The Listicle

What's hot and happening in the world of art this month

ISSUE DATE: May 4, 2026

THROUGH THE ARTIST’S EYE

Bikaner House CCA | New Delhi | April 27- May 3

This solo exhibition by British artist Stuart Robertson was developed during an 18-month residency at Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital in Delhi. Working across photography, drawing, bronze sculpture and cyanotype, Robertson reflects on sight as both a medical and perceptual experience.

TRACING TRADITION, SHAPING MODERNITY

Akara Modern | Mumbai | On view till May 2

The exhibition presents works by Meera Mukherjee and Jamini Roy from the Lechner Collection. Formed through close personal exchanges in 1960s Calcutta, the collection reflects an intimate engagement with artists and their contexts. Juxtaposing Roy’s vernacular modernism with Mukherjee’s sculptural reinterpretation of indigenous casting traditions, the show traces parallel approaches to form, labour and narrative.

EPOCHAL: THE PERIOD OF PIONEERS

DAG and Chatterjee & Lal | Mumbai | On view till June 11

Curated by Mortimer Chatterjee, the show features paintings, sculptures, prints and archival material to map a wider network of artists working between the 1950s and 1970s. Moving beyond singular narratives, it foregrounds a layered account of how modern Indian art evolved through dialogue, inheritance and interdisciplinary practice.

TRILOKA

Srishti Art | Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad | On view till May 22

The fifth edition of Triloka brings together Moumita Basak, Nirmal Mondal and Nayanjyoti Barman, who work with cloth, clay, pigment and found elements. From Basak’s reimagined social gestures to Mondal’s fragile negotiations with history and Barman’s dense techno-organic networks, the exhibition resists seamless narratives, instead tracing porous, unfinished worlds shaped by tension, erosion and interconnected systems.

EMILY JACIR: WHERE WE COME FROM

Experimenter| Hindustan Road, Kolkata | On view till June 6

Emily Jacir’s first solo exhibition in India is centred on her seminal 2001-03 project. Rooted in acts of delegation and return, the work responds to requests from Palestinians across geographies, translating intimate desires into gestures enacted within restricted territories. Through photographs, texts and video, Jacir weaves personal narratives into a broader reflection on displacement, memory and resistance, foregrounding how everyday acts sustain belonging amid enduring structures of occupation and control.

—Compiled by Nikhil Sardana

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