New Art Shows We’re Excited About This Week

This week’s roundup brings together some of the most exciting new art exhibitions opening across India, from inaugural gallery shows and solo presentations to major museum-scale displays.
 
Process at Shrine Empire’s New Space
Shrine Empire’s new gallery space in Defence Colony, New Delhi, is opening today with its inaugural exhibition Process. Process reflects on process as both method and meaning, bringing into dialogue a wide range of practices rooted in the South Asian context. The exhibition features works by the gallery’s roster of artists, whose practices emphasise process, research, and the conceptual use of media and material.
The show features artists including Amitava, Anoli Perera, Arun Dev, Awdhesh Tamrakar, Baaraan Ijlal, Divya Singh, Hema Shironi, Moonis Ijlal, Nandita Kumar, Neerja Kothari, Paribartana Mohanty, Ranjana Thapalyal, Renuka Rajiv, Sajan Mani, Samanta Batra Mehta, Sangita Maity, Sarker Protick, Shruti Mahajan, and Tayeba Begum Lipi.
 
Ye Kab Ki Baat Hai? By IIum Rahat at Pristine Contemporary
Gallery Pristine Contemporary presents Yeh Kab Ki Baat Hai?, a solo exhibition by Irum Rahat, opening on Thursday, 23rd April 2026. The exhibition brings together sixteen paintings that engage with memory as something continually shifting, rather than fixed or retrievable. Yeh Kab Ki Baat Hai will be on view until Tuesday, 12th May 2026. Rahat’s practice draws from domestic spaces, often centred on feminine presence and interior life, where the familiar becomes a site of inquiry. In this body of work, she returns to recurring interiors, figures, and gestures, each revisited with subtle variations. These repetitions form a visual language in which memory unfolds as layered and non-linear. Past and present appear within the same frame, where identity is shaped through both presence and disappearance, and familiarity is constantly reconfigured.

Latitude 28 Opens Houses I Almost Lived In
Opening on 23rd April, the exhibition begins with an intimate paradox: the houses we almost lived in, the imagined, deferred, or fleetingly encountered, are never entirely separate from the ones we once called home. Today, as cities expand at an unforgiving pace, and spaces are continuously built, erased, and repurposed, these near-homes feel more present than ever, hovering between memory, desire, and loss.
 
Subodh Gupta’s Landmark Exhibition A Fistful of Sky at NMACC
Unfolding across all four floors of the venue, (A Fistful of Sky) offers one of the most expansive presentations of Gupta’s work in India in recent years. Bringing together large-scale installations, new commissions, and significant works from across his three-decade career, the exhibition explores how everyday domestic objects like utensils, tiffins, vessels, and beds can be transformed into powerful reflections on migration, labour, faith, memory, and aspiration.

Several works will be presented in India for the first time, including Proust Mapping (2024-26), a monumental nine-metre work composed of flattened cooking vessels marked by years of use, and Stupa (2024), a sculptural ensemble that reimagines devotional architecture through kitchen utensils. Another major installation, Kingdom of Earth (2016-26), stretches over seven metres and evokes archaeological fragments that link Gupta’s materials to broader histories of civilisation.

Sohrab Hura at Experimenter, Colaba
Sohrab Hura’s solo A Winter Summer is opening at Experimenter, Colaba, Mumbai, on Friday, 24 April 2026. The exhibition brings together seminal bodies of work Snow and The Song of Sparrows in a Hundred Days of Summer alongside Land of a Thousand Struggles and Pati. Emerging from different seasons, places, and moments, A Winter Summer examines the contrasts and connections that both divide and unite them, while revealing the layers of contradiction, deceit, and hierarchy often buried within the familiar subconscious.

Sohrab will be showing works at Arsenale and Giardini as part of the The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, In Minor Keys curated by Koyo Kouoh, opening on 9 May 2026. 
 
Epochal: The Period of Pioneers
Curated by Mortimer Chatterjee
Epochal: The Period of Pioneers re-evaluates Indian art in the decades immediately after Independence. Spread across DAG, Mumbai, and Chatterjee & Lal, in a rare inter-gallery collaboration, the exhibition challenges and moves beyond the conventional focus on a few dominant artists’ groups to reveal a broader, dynamic network of practitioners engaged with both tradition and modernity. On view till 22st of June.

Words Platform Desk 
Date 22.4.2026