India Art Fair 2025 brings new Artists for its Indian and Global audience.
Outdoor Art Projects feature large-scale installations in outdoor spaces across the fair, providing immersive and media diverse artworks that captivate and engage visitors. India Art Fair is known as the premier platform for exploring modern and contemporary art in South Asia. The contemporary art exhibition ranks as the largest event on India’s cultural calendar, featuring groundbreaking and multidisciplinary art exhibits from across the country who highlight some of the region’s most renowned contemporary artists, in addition to select international participants presenting works that have seldom or never been displayed in India.
As part of this modern Indian art movement, India Art Fair curates the space in New Delhi to provide a diverse and enriching experience for its audiences. The attractions include, Galleries, Institutions, Outdoor Art Projects along with diverse mediums of art. India Art Fair 2025 has grown bigger with 120 exhibitors, featuring 41 new artists, galleries, and institutions from Feb 6-9 in Delhi, showcasing diverse artworks. As the list has increased, the number of Debutants has grown too.
Here is a list of six debuts to look out for at the India Art fair Outdoor Arts Project section;
1. RMZ Foundation (Bengaluru)
Vibha Galhotra
Orbis Unum – II
Supported by Public Art Initiative of RMZ Foundation (Bengaluru)
Attempting to deconstruct and dissolve mental and physical boundaries of religion, power and hierarchy amongst nations and humans, Vibha reinterprets the Latin phrase Orbis Unum (meaning One World), bleeding multi-coloured flags to white to emphasise oneness and peace. Each flag is then inscribed with words inspired from Buddhist teachings, each becoming the symbols of the new world.
2. Laxcon Steels Limited (Ahmedabad)
Asim Waqif
MAKE-SHIFT
Produced by Laxcon Steels Limited (Ahmedabad)
Using a second-hand cement truck from a chassis fabricator and metal scrap collected over the past 7 months from Laxcon’s facility in Ahmedabad, Asim uses improvisation to harness the rawness of metal and the energy of chance to create this monumental mobile artwork. The meaning behind this is left to the viewer with these words — What is this monster before you? Explore, but be careful. There are many sharp and rusted edges.
3. Strangers House Gallery (Mumbai)
Bhushan Bombale
Fragments of an Astronomer’s Mind
Supported by Strangers House Gallery (Mumbai)
Bhushan’s sculpture series is a venture in experimentation through his observations of quotidian shapes and materials, at times unawarely referencing architectural movements. Inspired by Sawai Jai Singh II’s Jantar Mantar, Bhushan ponders on the beauty of human imagination — curves, triangles and circular projections arranged in assorted combinations, looking towards and reflecting the cosmos and time. For him, it is a balance of an equilibrium that could be calculated through the art of a better world, also marking our desires for the future to not forget the possibilities of a better world.
4. The Living Waters Museum (Pune)
Mohd. Intiyaz
Dar-Badar 2.0
Supported by METHOD (Mumbai / New Delhi) and the Living Waters Museum (Pune)
Drawing from personal experiences, Intiyaz recreates his childhood memories in this installation made of waste metal pipes. Entangled in a maze of water pots, the artist and his siblings spent many a day trekking between taps, burdened by the uncertainty of when their water shortages would end. Limiting these experiences, the pipes signify resourcefulness, and the fibre-cast figures burdened by the responsibility of the heavy pots embody resilience. Viewers are invited to navigate this depiction of childhood struggles and reflect on inequitable water distribution, lagging infrastructure, environmental justice, and their role in shaping a fairer future.
5. Art and Charlie (Mumbai)
Yogesh Barve
I Am Not Your Dalit
Supported by Art and Charlie (Mumbai)
Inspired by James Baldwin’s works, Yogesh’s installation uses Ambedkar’s writings to confront ongoing social issues, urging viewers to engage with the urgency of change. Reimagining everyday objects like LED tickers from railway stations, the work critiques how important social and historical texts, such as Ambedkar’s, have faded from public consciousness. It further offers a platform for reflection on the intersection of anti-caste activism, technology, and future societal dynamics, thereby highlighting issues of access to education, technology and marginalised histories.
6. Jodhpur Arts Week
Deborah Fischer
THE WHISPERERS 2024
Presented by Jodhpur Arts Week and the Institut français en Inde
Working closely with master charpai weaver Dinesh Solanki, Fischer’s The Whisperers 2024 transform Jodhpur’s decaying walls into vibrant charpais, honouring the preservation of craft and heritage. Celebrating the transmission of knowledge and skills across generations, these collaborative works sustain the local cultural identity while fostering community connections.
Reinforcing its status as a central hub for the global art community in South Asia, the fair features esteemed contemporary artists and galleries as part of its exhibition in 2025.
Feature Image Courtesy – India Art Fair
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