Mumbai’s art galleries are opening their doors this week for the 14th edition of Mumbai Gallery Weekend, transforming the city into a thriving showcase of contemporary practice from January 8 to 11, 2026. The event, now established as the city’s most significant art calendar moment, unites 31 galleries and 4 institutional partners across neighborhoods from Colaba to Bandra West, creating an unparalleled opportunity to encounter Mumbai’s artistic ecosystem in a single concentrated moment.
The Mumbai Gallery Weekend (MGW) is organized by the Mumbai Gallery Association (MGA), a collective of local galleries that collaborate to create this city-wide art event, fostering community and showcasing Mumbai’s vibrant art scene. It’s a joint effort by participating galleries, bringing together artists, collectors, and the public for an annual celebration of contemporary art.
This year arrives with a notable operational shift. Rather than evening-only openings, galleries open daily from 12 noon, extending through Sunday—the only Sunday of 2026 when all participating spaces remain accessible simultaneously. This deliberate restructuring prioritizes “slower looking and deeper engagement,” encouraging visitors to navigate a more expansive, walkable circuit across districts including Fort, Kala Ghoda, Ballard Estate, Worli, Kemps Corner, and Khotachi Wadi.
Thematically, Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2026 reveals a city confident in its artistic pluralism. Material intelligence emerges as a dominant current, with exhibitions exploring texture, craft, and the poetic possibilities of the handmade.
Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2026 – Complete Gallery Directory
47-A located in Khotachi Wadi and features Wolf studio’s Gul Installation , a post-industrial garden using scrap and discards to tell stories of hope.
Æquo in Colaba presents Kelly Wearstler’s “By Fire” exhibition, showcasing bronze and teak furniture created in collaboration with Indian master artisans, featuring cast bronze grids inlaid with hand-shaped enamel pieces and sculpted teak carved by hand, burnt, and accented with delicate bronze elements.
Akara Contemporary features Seeing from the Inside Out – Utkarsh Makwana
Akara Modern features Piraji Sagara‘s sculptural grammar exploring how matter preserves memory.
Anupa Mehta Contemporary Art in Worli presents Garden of Memory – Alamu Kumaresan. The artist explores selfhood, memory and belonging, dwelling on aspects of the familiar and comfortable using the tactile, durational process of embroidery on textile.
Art & Soul in Worli presents “Womangrove – Scapes of Still & Life,” an exhibition featuring 11 women artists namely Lalitha Lajmi, Jayasri Burman, Brinda Miller, Tanuja Rane, Revati Sharma Singh, Bandana Jain, Heeral Trivedi, Meenakshi Nihalani, Tejswini Sonawane, Sonu Sorout, Sushma Anand and serving as an ode to the basics while reclaiming the lesser-known narrative regarding the contribution of women artists who have been paramount in building the foundation of Indian art.
Art Musings presents ‘Gardens of Song’, a solo exhibition by Maya Burman, featuring artworks spanning the last 7 years of the artist’s practice. The artist will be present during the course of the 4 day MGW, where the gallery has planned several interactive sessions with the artist.
Chatterjee & Lal in HC Dinshaw Building, Colaba, features “Azal se Abad Tak: A Journey Between Two Eternities,”by Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai, exploring artistic expression across temporal dimensions.
Chemould CoLab in Fort presents Rachita Dutta‘s debut solo exhibition, Have We Forgotten How To Feel? marking an important moment in the artist’s career.
Chemould Prescott Road in Queens Mansion, Fort, features Mithu Sen’s “What Do Birds Dream at Dusk?” – a series of mixed-media works exploring blindness as a political condition after the artist’s eight-year absence from the gallery, dissolving boundaries between viewer and artwork and transforming spectators into active participants.
DAG 1 in Colaba presents “Face to Face: A Portrait of a City” spanning primarily the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with works capturing Bombay’s dynamic street life, colonial grandeur, and the quiet beauty of its hinterlands, offering a glimpse into the city’s evolution from seven islands to a thriving urban center.
Experimenter Colaba in Colaba features Prabhakar Pachpute, who works across drawing, painting, sculpture, stop-motion animation, and site-specific assemblage. He constructs immersive, theatrical environments using surrealist tropes to investigate mining landscapes and their human toll, asking urgent questions about what it means to be human amid unfolding crises of our time.
Fulcrum presents Ranjit Kandalgaonkar’s “cityinflux,” documenting Mumbai’s overlooked in-between spaces and the city’s often-invisible urban geography.
Galerie ISA is located in Colaba and presents Continuum: A Passage Through Light And Its Afterlife -by Vipeksha Gupta
Galerie Mirchandani+Steinruecke in Colaba showcases AN AXIS FOR A REVOLUTION by Vinod Balak
Gallery Prologue in Bandra West features VIJAY SINGH MOHITE: INEXORABLE PULSATIONS exploring dynamic visual language through abstract forms.
Jhaveri Contemporary is located in Fort and presents Double Consciousness by Lubna Chowdhary
Method Kala Ghoda in Kala Ghoda features Dheer Kaku’s exhibition Unstill Life where the artist engages with spatial and contemplative themes.
Milaaya Art Gallery participates in the weekend with Terra & the Divine – Waswo X. Waswo, Seema Kohli, and Jagannath Panda.
Muziris Contemporary presents Time and Place – featuring Nivedita Shinde, Mansoor Mansoori
Nature Morte presents “Fragments and Division”, an exhibition of nine new paintings by Kamrooz Aram, marking the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Priyasri Art Gallery at Kathiwada City House features Necropolis of Remains – Arun B, Aasha Keshwala, Hina Bhatt, Raka Panda, M D Mussthafa, Rashesh Chauhan, Simran Chowdhury, Subhasmita Ghadei, Suraj Kamble
Project 88 in Colaba present the works of muralist and painter Anpu Varkey, The Shape of a Pause. The Bangalore based artist will be displaying a large-scale mural and a selection of oil paintings on canvas.
Rukshaan Art presents Nature of Nostalgic Delights, featuring 17 artists: Ajay Dhapa, Amit Dey, Avinash Bishnurkar, Chalapaka Chakravarthy, Dhruv Patel, Gulab Kapadiya, Girjesh Kumar Singh, Jagadeesh Guttula, Kamal Pandya, Ketan Amin, Pradnya K, Prathap Modi, Sajal Sasanka Sarkar, Sanjay Barot, Saiyukta Chauhan, Shital Panchal, Vibhuti Kakdiya
Sakshi Gallery marks the gallery’s 40th anniversary with “The Fourth Wall,” presenting archival material and artists that have shaped the gallery’s four-decade arc, situating contemporary work within a longer institutional continuum.
Subcontinent features “A Painter with a Camera:Jyoti Bhatt, featuring his experimental photography spanning the 1960s-1980s, treating the photograph as a worked surface before digital manipulation became standard practice, offering historical perspective on photographic practice in India.
TARQ presents Brobdingnag Paradox – Pratap Morey.
Tao Art Gallery Presents The Collective Memory of Contemporary Change – Chippa Sudhakar
ARTISANS’ presents Becoming | Unbecoming – Santosh Kumar Das which reflects a lifelong inquiry into transformation, embodiment, and the mystical possibilities of the human imagination.
Art and Charlie presents A map folded open- featuring artists Urna Sinha, Sabeen Omar, Mahen Perera. The three artists featured in this exhibition embrace peculiar methodologies of tracing routes.
Gallery Maskara presents Biography by Prashant Pandey
For collectors, curators, students, and first-time visitors, Mumbai Gallery Weekend remains unparalleled as a concentrated immersion in the city’s artistic production. The event’s evolution over 14 years, from its founding moment with nine galleries to today’s 31-gallery coalition speaks to Mumbai’s transformation into a global contemporary art center. Yet as gallery director statements consistently reflect, MGW’s significance extends beyond economics or visibility: it functions as a site of sustained cultural thinking, dialogue, and artistic experimentation that extends well beyond the weekend itself.
Athmaja Biju is the Editor at Abir Pothi. She is a Translator and Writer working on Visual Culture.
