Art Galleries

Meticulousness in deep aesthetical deliberations and precision in execution make the paintings of Padmanabh Bendre done between 2015 and 2017 appealing to the viewers. Bendre takes his inspiration from the Op Art Style that became a highly sought after art lingua during the 1960s as it heralded the arrival of other conceptual art practices.

Multifarious 5 is an exhibition that seeks to celebrate the rich spectrum of artistic expression by bringing together a diverse group of talented artists. In its fifth edition, the exhibition encourages artists to explore a myriad of topics that hold personal significance to them, fostering a dialogue on issues that resonate globally. Themes range from identity, social justice, society, and environmental concerns to personal reflections on love, resilience, and cultural heritage. Through this collaborative effort, Multifarious 5 aims to create an immersive and thought-provoking experience for the audience, inviting them to engage with art in its many forms.

“Spectrum of Creativity” featuring works by a diverse group of art- ists from various genres. The exhibition showcaes a range of artistic expressions that celebrate the rich and vibrant colours of creativity. Each artist has contributed their unique interpretation of the theme, bringing together a fasc nating mix of styles, techniques, and medi-ums.

The 'Of Divergent Practice: The Trajectory of Printmakers' exhibition at Dhoomimal Gallery, curated by Ina Puri and designed by Reha Sodhi, aims to highlight the significance of printmaking and draw in more participation from younger artists. The exhibit features works by the founding members of 'Multiple Encounters' and veteran artists who served as their mentors. The showcased prints range from non-representational to simple aesthetics inspired by Japanese space and abstraction.

TAG establishes a cultural platform devoted to both modern and contemporary Indian art, which is situated in the Defense colony in the centre of New Delhi. By bringing together artists and art aficionados, collectors, and purchasers

Bhargavi Gundala founded the Hyderabad-based Dhi Artspace in 2014. She is an artist as well as a patron and collector of modern art and encourages emerging artists by providing a forum for dialogue and engagement. Since its debut, Dhi has collaborated with new and up-and-coming contemporary artists

Gallerie Ganesha has successfully promoted two young artists, Paresh Maity and Neeraj Goswami, who are now regarded as artists of note on a national level. There have been numerous others, including, but not limited to, Jayasri Burman, Sisir Sahana, Mohan Singh, and Devdatta Padekar.

Dotwalk is dedicated to creating a venue for art that is centred on authenticity and integrity, that attracts up-and-coming artists, that communicates with art lovers around the world via technology, and that enhances the art world

Iram Art's core mission is to find and assist artists working in a variety of genres and media while also collaborating with established artists to build a strong and encouraging local and international community of artists and collectors.

Mortimer Chatterjee and Tara Lal, a husband and wife duo, established Chatterjee & Lal in 2003. The gallery, which is now located in Mumbai's Colaba art district, is a prominent hub in the city's developing art scene.

Founded in 2003, Gallery Art & Soul is in the heart of Bombay presenting Indian modern and contemporary arts. The gallery was established by Dr. Tarana Khubchandani as an extension of her non-profit endeavours

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an international exhibition of modern art that takes place in Kochi, Kerala, India. It is both the greatest contemporary art festival in Asia and the largest art exhibition in the nation. The Kerala State Government has supported the Kochi Biennale Foundation's proposal.

Sumakshi Singh is an artist and academic based in New Delhi, who also enjoys working as an academic. She has taught at the Art Institute of Chicago, Oxford University, and Columbia University among others. Recently, Sumakshi designed the renowned windows for Hermès, India.

Threading the Horizon: Propositions on Worldmaking through Socially Engaged Art Practice foregrounds the quotidian experience of violence experienced by women and gendered others explicated through acts of invisibility, exclusion, inequality and discrimination.

Gopi Gajwani's paintings eloquently capture the buoyancy of a colour spoken in whispers, the fluid movement of a stroke made without haste, and the echoing sound of a line suspended in space. His artistic work both affirms the precise correspondences between various sensory perceptions and the idea that each of our senses is capable of more than what is typically expected of them.

The acclaimed Santiniketan pedagogue and artist Benodebehari Mukherjee - whose path-breaking experiments with materials via an integrated approach to art and craft and whose making of a contextual Indian modernism in conversation with international practices were visionary developments as a result of his life's work - ironically grappled with declining vision from a young age.

George Bataille introduced the notion of 'l'informe' - Formlessness. What Bataille means by Formlessness is that art should be brought down to earth, off of its pedestal where it has been standing since antiquity. For Bataille, creativity is in the process. The Formless, in a way, is abstract and indefinable - Bataille himself claims that a word has no definition. It is performative, rather than explanatory.

Reimagining the meaning of being 'adrift at sea, Devika Sundar presents the internal expanse of the human body as aqueous forms that are unbound and untethered. In doing so, she brings out the uncanny echoes between us and bodies of water, in the way that they can be imaged, heard, and understood.

Be it about alienation or issues of resistance; radical criticism of the socio- political systems or playful irony and banter about the 'bhadralok', you find a rich diversity and multiplicity in the image-making emerging from the region. Landscapes and geographies dwell on memory as much as the flux in the present environment and the churn of both.