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Athmaja Biju

Athmaja Biju is the Editor at Abir Pothi. She is a Translator and Writer working on Visual Culture.

“Love Matters”: Kushal Ray on Intimacy, Observation, and the Lifelong Marathon of Photography

Kushal Ray’s journey into photography is as unconventional as it is compelling. Born in Kolkata in 1960, he began his career as a sports journalist at The Telegraph before turning to photography full-time in the early 1990s. Self-taught yet deeply informed by observation and empathy, he quickly developed a visual vocabulary that diverged from prevailing […]

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Ratan Parimoo retrospective opens at Bikaner House, New Delhi

Ratan Parimoo Scarlet Pearls, 1959 Oil and pebbles on board 23 x 40 inches

Gallerie Splash will present Grammar of Seeing, a major retrospective of Ratan Parimoo’s abstract phase, curated by Satyajit Dave, at Bikaner House’s Centre for Contemporary Art in New Delhi from June 12 to June 16, 2026. The show brings together paintings, prints, drawings, collages, works on paper, and archival material to trace Parimoo’s artistic evolution and

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Ashiesh Shah Explores Material Transformation in New London Exhibition

Ashiesh Shah Explores Material Transformation

Ashiesh Shah Explores Material Transformation – Mumbai-based designer, architect, and artist Ashiesh Shah will present a new solo exhibition at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, opening on June 11. Known for his multidisciplinary practice that bridges architecture, design, and art, Shah’s latest body of work marks a significant evolution in his creative trajectory. Rooted in a

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Chamba Rumal in a Contemporary Frame at Bridge Bharat

Bridge Bharat Exhibition view of Champa Rumal

Fields of Chamba, presented by Bridge Bharat, is an unfolding of land, labour, and the tactile intelligence of making. On view until May 2, the show repositions the Chamba Rumal as a living, thinking surface that holds memory, rhythm, and care. At its core, the exhibition draws from the ecological and cultural landscape of Chamba,

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Design Fundamentals: Understanding the Core of Creativity

design

Design surrounds us in everything we use and see, from the chair you sit on to the app you scroll through. It is the silent language that shapes how we interact with the world. Fundamentally, design is a thoughtful process of solving problems through form, function, and emotion. It creates connections between aesthetic intention and practical usefulness.

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Bodies of Time: Lorraine THIRIA on Surfaces, Memory and the Imaginary

Lorraine Thiria

Lorraine THIRIA is a contemporary french artist, whose practice moves fluidly between painting, photography, writing, and material research. Her Art is anchored in a singular visual world shaped by walls, matter, memory, and time. Trained in mural art and visual arts, and having arrived at photography through painting, she treats surfaces as living skins that

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Indian Sculptor Paresh Maity Takes Brass Monument to Venice Biennale Parallel Show

Indian Sculptor Paresh Maity Takes Brass Monument to Venice Biennale Parallel Show

Art Alive Gallery will present Paresh Maity‘s monumental brass sculpture Equilibrium at Personal Structures: Confluences, a major contemporary art exhibition running alongside La Biennale di Venezia from 9 May to 22 November 2026 in Venice. The European Cultural Centre Italy organises Personal Structures as a biennial event, and this 8th edition will occupy Palazzo Bembo,

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A Fistful of Sky: Subodh Gupta’s Architecture of Memory at NMACC

Subodh gupta a fisful of sky

At the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai, Subodh Gupta’s A Fistful of Sky is one of the artist’s most expansive exhibitions in India in recent years. Curated by Clare Lilley and on view from 3 April to 17 May 2026, the four-floor presentation brings together new commissions, key works from across Gupta’s career, and immersive

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Archivio: Dayanita Singh’s Venice Show Reimagines the Archive

Dayanita Singh

Dayanita Singh’s ongoing exhibition Archivio is now on view at the Archivio di Stato in Venice, marking the first time the historic institution has opened its doors as an exhibition venue. The show, which runs from April 17 to July 31, 2026, brings together two connected strands of Singh’s practice: her long engagement with Italian archives and

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Tom Vattakuzhy’s Where Words End Debuts in Mumbai at ICIA

Tom Vattakuzhy

Mumbai will host Tom Vattakuzhy’s first exhibition in the city, Where Words End, at the Institute of Contemporary Indian Art (ICIA) from May 3 to 17, 2026. The exhibition brings together a focused body of works that the artist calls “Story Paintings.” These paintings move beyond the function of illustration and instead explore what cannot be

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