Gaja-lok: Elephant lands and their cultural symbolism in Asia 
 

Conceptualised and Curated by Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Division of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage 
For millennia, humans and elephants have co-inhabited shared landscapes-forests, cultural routes, and riverine systems- shaping deeply intertwined ecological and cultural worlds. The exhibition builds upon this relationship to examine the elephant as both a living ecological presence and a powerful cultural signifier. Drawing on a combination of visual culture, textual and field-based research, as well as oral histories, Gaja-Lok traces the ways in which elephants have been embedded within diverse cultural and environmental contexts across regions and historical periods.
 

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Thursday, 28 May 2026 at 11:00 hrs
 

(Collaboration: Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH)
 

The Luminous 
A Solo Exhibition by Dr. Touhidul Islam  
 

The exhibition presents a contemplative body of work by Dr.Touhidul Islam, where light emerges gradually through layered textures, atmospheric colours, and intuitive gestures. Moving between darkness and illumination, his abstract paintings evoke memory, transformation, and quiet resilience. 
 

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Friday, 15 May at 18:00 hrs by Prof. Biman Bihari Das, Padmashree, Former Principal Govt. College of Arts & Craft, President of All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society
 

Bindu: Dots Series by Rashid Ahamad

Curated & Supported by terrain.art

This exhibition presents a contemplative body of works by Rashid Ahamad, centred on the profound idea of the universe contained within a single point. Using the motif of the Dot as a focal centre, his paintings explore existence, spirituality, and the interconnectedness of life. Through layered textures, flowing lines, and intuitive compositions, the works evoke life’s continuous journeys—where every ending becomes a new beginning—inviting viewers to reflect on their place within a larger cosmic whole.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Saturday, 2 May’26 at 17:00 hrs by Chief Guest Sushma K. Bahl, Writer, Art Advisor & Curator

Himalayan encounters - Hidden Views from 170 year ago
The Schlagintweit drawings in India
 

For the first time the Schlagintweit drawings based on mid-19th century recordings are shown in India. The presentation of the paintings covers views of the Himalayan belt from Assam to Kashmir, from Ladakh to Bhutan and the Khasi Hills. Most of the drawings are based on rough sketches made during the expedition by Adolph, Hermann and Robert Schlagintweit, German geographers and geologists in the employ of the East India Company. Their scientific recordings are perceived as pieces of art that were elaborated on back home and are depicting a world lost and reminding us of the picture of pristine worlds in imagination and reality.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Tuesday, 21 April 2026 at 17:00 by K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC and Ashok Bhowmick Painter, sculptor and writer
 

A talk as part of the exhibition by Prof. Dr. Hermann Kreutzmann, Geographische Wissenchaften Freue University Berlin, Germanyat in the Annexe Lecture Room II on Wednesday, 22nd April at 17:30

(Collaboration: People's Association for Himalaya Area Research (PAHAR), Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin)
 

Artistic Vision: An Art Exhibition of Paintings, Graphics and Sculptures
By Dinesh Kumar Ram, Pavan Kumar D, Pratibha Awasthi, Sham Sunder, Shuchi Kalra Budhiraja, Sujata Agrawal, Dr Sushma Yadav and Suresh Kumar

The group exhibition brings together eight contemporary artists working across painting, graphics, wash, and sculpture, each interpreting diverse aspects of life, nature, spirituality, and human experience. Through varied mediums and styles, the exhibition explores emotion, abstraction, and reality, inviting viewers into a contemplative journey of colour, form, texture, and inner reflection.
 

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Friday, 10 April 2026 at 17:30 by K. N. Shrivastava, Director IIC with Guest of Honour Padma Shri Awardee Nalini – Kamalini Asthana, Indian classical Kathak dancers

 

Whispers of The Sky
 

By Abhishek Kumar is a wildlife photographer focusing on birds and their relationship with natural habitats, grounded in patience, close observation, and an ethical, field-based practice.

The exhibition presents photographs made in quiet moments — early mornings, long pauses, and stretches of waiting where nothing seemed to happen. Standing still, watching a bird settle into a branch, listening to the wind, and noticing how light slowly changed the sky, these images are drawn to moments of rest and watchfulness. The act of waiting becomes a way of seeing and learning patience, sharing a sense of calm, attention, and connection where the boundary between earth and sky briefly dissolves.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Monday, 30 March 2026 at 17:00 hrs

The World Is What We See  
A Solo Exhibition of Watercolours by Dr Sunil Parulkar
Curated by Ajay Jugraan and Shuchi Mathur

The exhibition unfolds across three interrelated modes of seeing—Attention, Encounter, and Pause—bringing together architectural studies, portraiture, and nature paintings. Drawing from ideas articulated in the Chitrasutra, it celebrates the rasas s??gara, hasya, and santa. Resonating with Wallace Stevens’s idea that the world is shaped by perception, the exhibition invites reflection, presence, renewal, and quiet joy through attentive seeing.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Saturday, 21 March 2026 at 18:30 hrs by Dr Sachchidanand Joshi, Member Secretary, the Executive and Academic Head of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) 
 

Khurja – The Clay Space
Curated by Siraj Saxena, freelance artist actively engaged in promoting contemporary ceramic art in Khurja.

The exhibition brings together eight artists who have made Khurja their creative workplace. Internationally known for its ceramic traditions, Khurja inspires this first-ever collective exhibition of contemporary ceramic installations and sculptures from the city.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Tuesday, 10 March at 18:00 hrs by Prof. Kristine Michael, ceramic artist and curator; and Prof. Ashok Chakradhar, senior poet

Art and environment; talk by Vimlendu Jha, environmentalist and social activist and Siraj Saxena, artist and author on at 17:00 hrs on 13 March 2026.

Exhibition walkthrough with artists at 15:00 hrs on 15 March 2026

Poetry reading by Mamta Kalia, fiction writer and poet; Poonam Arora; Amita Mishra on 17 March 2026 at 17:00 hrs.  
 

ZIKR
Zikr is a contemplative exhibition that turns its gaze toward the quiet, often unseen dimensions of human presence. Through intimate portraiture rendered in pencil and charcoal, the exhibition reflects on stillness, vulnerability, resilience, and the unspoken emotional lives that shape everyday existence. 
Shikha Sheoran works primarily with pencil and charcoal, using portraiture as a means to document inner reflections and human presence with restraint and honesty. Her ongoing series, Zikr, functions as a visual record of these contemplations, seeking to give form to emotions and human stories that resist verbal expression.
 

Inauguration on 10th February 2026 at 17:00 hrs
 

Stories on Scroll: Patachitra by Sahajan Chitrakar
 

This exhibition presents traditional Patachitra scroll paintings by Sahajan Chitrakar of Naya, Pingla, created using natural pigments and handmade materials. His works narrate epics, folk legends, and contemporary social themes rooted in Bengal’s living scroll tradition.

Sahajan Chitrakar is a traditional Patachitra artist and scroll narrator from Naya, Pingla, West Bengal, practising the art from the age of ten under familial lineage. His works employ natural pigments and depict mythological, folk, historical, and contemporary themes.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on 16th January’26 at 18:00 hrs.