpse of the outside world, which seems equally distant and deserted. Known for her hyper realistic... Read more -
..of Warps and Wefts
New Works by Dhara Mehrotra 8 Apr - 8 May 2021 ..of warps and wefts , recent works by Dhara Mehrotra, iterate a collision of science and art to explore a universe of possibilities, truths, and nature. Research studies indicate that one spoon of soil carries more living organisms than the entire human population on this planet. Dhara, intrigued and informed... Read more -
PATRONUS
New Works by Pappu Bardhan 4 Mar - 4 Apr 2021 Pappu Bardhan's body of works explores burgeoning cityscapes that impact dwindling flora and fauna in these times. He imagines a Patronus , a corporeal guardian, in the image of a barasingha ( swamp deer), that were found in abundance at the outskirts of Kolkata- his home city, in a hope... Read more -
Malhar
Curated by Chhavi Jain 20 Jul - 20 Aug 2020 Malhar: A lyrical exposition A journey into Malhar fashions an attempt to interlace the classical with contemporary visual forms. Within the realm of Indian mythology and legend, Malhar is one of the most ancient ragas in Hindustani classical music that, when sung, is believed to induce torrential rainfall. It has... Read more
