The Art and Design Lover’s Guide to 2025 (Part II)

The Artist As, curated by Vaidehi Gohil and Sonakshi Bhandari

Dates: June 12 – August 14, 2025
Location: TARQ, Mumbai

Overview: Featuring all 18 artists from TARQ’s program, the exhibition invites artists to inhabit the many roles, ideas and positions that characterise their practice–positions that are not assumed but also lived. 

Volume IV: Truths, Half-Truths, Half-Lies, Lies by Kallol Datta

Dates: July 10 – August 20, 2025
Location: Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai

Overview: Sumptuary laws, religious edicts, and imperial proclamations of the past are witnessed in contemporary times in the Korean Peninsula and Japan. The exhibition stems from Datta’s extensive research into these historical ‘laws of the lands’ and their enduring impact. They attempt to stage provocations and subversive interventions through textiles in reviewing and scrutinising the materials collected during their long-term research. 

The Wondering and Wandering Mind by Haneen Almoosawi

Dates: July 18 – August 27, 2025
Location: Gallery Pristine Contemporary, New Delhi

Overview: This exhibition invites viewers into a terrain where thread becomes a line of thought, light becomes a pulse of consciousness, and every texture is weighted with intention. Through a deeply personal yet universally resonant practice, Haneen charts the inner landscape of the mind as it wonders and wanders—across emotion, memory, and time.

A Glazed History: Badri Narayan and the Vitrum Studio, Curated by Puja Vaish

Dates: June 13 – August 31, 2025
Location: JNAF, Mumbai

Overview: The exhibition explores the crossovers of art and design in post-independence India through works made at the unique Vitrum Studio (1957-1974) in Mumbai. Founded by glass expert Simon Lifschutz, a Jewish war émigré from Poland, the Studio invited artists to create hand-painted ceramic tiles and Venetian glass mosaics as affordable art, decor objects, and murals. 

Deconstructed Realms: India's Tryst with Cubism

Dates: July 6 – September 6, 2025
Location: The Taj Mahal Palace, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai

Overview: The exhibition showcases how modernists broke new ground, pushing boundaries and creating innovative artistic expressions that redefined the visual language of a nation in flux. It offers a glimpse into the brief yet profound encounter between India and Cubism, revealing its lasting impact on the evolution of modern Indian art.

Painting Infinity by Shobha Broota

Dates: August 30 - October 18, 2025
Location: 22A Windsor Place, Janpath, New Delhi

Overview: With a career spanning over six remarkable decades, Shobha Broota has carved a distinct and enduring space within the landscape of modern Indian art. Emerging from a deep spiritual inclination, her work invites introspection and open-ended interpretation. Painting Infinity traces her evolution from the figural to the metaphysical—through colour, form, and texture. 

India Design ID 2025

Dates: September 26 – 28, 2025
Location: Jio World Garden, Mumbai
Overview:  A definitive event for architecture and interior design, India Design ID brings together leading designers, brands, and architects. The fair features curated exhibitions, panel discussions, and workshops, offering insights into the latest trends in luxury design.

Art Mumbai

Dates: November 13 – 16, 2025
Location: Mahalakshmi Racecourse, Mumbai

Overview: A highly-curated art fair showcasing the very best Modern and Contemporary art from South Asia and beyond. Bringing together over 70 Indian and international exhibitors, industry luminaries and pioneering artistic experiences, it is a beacon of cutting edge culture and conversation. 

AD Design Show

Dates: November 21 – 23, 2025
Location: Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai

Overview: The AD Design Show is an annual event that brings together architects, designers, brands, karigars, craft patrons, design enthusiasts, students and more under one roof. Held across three days, it showcases new collections by sought-after design brands, holds engaging talks and exhibits India’s varied craftsmanship through live demonstrations. 

Design Mumbai

Dates: November 26 – 29, 2025
Location: Jio World Garden, BKC, Mumbai

Overview: Design Mumbai is a platform, both for Indian brands seeking global recognition and for international brands that want to tap into the immensely prosperous and fast- growing Indian design market.

Serendipity Arts Festival

Dates: December 12 – 21, 2025
Location: Panjim, Goa

Overview: The festival is part of a long-term cultural project that hopes to catalyse positive change in the arts landscape of India on a scale that transcends geographical, linguistic, and ideological boundaries. 

Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Dates: December 12, 2025 – March 31, 2026
Location: Fort Kochi, Kerala

Overview: Kochi Biennale Foundation hosts the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB), India’s largest contemporary art festival that is presented biennially in the historic port city of Kochi, on the Malabar coast of India. KMB draws from Kerala’s rich multicultural history including the fabled Chera harbour of Muziris that traded with the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean regions. Artist Nikhil Chopra and his team HH Art Spaces will be the curators of this edition.