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 17:30 by Shyam Saran, President, IIC and Ashok Vajpeyi, Managing and Life Trustee, Raza Foundation

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.

Remembering the forest: An exhibition of Himalayan Natural Art
 

Curated by Tejal Shah and coordinated by Ritu-Ngapnon Varuni
This exhibition presents artworks by women artists from Mountainwind Himalayan Ecoversity, created using forest-sourced pigments and handmade tools, highlighting natural art practices, ecological learning, and sustainable creativity.

The exhibition will be Inaugurated on 6th January 2026 at 18:30 hrs. 
 

(Collaboration: The Himalayan Rilung Foundation (THRILF)

Children for a Better World

An exhibition of paintings by the students of Vidya Niketan Senior Secondary School, Saket, New Delhi. Through themes such as peace, equality, women’s empowerment, environmental conservation, artificial intelligence, discrimination, and global conflicts, the exhibition reflects children’s empathy, awareness, and creative responses to the world around them.

Inauguration on 17 December at 16:00 by Jatin Das, Eminent Artist

The exhibition will be on view from 11:00 to 19:00 hrs daily

An Exhibition of Ceramic Sculptures and Drawings by Sonali Chouhan

The exhibition presents ceramic sculptures inspired by nature, folk culture, and everyday life in Madhya Pradesh. Blending clay, symbolic leaf motifs, and human forms, the artworks reflect the artist’s emotional connection to folk traditions, simple gestures, and the expressive possibilities of contemporary ceramic craft.

Chief Guests: Prof Biman B. Das, Padmashri Awardee, Former Principal, G.C.A.C, Kolkata, Eminent Sculptor, President AIFACS.

Guest of Honor: D.S. Hitkari, Art Connoisseur, Director, Shanta Art Gallery, Delhi

Dr. Sonali Pithawe (Chouhan) is a distinguished ceramic sculptor and painter with a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, known for her acclaimed solo and international exhibitions across India, Europe, and Russia. An award-winning artist, earning recognition for her expressive contemporary style.

Inauguration of the exhibition on 2 December at 18:30

The Exhibition will be on view from 11:00 to 19:00 hrs