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13/08/2025

Some moments live quietly- in the cover of a face mask, the wonder of stargazing, the slow ritual of brewing kombucha. Where the Light Falls Gently gathers these fragments into paintings of memory, care, and attention.

Over two years, Hemali Vadalia has turned memories, both lived and imagined, into paintings that linger in the mind. Trained in academic realism at ateliers in Florence and New York, Vadalia paints from memory, tending to a diary of unremarkable yet intimate moments: making kombucha, harvesting karela, visiting the doctor. Her finely layered oil washes render people within reach - herself, her parents, an old school friend, the woman who cooks for her family, specific yet universal.

Rooted in care, healing, and the rhythms of domestic life, her paintings turn away from spectacle to honour the everyday. Each work carries the stillness of observation and the warmth of lived experience.

On view at .in , Mumbai
14 August – 11 September 2025

Image 1: Hemali Vadalia – Elevation (2025)
Image 2: Hemali Vadalia – Face Mask, Oil on Canvas
Image 3: Hemali Vadalia – Stargazers (2025)
Image 4: Hemali Vadalia – Kombucha (2025)

13/08/2025

on Writing Series
Indigenous. Resistant Epistemologies & the Normative Frame of the Contemporary
22–23 August 2025 | Arthshila, Delhi

Honoured and delighted to announce for the first time in India a speaker list that includes Indigenous voices and allies to explore the global resurgence of Indigenous epistemologies, artistic practices, and worldviews. Taking a planetary, non-universalist approach, it honours ontological, epistemological, and aesthetic sovereignty—while calling for structural change in how the contemporary art world engages with Indigenous knowledge systems.

Featuring artists, curators, scholars, poets, collectors, and land guardians from across the world, the gathering furthers the mission of the Indigenous issues of TAKE on Art (Spring & Winter 2025), curated by Katya García-Antón. Together, we will celebrate agency, resilience, and the storytelling power of Indigenous creators—and imagine new ethical, political, and aesthetic solidarities.

Presented by: TAKE on Art Magazine in collaboration with Arthshila Delhi
Register: [email protected] Registration is free of charge and mandatory | Please be on time for priority seating
Day 1: 22 Aug: 11 AM – 6 PM
Day 2: 23 Aug: 10 AM – 5 PM

11/08/2025

Series
Indigenous. Resistant Epistemologies & the Normative Frame of the Contemporary
22–23 August 2025 | Arthshila, Delhi

Honoured and delighted to announce for the first time in India a speaker list that includes Indigenous voices and allies to explore the global resurgence of Indigenous epistemologies, artistic practices, and worldviews. Taking a planetary, non-universalist approach, it honours ontological, epistemological, and aesthetic sovereignty—while calling for structural change in how the contemporary art world engages with Indigenous knowledge systems.

Featuring artists, curators, scholars, poets, collectors, and land guardians from across the world, the gathering furthers the mission of the Indigenous issues of TAKE on Art (Spring & Winter 2025), curated by Katya García-Antón. Together, we will celebrate agency, resilience, and the storytelling power of Indigenous creators—and imagine new ethical, political, and aesthetic solidarities.

Presented by: TAKE on Art Magazine in collaboration with Arthshila Delhi
Register: [email protected] Registration is free of charge and mandatory | Please be on time for priority seating
Day 1: 22 Aug: 11 AM – 6 PM
Day 2: 23 Aug: 10 AM – 5 PM

07/08/2025

On the occasion of National Handloom Day, we’re spotlighting a powerful and timely exhibition that rethinks the place of handloom in contemporary India, not just as a symbol of heritage, but as a site of resistance, storytelling, and cultural futurity.

Re-imagining A Way Back To Us: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion and Textiles in India, curated by Sreyansi Singh () for India Art Fair’s Young Collectors’ Programme (), presents handloom as both an archive and an act. Textile becomes a material memory that carries ecological intelligence, matrilineal knowledge, and intergenerational continuity.

Clothes become a documentary of the socio-economic culture and lived geographies. Through the simple act of re-making and re-wearing, the exhibition invites the viewers to witness textile not only as tradition, but as a grammar of the future.

From natural-dyed silks coaxed out of forest rhythms in Meghalaya to motifs inspired by Sohrai painting in Jharkhand and structured silhouettes woven on revival looms in Odisha, each textile piece expands what fashion can hold and handloom can mean today. The exhibition serves as a part of the ‘Know Your Weave’ project by the Ministry of Textiles (), Government of India. It is presented by India Art Fair and Fashion Design Council of India() in collaboration with the National Crafts Museum and Hastkala Academy, () New Delhi

Venue: Innovation Gallery, Textile Gallery-2, National Crafts Museum and Hastkala Academy, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
Access: Open to All

Featuring:
2112 Saldon (Ladakh)
7Weaves (Assam) ()
Boito (Odisha) (.in)
Bun.Kar Bihar (Bihar) (.karbihar)
Johargram (Jharkhand) ()
Kiniho (Meghalaya) ()
Tega Collective with Sandur Kushala Kala Kendra (Karnataka) (, )
Erode (Tamil Nadu) (.clothing)

07/08/2025

Bhavna Kakar, Editor-in-Chief of Take on Art magazine, recently visited the 5th Edition of The Sculpture Park at Jaigarh Fort, Jaipur, and found it to be nothing short of extraordinary.

Vijay Garhi, the site of the exhibition, is a 120-year-old stone structure that once served as an ammunition store. Now, its austere corridors and sunlit courtyards are animated by striking sculptures in bronze, ceramic, wood, stone, and steel. Each artwork infuses the space with new meaning, turning silence into resonance and history into dialogue.

Founded by Aparajita Jain and curated by Peter Nagy in collaboration with the Jaipur Centre for Art, under the chairmanship of HH Maharaja Sawai Padmanabh Singh, the Park offers a rare opportunity to experience contemporary art in a heritage setting. As Aparajita notes, the mission of the Park is “to democratise art by having the larger public engage with it.”

The Sculpture Park stands as a living monument to artistic innovation, bridging Jaipur’s regal legacy with the evolving language of contemporary sculpture.

Venue: Jaigarh Fort, Jaipur
On view till: October 15, 2025; 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Participating artists include:
Afra Al Dhaheri | Ashiesh Shah | Latika Katt | L. N. Tallur | Mahbubur Rahman | Navin Thomas | Parag Tandel | Payal Jain | Prashant Pandey | Ray Meeker | Shibu Natesan | Subodh Gupta | Tapas Biswas | TV Santhosh | Vishal Dar | Wolf

Selected works featured:
• Shibu Natesan, Misanthrope - II (2024)
• Latika Katt, Abandoned (2023-2025)
• Latika Katt, Growth #2, Terracotta
• Subodh Gupta, Kingdom of Earth (2017-2022)
• Subodh Gupta, Cosmic Calm (2017-2022)
• Wolf, Atoll Series (2024)
• TV Santhosh, Obsolete Objects (2016)
• Mahbubur Rahman, Operation Magic Carpet (2023)
• Parag Tandel, भराली/ Talisman for Coastal Futures 8 (2024)
• Afra Al Dhaheri, A Line for the Eye to Wander Part 2 (2025)
• LN Tallur, Recurrent Neural Network 2 (2023)
• Ashiesh Shah, Channapatna Green Stambh & Bastar Stambh (2021)
• Ashiesh Shah, White Metal Patrawork Stambh (2021)
• Ray Meeker, FI Series - Rough Cut 6 & Fire and Ice Post 5 (2020)
• Navin Thomas, Fictional Symphony Halls (2017)

All images courtesy of Bhavna Kakar.

04/08/2025

Leaving their homes behind,
bales of straw, their soil,
and the old roof of pantiles,
they ask over and over again:
O city!
Do you ever get uprooted
in the name of some development?
Jacinta Kerketta

They are waiting for us to become civilized
And we are waiting for them to become human.
Jacintra Kerketta

TAKE on Art, in collaboration with Arthshila Delhi (), presents: INDIGENOUS. Resistant Epistemologies & the Normative Frame of the Contemporary

📅 22–23 August 2025
📍 Arthshila, New Delhi

This two-day international symposium brings together Indigenous voices and allies to explore the global resurgence of Indigenous epistemologies, artistic practices, and worldviews. The gathering takes a planetary, non-universalist approach to honouring ontological, epistemological, and aesthetic sovereignty.

Drawing from ancestral, colonial, and contemporary temporalities, the conference centers “ancestrality”—a concept evoking inter-substantiation between humans, land, ancestors, and non-human forces—as the heart of Indigenous sovereignty. As Aboriginal Geonpul scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson writes, this sovereignty is embodied and relational, contrasting Western notions grounded in territory, rights, and contracts. The contemporary art world often flattens Indigenous complexity under the guise of inclusion. This conference calls for an epistemological and structural transformation to truly “meet” Indigenous knowledge systems on equitable terms.

The participating speakers and panellists include:
Amreshwara Galla | Akhilesh Akhil | Alexie Glass-Kantor | Candice Hopkins | Chaitanya Sambrani | Biung Ismahasan | Gauri Gill | Kamayani Sharma | Katya García-Antón | Khushboo Jain | KP Pradhan | Lekha Poddar | Mayur Vayeda | Rajesh Vangad | Santosh K Das | Sheelasha Rajbhandari and Hit Man Gurung | Srinivas Gamango | Tushar Vayeda | Udayan Vajpeyi | Venkat Raman Singh Shyam | Vivek Sehgal

Register to ensure seating: [email protected]

03/08/2025

31/07/2025

Memory isn’t a straight line. It loops, drifts, burns, and blooms.
In Myth, Memory, Meaning, four women artists- Ashu Gupta, Rakhee Shenoy, Smruthi Gargi Eswar, and Sukanya Garg, translate emotion, ritual, and time into deeply personal materials. Think embroidery, gold leaf, pigment, paper, and silence- transformed into portals of myth and meaning.

Presented by Artisera, the exhibition brings together the tactile and the sacred, the intimate and the universal. The artists act as archivists of the unseen, mapping inner landscapes, where scars are sacred and the everyday becomes elemental.

This isn’t a retelling. It’s a reclamation.

On view at , Bangalore
July 26 – August 16, 2025

Image 1: Rakhee Shenoy – Silence Between Moments
Image 2: Sukanya Garg – Yujir 3 (Oneness)

28/07/2025

Art Incept’s () newest exhibition, From Point to Infinity, curated by Rahul Kumar (), unfolds from the simplest visual unit, the dot, into layered explorations of perception, structure, and meaning. A dot, still and focused, becomes the beginning of a line. A line, in turn, connects, divides, and guides. Together, they suggest and shape space, real, imagined, architectural, and metaphysical.

Through the works of nine artists, the exhibition describes how forms, stripped down yet infinite in potential, question the boundaries between containment and expansion, silence and suggestion, form and void. Here, space is not just a backdrop; it is an active presence. It holds tension and breathes possibility. It asks us not only to look, but to look again.

From Point to Infinity invites you to trace the lines, pause at the dots, and lose yourself in the quiet immensity of space.
🗓 Preview: Saturday, 2nd August, 2025 | 5 PM onwards
📅 On view till: Sunday, 10th August 2025
🕒 Timings: Monday–Sunday | 11 AM – 8 PM
📍 Shridharani Gallery, 205 Tansen Marg, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi (.kala.sangam)

 

18/07/2025

The 14th edition of the Experimenter Curators’ Hub at Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata started today.

Listen to the conversation onsite or tune in via Experimenter’s website and YouTube channel for a live stream of the 2-day sessions. Online audiences can also engage with speakers in real time through Q&A.

Day 1, July 18, 2025: Speakers

Sharmini Pereira – Chief Curator, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka

Amal Khalaf – Co-curator, Sharjah Biennial 16 & Director of Programmes, Cubitt, London

Mohamed Almusibli .rtf – Director & Chief Curator, Kunsthalle Basel

Akansha Rastogi – Senior Curator, KNMA, New Delhi

Day 2, July 19, 2025: Speakers

Puja Vaish – Director, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai

Anne Barlow – Director, Tate St Ives, Cornwall

Fatima Bintou Rassoul Sy – Independent Curator & Director, Akpé Cultural Space, Dakar

Justine Ludwig – Executive Director, Creative Time, New York

Moderated by:
Rattanamol Singh Johal – Curator, art historian, and Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor – joining Experimenter Curators’ Hub as co-convenor of the Hub for the first time.

Presented by Experimenter Learning Program Foundation, with generous support from , , , , and media partner .

16/07/2025

Where does a thread take you? For .surana_ , it drifts somewhere I have never travelled, tracing quiet questions about how we hold things together and the gentle labour of connection.

Her debut solo at Art Alive Gallery borrows its title from E.E. Cummings’ poem and, like the poem, meditates on the complexity of human connection. Indigo vat dyeing, rooted in India’s heritage and known as ‘blue gold’, carries a legacy that bridges past and present. French knots sprout like lichens, nourishing their surroundings and invoking collective support and renewal. Seed stitches become a metaphor for growth, while slashes and scorches mark both destruction and repair.

Through embroidery, each stitch, knot, and tangle becomes a marker of perseverance, echoing the quiet effort needed to nurture relationships and keep them alive.

On view at Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi, from 25 July to 20 August 2025.

Artwork 1: Cloth, indigo dyed gauze, shibori cloth, hand embroidery, eco printing, mono printing, 26 x 24 inches, 2025
Artwork 2: Hand made paper, gateway paper, monoprinting on cloth, hand embroidery, pen marks, 5 x 9 inches, 2024
Artwork 3: Hand made paper, Japanese kozo paper, machine embroidery, acrylic paint, pen, watercolor on paper, 30 x 22 inches, 2025
Artwork 4: Cloth creme, cyanotype on cloth gauze,net, hand embroidery, 9.5 x 9 inches, 2025

10/07/2025

The 14th edition of the Experimenter Curators’ Hub brings together eight leading curators from India and around the world to Experimenter—Hindustan Road in Kolkata, India on July 18–19, 2025. Each curator has worked across diverse geographies, disciplines, and institutional frameworks that have been pivotal to their curatorial practices. Together, they will contribute to the long-standing objective of knowledge-making that the Hub has cultivated over the years.

Rattanamol Singh Johal joins the Hub this year as the new moderator and co-convenor. The participating curators at ECH 2025 are: Akansha Rastogi, Amal Khalaf, Anne Barlow, Fatima Bintou Rassoul SY, Justine Ludwig, Mohamed Almusibli, Puja Vaish, and Sharmini Pereira.

The Hub will also be live-streamed on Experimenter’s website and YouTube channel, making it accessible to audiences around the world.



Image credits:
Akansha Rastogi. Photo credit: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
Amal Khalaf. Photo credit: Christa Holka
Anne Barlow. Photo credit: Kirstin Prisk
Fatima Bintou Rassoul SY. Photo credit: Mathilde Agius
Justine Ludwig. Photo credit: Nicholas Parakas
Mohamed Almusibli. Photo credit: Mathilde Agius