Exhibitions

Biophilia

Gigi Scaria 12 Sep - 17 Oct 2024 During the lockdown, we were inundated with images of dolphins dancing in the waters of the Bosporus; an unimaginably large number of flamingos roosting and breeding in the Talawe wetlands in Nerul; a puma roaming the deserted streets of Santiago. Nature did not merely make its presence felt. It sang,... Read more

Mind Echo

Group Show with Space Studio Baroda 12 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Ahalya Rajendran | Akshata Mokashi | Deena Pindoria | Gurjeet Singh | Harman Taneja | Kalpana Vishwas | Mayadhar Sahu | Sashikanth Thavudoz Chemould CoLab and Space Studio present their first collaborative group exhibition, featuring eight alumni from the Space Studio residency programme. The exhibition explores the mind and body... Read more

In the making: Drawing, Refining, Revising

Group Show 2 Aug - 3 Sep 2024 In the Making: Drawing, Refining, Revising is a group exhibition where we have brought together 15 artists from the gallery to whom drawing is the essence of studio life: a sketchbook, life studies, spot drawings, artist doodles are the archival repository within a studio practice. From these emerge larger projects... Read more

KAARAWAAN AND OTHER STORIES

Gulammohammed Sheikh 6 Apr - 31 May 2024 Gulammohammed Sheikh is an artist, a writer, and a historian all rolled into one. These three aspects have had different origins but have entered into a fruitful conversation over the years and have jointly shaped his work. The four paintings he contributed to the exhibition Place for People (1981) marked... Read more

Drawing Dreaming

Pallavi Sen | Chemould CoLab 14 Mar - 27 Apr 2024 Pallavi Sen’s paintings are perhaps best characterized as a kind of hard-edge watercolor ; the term seems almost oxymoronic, unlikely. She uses watercolor against itself: where, in the watercolor works of our collective imagination, pigment should run, or drop, or flow across its substrate, she has corralled it, disciplined it.... Read more

An Eye Inside

Jayeeta Chatterjee 22 Feb - 23 Mar 2024 Viewing Room An Eye Inside presents Jayeeta Chatterjee’s journey from an interest in interiors and architecture to her documentation of the domestic feminine politics. This evolution has been swift and serendipitous and reflected in this exhibition that combines earlier works of coloured woodcut prints and a new body of work... Read more

Nakhra: Towards a sacred sensuality

Chemould CoLab | Kuldeep Singh 11 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 You hear Kuldeep before you see him. The silvery hum of the tanpura filling the room is broken only by the rustle of the ghungroos on his ankle, all part of an elaborate riyaaz — or practice — that moves from the terrazzo floor to the canvas in one sweeping... Read more

Raised Eyebrow

Anant Joshi 11 Jan - 14 Feb 2024 Sculpture Anant Joshi is a newspaper devourer. With the information surfeit one gets today through all the various sources, the daily news from hard copy papers is the primary “feeder” to Joshi’s art practice. The artist comes upon an almost comic episode of a common citizen from Madhya Pradesh who... Read more

floor/wall

Chemould CoLab | Anirudh Shaktawat 24 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Anirudh Shaktwat’s practice is based in the Southern Aravalli ranges of Rajasthan where he lives and works. This is an area heavily mined due to its rich mineral content. It is also home to late-medieval architectural sites of interest. The region is one in which many histories collide – natural,... Read more

Part 2 - Futuring | CheMoulding: Framing Future Archives

Curated by Shaleen Wadhwana | 60 Years of Gallery Chemould 15 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Futurists actively view the present world as a window to possible future outcomes. By this definition, we are all futurists. However, in reality, actively viewing the present means to confront the timeless truths which outlast us — love, grief and loss, a sense of belonging and comfort (or lack thereof),... Read more

Remembering

60 Years of Gallery Chemould | Group Show 31 Oct - 5 Nov 2023 Adi Davierwala | Akbar Padamsee | Ambadas | Bhupen Khakhar | Hema Upadhyay | Homi Patel | J Swaminathan | Janghar Singh Shyam | Jehangir Sabavala | Jivya Soma Mashe | KH Ara | Krishen Khanna | Krishna Reddy | Mehlli Gobhai | MF Husain | Nasreen Mohamedi | Prabhakar... Read more

Part 1: Framing | CheMoulding: Framing Future Archives

Curated by Shaleen Wadhwana | 60 Years of Gallery Chemould 15 Sep - 22 Oct 2023 Anant Joshi, Archana Hande, Atul Dodiya, Bhuvanesh Gowda, Desmond Lazaro, Dhruvi Acharya, Gigi Scaria, Jitish Kallat, Madhvi Subrahmanian, Meera Devidayal, Mithu Sen, NS Harsha, Ram Rahman, Ritesh Meshram, Shakuntala Kulkarni, Sheetal Gattani, Tanujaa Rane, Varunika Saraf and Vivan Sundaram “Part 1 - Framing grounds us in the historical context of... Read more

Reclaiming the Inner Space

Chemoulding: 60 Years of Gallery Chemould | Gallery Maskara 15 Sep - 22 Oct 2023 This three-dimensional, wall-mounted work features a ‘herd’ of approximately 1400 hand-carved wooden elephants that appear to roam a plain made from recycled cardboard packaging, flattened and attached to acrylic mirror. While the elephants refer to the ornaments that one might find in Indian souvenir shops, they also recall the elephant... Read more

Continuum (after Jitish Kallat)

60 Years of Gallery Chemould | Group Show 14 Sep - 18 Nov 2023 To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Chemould Prescott Road, we are delighted to present an exhibition titled 'Continuum' (after by Jitish Kallat) featuring 10 emerging Indian artists, opening on Thursday, 14th September 2023 at Chemould CoLab. The artworks here encompass several types of media, ranging painting, ceramics, photography, textile, metal,... Read more

Traces of Place

Group Show 13 Jul - 19 Aug 2023 How does a place influence our emotions and behaviour? What are the various experiences that two people can have of the same place? And can a place be reimagined to modulate our perception of its meaning and purpose? By asking these questions, you have become a psychogeographer. This mindset challenges... Read more

Do They See The Same Skies As We Do?

Chemould CoLab | Tarini Sethi 9 Mar - 15 Apr 2023 Humans and gods. Animals and mythological beasts. The boundary between reality and fantasy blurs in these future worlds where leisure and introspection reign supreme. Created in direct response to the personal, political, social and ecological anxieties of the day, here artist Tarini Sethi restores balance to human relationships with each... Read more

Quieter Than Silence - compilation of Short Stories

Shakuntala Kulkarni 9 Mar - 6 May 2023 DRAWING OUT, DRAWING IN Human bodies take on peculiar forms in Shakuntala Kulkarni's drawings. Costumes and armour become fused with the body giving them bizarre appearances, and when unclothed, the figures assume convoluted and awkward postures. The images are mostly of women, for the overarching preoccupation of Kulkarni’s art has... Read more

Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present

7 Feb - 11 Jun 2023 We are pleased to present the works of Anju Dodiya, Archana Hande, Lavanaya Mani, Mithu Sen, Nilima Sheikh, Reena Saini Kallat, Varunika Saraf and Vivan Sundaram at the Sharjah Biennial 15. Conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah Biennial... Read more

Birth of Forgiveness

Chemould CoLab | Rithika Pandey 12 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 For Rithika Pandey’s first solo show in India she brings us nine tableaus: paintings in pursuit of healing and transformation. Compared to previous bodies of work, Birth of Forgiveness displays colour palettes that have been subdued and compositions that have been scrupulously pared back. The stage we now stand before... Read more

Dr. Banerjee in Dr. Kulkarni's Nursing Home and Other Paintings 2020-2022

Atul Dodiya 12 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 Drawing from popular Indian cinema, Atul Dodiya creates paintings populated by iconic characters in his signature realistic style. This is not the first time Dodiya has painted from cinema, and in this latest series Dr. Banerjee in Dr. Kulkarni's Nursing Home and Other Paintings 2020-2022, he returns to the theme... Read more

Otherwhile

Jitish Kallat 4 Dec 2022 - 4 Jan 2023 Chemould Prescott Road is proud to present Jitish Kallat’s solo exhibition Otherwhile, twenty-five years since his debut solo at the gallery in 1997. To commemorate this extraordinary moment, the gallery is opening the exhibition on that very date, the 4th of December 2022. Otherwhile is an assembly of various themes... Read more

This Is What It's Like To Be Fabulous

Chemould CoLab | Gurjeet Singh 10 Nov - 30 Dec 2022 Visit the exhibition at Chemould CoLab, 2nd Floor, Sugra Manzil, BEST Marg, Colaba, Mumbai Look at us! Patchworked and embroidered into existence, ready to dance our way out of this gallery. Aren’t we bigger than beauty? Don’t judge us like you would any other inanimate work of art. We’re not... Read more

Documenta Indica

Pushpamala N 3 - 26 Nov 2022 Pushpamala, well known for her conceptual practice in performance photography and video, has been making sculptures lately. She rekindles the artisanal practice of her earlier training as a sculptor to make discursive objects in the form of documents, extending her interest in 19 th century subjects like ethnography and anthropometry... Read more

Photo Studio

Ketaki Sheth | In Collaboration with PHOTOINK 17 Sep - 20 Oct 2022 Chemould Prescott Road in collaboration with PHOTOINK is pleased to announce Ketaki Sheth’s solo exhibition of colour photographs, Photo Studio. She has been photographing for four decades and until 2014 was a committed analogue photographer who used black and white film. Photo Studio marks her extraordinary transition to colour using... Read more

Hearts on Fire — Reflections on Parsi photography: past, present and future

Chemould CoLab | Group Show 8 Sep - 15 Oct 2022 Curated by Sarica Robyn Balsari Aaran Patel | Avinash Jai Singh | Bindi Sheth | Divya Cowasji | Farzin Adenwalla | Hemant Chaturvedi | Iyanah Bativala | Jyoti Bhatt | Perin Pudumjee Coyaji | Porus Vimadalal | Sooni Taraporevala | Shantanu Das | Sunhil Sippy Showcases by Shreas Pardiwalla, Yohan... Read more

Modus Operandi III: Together Alone

Group Show 11 Aug - 10 Sep 2022 The premise of Modus Operandi began and continues with an exhibition of Chemould's roster of artists - every iteration presents us an opportunity to exhibit them under one roof, in conversation with each other. The first iteration focused on process, the second presented the artist’s studio, and now for the... Read more

Dismantling Building: A Kit of Parts

Samira Rathod Design Atelier 30 Jun - 2 Aug 2022 Samira Rathod’s ‘Dismantling Building = A Kit of Parts’ is an act of excavation. Through processes of distillation that analyse buildings designed in her studio, the attempt is to discover the fundamental unit of architecture, an ’ur’ architecture- the earliest, primitive unit. This is a process to uncover the phoneme... Read more

Conversations on Tomorrow

Sadie Coles HQ, London 11 May - 18 Jun 2022 'What comes after reason?' Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung asked last year.1 By addressing a strain of 'reason' - a rational, canonizing, cerebral, and intoxicating form of thought prescribed by the West - Ndikung was adumbrating his intellectual resistance. In art, 'reason' might suggest submission to the pervading institutional structures, and... Read more

Remains of waste

Chemould CoLab x BODICE x India Art Fair 30 Apr - 7 May 2022 With an aim to craft a dialogue between a garment and its wearer, every Bodice piece is given movement and character through thoughtful details; something that starts from the make of the fabric itself. But what happens when the fabric is isolated from the clothing, left bare in its elemental... Read more

Epilogue for Light

Tanujaa Rane 7 Apr - 21 May 2022 Light streams across Tanujaa Rane’s work. From the etched lines behind the Moth and the Monarch butterfly in Transfiguration/ Metamorphosis, rays extend into the flight paths of one hundred Cicadas and to the Damsel Fly Long, which gravitates towards the recognisable abstract phases of an illuminated moon. Animals, a recurring... Read more

New Media Focus

Pushpamala N & Gigi Scaria | SOUTH SOUTH Veza 02 31 Mar - 10 Apr 2022 SOUTH SOUTH’s second edition of VEZA focussed on digital art and the remarkable possibilities of new media, as well as our core activity of facilitating new connections within the cultural ecosystems across the Global South and beyond. Galleries from 25 cities spread across five continents came together to present a... Read more

Eccentric Structures / Intimate Worlds

Chemould CoLab | Vinita Mungi 10 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Celebrating the exuberance of life, Vinita Mungi’s sculptures manifest as a series of biotic playgrounds. Their surfaces – meticulously glazed and often coated with candy-coloured slips –feature soft curves, folds, and asymmetrical forms that are inspired equally by limitless patterns in nature, socio-political concerns and formal visual enquiry. Mungi renders... Read more

Cosmos

Desmond Lazaro 10 Feb - 26 Mar 2022 Radical Homelessness: On Desmond Lazaro’s Recent Works Desmond Lazaro’s art has often been situated in a history of diasporic experience spanning the colonial and postcolonial eras. The multiple geographical and cultural displacements in which his family has participated, across generations, would seem to support this choice ofexplanatory framework. What has... Read more

Interference

Anant Joshi | In-Touch Edition VII 1 Feb - 30 Apr 2022 Anant Joshi invents a circus of the past: forms that populate his work act out stories of political upheaval and social turmoil in the country. He plunges us into this troubled world with the satire of a semi-cartoonist, semi-toymaker, and artist. Inhabiting multi-coloured interiors and boxed in by the edges... Read more

Caput Mortuum

Varunika Saraf 25 Nov - 31 Dec 2021 How do we stop the exponential rise of violence? Is it still possible to dream of an egalitarian society? Can we find love and hope amidst hate? Will we be able to heal the festering sores that riddle our world? How long will we continue to remain silent? To speak... Read more

new canvases

Sheetal Gattani 14 Oct - 13 Nov 2021 Sheetal Gattani is a painter of uncertainty, of suspense, of adventure. Her canvases contain over twenty-five to thirty layers; employing an abstractionist language to invoke a rhythmical interplay of textures and colors, and go beyond to also feature subtle geometric or architectural reveries. She starts on a black acrylic ground,... Read more

I draw, therefore I think

Mehlli Gobhai & Vivan Sundaram | SOUTH SOUTH 11 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 We are delighted to participate in SOUTH SOUTH’s first Curatorial Project titled I draw, therefore I think curated by Jitish Kallat. This drawing project is prompted by Charles Darwin’s 1837 sketch ‘Tree of Life’ in which he scribbled down a framework for his speculations in his first “transmutation notebook”. We... Read more

Mehlli Gobhai: Epiphanies

A series of breakthrough moments 27 Jul - 18 Sep 2021 Curated by Ranjit Hoskote & Nancy Adajania Meherwan Minocher Gobhai (1931-2018), always known as Mehlli Gobhai, was one of India’s most distinguished and pathbreaking abstractionists. Educated at St Xavier’s College and the Government College of Law, Mumbai, the Royal College of Art, London, the Pratt Graphics Center and the Art... Read more

Reimagining the object

Ritesh Meshram and Tallur LN | In-Touch Edition VI 28 May - 1 Jul 2021 Something curious happens when an ordinary object from everyday life enters Ritesh’s studio. Attempting to refashion familiar objects, he transforms their shape and function as he combines, bends, twists, crushes and detaches, to gives them a new life as a work of art. He begins by collecting utensils, surgical tools,... Read more

Into the light

Prafull Davé 23 Apr - 27 Jun 2021 The collaboration between Prafull Davé and Chemould, that started in the 1960’s, finds its continuation coming full circle in an online virtual exhibition Into the light, at Chemould Prescott Road. Prafull Davé explores transpersonal realms: his compositions oscillate between dream states of knowing and not knowing, having no beginning or... Read more

On|Site | Entry Only

Group show 3 - 9 Mar 2021 A collaborative project between four galleries at Bikaner House, New Delhi. Bikaner House, a former residence of the Maharaja of Bikaner in Rajasthan, retains its grand aura of a distinguished Edwardian neo-classical bungalow within the expanse of its 8 acres in Lutyens, Delhi. Ensconced within it are smaller rooms with... Read more

SOUTH SOUTH VEZA

Group show 24 Feb - 2 Mar 2021 SOUTH SOUTH is an online community, an anthology, an archive and a resource for artists, galleries, curators and collectors invested in the Global South. In the often disputed battleground of global history writing and history making, showcasing one’s own history is not an easy task, nor is it a unilateral... Read more

Somethings Are Always Burning

Aditi Singh 14 Jan - 31 Mar 2021 I stood once on a hill staring at an opposite hill that had thrust its face into mine. I gazed at it until dropping my eyes I saw with astonishment between me and it, a lake that I knew perfectly well was there. But it couldn’t be. There wasn’t room.... Read more

Elusive Recesses

Dhruvi Acharya | In-Touch Edition V 16 Dec 2020 - 1 Mar 2021 These ink and watercolor works were made while in isolation during the global coronavirus pandemic. If the fear of the virus was not enough, almost on a daily basis we were confronted with news of political upheavals, unrest and protests in countries across the world, crimes against minorities and against... Read more

Transfixed

Anusha Yadav 30 Nov - 31 Dec 2020 Transfixed is collaborative portrait series that is an ode to uniqueness in ideas of beauty and feminine expression. Manifested with volunteering individuals, the theatre of beauty, whether light to lavish, or dainty to dramatic, is a choice they exercise often, even if their bodies may or may not match up... Read more

Game of Chance

Lavanya Mani | In-Touch Edition IV 22 Sep - 7 Nov 2020 Early versions of the board game ‘Snakes and ladders originated in India as ‘Gyan chaupar’ or ‘Game of knowledge’. Usually painted on cloth or paper, these boards were often religious and didactic, instructing its players in the paths of spiritual discipline. The board was designed on the theory of Karma... Read more

In The Presence of Absence

Samira Rathod | In-Touch Edition III 17 Jul - 15 Sep 2020 Read more

Breathing on Mirrors

Anju Dodiya 11 Jun - 30 Jul 2020 Venue : Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai. Breathing on Mirrors ...as if, in a monosyllabic conversation, or mimicking emoticons, I have confined these drawings to a minimal emotional theatre. Like the German poet Rilke insists, the protagonist lets everything happen to her: beauty and terror. The tension of the creative act... Read more

Photo / Concept

Group show | In-Touch Edition II 5 Jun - 5 Jul 2020 Read more

Out-site / Insight

Group Show | In touch Edition I 24 Apr - 23 Jul 2020 We approached our artists inquiring how they were doing in this time of isolation. Several of them are unable to make art - using their time to read, watch films, or make work that is a process between themselves and their drawing board. Others have shared works where they have... Read more

Painting in the Time of Corona

Dhruvi Acharya 18 Apr - 18 May 2020 ALL WORKS ARE ON SALE. PROCEEDS WILL GO TOWARDS CHARITY. As Dhruvi Acharya’s watercolour paintings go on sale, proceeds will go towards those who are severely affected during this pandemic. Mumbai-based artist Dhruvi Acharya, known for her psychologically complex paintings based on personal experiences and events, turned to watercolours to... Read more

Don't ask me about colour

Mehlli Gobhai: A Retrospective 6 Mar - 25 Apr 2020 Venue: National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai. Curated by Ranjit Hoskote & Nancy Adajania Meherwan Minocher Gobhai (1931-2018), always known as Mehlli Gobhai, was one of India’s most distinguished and pathbreaking abstractionists. Educated at St Xavier’s College and the Government College of Law, Mumbai, the Royal College of Art, London,... Read more

Terranum Nuncius

Jitish Kallat 10 - 21 Jan 2020 For ‘Covering Letter (Terranum Nuncius) [2019–20], Kallat draws from the two phonographic Golden Records that were hoisted onto the legendary Voyager 1 and 2 space probes launched by NASA in 1977. Currently located over 13 billion miles away from Planet Earth, the contents of this ‘time capsule’ were assembled for... Read more

Recent Life

N S Harsha 9 Jan - 20 Feb 2020 N.S. Harsha's work has a rarity; his gallery exhibitions are few and far between. Indeed his work is laboured, his process slow. The fact is that Harsha has a rigorous practice. Recent museum exhibitions, biennales have left a footprint from 2016 to 2019 from the Kochi Biennale, Japan, Sydney Biennale... Read more

Blind Spots

Reena Saini Kallat 29 Nov - 28 Dec 2019 Reena Saini Kallat’s work is an extended and productive engagement with two starkly opposed conditions: schism and conflict on the one hand; and, on the other, hybridity and synthesis. This long-standing preoccupation emerges from the artist’s inheritance: her family background connects her to the historic trauma of the Partition. Over... Read more

5 Artists, 5 Projects

Group show 10 Oct - 9 Nov 2019 Generationally and presently, women artists have always dominated the spectrum of artists that we exhibit; this was not necessarily the decided route to take, however the trajectory presented itself. In bringing these projects to the limelight, we assimilated 5 projects by 5 artists that have combined within this show -... Read more

Woven Memoirs - A new kind of nature

Priya Ravish Mehra 5 Sep - 1 Oct 2019 At Chemould Prescott Road we feel honoured to be presenting works of the late Priya Ravish Mehra, who began as a weaver, but subsequently grew as an artist merging the integrity of her weaves into an abundance of materiality. Sewn with metaphorical meaning, aiming to restore general order, Priya Ravish... Read more

Modus Operandi II

Group Show 18 Jul - 24 Aug 2019 Synonymous with the first edition of Modus Operandi, where we brought together over 25 Chemould artists and their unique artistic language in dialogue with each other through various mediums, we now look forward to deepening this introduction. Once again, Chemould Prescott Road opens it's doors to the younger art enthusiast... Read more

Signs taken for Wonders

Lavanya Mani 14 Mar - 30 Apr 2019 At the beginning of the 21st century, and on the brink of an ecological catastrophe of global proportions, we appear to be on the threshold of a periodical rediscovering of the sense of wonder that the world appears to have lost. It is too early to speculate whether the return... Read more

Seven Minutes of Blackmail

Atul Dodiya 17 Jan - 21 Feb 2019 This set of paintings explores​​ Dodiya’s obsession with the medium of film, where his signature photographic painting style is often mistaken for photography. In this exhibition, he pays homage to the genius of Hitchcock, where Atul is seen recreating his legacy through the close watching of the Hitchcock film, Blackmail.... Read more

Abhaya in the palm of our hand

Bijoy Jain 30 Nov 2018 - 3 Jan 2019 Art/Architecture or Architecture/Art: What comes before, what comes after is not a question that Bijoy Jain addresses and he has never felt the need to do so. His work as an architect has always been layered with artistic approaches: land art, conceptual practices, abstraction, expressionism, figuration, gestures, where form and... Read more

So it goes

Yardena Kurulkar 22 Oct - 22 Nov 2018 Viewing art, like making it, is a private act, an intimate one. Particularly when it is about death. Viewing death, in life and in art, is again intensely personal, mostly individual. Or is it? Don’t we seem to give death- in life and in art-a public face? We place obituaries... Read more

In the Womb of the Land

Ritesh Meshram 6 Sep - 11 Oct 2018 Metal echoes strength. The first impression when you view a piece of metal is that of strength; It’s characteristics, its resonance, it’s internal density and dexterity gives us an indication of its potency. Metal is sound; Metal resonates; it is an expression of strength. Concurrently, it is also an expression... Read more

Modus Operandi

Group Show 13 Jul - 18 Aug 2018 This July, Chemould Prescott Road presents Modus Operandi, a show that has been devised by Shireen Gandhy and the Chemould team, brin ging together a large number of Chemould artists and showcasing their modes, methods and processes of art making . Borrowed from Latin, modus meaning “manner, method” and operand... Read more

Water Has Memory

Meera Devidayal 17 Apr - 12 May 2018 My attempt has always been to turn the ‘found image’ into a visual metaphor, and charge it with new meaning. In this collection the trigger was — an office building surrounded by office buildings; the sea somewhere round the corner, unseen, suddenly appearing as a reflection in a window. As... Read more

Juloos and Other Stories

Shakuntala Kulkarni 14 Mar - 7 Apr 2018 The film Juloos is a declaration of the vision that each and every person has equal rights and freedom as an individual, and, as part of a community. Within the space of this declaration Shakuntala Kulkarni has addressed her concern, the violation of the female body, in public and private... Read more

UnMYthU

Mithu Sen 1 Feb - 3 Mar 2018 Chemould Prescott Road presents Mithu Sen’s solo show in India after eight years. The gallery will be converted into a (Con)Temporary Museum and this exhibition is a preview of an (un)certain future museum show. Five instructional museum pieces will be performed under legal contractual guidelines between the artist and each... Read more

Smoke Out

Tallur LN 18 Dec 2017 - 18 Jan 2018 “When the water reaches the upper level, we follow the rats” Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months two rats could have over a million descendants. Philosophically, the rat is a connotation of the human mind. Our mind is always full of desires and is often selfish, just like... Read more

Terrain: Carrying Across Leaving Behind

Nilima Sheikh 17 Nov - 9 Dec 2017 The exhibition Terrain : Carrying Across, Leaving Behind, consists of a single body of work: an 8 panel, retro verso, Casein tempera painting, enclosing an octagonal space. Inscribed in these panels are stories from folklore to present times that lend to each other new and cumulative language, and contexts. This... Read more

Mapping Memory

Madhvi Subrahmanian 7 - 29 Sep 2017 With ecology in delicate balance today, Madhvi Subrahmanian has created a tactile experience where questions about the disconnect of contemporary times with its environment are brought forth. Her works are made of terracotta, stoneware, porcelain, gold and cowdung, which invite you to meander through this show, reconnecting with the most... Read more

Access Time

Group show 9 - 23 Mar 2017 Curated by Devika Daulet-Singh Chemould Prescott, Mumbai is pleased to present a group exhibition of black & white photographs, Some Portraits curated by Devika Daulet Singh in collaboration with PHOTOINK. Drawn from the archives of Pablo Bartholomew, Richard Bartholomew, Madan Mahatta, Ram Rahman, Sadanand Menon, Ketaki Sheth and Sooni Taraporevala,... Read more

fold / unfold

Sonia Khurana 20 Jan - 25 Feb 2017 Fold/unfold gathers different vignettes across time, that place the body in an oblique relation to diffused feminist aesthetics of the counter-spectacle and performative resistance. I have aligned the selection of artworks for ‘fold/unfold’ with my recent, extensive conversations with cultural theorist and visual analyst, Griselda Pollock. Both her recent essay... Read more

Ōtah Prōtah

Bhuvanesh Gowda 9 Dec 2016 - 6 Jan 2017 The show featured a set of Bhuvanesh's recent sculptures made of discarded (and o< en decaying) pieces of wood salvaged from dismantled houses and elsewhere. Breathing new life into seemingly redundant objects, Bhuvanesh conceptually aBempts to reconnect the past with the present. In his skilled hands, old and worn out... Read more

After the Fall

Dhruvi Acharya 14 Oct - 19 Nov 2016 Employing her subtle, dark and wry humour, Dhruvi Acharya’s new body of work explores the arduous emotional and psychological processes of reconstructing one’s self and returning to a purposeful life. The work exposes the numbness, the disbelief and the deafening screams in one’s head, where battles have to be fought... Read more

46 Pillars

Sheetal Gatani 15 May - 30 Aug 2016 Chemould Prescott Road re-envisioned itself into an open studio as artist Sheetal Gattani created her site-specifiic installation titled 46 Pillars over the last three months. The gallery walls will also house her new body of drawings, White Grass, where white paper and charcoal found their way as layers upon layers... Read more

The In-Coming Passengers

Desmond Lazaro 10 Mar - 16 Apr 2016 Desmond Lazaro was born into an Anglo Indian family in Leeds, England. His parents on the other hand migrated from Burma to Leeds in 1957 and Lazaro's great-grandfather hailed from Madras in the 1800s. When Desmond moved to India to do his MFA at the Faculty of Fine Arts in... Read more

Sightings

Jitish Kallat 22 Feb - 1 Mar 2016 The exhibition Sightings brings together an assembly of conceptual and sensory propositions through a suite of drawings, sculptures, photo-pieces and video. Seen throughout the exhibition are the themes of time, sustenance, sleep, along with an interplay of scales and proximities, and evocations of the celestial; preoccupations that have recurred across... Read more

I am a landscape painter

Archana Hande 3 Dec 2015 - 6 Jan 2016 Chemould Prescott Road is pleased to present I am Landscape Painter by Archana Hande. Hybridity. Exchange. Migration. These words coalesce around the human stories Archana Hande explores through mixed media in her ongoing show I am a Landscape Painter. A suite of photographs, videos, watercolours and textiles created as part... Read more

The Ark

Gigi Scaria 22 Oct - 21 Nov 2015 An apocalypse is coming onto us; our world and the worlds before. According to Gigi Scaria, climate change and subsequent territorial disputes have the potential to tear the social fabric of humanity. His work intervenes at the juncture of this apocalypse as explores this fantastical Biblical devastation. As the steps... Read more

Hyphenated Lives

Reena Saini Kallat 11 Sep - 10 Oct 2015 Reena Saini Kallat’s solo exhibition at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, titled Hyphenated Lives advance poetic and provocative inquiries into ideas of unison and estrangement, of confluence and conflict. After a gap of nearly 7 years since her last solo at the gallery in 2008, Hyphenated Lives opened on 11th September... Read more

A Summer Mix

Group Show 20 May - 15 Jul 2015 Aditi Singh | Anju Dodiya | Atul Dodiya | Bhuvanesh Gowda | Desmond Lazaro | Dhruvi Acharya | Gigi Scaria | Jitish Kallat | Lavanya Mani | Meera Devidayal | Mithu Sen | N S Harsha | Reena Saini Kallat | Ritesh Meshram | Shakuntala Kulkarni A Summer Mix is... Read more

As if - IV Night for Day

Group show 9 Mar - 30 Apr 2015 Read more

Masquerade and Other Apologues

Anant Joshi 15 Jan - 14 Feb 2015 A weathervane that hangs blow-torched plastic toys that enact the divisions of the headlines of a broadsheet, surely critiques an aesthetic. Anant Joshi is an artist who keenly archives the change in broadsheet design, and the use of images that reflect a neo-liberal turn in politics. In act of precision,... Read more

Postmortem (After Gagawaka)

Vivan Sundaram 26 Nov 2014 - 3 Jan 2015 Chemould Prescott Road is pleased to announce its forthcoming exhibition by Vivan Sundaram titled POSTMORTEM (after Gagawaka) which runs through January 3, 2015. The artist reflects on the exhibition: “In POSTMORTEM (after Gagawaka), the body is ‘stripped bare’ and placed upfront. The mannequins are dissected and show their neutral attributes.... Read more

A Terrible Beauty

Meera Devidayal 28 Apr - 9 Jul 2014 Chemould Prescott Road is pleased to present a suite of Videos, Photographs and Paintings by Meera Devidayal in her forthcoming solo A Terrible Beauty. With these works Devidayal looks at the life and after life of the mills in the city, drawing references from art and architecture apart from the... Read more

Aesthetic Bind: Floating World

50 Years of Chemould | Group Show 19 Mar - 17 Apr 2014 Among several imaginaries conjured by the Floating World, there is cosmology and a revolving earth-world; oceanic flows and cartographic representation of the globe’s topography; and an incremental growth in migration, transmission and transcultural traffic. [In art history, Floating World is known to be the translated designation of Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcut... Read more

Aesthetic Bind: Cabinet Closet Wunderkammer

50 Years of Chemould | Group Show 20 Jan - 3 Mar 2014 There are small exhibitions within this exhibition compacted by a set of framing devices. The Closet holds intimate things: clothes, mementos, secrets about self and identity, fears or even crimes. Glass-fronted Cabinets display objects ranging from books and photos to miscellaneous exotica referred to as ‘curiosities’. A Cabinet of Curiosities... Read more

Aesthetic Bind: Phantomata

50 Years of Chemould | Group Show 29 Nov 2013 - 3 Jan 2014 A monumental photograph condenses Nikhil Chopra’s five-day ‘pilgrimage’ where the artist, dressed in a peasant smock, moves from his cloistered abode into the fields to paint the medieval Tuscan town of San Gimignano. Mimesis is at the heart of this performance: he gradually costumes himself in a manner resembling the... Read more

Aesthetic Bind: Citizen Artist: Forms of Address

50 Years of Chemould | Group Show 14 Oct - 15 Nov 2013 The exhibition Citizen Artist: Forms of Address is the second of 5 exhibitions curated by Geeta Kapur, celebrating 50 years of Chemould. Gallery artists, Jitish Kallat, Rashid Rana, Shilpa Gupta, Pushpamala N, Gigi Scaria, Tushar Joag are part of the exhibition, and artists from outside of the gallery stable -... Read more

Aesthetic Bind: Subject of Death

50 Years of Chemould | Group Show 3 Sep - 3 Oct 2013 Chemould Prescott Road, celebrates 50 years of Contemporary Art through a series of 5 exhibitions, Aesthetic Bind, curated by Geeta Kapur which looks at curatorial practices in contemporary art today. The first in the series, titled, Subject of Death, is a homage to the preeminent painter of our times, Bhupen... Read more

Demolition Series

Bijoy Jain 31 May - 10 Aug 2013 As part of Chemould Prescott’s interest in the fluidity between art and architecture, we are delighted to present a new series of installations by Studio Mumbai/ Bijoy Jain. Instinctive response to any condition is honest and devoid of any burden of culture. Such intuition is immediate in time and space.... Read more

Parsis

Sooni Taraporevala 5 Mar - 6 Apr 2013 Chemould Prescott Road is delighted to announce PARSIS - an exhibition of photographs by Sooni Taraporevala. The exhibition will present familiar images from her seminal book, but will mostly show as yet unseen work. Many of these photographs have been viewed across the world, but amazingly this will be their... Read more

Meandering Warps

Monika Correa 24 Jan - 23 Feb 2013 Read more

Avega the Passion

Pushpamala N 6 Nov - 6 Dec 2012 Chemould Prescott Road is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by Pushpamala N. The Passion explores the characters of three women from the Ramayana as archetypal figures. Set in fantasy environments, fateful incidents from the epic are played out on a spectacular stage in both still photographs... Read more

Room for Erasures

Anju Dodiya 24 Sep - 26 Oct 2012 Born in Bombay, Dodiya graduated from the JJ School of Art in 1986.In 1991, Dodiya had her first solo exhibition at Gallery Chemould; now she engages the larger space of Chemould Prescott Road, completing a journey she describes as 'singularly sharp and linear', in which old anxieties and recurring themes,... Read more

Of Bodies, Armour and Cages

Shakuntala Kulkarni 17 Aug - 15 Sep 2012 Kulkarni has been fascinated by the very structure, and the grandeur of the armour: masculine, stiff, strong, lasting and peerless in nature. Armors in the days gone by, were worn by warriors to protect themselves during encounters or wars. Made of metal and leather, these armors were designed to look... Read more

Pursuit of the Ridiculous

Bhuvanesh Gowda & Ritesh Meshram 7 Jul - 3 Aug 2012 In search of possibilities we encounter impossibilities, which lead to some different possibilities. The impossibilities of today may or may not be possible tomorrow; but they are promising; they call you into the unknown. I am looking into some possible impossibilities and impossible possibilities. To me if meaningless is meaningless... Read more

Apposite Opposite

Rashid Rana 6 Apr - 26 May 2012 Chemould Prescott Road and Chatterjee & Lal are pleased to announce Rashid Rana’s major solo exhibition- Apposite | Opposite - his first in India in four years. Rana, a resident of Lahore, is amongst South Asia’s most celebrated artists and has forged a special relationship with India over the past... Read more

Gagawaka: Making Strange

Vivan Sundaram 27 Feb - 21 Mar 2012 These here are hybrids whichever way you look at them: recycled trash, found objects, bazaar buys, luxury throwaways. They are sheltering sculptures, sculptural garments, garment effigies. They are amputated mannequins, props and tailors’ dummies, and also elaborately crafted objects courting beauty. On occasion these hybrids are wearable art, they are... Read more

Someone Else

Shilpa Gupta 21 Jan - 16 Feb 2012 Masquerading as seven different avatars decked out in camouflage, or identifying with Kashmiri women whose husbands have gone missing, the performing of other selves has been a consistent stratagem in Shilpa Guptas practice. However, with Someone Else (2011) Gupta expands her purview. She is not assuming other identities, but attempts... Read more

Passageway

Wolfgang Liab 16 Dec 2011 - 13 Jan 2012 Chemould Prescott Road - in association with Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, IFA, and the Goethe Institut Mumbai - is delighted to present passageway, the first solo exhibition in India of internationally renowned German artist Wolfgang Laib. Born in 1950, Laib began working as an artist in 1972. Several iconic, almost... Read more

Bako Exists. Imagine

Atul Dodiya 10 - 20 Oct 2011 Bako exists. Imagine is a text-based work which consists of twelve paintings and an installation with nine wooden cabinets. These poetic episodes are based on a fiction, written in Gujarati by a major contemporary Gujarati poet Labhshanker Thaker. Bako is a young boy who meets Bapu - Mahatma Gandhi, in... Read more

Stations of a Pause

Jitish Kallat 22 Mar - 5 May 2011 One of the key sections of the show at Chemould Prescott Road addresses a very personal story. Kallat’s 750-part photographic work, titled 'Epilogue', tracing, his father's life through all the moons he saw from the day he was born on 2nd April 1936 to the day of his death on... Read more

New Works

Mehlli Gobhai 13 Jan - 28 Feb 2011 Surge and Absorption Austerely refined as they are, in the taut linearity of their structure and the deep-welling penumbral richness of their colour, Mehlli Gobhai’s paintings have often been thought to be restful. Whether suggestive of cool metal, burnished leather, weathered stone or the edge of luminosity signing a margin... Read more

Let it be a heaven of blackred roses

Aditi Singh 9 Dec 2010 - 8 Jan 2011 This interview is the culmination of a year long conversation conducted from New York, Mumbai and Florida. Between archivist to artist, this ongoing tète-à-tète documents discursively, the vagaries of artistic life and practice, in a way that is honest and reflective of actual life. Part-documentation, part-journal, part-palimpsest, In the Dark... Read more

Splitting the Other

Nalini Manali 1 - 30 Nov 2010 ‘Splitting the Other’ was not only the title of Nalini Malani’s magnus opus for the 52nd Venice Biennale but also the title of her seminal retrospective from the period 1992 to 2009 at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne. At Chemould Prescott and Chatterjee & Lal a small but... Read more

Cities of the Future

Shezad Dawood 24 Sep - 20 Oct 2010 After the partition of India, Nehru invited the Swiss Modernist architect Le Corbusier to design the Chandigarh Parliament. While one can look at this as the intervention of European Modernism in India, if one looks at the bigger picture there is an obvious thread of mystic geometry originating in the... Read more

Each Night Put Kashmir in Your Dreams

Nilima Sheikh 29 Mar - 29 Apr 2010 In times when following careers of artists is becoming increasingly difficult with their work being shown across the globe and retrospectives few and far between it is a pleasure to welcome Nilima Sheikh’s latest show at Chemould Prescott Road, Bombay, showcasing some of her major work from 2003 onwards. The... Read more

Black Candy

Mithu Sen 23 Feb - 20 Mar 2010 Building on earlier engagements in her work with sexuality, intimacy, and identity, in this series Sen turns her attention to the male psyche and gaze, depicting playful and serious images of the intimate lives of men in a series of large-scale drawings. These are accompanied by a selection of sound... Read more

Paris Autumn

Pushpamala N 9 Nov - 9 Dec 2009 For her second solo exhibition with Nature Morte, Pushpamala N. presented a new body of works entitled 'Paris Autumn.' The centerpiece of the show was a 35 minute black-and-white film which has been constructed entirely from still photographs. The film will run continuously throughout the day at the gallery and... Read more

In Praise of Folly

Lavanya Mani 4 - 28 Sep 2009 Lavanya Mani’s body of work explores a range of perspectives on history, society, trade and craft. Using kalamkari, a centuries-old technique for dyeing and drawing on fabric, Lavanya has created a context in which to survey the fascination that Indian textiles and their makers provoke. Her works are virtuoso demonstrations... Read more

Amusement Park

Gigi Scaria 5 - 31 Aug 2009 Ever since civilisation was formed and nurtured, the city has become a fascinating phenomenon. The world started to live up to the expectations of the city and the city continuously demanded a space, character and logic of its own, in order to fulfil the aspirations of an urban nomad. Notions... Read more

Where I Live

Meera Devidayal 4 May - 9 Jun 2009 For several years, the city as ‘Dream-World’ has been at the core of my paintings. How hapless migrants from across the country get lured into its neon-lit web of seemingly limitless opportunity—without seeing its swampy underbelly. Though the ‘WELCOME’ shining gold from afar turns to rusty iron as they draw... Read more

Placebo

Tallur LN 5 Mar - 22 Apr 2009 While Tallur's recent work can be situated in a post-conceptualist lineage of object and installation oriented practice, it is also interesting to think about his work following in the footsteps of the late self-taught painter Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003) who having failed the entrance test for the same degree in painting,... Read more

New Works

Sheetal Gattani 2 - 21 Feb 2009 Sheetal Gattani’s paintings speak many languages and conjure up many emotions. Layer upon layer of colour with no discernable form lend a sense of timelessness to the works – we are immediately reminded of moss laden and rusted surfaces that have weathered over decades of neglect and decay. Yet, these... Read more

Silt of Seasons

Reena Kallat Saini 8 Dec 2008 - 25 Jan 2009 In Silt of Seasons, the coming together of Saini Kallat's recent body of work under one roof, including the varied media of sculpture, photography, painting and video, reflect a wide range of her recurrent thematic engagements and interests: politics, evolutions in human conditions, notions of loss, territory and borders. Her... Read more

Me-Mom

Tanujaa Rane 17 Oct - 15 Nov 2008 Tanujaa Rane is a printmaker, who has pursued the technique of etching today with a meticulousness that is rare in today’s world of art production. Printmaking is a subject that several artists take up while in art school, but the continued practice is now somewhat rare. Making of prints is... Read more

New Works

Desmond Lazaro 17 Sep - 8 Oct 2008 This body of work is a return to contemporary imagery, the occupancy of discarded minutes of everyday life - fleeting moments that rarely one retains as visual. He continues to employ traditional techniques in a craftsman like manner through the stringent preparation of all materials: cloth, paper, brushes and pigment... Read more

One Life on Earth

Dhruvi Acharya 6 - 30 Aug 2008 After her critically acclaimed show in 2006, Chemould Prescott Road and Nature Morte are very pleased to present Dhruvi Acharya with a new body of work titled, One Life on Earth in August and October 2008. Dhruvi Acharya's whimsical, highly detailed and layered painting continues. In these days where the... Read more

Trash

Vivan Sundaram 22 Apr - 17 May 2008 Vivan Sundaram’s exhibition, Trash, develops a theme that has engaged him since 1997. Based on the economy and aesthetics of second-hand goods and urban waste, Trash recalls Sundaram’s installation, Great Indian Bazaar, (1997), and carries over parts of his large exhibition, living.it.out.in.delhi,(2005). In Delhi he had involved waste-pickers in the... Read more

Stand still like a hummingbird

Aditi Singh 27 Mar - 11 Apr 2008 For Singh, the natural world is a tableau through which the artist explores the processes that define and question a more internal world - one of perception and sensory experience. Her compositions are an interplay between stillness and motion, fragility and permanence, an equilibrium that is at once tense and... Read more

Sweatopia

Jitish Kallat 8 Dec 2007 - 4 Jan 2008 Chemould Prescott Road and Bodhi Art jointly present Jitish Kallat's seventeenth solo exhibition, which also marks his debut solo at Gallery Chemould and Prithvi Gallery ten years ago. Jitish Kallat's debut at Gallery Chemould in 1997 was notable in more ways than one. He was all of twenty-three, by far... Read more

Dis-Location

Rashid Rana 12 - 29 Nov 2007 In this age of uncertainty we have lost the privilege to have only one worldview: the absence of truth or realisation of its impossibility is invoked through the works of Rashid Rana. Now every image, idea and truth (may it be ancient or media generated) encompasses its opposite within itself.... Read more

And When She Roared The Universe Quaked

Shakuntala Kulkarni 12 - 30 Oct 2007 In 'And When She Roared The Universe Quaked” Shakuntala Kulkarni examines gendered, female, creative/creating bodies as a site of both “otherness” and empowerment. By adopting a vocabulary of defamiliarised bodies, eerie juxtapositions and sculptural signifiers, she playfully confronts, angrily shatters or slyly subverts the limitations of epic, “timeless” narratives and... Read more

Relics of Grey

Archana Hande 5 Jul - 4 Aug 2007 Archana Hande’s artwork and creative practice has always extended into diverse modes, venues, concerns and forms. She has with ease slipped into the intersecting roles of activist, facilitator, interventionist, and maker all wrapped into one. Her interests have led her to draw upon a variety of resources, her projects having... Read more

Navel: One and Many

Anant Joshi 13 Mar - 14 Apr 2007 Anant Joshi has often arrived at his drawings and paintings from forms and spaces that he sculpts or constructs. He uses carefully selected toys that he breaks apart, paints over and re-contextualizes (a process of de-construction and then re-construction within his own space and context.) At times he creates mini-dioramas... Read more

Shri Khakhar Prasanna

Atul Dodiya 2 Feb - 3 Mar 2007 When the idea of a new gallery and an expansion programme emerged, it was very clear to Shireen that she would open the gallery with an Atul Dodiya show. Dodiya’s first solo exhibition in 1989 was held by Gallery Chemould and it was the first show that Shireen planned and... Read more