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Unsettling Narratives: Sohrab Hura’s Fluid Worlds at Venice Biennale

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Sohrab Hura

Indian multidisciplinary artist Sohrab Hura’s presence at the 2026 Venice Biennale marks a pivotal moment for modern Indian art. Known for defying singular focus, Hura mixes photography, film, text, sound, and drawing, making his technique always evolving. His participation underscores both his international standing and the rising importance of multidisciplinary, process-focused art today. The Artist […]

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

Artist Profile, Interview /
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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Rakesh Patel to Exhibit at French Sculpture Park by J M Decorp

International Art News /
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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Manu Singh’s Exhibition in Delhi Examines What Survives Revision

Exhibitions /
Manu Singh

At Bikaner House’s Main Gallery, Manu Singh’s exhibition बाकी / After Erasure brought together works shaped by repetition, removal and return, opening a contemplative space around what survives revision. Running from 16 to 21 April 2026, the exhibition drew from Singh’s long engagement with painting as a material process rather than a fixed image. Singh describes her

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Murari Jhas Theatre of Objects Between Abstraction and Association

Exhibitions /
Murari Jha

Murari Jha’s solo exhibition at Nature Morte Gallery, which ran from April 18 to May 17, brings together a body of work that reflects his ongoing engagement with memory, the body, and the idea of objects. According to the gallery, the exhibited works, made in a variety of materials (stone, bronze, wood, brass, synthetic putty,

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Tasneem Lohani Explores Digital Memory In Mumbai Exhibition

Exhibitions /

Tasneem Lohani exhibition in Mumbai: It’s taking longer to download than it was to puke up, looks at how growing up online shapes memory, friendship, and behaviour. Presented as an immersive installation, the show rebuilds the artist’s childhood computer room and reflects on early social media experiences. Through familiar objects and digital references, Lohani invites

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Mechaniya Reimagines Textile Futures in Six Continuum’s Debut Show

Exhibitions /

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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Exhibition “Houses I Almost Lived In” Explores Memory In Delhi

Exhibitions /

Houses I Almost Lived In exhibition in New Delhi brings together five artists to examine memory, architecture, and lived experience through diverse materials and forms. Presented at Latitude 28, the exhibition reflects on spaces once inhabited, nearly entered, or only imagined, and how they continue to shape our inner worlds. It shifts focus from physical

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Raja Boro’s Echoes of the Earth: Printed Landscapes of Memory and Belonging

Exhibitions /
Raja Boro

The solo exhibition of young artist Raja Boro, Echoes of the Earth: A Woodcut Diary, who came from a village in Assam to Shantiniketan in Bengal and later to Baroda University, is notable both for reflecting the paths he travelled and for echoing the places he visited. Fundamentally, the exhibition is both a material meditation

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Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser: Holding Contradictions at Venice 2026

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As India prepares its presentation for the Venice Biennale 2026, the selection of artist duo Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser deserves special attention for many reasons. Especially as they have worked together and individually, and as those who explore two kinds of ecological sensibilities—working collaboratively as Hylozoic/Desires—this signals a compelling shift toward interdisciplinary,

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