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Current Exhibitions
Of Worlds Within Worlds
6 February 2025 - 25 July 2025
The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) is honored to present a major retrospective celebrating the life and work of renowned artist, poet, and pedagogue Gulammohammed Sheikh. Showcasing over 190 works......Read More
Previous Exhibitions
Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy
18 April 2025 - 30 May 2025
The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in partnership with The Cultural Centre of the Italian Embassy, proudly announces the historic arrival of Caravaggio's Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy in......Read More
Eckart Muthesius and Manik Bagh – Pioneering Modernism in India
15 October 2024 - 10 December 2024
“Eckart Muthesius and Manik Bagh - Pioneering Modernism in India” shows a selection of rare vintage photographs together with drawings and watercolours by Muthesius, immortalizing Manik Bagh as a......Read More
If We Knew the Point Amitava
27 July 2024 - 30 September 2024
The exhibition If We Knew the Point - Amitava draws from an array of styles and references which are emerging points of Amitava ‘s images. Cruising between a wide range of mediums from graphite,......Read More
Magic in the Square Mohan Samant
27 July 2024 - 30 September 2024
The second exhibition Magic in the Square - Mohan Samant, Centennial Exhibition, is a crisp exploration of Samant’s practice, which is also a tribute to the artist. Mohan Samant was part of the......Read More
Walking through a Songline
26 May 2024 - 10 July 2024
Walking through a Songline The Australian High Commission in India together with the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) is bringing a unique showcase of the immersive multimedia installation......Read More
A Thousand Lives
1 February 2024 - 15 May 2024
The exhibition offers a glimpse into Raghu Rai’s life’s work in the five decades where he travelled and captured every nook and corner of our vast nation - India. Much is already known about......Read More
MIRROR/ MAZE: Echoes of song, space, spectre, Works from the KNMA collection
26 October 2023 - 4 January 2024
MIRROR/ MAZE: Echoes of song, space, spectre, Works from the KNMA collection The formulation of this exhibition owes its stimulus to artists and their compelling forms of practice, initiating a......Read More
Very Small Feelings
4 July 2023 - 3 October 2023
'Very Small Feelings' is co-produced by Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and Samdani Art Foundation (SAF). It is the fourth exhibition under KNMA's multi-part, long-term program 'Young Artists of Our Times'......Read More
Between Vows and Words: Anupam Sud
24 August 2022 - 22 December 2022
"Printmaking can never be totally predictable. It is like a sunrise over a landscape. You know what is about to unfold but never cease to be surprised by the revelation." - Anupam Sud It is......Read More
Around The Table : Conversations about Milestones, Memories, Mappings
5 November 2022 - 22 December 2022
Around the Table: Conversations about Milestones, Memories, Mappings is a recollection of times and practices of a generation of artists who shaped the landscape of art in post-Independence India.......Read More
Somnath Hore | Birth of a White Rose
28 April 2022 - 30 September 2022
Somnath Hore (1921- 2006), or Somnath da as his students and appraisers admiringly addressed him, was born in Barama village in Chittagong, in undivided Bengal (present Bangladesh). His life and art......Read More
Atul Dodiya: Walking with the waves
23 March 2022 - 13 August 2022
Exploration of the world outside, one which is rooted in the real, yet silently allowing the fantastic to enter the image-scape. So far, what had only been subjects of routine observances turned into......Read More
K Ramanujam: Into the Moonlight Parade
23 March 2022 - 13 August 2022
The figure of the artist as an outcast with a personality that verges on insanity and self-destructiveness is a recurrent yet barely understood trope of modernist narratives. Today, with the......Read More
Convergence
28 April 2022 - 30 June 2022
An exhibition on photography will be opening simultaneously at KNMA, Saket. Produced by intrepid travellers, writers, journalists, photographers and artists, the exhibits will span the colonial,......Read More
Right to laziness... no, strike that! Sidewalking with the man saying sorry
30 January 2020 - 10 April 2021
A thought-form part of the Young Artists of Our Times series Devised by Akansha Rastogi Kush Badhwar + Alexander Keefe + Vidisha Fadescha Anish Cherian + Simultaneous reading of Paul Lafargue's......Read More
Abstracting Nature – Mrinalini Mukherjee and Jayashree Chakravarty
30 January 2020 - 10 April 2021
A mirroring of approaches is seen in the show Abstracting Nature as the artists Mrinalini Mukherjee and Jayashree Chakravarty amalgamate myriad objects found in nature into their own oeuvre. Seeking......Read More
Line, beats and shadows – Ayesha Sultana, Prabhavathi Meppayil, Lala Rukh and Sumakshi Singh
30 January 2020 - 10 April 2021
The show Line, Beats and Shadows presents artists Ayesha Sultana, Prabhavathi Meppayil, Lala Rukh and Sumakshi Singh and their eclectic interpretation of abstraction. The artists use an array of......Read More
Zarina – A Life in Nine Lines
30 January 2020 - 10 April 2021
Zarina: A Life in Nine Lines | Across Decades - Borders - Geographies is a solo show dedicated to the artistic career of Zarina Hashmi. Primarily exploring the medium of paper and her fascination......Read More
Structuring Form The Innovative Rigour of Mahendra Raj
19 November 2019 - 8 January 2020
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is pleased to announce a special exhibition detailing seven architectural projects, raised by the structural engineering genius of Mahendra Raj out of his two hundred fifty......Read More
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art presents इस घट अंतर बाग-बगीचे | Haku Shah 1934-2019 Within this earthen vessel are bowers and groves
10 December 2019 - 8 January 2020
New Delhi, December 9, 2019: Iss ghat antar baag bagiche is an homage to Haku Shah (1934 – 2019), the reticent artist who grew up in an environment inspired by Gandhian thoughts and......Read More
over the edge, crossing the line - five artists from Bengal
13 August 2019 - 30 November 2019
The exhibition over the edge, crossing the line: five artists from Bengal continues its showcasing at Saket, after opening early January at the Noida branch of the museum. Continuing the......Read More
COMMON COURSE
13 August 2019 - 3 November 2019
Poetic, satirical and political commentaries of Gaganendranath Tagore, Chittoprasad, KG Subramanyan and RK Laxman ‘Common Course’ is a zestful and humorous ride through caricatures,......Read More
SMELL ASSEMBLY
7 September 2019 - 3 November 2019
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is pleased to present its first series of small exhibitions ‘Young Artists of Our Times’ curated by Akansha Rastogi, Senior Curator, Exhibitions and Programs. The series......Read More
ARPITA SINGH | Six Decades of Painting
30 January 2019 - 14 July 2019
Arpita Singh (b. 1937, Kolkata) is one of the most significant women artists in India. This retrospective exhibition at KNMA gives an extraordinary opportunity to view six decades of her art......Read More
WHAT PLACE IS KITCHEN? WHAT PLACE COMMUNITY
27 December 2018 - 12 January 2019
Artists: Sreejata Roy and Mrityunjay Chatterjee With Hoor Kareemi, Fariba Azizi, Rabiya Taraki, Mari Saidi (Afghanistan); Aya Nazari (Iraq); Gloria Ntsoni Badidila (Republic of Congo); Safa......Read More
Jangarh Singh Shyam: A Conjuror’s Archive
4 December 2018 - 11 January 2019
The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) is delighted to present the opening of exhibition ‘Jangarh Singh Shyam: A Conjuror’s Archive’, co-curated by Dr. Jyotindra Jain and Roobina......Read More
bauhaus imaginista: Moving Away
4 December 2018 - 18 December 2018
'bauhaus imaginista' exhibition celebrates '100 years of Bauhaus' and is organised in collaboration with Goethe Institut, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Bauhaus Cooperation Berlin Dessau......Read More
DELIRIUM EQUILIBRIUM
19 August 2018 - 15 November 2018
Alia Syed | Amar Kanwar | Kausik Mukhopadhyay | Mithu Sen | Naeem Mohaiemen | Neha Choksi | Nalini Malani | Nandita Kumar | Ranbir Kaleka | Shahzia Sikander | Sheba Chhachhi | Shezad Dawood | Sonia......Read More
Envisioning Asia, Gandhi and Mao in the photographs of Walter Bosshard
1 October 2018 - 31 October 2018
KNMA is delighted to present an exhibition of photographs of Swiss photographer Walter Bosshard (1892–1975), which are being seen in India for the first time. This exhibition is co-produced by......Read More
VIVAN SUNDARAM, A RETROSPECTIVE: FIFTY YEARS STEP INSIDE AND YOU ARE NO LONGER A STRANGER
9 February 2018 - 20 July 2018
KNMA is presenting this year, the first ever retrospective of eminent artist Vivan Sundaram, one of the most influential artists of his generation in India. This large-scale exhibition is an......Read More
Amruta Kalasha Thanjavur and other South Indian Paintings
14 November 2017 - 15 December 2017
The month-long special exhibition ‘Amruta kalasha’ brings to public viewing for the first time a rare collection of 19th and early 20th century paintings from Thanjavur, Mysore, Andhra, and......Read More
STRETCHED TERRAINS - A String of Exhibitions
3 February 2017 - 31 July 2017
Participating artists M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, F.N. Souza, Madan Mahatta, Raj Rewal, Mahendra Raj, Kuldeep Singh, Habib Rahman, Kanvinde, Akbar Padamsee, Ashim Ahluwalia, Nalini Malini, Nasreen......Read More
the dark loam: between memory and membrane - A RETROSPECTIVE (1930-2016)
24 August 2016 - 20 December 2016
KNMA the first-ever retrospective of the veteran artist Jeram Patel titled ‘the dark loam: between memory and membrane’. Sadly, Jeram Patel passed away this year in January when the museum......Read More
Anatomy Lessons Artist. Pedagogue. Poet. Scholar
16 July 2016 - 20 December 2016
The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is pleased to present an exhibition celebrating the spirit of late artist K. G. Subramanyan who passed away on June 29, 2016. The exhibition presents to the viewers’......Read More
hammer on the square - A RETROSPECTIVE (1957-2015)
28 January 2016 - 20 July 2016
Looking at a seed can you imagine the entire tree? One who can imagine the tree looking at its seed and the seed looking at the tree is a reflection of a true artistic vision. - Himmat Shah A......Read More
Conversation Chambers| Museum Bhavan
18 December 2015 - 1 May 2016
Dayanita Singh has been preoccupied for some years now with evolving a portable architectural form that can function both as a site for display, and a repository for her photographs. Museum Bhavan......Read More
CONSTRUCTS| CONSTRUCTIONS
23 April 2015 - 29 November 2015
Participating Artists Adi M Davierwala, Anish Kapoor, Dayanita Singh, F.N. Souza, Ganesh Haloi, Gigi Scaria, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Hema Upadhyay, Himmat Shah, Jeram Patel, K.G. Subramanyan, L.N.......Read More
visions of interiority: interrogating the male body - A RETROSPECTIVE (1963-2013)
14 October 2014 - 1 March 2015
Amongst his generation of artists, Rameshwar Broota, much like the solitary male figure in his imagery, stands distinctly alone in his consistent engagement with the ‘male body’ over five......Read More
WORKING SPACES : around memory and perception
28 January 2015 - 17 February 2015
Participating Artists Anish Kapoor, Dilip Chobisa, Jeram Patel, Manisha Parekh, Madan Mahatta, Nalini Malani, Nasreen Mohamedi, Nandita Kumar, Pooja Iranna, Rana Begum, Seher Shah, Simryn Gill,......Read More
You can’t Keep Acid in a Paper Bag - A RETROSPECTIVE (1969 - 2014) in three chapters
26 September 2014 - 21 December 2014
A Retrospective (1969 – 2014) in Three Chapters “You Can’t Keep Acid in a Paper Bag” is artist Nalini Malani’s first ever retrospective showcasing in India. Conceptualised in......Read More
IS IT WHAT YOU THINK? - Ruminations on Time, Memory and Site
30 January 2014 - 27 September 2014
Participating Artists Anita Dube, Atul Dodiya, Amar Kanwar, Arpita Singh, Ashim Purkayastha, Gulammohammed Sheikh, Himmat Shah, Idris Khan, K.P. Krishnakumar, Navjot Altaf, N.N. Rimzon, Rummana......Read More
The self in making Part of Difficult Loves
31 January 2013 - 8 December 2013
In collaboration with Navina and Vivan Sundaram 'The self in making' examines Amrita Sher-Gil’s self-portraits that were grounded in her self-consciousness of growing up to be an artist and also......Read More
A view to infinity - A Retrospective (1937-1990) Part of Difficult Loves
31 January 2013 - 8 December 2013
In the history of Indian Modernism, Nasreen Mohamedi is a distinct figure who broke away from the mainstream art practice of the early decades of post-Independent India, choosing the less explored......Read More
CROSSINGS - Time Unfolded II
23 January 2012 - 19 December 2012
Participating Artists Adeela Suleman, Akbar Padamsee, Anish Kapoor, Arpana Caur, Atul Dodiya, Avinash Chandra, Bharti Kher, Bhupen Khakhar, Dayanita Singh, F.N. Souza, Gulammohammed Sheikh, ......Read More
TIME UNFOLDED
1 January 2011 - 31 December 2011
Participating Artists A. Balasubramanyan, A. Ramachandran, Adeela Suleman, Akbar Padamsee, Anish Kapoor, Anju Dodiya, Arpita Singh, Ashim Purakayastha, Atul Bhalla, Atul Dodiya, Bharti Kher,......Read More
Workshops
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Open Studio Saturday's
These workshops take place every Saturday and are among the most popular programs at the Museum. Parents bring in their kids and children from the local community are encouraged to get initiated in art making through workshops on various art and craft techniques. Some of these techniques include Shadow Art, Kite Making, Photo Frames, Mask Making, Glass Painting, Paper Sculptures, Fabric Collage among numerous others facilitated by the Museum Educators.... Read More
