Exhibitions

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City of Illusions
Paintings by Vandana Kothari 16 Mar - 30 Apr 2021 A city is a land of dreams, hopes and nightmares which blurs our intellectual and perceptive faculties. This series of paintings on canvas by Vandana Kothari are based on the experiences and the challenges of living in a mega-city, where the mundane and the extraordinary to meet seamlessly and flow... Read more

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 technologies and power... 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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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

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 to regain... 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

The Nest
Curated by Aditi Ghildiyal 12 Jun - 12 Jul 2020 The exhibition explores the idea of the ‘Nest/Home’ in both its literal and metaphorical contexts. A home is a very intimate space and thus each of us have our own interpretation in regard to it. It has multiple connotations and can be seen as a place of shelter, comfort, security,... Read more