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Athmaja Biju

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

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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Rakesh Patel to Exhibit at French Sculpture Park by J M Decorp

Rakesh Patel's "Architectural Maze -II" for the sculpture park in France

Ahmedabad-based artist Rakesh Patel will present a sculpture at the Château du Grand Launay sculpture park in France, a project envisioned by noted collector Jean Marc Decorp. Spread across two hectares, the park features works by over 25 international artists and remains open to the public from April to October. Patel is the only Indian

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Mechaniya Reimagines Textile Futures in Six Continuum’s Debut Show

Mumbai’s newest experimental art platform, Six Continuum, will open its inaugural exhibition There Are No Punch Cards on April 18, 2026, featuring new jacquard works by Silvassa-based studio Mechaniya, co-founded by Tanvi Ranjan and Namrata Kothari. Running until May 18 at Eon One, Prabhadevi, the exhibition foregrounds the studio’s ongoing engagement with industrial textile processes, digital technologies,

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Why Marina Abramović Keeps Dying for Love at Cisternerne

Marina Abramović brings opera’s deaths underground in Copenhagen

Cisternerne in Copenhagen now hosts the large-scale cinematic opera installation Marina Abramović: Seven Deaths, installed in the city’s former underground water reservoirs in Søndermarken. The exhibition runs from 14 March to 30 November 2026 and turns the dark, damp cisterns into a sequence of chambers devoted to seven iconic operatic deaths. In each film, Abramović dies

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