“Ethereal Visions” Nehru Centre Art Gallery

26th May to 1st June 2026

“Ethereal Visions”                                                                         

Nehru Centre Art Gallery

AC Gallery

Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai 400018

Timing: 11am to 7pm

+91 9324647023

 

Jain Kamal's Retrospective Show in Jehangir Art Gallery I 26th May to 1st June 2026

 Renowned artist Jain Kamal's Retrospective show in Jehangir Art Gallery 

A Spiritual Journey of an artist 

Senior artist Jain Kamal’s retrospective at Jehangir Art Gallery, bringing together 101 works, positions itself within an onerous yet compelling proposition: the translation of the ‘Namokar Mantra’ from an ethical utterance into a visual system. In Jain philosophy, this mantra is not supplicatory but hierarchical and ontological. It acknowledges perfected states of being rather than invoking intervention. Its recitation is an act of alignment, a recalibration of the self toward equanimity, restraint, and self-knowledge. The exhibition’s premise rests on extending this inward calibration into the domain of the visible.

Artist: Jain Kamal

Jain Kamal’s practice consistently mobilises script as structure rather than inscription. Letters accumulate into vortices, grids, and concentric dispersals, where language begins to behave as matter: compressing, radiating, dissolving. Elsewhere, manuscript-like grounds and typographic densities evoke the labour of chant-like repetition central to Jain meditative practices, where meaning is not delivered instantly but sedimented through sustained attention.

The reference to Jain cosmology, particularly the notion of cyclical existence and gradations of consciousness, is deployed not as illustrative narrative but as structural principle. The works often stage a movement from dispersion to centre, from multiplicity toward a tentative stillness. This compositional logic mirrors the ethical trajectory embedded in Jain thought: the gradual attenuation of karmic accretions through discipline and awareness.

Crucially, the exhibition’s invocation of global peace emerges as a derivative condition. Within Jain epistemology, peace is neither negotiated nor imposed; it is the by-product of an interior equilibrium achieved through self-regulation. Jain Kamal’s visual strategy: repetition, containment, and centripetal focus, attempts to materialise this proposition: that the ordering of perception precedes the ordering of the world.

The retrospective also folds into itself several parallel strands from the artist’s long professional trajectory. A section titled ‘Namokar Mantra for World Peace’ extends the exhibition’s meditative axis into a broader public-facing rhetoric of ethical coexistence. Another body of work, ‘Ek Fakir Se Doosra Fakir’, presents glimpses from a series of approximately 250 paintings centred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, positioning political portraiture and public image-making within the artist’s wider engagement with symbolic identity and circulation. Alongside these works, archival material from nearly fifty-five years of design practice for around sixty national newspapers and periodicals is also displayed, foregrounding Jain Kamal’s sustained involvement with print culture, graphic layout, and visual communication across editorial platforms. An Original design portfolio featuring 55 years of work for 60 national newspapers and periodicals will also be on display.

This retrospective, therefore, is best understood not as a devotional display, but as an extended inquiry into whether a rigorously inward philosophy can sustain a contemporary visual language without losing its ethical density and, moreover, how it might extrapolate into a globally aligned peace-making process.

Sushma Sabnis

Art Curator & Writer

From: 26th May to 1st June 2026

Retrospective show by veteran artist Jain Kamal

Jehangir Art Gallery, Auditorium Hall

M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pmContact: +91 7039448108

“Ethereal Visions” Paintings & Sculptures Exhibition by 14 contemporary renowned artists at Nehru Centre Art Gallery Group Art Exhibition of Paintings & Sculptures

 

Ethereal Visions - A National Art Exhibition

By Contemporary renowned artists - Ram Partap Verma, Debabrata De, Dr. Panchanan Samal, Nilkanth Mondal, Debashis Maity, Chandan Samal, Narottam Das, Sonu Gupta, Purneema Dixit, Itee Jain, Sofaiya Yasmeen, Narendra Kumawat, Himanshu Mohanta, Vishwa Sahni.

Ethereal Visions” ultimately stands as a profound celebration of the boundless spirit of creativity—an artistic confluence where imagination transcends limitation and expression finds its purest form. Within this space, every artist offers not just their work, but a fragment of their inner world, their emotions, their journeys, and their silent contemplations. Each creation becomes a visual language, speaking beyond words, inviting interpretation, and evoking a deeply personal response.

The exhibition unfolds as a dialogue between the visible and the intangible—where colors, textures, and forms merge to create experiences that are both intimate and universal. It is a realm where the ordinary gently dissolves, making way for the extraordinary to emerge in quiet, unexpected ways. Every artwork becomes a mirror, reflecting not only the artist’s vision but also the viewer’s own thoughts, memories, and emotions.

More than just an exhibition, Ethereal Visions is an immersive experience—an invitation to pause, to observe, and to feel. It encourages a moment of stillness in the midst of life’s constant motion, allowing one to reconnect with the subtle depths of perception and imagination. Here, art is not merely seen; it is encountered, absorbed, and lived.

We warmly invite you to become a part of this journey—where in the presence of art, you may discover not only the voices of diverse artists but also a deeper resonance within yourself. Perhaps, in this shared space of creativity, you will find reflections of your own spirit, quietly waiting to be recognized.

This show will be inaugurated on 26th May 2026 at 5pm by Honourable Chief Guest Mrs. Nina Puri (Renowned Architect)

Vishwa Sahni

Artist and Curator of Ethereal Visions

26th May to 1st June 2026

“Ethereal Visions”                                                                         

Nehru Centre Art Gallery

AC Gallery

Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai 400018

Timing: 11am to 7pm

+91 9324647023

“Ethereal Visions” Paintings & Sculptures Exhibition by 14 contemporary renowned artists at Nehru Centre Art Gallery

Group Art Exhibition of Paintings & Sculptures

By Contemporary renowned artists - Ram Partap Verma, Debabrata De, Dr. Panchanan Samal, Nilkanth Mondal, Debashis Maity, Chandan Samal, Narottam Das, Sonu Gupta, Purneema Dixit, Itee Jain, Sofaiya Yasmeen, Narendra Kumawat, Himanshu Mohanta, Vishwa Sahni.

Ethereal Visions - A National Art Exhibition

Ethereal Visions” ultimately stands as a profound celebration of the boundless spirit of creativity—an artistic confluence where imagination transcends limitation and expression finds its purest form. Within this space, every artist offers not just their work, but a fragment of their inner world, their emotions, their journeys, and their silent contemplations. Each creation becomes a visual language, speaking beyond words, inviting interpretation, and evoking a deeply personal response.

The exhibition unfolds as a dialogue between the visible and the intangible—where colors, textures, and forms merge to create experiences that are both intimate and universal. It is a realm where the ordinary gently dissolves, making way for the extraordinary to emerge in quiet, unexpected ways. Every artwork becomes a mirror, reflecting not only the artist’s vision but also the viewer’s own thoughts, memories, and emotions.

More than just an exhibition, Ethereal Visions is an immersive experience—an invitation to pause, to observe, and to feel. It encourages a moment of stillness in the midst of life’s constant motion, allowing one to reconnect with the subtle depths of perception and imagination. Here, art is not merely seen; it is encountered, absorbed, and lived.

We warmly invite you to become a part of this journey—where in the presence of art, you may discover not only the voices of diverse artists but also a deeper resonance within yourself. Perhaps, in this shared space of creativity, you will find reflections of your own spirit, quietly waiting to be recognized.

This show will be inaugurated on 26th May 2026 at 5pm by Honourable Chief Guest Mrs. Nina Puri (Renowned Architect)

Vishwa Sahni

Artist and Curator of Ethereal Visions

“A Floral Reverie” Solo Show of Paintings by eminent artist Neena Bidikar at Jehangir Art Gallery

Neena Bidikar’s solo exhibition, ‘A Floral Reverie,’ unfolds as an intimate encounter with the emotional and sensory life of flowers. 

Artist: Neena Bidikar’

 

Moving beyond the conventions of decorative floral painting, Neena transforms petals, folds, textures, and colour into immersive fields of feeling, where softness and intensity coexist in delicate balance. Her large-scale canvases magnify fleeting botanical events into spaces of contemplation, drawing viewers into a world where nature appears both fragile and powerfully alive.

 

Working in a contemporary realist idiom, Neena approaches the flower not as a static object of beauty, but as a living form in transition - blooming, unfurling, fading, and renewing itself in cycles that quietly mirror human emotion. Rich blues, luminous whites, velvety rouges, and layered violets move across the canvas with an almost tactile presence. Light slips across petals like memory itself, revealing subtle tensions between stillness and movement, intimacy and grandeur.

 

Her long engagement with textile design and visual aesthetics is evident in the fluid orchestration of colour, rhythm, and surface. Yet the works resist excess. Instead, they cultivate attentiveness. Each painting invites the viewer to slow down and inhabit a moment that contemporary life often rushes past, the silent unfolding of beauty in its most transient state.

 

There is a meditative quality to Neena’s practice. The flowers seem less arranged than encountered, as though emerging from a deeply personal dialogue with nature, time, and perception. Through these works, the artist creates not simply images of blooms, but emotional environments where quiet observation becomes transformative.

 

‘A Floral Reverie’ offers a rare visual pause, a space where colour breathes, form softens, and the ephemeral presence of nature is allowed to linger just a little longer.

From: 25^th to 31^st May 2026

“A Floral Reverie”        

Solo Show of Paintings by eminent artist

Neena Bidikar

 

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Hirji Gallery

M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9930929996

‘HABITAT – Echoes of Land and Life’ A Group Exhibition of Paintings by 4 renowned artists in Jehangir Art Gallery

‘HABITAT – Echoes of Land and Life’: A Convergent Exploration of Nature and Humanity

From 26 May to 01 June 2026, the historic Jehangir Art Gallery will host "HABITAT – Echoes of Land and Life," a significant group exhibition featuring four acclaimed artists: N. S. Manohar, S Jayaraj, Maruthi Paila, and R Dhiyaneshwaran. 

The exhibition serves as a profound visual dialogue between the elemental forces of earth and sea and the human lives shaped within their embrace. Through a diverse body of work, the artists navigate the terrains of landscape, memory, and abstraction, reflecting on the lived experiences of rural and coastal communities.

In this collection, the land and sea is portrayed as a rhythmic, transformative presence, while the land serves as a repository for stories of tradition and labour. The artists employ colour as a primary emotional language – moving between quiet, contemplative palettes and vibrant, immersive hues – to capture the "echoes" of places remembered and lives witnessed.

S Jayaraj and Maruthi Paila push the boundaries of form, utilizing textured abstractions to bridge the gap between observed reality and imagined space. N. S. Manohar and R Dhiyaneshwaran present evocative figurative narratives and intimate portrayals of everyday life, grounding the exhibition in the resilience of human tradition.

Collectively, these works resonate with a shared concern for environmental continuity and the fragile balance between human existence and the natural world. "HABITAT" does not seek to present a singular narrative; instead, it offers a constellation of impressions, inviting viewers to pause and reflect on their own connections to place.

 From 26 May to 01 June 2026,

‘HABITAT – Echoes of Land and Life’

a significant group exhibition featuring four acclaimed artists: N. S. Manohar, S Jayaraj, Maruthi Paila, and R Dhiyaneshwaran.

 

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M. G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9840265685

“Sumitaatman” Soulful Strokes Solo Show of Paintings by Eminent Artist Sumitra Ahlawat

 In an age increasingly drawn toward irony, spectacle, and fragmentation, Sumitra Ahlawat’s paintings return to the enduring language of beauty, devotion, ornamentation, and emotional sincerity. Her works celebrate the richness of Indian cultural memory through luminous portrayals of divine figures, women adorned in traditional attire, musicians, dancers, and moments of quiet spiritual reflection.

 

Artist: Sumitra Ahlawat

Shaped through her art education in Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, Sumitra’s visual language carries subtle echoes of regional aesthetics, traditional attire, devotional atmospheres, and the warmth of lived Indian cultural experience. She completed a five year Diploma in Fine Arts, building a rigorous academic foundation that later expanded into diverse professional engagements across painting, illustration, broadcasting, and graphic design. 

 

Working across oil, acrylic, charcoal, watercolour, and mixed media, Sumitra creates compositions deeply rooted in feminine figurative traditions while retaining a contemporary softness and immediacy. Her paintings are marked by flowing drapery, elaborate jewellery, expressive gestures, and richly textured surfaces that evoke the visual atmosphere of women at temple rituals, folk celebrations, varied painting traditions, and classical Indian aesthetics.

 

Alongside her independent artistic practice, Sumitra has also worked professionally across several important institutional spaces. She created oil paintings for the Rajputana Rifles Regiment Centre, Delhi, worked as a graphic artist with Doordarshan, Delhi TV, and UDK, contributed book illustrations for NCERT, and worked on illustration projects for Nandan magazine of HT. These experiences expanded her engagement with both fine art and public visual culture, allowing her practice to move fluidly between institutional, literary, devotional, and popular visual language. 

 

Her devotional works depicting Krishna, Rama, Vitthala, Ganesha, and Radha are imbued with warmth rather than grandeur. These are not distant mythological icons, but intimate presences inhabiting the emotional world of everyday faith. Alongside these sacred images, her portraits of Indian women carry a similar dignity and grace, transforming adornment into a visual language of identity, memory, femininity, and cultural continuity.

Sumitra’s use of colour moves between earthy browns, deep vermilions, luminous golds, and muted monochromes, creating a balance between vibrancy and stillness. Her figures often emerge softly from the surface, as though suspended between dream, remembrance, and lived reality. There is a tenderness in the way the body is painted, not merely as form, but as a carrier of ritual, devotion, beauty, and inherited cultural memory.

 

Rather than pursuing conceptual excess or detached irony, Sumitra’s practice remains committed to emotional clarity and visual harmony. At a time when contemporary art often distances itself from decorative sensitivity, her paintings quietly reclaim these languages without apology. The decorative in her work becomes a vessel of continuity, intimacy, and cultural remembrance.

 Her paintings invite viewers into a contemplative world where devotion, femininity, grace, and figuration coexist not as nostalgia, but as living emotional inheritances that continue to shape the Indian imagination.

Sushma Sabnis

Art Curator & Writer

“Sumitaatman”

Soulful Strokes

Solo Show of Paintings

by Eminent Artist Sumitra Ahlawat

Date: 25 to 31 May 2026

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Gallery No. 4

M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm.

Contact: +91 98682 60250

 

“Celebration of Life” Solo Show of Paintings by eminent artist Sadhna Sangar at Jehangir Art Gallery

Sadhna Sangar’s solo exhibition, ‘Celebration of Life,’ emerges from a deeply sustained relationship with nature, inner reflection, and emotional resilience. At a time when contemporary life is increasingly fractured by speed, anxiety, and visual excess, Sangar’s paintings offer something quietly radical: spaces of stillness, luminosity, and renewal. Her works do not attempt to dominate the viewer through drama; instead, they unfold gradually, like a remembered melody or the slow arrival of dawn after a long night.

Artist: Sadhna Sangar

Working through layered surfaces of colour, fluid gestures, and atmospheric abstraction, Sangar transforms natural forms into states of feeling. Mountains dissolve into light, rivers appear to breathe, trees become silent witnesses, and skies open into meditative expanses. Her canvases are not descriptions of physical landscapes alone; they are emotional terrains shaped by memory, devotion, solitude, and wonder. The recurring presence of flowing blues, radiant whites, burning oranges, and pulsating pinks creates a visual language that oscillates between serenity and intensity.

There is a spiritual undercurrent within Sangar’s practice, but it is never rigid or illustrative. Instead, spirituality appears here as sensitivity, a way of listening to the world rather than controlling it. Her paintings seem to emerge from moments of contemplation where nature is experienced not as backdrop, but as a living and conscious presence. Water becomes movement and cleansing; light becomes awakening; colour becomes vibration. 

What makes Sangar’s work particularly significant is its sincerity. In an art climate often shaped by irony, market-drive, or intellectual distancing, she remains committed to emotional openness and sensory immediacy. This commitment gives the exhibition its strength. The paintings do not ask the viewer to decode complicated systems of meaning; they ask instead for attentiveness, slowness, and emotional participation. They invite the viewer to pause long enough to encounter silence, fragility, and joy again.

Over the years, Sadhna Sangar has contributed extensively to the cultural landscape through her roles as artist, educator, mentor, and organiser. Yet ‘Celebration of Life’ truly transcends biography. It stands as a testament to an artist who continues to believe in the transformative possibilities of colour, rhythm, and human sensitivity. These paintings remind us that beauty is not escapism. In difficult times, beauty can become a form of endurance, community, and healing.

This show will be inaugurated on 19th May 2026 at 5.30pm by Honourable Chief Guest Ms. Nidhi Choudhari, IAS Director, National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Guest of Honour Mr. Rajendra Patil, Director – India Art Festival, President The Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, Special Guests Mrs. Harvinder Kaur Waraich – Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mumbai (Retd.), Dr. Shailesh Shrivastava – Former Officer (I.B.(P) S), Doordarshan , Mumbai Singer, Central Sangeet Natak Academy, Awardee.

 From: 19th to 25th May 2026

“Celebration of Life”

Solo Show of Paintings by eminent artist Sadhna Sangar

Jehangir Art Gallery,161-B, M.G. RoadKala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm, Contact: +91 9815969862

"UTSRIJI" A Group Exhibition of Paintings by 10 contemporary renowned artists at Jehangir Art Gallery.

 Utsriji: An Ancient Way of Communication brings together ten artists from across eastern India in a compelling group exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery, presenting a vibrant confluence of contemporary expressions rooted in lived experience and cultural memory.

Organised under the aegis of Utsriji Satsang - a collective established in 1991, this exhibition features works by artists Paban Roy, Tapan Karmakar, Fulla Chandra Mistri, Shiladitya Basak, Malay Dutta, Indrajit Ghosh, Riti Sundar Roy, Ranajit Jana, Subhrajit Dutta, and Mrinal Saha. Each artist contributes a distinct visual language, yet together they form a cohesive narrative that reflects both individuality and shared sensibilities.

The exhibition unfolds as an eclectic rainbow spectrum, ranging from finely detailed figurative compositions and symbolic portraiture to textured abstractions and layered mixed-media works. Themes of devotion, memory, rural life, mythology, and contemporary aspiration surface repeatedly, often interwoven with a strong narrative impulse. Whether it is the quiet dignity of human figures, the symbolic presence of animals and nature, or the interplay of colour and surface, the works resonate with an immediacy that is both accessible and evocative.

What emerges is not merely a display of artworks, but a dialogue, between regions, generations, and modes of seeing. The exhibition underscores art as a timeless communicative force, one that transcends language while remaining deeply anchored in context.

Utsriji invites viewers to engage with this diverse showcase and experience the many ways in which art continues to connect, reflect, and endure.

Sushma Sabnis

Art Curator & Writer

Mumbai

From: 5th to 11th May 2026

UTSRIJI

An Ancient way of communication

A Group show of Paintings by Tapan Karmakar, Fulla Chandra Mistri, Indrajit Ghosh, Malay Datta, Mrinal Saha, Shiladitya Basak, Paban Roy, Subhrajit Dutta, Ranajit Jana, Riti Sundar Roy

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

AC Gallery No. II

161- B, M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 94313 97347, +91 98368 07282

“WHISPERS IN THE WILD” An Exhibition of Paintings by Vyoma Parikh at Jehangir Art Gallery

Vyoma Parikh’s paintings unfold as immersive, sensorial environments where landscape is not described but felt. Working with a refined interplay of oil and acrylic, she constructs surfaces that shimmer with layered detail, delicate constellations of colour, cascading vertical rhythms, and tonal shifts that evoke forests, water, and flowering terrains without ever settling into fixed geography. Her canvases hold a quiet dynamism, where density and translucency coexist, allowing light, texture, and form to move fluidly across the surface.

Artist: Vyoma Parikh

What distinguishes her work is this ability to balance intricacy with atmosphere. The repeated vertical elements suggestive of trees, rain, or veils, create a hypnotic structure, while the richly worked grounds, composed of countless minute marks, build a sense of depth that draws the viewer inward. Within these expansive fields, subtle figurative presences, animals, fleeting forms emerge gently, offering moments of pause and scale without interrupting the overall harmony.

There is an unmistakable lyricism to her palette. Whether in the warmth of gold-infused compositions or the softness of pastel-hued expanses, colour in Vyoma’s work is not merely descriptive but experiential, carrying emotional resonance and quiet intensity. The paintings invite deep looking, rewarding attention with shifting perceptions and layered discoveries.

Rooted in a strong foundation of training and informed by her wide-ranging cultural exposure, Vyoma has developed a visual language that is both accessible and contemplative. Her works extend an invitation into a world where reality softens, and perception becomes a more intuitive, reflective act; one that lingers well beyond the first encounter.

 From: 4^th to 10^th May 2026

“WHISPERS IN THE WILD”

An Exhibition of Stillness, reflection and quiet beauty

By

Contemporary artist Vyoma Parikh

 

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda,

Mumbai 400001                                        

Contact: +91 98202 97461

Timing: 11am to 7pm.