A lot is happening in India’s art spaces this month: from a six-room exhibition inside a Mumbai heritage home to textile sculptures born from collaborations with artisan weavers. Across cities, artists are working with everything from watercolour and weaving to sculpture and installations, creating shows that are as varied as the stories they tell. Here’s a look.
towards minor gestures | intensities in the making, New Delhi
Going on till 7th August, this show presents works by the 10 recipients of FICA’s Emerging Artists Award 2024, bringing together practices that explore memory, archives and lived experiences at the Vadehra Art Gallery. Inspired by the idea of the ‘minor gesture’ as a moment of possibility, the exhibition traces encounters that shape how we relate to images, spaces and one another.
Overland, There’s Shorter Time To Dream, New Delhi
On view until 25th July 2026 at Delhi’s Latitude 28, this group exhibition brings together 16 artists from varied geographies to rethink migration as more than physical movement. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and textile, the show traces migratory histories, diasporic experiences, and the emotional landscapes of exile and resettlement, asking what is carried across borders, what is left behind.
6 Rooms, 1 House, Mumbai
Housed in a restored Girgaon heritage home, this immersive group exhibition follows six rooms with their own mood and theme: from maternal icons, Bombay, wildlife, to textiles and portraits. Yet, they cohere a single, walkable narrative: the sheer breadth of Indian art. On view until 19 July 2026, the show at 47 A blends painting, sculpture, and installations.
Ephemeral, Mumbai
In this two-artist dialogue, Ajay Dhandre and Krishnendu Porel meditate on impermanence, memory, and when neither past nor present can be fully held. On view until 31st July at Art Musings, their works span painting and mixed media to create an exchange around loss, time, and the fragility of experience.
Exposed Spine, New Delhi
In his solo show at Nature Morte, Neeraj Patel transforms drawings and architectural fragments into monumental textile sculptures and woven interventions, made in collaboration with artisan weavers. The exhibition, on view until 26th July, foregrounds labour, process, and material experimentation by turning lines once confined to paper into tactile and layered forms that carry the traces of hand-making.
Paper and Play, New Delhi
On view till 22 August, Paper and Play reimagines paper as a medium of connection, experimentation and play. Featuring prints, posters, artist books, zines, games, toys and publications by artists and collectives across India and beyond, the Gallery XXL exhibition moves beyond traditional viewing to create an interactive, evolving space.
Lone Runner’s Laboratory, Kolkata
Prabhakar Pachpute’s Lone Runner’s Laboratory unfolds like a fable of struggle, transformation and survival. Inspired by mining communities, barren terrains, literature and lived experiences, the artist creates an unsettling universe of hybrid figures, wild landscapes and emotional extremes. The exhibition opens at the Experimenter on 17th July, tracing the inner worlds of individuals caught between exploitation, endurance and the search for escape.
Holiday Homework, New Delhi
In collaboration with LOAM and on view at Method until 23rd August, the show revisits childhood as a site of creativity, memory and cultural imagination. Bringing together contemporary artists and 10 Open Call finalists, the exhibition explores play, care and learning while questioning how childhood is shaped beyond mass-produced experiences.
Contextures: RMA and The Practice of Embedded Architecture, Mumbai
Contextures, on view until 21st August, looks at how architecture can respond to its surroundings, histories and communities. Curated by Ranjit Hoskote, the exhibition at TARQ showcases six projects by RMA Architects, from museums to educational spaces, through drawings, photographs and models that reveal the ideas behind each structure.
Words Nidhi Soni
Date 14.7.2026
