Organised in collaboration with Embassy of Ukraine

The masterclasses are open to both children and adults. All materials for the classes will be provided on both days 

Petrykivka Painting

A masterclass on traditional Ukrainian decorative painting style, originating from the village of Petrykvika in Ukraine, where it is used to decorate walls of homes and objects of daily use.  The earliest known examples of this style date from the 18th century, but it continues to thrive and develop as a modern art form. It has been included in UNESCO’s list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2013

The masterclass will be conducted by Elina Nischal and Olga Syrovatko, Ukrainian artists based in India 
 

An exhibition of photographs by photo-journalists of All India Working News Cameramen’s Association Members  Participating photographers: Abhishek Pandey; Abhisek Saha; Ajay Agarwal; Ajay Bedi; Anindya Chattopadhyay; Arun Sharma; Ashish Sharma; Atul Yadav; Bhavya Navya; Biplab Banerjee; Dheeraj Paul; Dhruv Kumar; Dilip Banerjee; G.N Jha; Ganesh Shetkar; Gurinder Osan; Harish Tyagi; Hrishikesh Bhatt; Joginder Chawla; K. Asif; Kamal Kishore; Kamal Narang; Manas Ranjan; Manish Swaroop; Mihir Singh; Mukesh Agarwal; Mukesh Yadav; Narendra Bisht; Naresh Sharma; Naveen Sharma; Neeraj Paul; Neeraj Priyadarshi; Nitin Rai; Pallava Bagla; Piyal Bhattacharya; Pooja Arya; Prabhas Roy; Pramod Pushkarna; Prashant Panjiar; Pritam Bandyopadhyay    ; Raj K. Raj; Rajat Gupta; Rajeev Tyagi; Rajesh Bedi; Ramana T.V.; Ranjan Basu; Renuka Puri; S.N. Sinha; Sanjay Ghosh; Sanjay Kumar; Sarvesh Saru; Sipra Das; Shome Basu; Sondeep Shankar; Sonu Mehta; Subhash Barolia; Subir Haldar; Subrata Dutta; Sujan Singh; T. Narayan; Tashi Tobgyal; V. Rajagopal; Vijay Bedi; and Vipin Kumar                                                    
Inauguration on Thursday, 21 April 2023 at 18:30

As part of this exhibition, there will be Workshop on  Monday 1 May 2023 at 18:30 in Seminar Rooms I to III

Explore Legal Rights of Photojournalists including the Copyright Act
 

A discussion with Shwetasree Majumdar, Founder, Fidus Law Chambers; and Dhiranjan Malvey, Media Law and senior journalist

While journalism is considered the first draft of history, photo-journalism is the visual documentation of history. Although the big assignments of participants are centred on news events, the photographs on view are moments in life, capturing fleeting moments

(Collaboration: All India Working News Cameramen’s Association)

An exhibition of ceramics presented by Delhi Blue Pottery Trust

Participating artists: Abhay Pandit, Adil Writer, Angad Vohra, Aniruddh Sagar, Anju Kalsi, Anurag Verma, B.R. Pandit, Dipalee Daroz, Ela Mukherjee, Indu Rao, Ira Choudhury, Keshari Nandan, Leena Batra, Lekha Bhagat, Madhur Sen, Mamta Singhania, Manish Arora, Mansimran Singh, Monica Agnihotri, Neeru Bhargav, Preeti Pandey, P.R. Daroz, Rachna Parasher, Rajesh Srivastava, Ray Meeker, Rekha Bajpe Aggarwal, Renu Gupta, Reyaz Badaruddin, Sabrina Srinivas, Sandeep Manchekar, Shehla Hashmi Grewal, Shubham Sankhyan, Shuchika Rathod, Soni Dave, Sonia Dhingra, Sonia Rashid, Srirupa Sen, Sunita Kumari, Suparna Arora, Tosha Parmar, Vineet Kacker and Vinod Daroz

Inauguration by Sardar Mansimran Singh on Thursday, 6 April 2023 at 17:00

(Collaboration: Delhi Blue Pottery Trust

To celebrate the centenary year of Amar Nath Sehgal, an exhibition of paintings and serigraphs a sculpture
From the Amar Nath Sehgal Private Collection

Curator: Uma Nair

Inauguration on Friday, 17 March 2023 at 18:30

(Collaboration: Amar Nath Sehgal Trust)
 

An exhibition of photographs by Christina Noble and Gaurav Raj Sharma

The Great Himalayas have resisted outside influences for long periods, nurturing unique and diverse cultural systems within its folds. Miyar is located in one such fold in the north west corner of the district of Lahaul and Spiti in Himachal Pradesh. The exhibition looks at the remote Miyar valley and how it has slowly changed over the last 50 years, filtering the outside world at its own pace. The exhibition is timed to capture the settling of Rohtang pass into memory as the new tunnel throws up unprecedented changes for Miyar and beyond

Preview on Friday, 3 March 2023 at 18:00

Ms Gauri Gill, eminent photographer will conduct a gallery walk-through on Saturday, 11 March 2023 at 4 pm

An exhibition that reveals the successive layers of interaction between peoples that shaped the multi-ethnic societies of Latin America and the Caribbean, through photographs, paintings, costumes, and artefacts loaned by Embassies, and curated under the themes, ‘Connections through History’, ‘Transnational Flows’ and ‘Creative Expressions’. Highlights include animated films in indigenous languages and curated music clips

Curated by Anjchita B. Nair

Inauguration by Shri N.N. Vohra, Life Trustee, IIC on Monday, 20 February 2023 at 16:00

Vignettes of the personal and magical world of Premola Ghose

Inauguration by Shri N.N. Vohra, Life Trustee, IIC on Saturday, 21 January 2023 at 18:30

About the exhibition

An exhibition to celebrate and remember Premola Ghose, ex-Chief, Programme Division IIC, who passed away in 2019. The works  exhibited today, most of them done from 1996 to 2018 reflect her personality as well as her passions: her quirky, often irreverent,  sense of humour, her playful  sense of mischief and eye for the absurd;  her deep interest in history and architecture; her zest for travel both in India and abroad; her love of nature and animals. And last but by no means least, her world at the India International Centre where she worked for forty-odd years, putting her heart and soul into all that she did here. A wonderful storyteller as well, Premola authored a series of travel tales all featuring her quirky ‘Gang’ of animals and their adventures not only in India but also in Europe, Sri Lanka and Japan. 

Understanding Earth Sciences

An interactive exhibition presented by the Ministry of Earth Science (MoES), Govt. of India focusing on Weather and Climate Services, Ocean Advisories and Services, Harnessing of Ocean Resources (Water, Energy and Minerals), Ocean Living Resources Mapping, Seismological Service and Scientific Exploration of the Polar Regions. The exhibits will also include models of Ocean research vessels Sagar Tara, Sagar Manusha, underwater mining machine and autonomous coring systems; photographs and posters on MoES programmes such as Deep Ocean Mission, desalination plants in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep and other activities of the Ministery

Inauguration on Friday, 6 January 2023 at 18:00

As part of this exhibition, there will be two interactive panel discussions on 12 and 13 January 2023 in Seminar Rooms I to III, Kamaladevi Complex

(Collaboration: Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India)
 

The late landscape artist, Bireswar Sen (1897-1974) centred his creation on portraying the splendour of the Himalayas, although he approached it on a miniature scale. Sen studied under Abanindranath Tagore in Calcutta during the 1920s, where he learned the wash technique. It wasn't until he met the Russian artist Nicholas Roerich in 1932, that he discovered art's enormous ability to connect man with nature. Roerich's Himalayan landscapes were an epiphany. For the rest of his career, Sen strived to achieve harmony while perfecting his highly personal technique.

On display are a selection of original paintings from the collection of Prithviswar Sen and Sarbani Ghosh

Inauguration on Friday, 16 December 2022 at 17:30

On Friday, 16 December 2022 at 18:30 in Seminar Rooms I to III

Small Works, Great Vision: The Art of Bireswar Sen

Illustrated lecture by Prof. B.N. Goswamy, writer, leading art historian and Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Panjab University, Chandigarh 

Cine-Pop!

Bollywood Photo Culture
 

Amassed from the streets of Bombay, this growing array of images from the collection of Rahaab Allana highlights movie stills and associated memorabilia that advertised and popularised actors and epic sequences from the original film. Dated largely between the 1950s and 80s, this selection of handmade photographs, including tabloid images, comprises an essential subculture of photography that had mass appeal, many of which were transformed into large film posters, banners and hoardings.

This exhibition, revived on the 195th birth commemoration of photography as a medium was showcased during the centenary of Indian cinema in 2013 with Art Heritage. It is divided into different tropes and styles manifested in a later period of Hindi cinema, an era which saw the rise of a global audience for Bollywood. Affection, Action, Drama, Caricature and Villainy present some of the recurring ‘moments’ that were captured through film photography. These stills, which also travelled as lobby cards and show cards that were pinned up in foyers of cinema theatres, present some of the most unacknowledged forms in the history of the medium. This exhibition features photographs from studios such as Studio Nataraj, Himalaya Talkie Distributors and Pravinchandra G. Javeri, most of which are in Bombay (present day Mumbai). They present prominent actors such as Madhubala, Ashok Kumar, Nargis, Dev Anand, Pran, Mumtaz, Mehboob, Johnny Walker, Om Prakash, Randhir Kapoor, Dharmendra, Helen and Rekha among several others.
The exhibition features photographs from studios such as Studio Nataraj, Himalaya Talkie Distributors and Pravinchandra G. Javeri, most of which are in Bombay (present day Mumbai).