'Vadehra Art Gallery announces a group exhibition in collaboration with ART India, presenting a cohort of 30 emerging practitioners recognized in the magazine’s ‘30 Under 30’ list, released in 2026 to mark the publication’s 30th anniversary. Hailing from across the country, the artists include: Abdulla PA, Amith Nayak, Anirudh Shaktawat, Arieno Kera, Biswajit Thakuria, Dhiraj Rabha, Divya Singh, Fatima Juned, Geetanjali Bayan, Harmeet Rahal, Hasan Ali Kadiwala, Jayeeta Chatterjee, Kalpana Vishwas, Kumar Misal, Lakshya Bhargava, Manoj Kumar Pannala, Md. Samim Alam Beg, Mohammed Intiyaz, Nitheen Ramalingam, Pritam Das, Rah Naqvi, Ritwika Ganguly, Sahil Kumar, Saroj Kumar Badatya, Satyanarayana Gavara, Shailee Mehta, Suraj Kamble, Thamshangpha Maku, Urna Sinha, and Yashna Kaul.
Titled Next|Now, the exhibition features a curated selection of recent paintings, photographs, collages, drawings, sculptures, woodcuts, textiles, animation and video works that reflect the explorations, experiments and concerns of a rising generation of Indian contemporary artists. From meditations on cultural landscapes, local materials and community-led craft practices to revisitations of personal memory, critiques of capitalism and reflections on embodied experience, the show’s broad thematic scope offers viewers a discursive insight into the evolving preoccupations, material vocabularies and artistic imagination shaping contemporary art practice in India today.
ART India is India’s premier art magazine featuring modern and contemporary art: since 1996, it has been responsible for the promotion of a critical discourse around diverse art forms, activities and disciplines Initiated by Ms. Sangita Jindal, it has evolved into an important forum for discussing, interrogating and appreciating art practices. ART India has been responsible for giving a platform to artists and critics to engage in a mutually replenishing intellectual dialogue with each other. This has led to the fostering of a vibrant atmosphere of sustained debate around crucial issues linked to the theory and practice of painting, sculpture, installation art, new media art, photography, graphic art and performance art.'
The exhibition will be on view at Vadehra Art Gallery until 18th June, 2026.
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Date 1.6.2026