Precarious
2024-11-22 11:00 - 2024-11-30 19:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Bikaner House, Pandara Road, India Gate, New Delhi, India
Curated by Rahul Kumar

Does the feeling of uncertainty always create an uneasy sensation? The fear of the unknown, the non-predictability of an outcome, or something that is not held secure enough – what do these situations mean to us? By nature, we crave certitude and assurance. Trains running on time, the monsoon arriving when expected, and the maps giving an accurate assessment of traffic congestion, our lives revolve around all things calculable with great degree of certainty. Ironically, most, if not all, of life and its events remain somewhat unpredictable. Even the best of trend analysis fails and the most securely constructed structures fall. How do we then deal with and respond to these notions of delicate, unstable, and often perilous situations? Do we become unreasonably obsessed and paranoid, or merely conscious and possibly careful? Does the idea of the unknown and the element of surprise add to our experience, encouraging us to give our best?
Precarious brings together nine early-career visual artists who explore various themes of contemporary times, interpreting what it means to live on the edge. Sanal PT and Ashok Baski examine the agrarian culture, layered with underlying politics of food production and consumption. Rapid urbanization and influx of technology in the name of development has altered the social fabric. However, the plight of the farmers and voice of rural-India remains unheard. Sanal heavily references the landscape of his home-town in Kerela. His narrative is based on the landless people, often seen hiding behind a coconut tree or melting into the paddy fields in his work. Using symbolic elements, his works reconstruct the possibilities and values of the landscape through a subaltern political lens, opening the discourse of marginalization and collective consciousness. Ashok on the other hand, presents the everyday and the mundane. A scene that is quintessential representative of an Indian village is a potent reminder of the simple life that is close to nature. What further makes his work intriguing is the use of soil from his native place to paint the imagery. Agwma Basumatari is driven by his profound connection with the woodcut print process, which he believes also respects the environment. He celebrates the attire and the people of the indigenous Bodo tribe. He pays homage to the culture of the land by using hand woven traditional cloth as his canvas, but reminds us of the sensitive nature of the lives of the native people in contemporary times.
Parul Sharma and Savitha Ravi use a personal lens to navigate the architectural elements that evoke deep emotions for them. Savitha goes down the memory lane through photographs of her ancestral home. While the house has ceased to exist, the idea of spaces within it still reminds her of her childhood. She explores this by layering various images executed in multiple media. From metal plates and printed on canvas, Savitha uses cast concrete in her installation. For Parul, the dense urban jungle of her metro city becomes her muse. Houses that are situated in close proximity, often leaving a sliver for the sunlight to pass through, seem to be collapsing in her sculptures. Deepanjali Shekhar closely observes the fragility of human relationships. Metaphors of the feminine have a constant presence in her imagery through flowers and the triangular form. She showcases the cycle of life through a tree with deep roots, spread branches that bear fruit, and fallen seeds, ready to germinate.
Rajat Kumar’s paintings are a window to the obscure and ordinary spaces around us. A dimly lit staircase, a bed with crushed linen, or the façade of a building, his works inevitably create a déjà vu for his viewers. There is strangeness and yet a sense of familiarity to these images. With whispering strokes of paint, Rajat reminds us of the profoundness and delicate nature of our association with places. In contrast, Nandita Mukherjee is fascinated with narratives embedded in objects, in particular those that have been transformed through human interaction. She presents her drawings of these overlooked objects as a reservoir of history that they have witnessed, almost as keepers of time flown. Each surface, for Nandita, tells myths and stories accumulated, waiting to be unraveled through these silent storytellers.
Pradip Das’s assemblages remind the viewers of displacement and dislocation. A reference to the undivided border of India and Bangladesh in one of his works, for instance, has a personal lived history as well as a commentary on the volatility of socio-political circumstances. His work is multi-layered, representing complexities of identity and resilience.
Each practice presents a lens to view a version of reality. Loosely held together, delicately balanced, and fragile, the artists compel us to take cognizance and hope for an increased consciousness.
Written by Rahul Kumar

PHOTO INCEPT
2025-01-17 11:00 - 2025-02-14 18:30 | 227, South Point Mall, Golf Course Road, Gurugram, India
WHAT YOU SEE?
WHAT YOU SEE…
Twelve lens-based artists present thought-provoking imagery
Curated by Rahul Kumar

The advent of photography stirred the way visual art was perceived. Since a photograph could depict the world more accurately and realistically, artists had to reinvent themselves. And hence came the portrayal of expression and emotion, primarily through paintings and drawings, or three-dimensional forms. Over the past few decades, life came a full circle with photography actively being used to narrate expressive stories, going beyond capturing the world as is.
‘what you see?, marks the launch of Photo Incept, a gallery focused on lens-based practices from the region. The show comprises of selected artists chosen from an open call soliciting portfolios. Each practice pushes the paradigm of image making. Photographs capturing a fleeting moment that is entrenched in deep emotion, images that are altered to build a narrative, and innovative use of material and process are key to the curatorial vision of the exhibit.
Photo Incept aspires to bring forward the best of early to mid-career lens-based practices from the region. Taking a mentor first approach, we aim to provide a platform that expands the artistic approach and appreciation for photographic works.

London Art Fair 2025
2025-01-22 - 2025-01-26 | Business Design Centre, London, United Kingdom
Songs from My Homeland: A Memoir of Life & Rituals

Our presentation at the London Art Fair focuses on Songs from My Homeland … a memoir of life and rituals, a deeply evocative theme that celebrates stories from the heart of India. It brings together the works of Ram Dongre, Gavara Satyanarayana, and Viswanath Kuttum, three artists whose practices offer a compelling narrative of heritage, community, and resilience.
Each artist reflects a unique perspective: Dongre delves into the intersection of tradition and modernity, drawing inspiration from fading frescoes and rural landscapes. Satyanarayana uses intricate woodblock prints to explore the struggles of India’s agrarian sector, informed by his personal experiences of food scarcity and inequity. Kuttum’s textured, monochromatic paintings pay homage to the tribal rituals and fragile beauty of life in the Andamans, capturing the deep connection between land and memory.
What makes this presentation particularly distinctive is not just its thematic resonance but also the choice of mediums—engraved woodblock, layered oil paintings, and the use of a unique materials like beeswax, paraffin and linseed oil —which amplify the narrative and emotional depth of these stories. Together, these works transcend regional boundaries, offering universal reflections on resilience, identity, and the human connection to place.
This is our debut at the London Art Fair, and we are thrilled to bring these voices to a global audience, spotlighting narratives that are both intimate and profoundly relevant.

India Art Fair 2025
2025-02-06 - 2025-02-09 | NSIC Exhibition Complex, Okhla Phase III, Okhla Industrial Estate, New Delhi, India
Art Incept is delighted to announce its participation in the upcoming edition of the India Art Fair, set to take place in New Delhi this February. As a platform dedicated to showcasing and promoting contemporary art, we are excited to present a rich and diverse selection of works from a range of emerging and mid-career artists. This year’s presentation features a variety of mediums, including metal, terracotta, acrylic, and mixed media, each work telling a unique story and offering a fresh perspective on the contemporary art scene.
The featured artists include Abhishek Dodiya, whose striking sculptures in mild steel and ship’s metal scraps explore themes of community and labor; Kishwar Kiani, who transforms stainless steel into captivating forms that challenge perceptions; Ram Dongre, whose large-scale terracotta sculptures evoke elemental forces and cosmic harmony. Also included are Rinku Choudhary, whose abstract acrylics on canvas captivate with their vibrant energy; Santanu Dey, whose innovative combination of lithography plates and acrylics offers a commentary on societal issues; Satyanarayana Gavara, presenting a collection of engraved woodblock prints and mixed media works that weave narrative and memory; Sunil Yadav, whose mixed media canvases reveal unseen realities through vibrant colors and textures; and Viswanath Kuttum, who uses wax, resin, and pastel to craft metaphorical landscapes that bridge the spiritual and the earthly.

Inception Grant Show 2025
2025-03-08 11:00 - 2025-03-16 19:00 | Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, Mandi House, New Delhi, 110001, India
We are thrilled to invite you to an exclusive showcase featuring the outstanding artworks of the 13 finalists of our Inception Grant 2025.
Selected from a highly competitive pool of over 700 talented artists from across South Asia, these finalists represent the very best of emerging creativity in the region. The selection process was both rigorous and inspiring, as our esteemed internal jury faced the challenging task of narrowing down such a diverse and remarkable array of artistic talent.
We are proud to present the Inception Grant 2025 Finalists—Arindam Manna, Ayesha Sultana, Badush Babu, Bhanu Srivastav, Bhavin Patel, Chaitali Paranjape, Debajit R Paul, Malinda Jayasinghe, Megha Singh, Riya Chandwani, Rohan & Roshan Anvekar, Rohit Varekar, and Shremoe D Prasad—each of whom brings a unique perspective, innovative approach, and compelling vision to their work. Their artistic expressions reflect the dynamic and evolving landscape of contemporary art in South Asia, and we are honored to celebrate their journey. We look forward to sharing this extraordinary display with you.

Summer Shift
2025-06-28 - 2025-07-12 | 227, South Point Mall, Golf Course Road, Gurugram, India
We are delighted to bring forth to you our newest showcase- ‘Summer Shift: Playful departures and quiet transformations’, showcasing the works of Ayushi Ojha, Brojeswer Mondal, Deepanjali Shekhar, Jaimini Jariwala, Krupali Maraviya, Prasnhu Thakore, Rinku Choudhary, Savitha Ravi and Shahanshah Mittal. On view from 28th June till 12th July, 2025.

Summer Shift is a celebration of artistic agility—a curated moment where structure softens, and the spirit of play leads the way. This exhibition invites artists to explore the unfamiliar: to revisit forgotten ideas, experiment with new forms, and gently push against their own creative boundaries.
Working within an intentionally intimate format of smaller-scale works, each artist offers a glimpse into their evolving practice. The result is a constellation of thoughtful experiments—playful in process, serious in intent. From shifts in medium and subject to subtle changes in tone or technique, these works capture the beauty of transition and the possibilities it holds.
Summer Shift is a show of quiet departures and bold beginnings—a space for curiosity, discovery, and transformation. We hope to offer viewers a show that is fresh, unexpected, and full of discovery—works that delight, provoke, and perhaps mark the beginning of something new.

Original Shadows
2025-07-17 17:00 - 2025-08-30 18:30 | 227, South Point Mall, Golf Course Road, Gurugram, India
Immerse yourself in a dynamic exhibition showcasing 14 contemporary artists redefining the possibilities of printmaking—where time-honored, hands-on techniques meet masterful precision to turn paper into works of art.
𝙊𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨 brings together a selection of works that reflect both the discipline and imagination required in printmaking—where every mark is intentional, every layer the result of touch, chemistry, and control.

Step into a world where traditional methods such as etching, woodcut, lithography, serigraphy, and mezzotint are not just preserved but reimagined through a contemporary lens.
𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀: Aditi Singh Shekhawat | Agwma Basumatari | Anupama Dey | Attri Chetan | Chhering Negi | Isha Sharma | Manish Kumar | Narendra Kumar Sain | Naveen Tungana | Nisha Dhinwa | Prashant Phirangi | Raja Boro | Tushar Sahay | Yogesh Kumar

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 :
📅 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 | 𝟱 𝗽𝗺
📍 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁, 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱, 𝗚𝘂𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺
𝗢𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹:
📅 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟯𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 | 𝟭𝟭 𝗮𝗺 – 𝟲.𝟯𝟬 𝗽𝗺
𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱
Curatorial Advisor: Rahul Kumar
Compiled by: Jasneet Singh Bindra

Printmaking has long held a space between the intimate and the democratic—rooted in tradition, yet constantly evolving through experimentation. With Original Shadows, we are delighted to present a carefully curated survey of contemporary printmaking that not only honours the legacy of the medium but also introduces the bold and diverse voices defining its possibilities today.
This exhibition brings together a range of emerging practitioners working across techniques—from etchings and woodcuts to lithographs, linocuts, and hybrid processes that push the boundaries of the printed image. Each work is the result of a meticulous, hands-on engagement with material, surface, and time. While the final print may appear silent, it holds within it traces of pressure, movement, repetition, and resistance.
What makes this show especially meaningful is its invitation to learn. Through simple explanations of process and historical context, Original Shadows hopes to open up printmaking to a new generation of viewers and collectors—those curious not just about what contemporary art looks like, but how it’s made and why it matters. In doing so, we hope to create space for deeper engagement: with the medium, with the maker, and with the enduring tension between the original and the multiple.
As a gallery committed to mentoring emerging talent and building new pathways of understanding and appreciation, this exhibition reflects our belief that art must be both seen and decoded—felt, but also known.
We invite you to look closely, linger longer, and let these shadows reveal the many layers of printmaking’s original voice.
Gayatri Singh
Director
Art Incept

From Point to Infinity: locutions in dot, line, and space
2025-08-03 11:00 - 2025-08-11 18:00 | Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, Mandi House, New Delhi, 110001, India
We are glad to invite you to our upcoming exhibition, From Point to Infinity: locutions in dot, line, and space, curated by Rahul Kumar. A dot, the simplest element of visual design, represents a location. Its defining characteristic is that it is a point of focused attention. A dot becomes an anchor to provide reference relative to space around it. However, when a dot is increased in size, symmetrically or asymmetrically, it forms a shape. And when two dots at distance are connected using a series of dots adjacent to each other, it forms a line. A dot has no dimension and a line has just one. In both the instances, the play with the sense of space is accentuated. A shape contains space and a line demarcates or divides space. Further, when it comes to working with elements in a design, we have two basic classes to work with. We have positive forms and negative space…what is contained and what is left out. Extending this further, the element of space itself has a multitude of interpretations. The physical or metaphysical, the real or imagined – where is space, where does it begin, and does it have an end?
The proposed show will explore the ideas of basic elements of design in the most simplified way, layered with space making in the architectural context. The works will employ dots or lines to form, expand, question, and re-interpret what space could mean. The group will comprise early-to-mid-career visual artists working in distinct mediums to offer a fresh perspective into the overall theme.

Artists: Aditya Mandlik | Arjun Sara | Deepak Agasthya | Jit Chowdhury | Kishwar Kiani | Nilanjan Das | Niyeti Chadha | Parul Sharma | Sandeep Ghule

Opens on: 2nd August | 5 pm
On view till: 10th August | 11 am – 6 pm
Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, Mandi House

Silent Sprint- A Solo Show by Santanu Dey
2025-09-18 11:00 - 2025-09-22 18:30 | Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, Mandi House, New Delhi, 110001, India
We’re thrilled to announce 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘂 𝗗𝗲𝘆 — a milestone moment! -𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴
Santanu returns with works that lay bare the fragile balance between ecology and our constructed realities, tracing how humans inch by inch claim nature, leaving behind footprints of an artificial, mechanical world. His works echo urgent questions of ecology, consumerism, and survival.
From the Director:
It gives me immense pride to present Silent Spring—the second solo exhibition of Santanu Dey. This is a special moment for us at Art Incept, as Santanu’s show marks our very first second solo with any of our artists. Working with early-career artists, our journey is often about nurturing beginnings. To now witness one of our own artists grow, evolve, and return with a second body of work is both an achievement for the artist and a milestone for us as a gallery.
Santanu has remained deeply committed to his practice from the very start. His work explores the shifting relationship between nature and the urban landscape, often reimagining industrial remnants such as e-waste, steel, and paper into quiet, poetic forms. These materials—discarded, overlooked, yet deeply symbolic—become vehicles for reflection on ecological strain, consumer culture, and environmental loss.
What makes Santanu’s practice truly compelling is the coherence between his message, his materials, and the way he lives his life. His language is minimal yet resonant, speaking softly but urgently of the fragility of our natural world and the quiet impacts of modern life.
It is with great pleasure and pride that we present Silent Spring, a powerful continuation of Santanu’s artistic journey. We hope this exhibition not only reflects his evolution as an artist but also prompts us to pause, reflect, and reimagine the spaces we build—and the traces we leave behind.
-Gayatri Singh,
Founder & Director, Art Incept

𝟭𝟴𝘁𝗵 – 𝟮𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam | New Delhi

Everything I Waited to Forget: A Solo Show by Km. Khushboo
2025-11-01 11:00 - 2025-11-29 18:00 | 227, South Point Mall, Golf Course Road, Gurugram, India
Art Incept is delighted to announce Everything I Waited to Forget, a solo exhibition by Km. Khushboo, Design and Edit by Prima Kurien. The exhibition brings together a body of prints that reflect her meditative engagement with life, death, and transformation.

Khushboo’s visual language emerges from rhythm and repetition—each mark a quiet invocation. Her practice, which began as an exploration of mortality, has evolved into a search for renewal and transcendence. Moving from figural forms to abstraction, her works dissolve the boundaries between form and formlessness, inviting viewers to encounter moments of stillness and revelation.

Drawing upon elemental symbols of mud, water, and fire, Khushboo’s works embody the cyclical nature of creation and dissolution. Through a sensitive interplay of text, image, and incision, she transforms printmaking into an act of release—where every etched line becomes both a memory and a letting go.

Everything I Waited to Forget invites audiences to pause, reflect, and experience how image and silence, remembering and forgetting, coexist within the same breath.

About the Artist:
Born in 2001 in Uttar Pradesh, Khushboo holds a Bachelor’s degree in Painting from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and a Master’s degree in Printmaking from the Department of Graphic Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat.

Grounded in self-expression, her work evolves from personal experiences and intuitive responses to the world around her, delving into its spiritual and philosophical dimensions. What began as an exploration of death as the ultimate truth has grown into a deeper contemplation of transformation, transience, and renewal. Drawing and Printmaking—especially etching, drypoint, and woodcut—has become a meditative space for her. Each mark and layer embodies both presence and release, turning process into reflection.

Through her engagement with text and image, Khushboo explores acts of leaving, releasing, and accepting—embracing both wholeness and fragments while remaining open to change. Her work has been presented in several national and international exhibitions, including Voices from India in Cincinnati (USA), Nabh Sparsh at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi and Mumbai, At Crossroads during the Tapi Festival in Surat, Without Cube at the MSU Fine Arts Faculty Gallery, Incept in Baroda at Art Incept in Gurugram, and the CIMA Awards Show 2025 in Kolkata.

She has been recognized with the Jeram Patel Award (2024) and the Manorama Young Printmakers Grant (2025). Through these evolving experiences, Khushboo continues to deepen her understanding of the visible and the invisible—each work becoming a quiet meditation on impermanence, memory, and transformation.

Art Mumbai 2025
2025-11-13 10:00 - 2025-11-16 19:00 | Mahalakshmi Racecourse, Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Art Incept at Art Mumbai 2025Booth C45 | Mahalaxmi Racecourse, Mumbai | 13–16 November 2025
Marking Art Incept’s debut at Art Mumbai, this presentation brings together a compelling selection of voices from across South Asia — artists whose practices navigate memory, landscape, identity, and transformation through deeply personal vocabularies. United by a spirit of introspection and experimentation, their works expand the language of contemporary art, moving fluidly between material, emotion, and philosophy.
From the meditative charcoal drawings of Badush Babu and Bedamati Majhi, to the lyrical abstractions of Pankaj Chouhan, and the delicate indigo renderings of memory by Jit Chowdhury, the exhibition reveals how form can become a vessel for reflection. Debajit R Paul’s poetic landscapes and Sanal PT’s layered narratives on history and resistance explore the porous boundaries between the real and the remembered. Parul Sharma’s brick-dust paintings evoke the density of urban life, while Rinku Choudhary’s intimate figurations dwell in the silences of domesticity.
The presentation also highlights sculptural and conceptual explorations — Kishwar Kiani’s stainless-steel constructions reimagine space as rhythm and structure, Sunil Yadav visualizes the invisible frequencies of sound, and Ram Dongre channels memory and impermanence through a dialogue of erasure and colour.
Together, these artists articulate the pulse of a generation shaped by transition — their works standing as meditations on solitude, resilience, and the quiet persistence of the human spirit.

The Body Speaks
2025-12-05 11:00 - 2026-01-10 18:30 | 227, South Point Mall, Golf Course Road, Gurugram, India
Curated by Rahul Kumar, the exhibition explores the human body’s ability to convey emotions, stories, and ideas through works that present the body as a canvas, a vessel, and a voice, highlighting its complexities and vulnerabilities. Artists presented here examine the figure as an emotional landscape, aiming to reveal inner worlds through expressive forms or narratives, and to reference the role of the body in shaping identity, culture, and personal stories. They express vulnerability or strength through the body’s fragility and resilience. The body is also used as a metaphor to symbolise the universality of human experiences.
To approach the human body in visual arts is to enter an ancient and ever-renewing conversation, a dialogue between flesh and form, between the visible outline and the invisible interiority it contains. The body is our first landscape, the terrain through which we encounter the world, and the vessel through which the world encounters us. Artists return to it not merely to depict but to decipher, to understand what it means to inhabit a body, to move through space, to desire, to ache, to age, to transform. In every gesture, the body holds memory. Every contour carries the imprint of time, labour, joy, and grief. An artist listens to these traces, translating them into line, shadow, and texture. In this act of observation, the body becomes more than its anatomy; it becomes a metaphor for vulnerability, resilience, longing, and the fragile boundary between self and other.
Across centuries, the body has been celebrated, idealised, scrutinised, abstracted, broken apart, and rebuilt. Yet its mystery remains intact. Even in its simplest forms, a curve of a shoulder, the turn of a neck, it offers an entire universe of emotion. To study the body is to study humanity itself: its contradictions, its tenderness, its complications. In contemporary practice, the body expands further. It becomes political, technological, hybrid, fragmented, or fluid. It becomes a site of questioning – what does it mean to belong? To be seen? To be free?

Participating Artists:
Badush Babu, Deepanjali Shekhar, Indu Antony, Isha Sharma Haritash, Rinku Choudhary

The world as we meet it
2026-02-03 08:00 - 2026-03-07 17:00 | The Edit by Art Incept, S-137 Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110017
This exhibition gathers emerging artists at the edge of the present moment, where life feels unresolved, and the environment is in flux. It is a record of encounters between bodies and borders, memory and momentum, solitude and shared unrest. These works arise from living inside complexity rather than observing it from a distance. The explorations include a response to the contemporary world that churns, identities shift, histories overlap, and technologies blur the intimate and the public. The artists respond not with neat conclusions, but with fragments and gestures. More often leaving the viewers with questions than answers. Images in the works fracture, reassemble, and contradict. A sense of belonging sits adjacent to alienation. Yet there is hope and resilience.

A common thread binding the various practices is the rawness of the emotions expressed, all drawn from lived or immediate personal lives. Socio-cultural forces make each work a site of reckoning, where individual experience collides with collective history, and meaning is negotiated rather than declared.

The world as we meet it invites viewers to stand inside uncertainty, to recognize themselves in unfinished forms.

What We Carry | Curated by Khushboo Jain
2026-02-03 11:00 - 2026-02-20 18:00 | 227, South Point Mall, Golf Course Road, Gurugram, India
What truly gathers us, holding us in a profound, quiet space of belonging?
Is it the simple communion of shared meals, the comforting resonance of sustained silences, or the deep-seated familiarity of gestures repeated until they become an unconscious habit? The graceful passing of a bowl, the mindful laying of a cloth, the symbolic breaking of bread, the patient anticipation for someone yet to arrive? Do these seemingly small, humble acts incrementally build the very world we inhabit, and if so, when do we begin to inadvertently diminish their immense weight, their foundational importance?
This exhibition prompts us to consider why we often diminish the foundational importance of these small, humble acts. It questions the objects and unspoken agreements we place between us. It suggests that the truest essence of communion is not a perfectly resolved state, but rather an uneven journey marked by hesitations, misalignments, and powerful pauses. It interrogates the inherent fragility of this delicate communion and the enduring human imperative that compels us to seek its reassuring embrace despite its vulnerability. By bringing together artists whose works tenderly explore these spaces of coming together,
“What We Carry” encourages viewers to reflect on what we consciously choose to place between us, shaping our relationships and shared experiences.
The concept of gathering unfolds in a multitude of ways throughout the exhibition, showcasing works that evoke cherished rituals of assembly, where belonging is meticulously rehearsed through shared food, labor, and time. Conversely, other pieces thoughtfully turn towards absence, addressing unfinished conversations, empty rooms, and objects that bear the poignant imprint of those no longer physically present. In these instances, communion is tenderly formed through memory, assembling fragments of people, places, and moments that may not coexist in the immediate present but continue to powerfully shape and enrich our
current realities.
As part of this inquiry, the exhibition also turns to the practice of miniature painting. Traditionally shaped by stylised methods of learning and making, it is a form built slowly through layers of pigment and surface. Miniature painting has long been a shared pursuit, with masters and disciples working side by side, exchanging skill and space, shaping a sense of community through practice. This exhibition opens that process by showing not only finished images but also studies, fragments, and technical stages that reveal the many layers of the form. In doing so, it becomes another kind of communion, between artists and traditions.
In a world marked by distance, the showcase reminds us of the small acts that connect us. It realises us of a communion not only about who is present but also who is remembered, imagined, or longed for. It is about what we hold together and what we risk losing if we do not.

Art Incept at India Art Fair 2026 | Booth F05
2026-02-05 11:00 - 2026-02-08 18:00 | NSIC Exhibition Complex, Okhla Phase III, Okhla Industrial Estate, New Delhi, India
Art Incept presents its curated presentation at India Art Fair 2026, bringing together a dynamic group of contemporary artists whose practices engage deeply with questions of environment, memory, labour, and everyday lived experience. Spanning painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking, the presentation foregrounds material as a carrier of history—surfaces marked by erosion, accumulation, and transformation. Rather than proposing a singular theme, the works reflect diverse yet interconnected responses to urban density, ecological precarity, domestic spaces, and personal histories, inviting viewers to encounter the quiet tensions embedded in contemporary life.
Featuring Abhishek Dodiya, Deepanjali Shekhar, Parul Sharma, Rajat Kumar, Ram Dongre, Rinku Choudhary, Santanu Dey, Satyanarayana Gavara, and Sunil Yadav. From Dodiya’s sculptural reflections on overdevelopment and climate anxiety, Gavara’s woodcut prints rooted in agrarian realities, and Sharma’s material investigations of urban pollution, to Dongre’s layered meditations on labour and memory and Shekhar’s intimate explorations of the body and nature, each practice articulates a distinct yet resonant position. Together, the artists offer a nuanced portrait of contemporary India—where personal narratives intersect with larger social, environmental, and psychological landscapes.
Booth F05!

Diaries, Soliloquies and Stories we Tell | Curated by Prima Kurien
2026-03-07 11:00 - 2026-03-26 18:00 | The Edit by Art Incept, S-137 Panchsheel Park, New Delhi 110017
Art Incept is excited to announce its upcoming exhibition Diaries, Soliloquies and Stories we Tell, Curated by Prima Kurien. Showcasing the works of Ariba Akhlaque, Anirudh Acharya, Nanini Bagla Chirimar, Rajat Kumar and Rinku Choudhary

This exhibition inhabits the fragile threshold between remembrance and loss; a consciousness suspended, shaped by cultural inheritance, personal memory, and the quiet pressures of the social world. Within this space of in-betweenness, identity is neither fixed nor entirely unmoored; it flickers, like light passing through gauze. The works assembled here arise from that tremor. They gather what remains—a dried rose pressed between pages, an old postcard bearing a fading script, a broken tile salvaged from a once-familiar floor—and elevate these fragments into tender archives. Through such objects, grief and celebration become indistinguishable dialects within the same language of nostalgia.
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Here, painting is a pulse, felt with an emotion where the mundane is not overlooked but revered: a corner of a room, a threshold at dusk, the silence that lingers after departure. Atmosphere, here, becomes the protagonist. Landscapes emerge untethered to geography: tidal gardens suspended in indigo twilight, stairways rising into improbable skies, rooms that open into dreamlike horizons; utopian niches carved from longing—places one builds in order to dwell again. In them, memory bends toward myth, and loss seeds possibility.
The gentle, ever-shifting rhythm of daily life flows throughout. A woman moves through her home both as inhabitant and witness, her gestures overlapping like translucent veils. Tasks dissolve into thoughts; chaos softens into choreography. Rather than resisting fragmentation, she adapts, absorbs, and occasionally rejoices in it. Becoming, in the end, is a surreal and intimate labour—an act of rewriting the self as landscape, of fashioning shelter from memory and imagination alike. Between what was and what might be, a new interior opens: porous, luminous, and profoundly alive.

EMERGENCE II
2026-03-12 10:00 - 2026-05-25 18:00 | The Quorum Gurgaon, Two Horizon Center, Golf Course Rd, DLF Phase 5, Sector 43, Gurugram, Haryana, 122004, India
EMERGENCE II | Raw Voices. Lived Realities. New Beginnings.
Abhishek Dodiya | Arun Pandit | Bedamati Majhi | Brojeswer Mondal | Deepanjali Shekhar | Megha Singh | Nishant Kumar | Santanu Dey | Soura Chatterjee | Sunil Yadav | Varsha Athor | Yash Pal
At 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺, Gurgoan
RSVP Required
Contact: +91 8178441084 | info@artincept.com

Emergence II builds on the spirit of the first edition but moves closer to the pulse of our time. If Emergence was about introducing young collectors to emerging practices, Emergence II is about listening more deeply to the artists themselves— to voices shaped by lived experience, vulnerability, labour, memory, and place.
At Art Incept, we believe that some of the most compelling contemporary practices today are not loud or spectacular, but quietly insistent, deeply personal, and profoundly honest. Emergence II brings together a selection of emerging artists whose works carry this sensitivity—practices thats peak of the everyday, the overlooked, and the intimate realities that often sit outside dominant art narratives. This exhibition foregrounds art that israw rather than polished, rooted rather than performative. These are artists who work from within their contexts — responding to social structures, inherited histories, personal negotiations, and shifting identities. Through varied materials and processes, the works reveal how contemporary
realities are felt, remembered, and lived.
For collectors — especially those at the beginning of their journey —Emergence II offers an opportunity to engage with art not as an object of prestige, but as a relationship. Emergence II is both a continuation and a shift—from introduction to intention, from visibility to voice. It is a space where emerging artists are not framed by promise alone, but by the depth, honesty, and urgency of their practice.
