Vadehra Art Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition titled Due to an Obscure Reason by Mumbai-based artist Biraaj Dodiya and the late contemporary artist Gieve Patel (1940–2023) – curated by London-based Linsey Young, curator of the recent acclaimed exhibition Women in Revolt! Art, Activism and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970–1990 at Tate Britain, London. This exhibition features a new body of work including paintings and sculptures by Biraaj Dodiya and paintings by Gieve Patel.
Biraaj Dodiya and Gieve Patel
Venue: FRIEZE No.9 Cork Street London W1S3LL
Dates: May 22 - June 8, 2025
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 6 pm
How do we find just and joyful ways of existing amid ongoing climate collapse, madness, genocide? How can we hold the incomprehensible in our everyday? What are its unspoken languages? We begin by slipping off the edge of known vocabularies and governable landscapes— a strategic and necessary escape. We get lost in tongueless frenzies and revel in unruly forests. Commune with water-spirits and mourn the forcibly drowned. Dwell with floral spectres and entangle with protesting bodies. '—scape,' curated by Ritika Biswas, brings together South Asian artists, each of whose works are rooted in their located contexts even as they invite us into their expansive somatic, political, and emotional ecologies.
Amol K Patil, Malik Irtiza, Moonis Ahmad, Sonal Jain, Soumya Netrabile and Tejal Shah
Venue: Project 88, Ground Floor, BMP Building, N.A. Sawant Road, Colaba, Mumbai - 400005
Dates: May 8 - June 21, 2025
Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 am - 7 pm
The solo exhibition presents Prasanta Sahu's decade-long inquiry into the intersection of art, research, and lived experience. This exhibition encapsulates the evolution of his interdisciplinary practice, characterised by a synthesis of diverse mediums and epistemologies to explore the subtleties of rural and suburban life through traditional knowledge, pre-industrial practices, and inherited wisdom.
Prashant Sahu
Venue: Gallery 1, Ground Floor, Emami Art, Kolkata
Dates: April 25 - June 21, 2025
Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 11 am - 7 pm
Re-Figuring showcases the most recent works by ten contemporary visual art practitioners. Through diverse approaches, the artworks interrogate the complex rendering of figures in the real, imagined, or psycho-social spaces they inhabit.
Avishek Das, Bholanath Rudra, Janhavi Khemka, Swastik Pal, Priti Roy, Santanu Debnath, Sayanee Sarkar, Kushan Bhattacharya, Tapas Biswas, Ushnish Mukhopadhyay
Venue: Gallery 2, Ground Floor, Emami Art, Kolkata
Experimenter presents 'Artists for Artists,' four solo projects across both gallery spaces in Kolkata: At Experimenter – Ballygunge Place: Ten sounds I cannot hear by Aishwarya Arumbakkam selected by Sohrab Hura Sunlight by Sathish Kumar selected by Sohrab Hura If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes by Rupali Patil selected by Rathin Barman At Experimenter – Hindustan Road: Fever by Rai selected by Bhasha Chakrabarti Each practitioner has been selected by an artist from the gallery’s program. The exhibition attempts to establish how artists, whether through long-form conversations in each other’s studios or outside of the confines of their workplaces, can yield generous and productive ground for experimentation and sustained dialogue.
Aishwarya Arumbakkam, Sathish Kumar, Rupali Patil, Rai, Sohrab Hura, Rathin Barman, Bhasha Chakrabarti
Venue: Experimenter - Ballygunge Place; Experimenter - Hindustan Road, Kolkata
Dates: April 5 - June 14, 2025
Opening hours: Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10:30 am - 6:30pm