CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
NEW DELHI
We've rounded up our top exhibitions of the week for New Delhi featuring some of our favorite galleries, museums, and art events. Check them out!
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Right to laziness...no, strike that! Sidewalking with the man sayong sorry
The exhibtion is a thought-form part of the Young Artists of Our Times series curated by Akansha Rastogi, accompanied by the simultaneous reading of Paul Lafargue's The Right to be Lazy and Aman Sethi's A Free Man.
MIXED BAG
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Saket
Group Show
Jan 30 - June 30
Scripting Time - Memory - Ecology
Curated by Roobina Karode, the exhibition showcases the works of seven women artists whose differential personal experiences and generational distances are undermined and suspended by the restorative power of the remains of nature which their artworks emconpass and delve into.
MIXED BAG
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Saket
Group Show
Jan 30 - June 30
Stammer in the Shade
Veteran artist, Atul Dodiya's show is an exploration of the social milieu he is positioned in, with his paintings and assemblages engaging in a dialogue with both political and art history. The exhibition is divided into two parts comprising paintings in his fragmented abstract style and the shutter series.
MIXED BAG
Vadehra Contemporary
Atul Dodiya
Jan 29 - Feb 29
Everyday Extraordinary
A solo show presenting new works by artist Suhasini Kejriwal which are remnants of her experience shared with urban spaces in Kolkata and Mumbai and the dialectics and poetics of the mundane churned out of it. Her works are drawn towards capturing the relationship cultivated between the people and the space they inhabit which gives rise to an identity that is unique and singular.
MIXED BAG
Nature Morte
Suhasini Kejriwal
Feb 15 - Mar 14
Form & Play - Ganesh Haloi
The show presents Ganesh Haloi's non-figurative paintings which deal with the plenitude of nature depicted in pictorial signs comprising minuscule dots and calligraphic lines to convey his deep sense of pathos and melancholy.
MIXED BAG
Akar Prakar Contemporary
Ganesh Haloi
Jan 28 - Feb 20
Terranum Nuncius
The exhibition 'Terranum Nuncius' organised by Nature Morte showcases Jitish Kallat's two major works, including a photographic and sound installation titled "Covering Letter (terranum nuncius)" and "Ellipsis", his largest painting to date.
MIXED BAG
Bikaner House
Jitish Kallat
Jan 29 - Feb 19
TIMES,LINES,1989S
An exhibition by Russian Art Collective Chto Delat, showcasing art that speaks about the need of telling alternate history, to revisit or retell history by utilizing the concept of a �timeline� as a provocation to think about who tells history, and the manner in which history circulates.
NEW AGE
KHOJ
Russian Art Collective Chto Delat
Jan 29 - Feb 29
The Idea of the Acrobat
The exhibiton presents the work of 12 artists across diverse mediums, focusing on the contemporary socio-political issues to exploring the definitons of what can be considered as "art" in the 21st century. It delves into the idea that art practices like acrobatics also entail similar concerns of balance, flexibility, strength, timing and risk-taking.
MIXED BAG
Bikaner House
Group Show
Jan 29 - Feb 19
THE EXODUS OF ETERNAL WANDERERS
Presenting scuptural works by the artist that delve into the realities of climate change and its effect on human migration. His miniaturized human figures and scupturas evoke an emotion of an eternal journey in search of home, depict the painful life in exile, and introduce an existential dilemma of unparalleled scale.
NEW AGE
Latitude 28
Sudipta Das
Jan 17 - Feb 28
The Song of the Earth and the Sky
Artist and architect Ankon Mitra coalesces copper of the earth and silver of the sky to create a pointed arch and multiplies it nine times to symbolise the nine realms. Representing yin and yang, wind and water, which are elements of the earth and the sky, the garden transforms into a wholeness which is reflective of all spiritual energies that the universe is replete with.
Gujral Foundation
Ankon Mitra
Feb 5 - Apr 26
Memory's Cut: Its Deep Embrace
Showcasing new works by the artist, this exhibition is a highlight of the VIP programme of the India Art Fair 2020. She uses photography, drawing, sculpture, textiles and sound to transform 24 Jor Bagh into a series of personal spaces that encapsulate her memories of home.
NEW AGE
Gujral Foundation
Remen Chopra W. Van Der
Jan 31 - Feb 24
The Fifties Show: Works of Indian Modernism
The show revisits an epochal decade of newly-independent India, that was no longer mired in colonialism and was about to witness the Indian art world embrace modernism and create some of the finest masterpieces, including the likes of F.N. Souza and Nandalal Bose.
TRADITIONALIST
Delhi Art Gallery
Group show
Feb 1 - Mar 26
Materilogy 2.0: What Happens When Yesterday Becomes Tomorrow?
Curated by Amit Gupta and Pramiti Madhavji, the exhibition delves into the question of acknowledging the reality that awaits us, the hopes that tomorrow promises, by reliving the ethos of yesteryears, which we often tend to forget in this fast-changing world.
NEW AGE
STIR Gallery
Group Show
Feb 2 - Feb 22
Visions in the Making
Curated by Myna Mukherjee and Davide Quadrio, the show brings together six women from Italy and South Asia who create works that defy standardization and commercialization, play with time and temporality and wander in geography as well as history.
MIXED BAG
The Italian Cultural Institute
Group Show
Jan 31 - Feb 28
