From New Delhi’s Thapar Contemporary and Bikaner House to Mumbai’s NGMA and Jehangir Art Gallery, June’s exhibitions traverse themes of identity, belonging, memory and the grotesque. Visitors can encounter figurative narratives, object-based metaphors, nature-inflected modernism and cinematic archives, revealing how Indian artists reinterpret tradition amid shifting social and ecological realities.
Art scene in India is as diverse as the country itself. From talented new and revered Indian artists to the international ones, the month of June has diverse showcase across the country waiting for you.
Check out what art galleries have in store for you this month.
When: Until 21 June
Where: Thapar Contemporary, New Delhi
A group exhibition showcasing works by Amitabh Kumar, Bhrigudev Ranade, Chandrashekhar Koteshwar, Harmeet Singh and more examines the increasingly blurred boundaries between personal anxiety and collective crisis.
When: Until 23 June
Where: Main Gallery, Bikaner House, New Delhi
The exhibition explores memory, identity, belonging, and cross-cultural connection through evocative figurative paintings inspired by Julia’s life in India.
When: Until 3 July
Where: Art Alive Gallery, S-221 Panchsheel Park, New Delhi
The exhibition brings together two distinct yet resonant artistic practices that examine the emotional, historical, and metaphorical lives of everyday objects, exploring how material forms become vessels of memory, identity, aspiration, and lived experience.
When: Until 10th July
Where: Emami Art, Kolkata
A group exhibition with works by artists including L. M. Sen and K. C. Pyne, the exhibition explores the recurring presence of the natural world, the human figure, and the animal form within modern and contemporary practices. Spanning photography, painting, printmaking, textile, ceramic, and sculpture, the exhibition traces how certain visual motifs return over time, each iteration shaped by shifting material, social, and ecological contexts.
When: Until 15 June
Where: Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
The exhibition brings together a new body of work that reflects an ongoing engagement with stillness as both subject and process. Through layered surfaces, softened horizons, and restrained palettes, the paintings create immersive environments that invite quiet reflection.
When: Until 3 July
Where: Method, Delhi D-59, Basement, Defence Colony
A group exhibition with 10 artists including Priyesh T, Revant Dasgupta and others, Slow Rot withers into the Grotesque, an artistic mode that warps reality to expose its more sinister aspects. The grotesque is a confrontation with the frailty of selfhood rather than just a reflection of the monstrous.
When: 4 June - 4 October 2026
Where: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Curated by Marina Schulz and Tunty Chauhan, the exhibition brings together works by eleven leading Indian artists, Afrah Shafiq, Anindita Bhattacharya and more in partnership with Threshold Art Gallery, New Delhi and Hermitage Museum.
It places contemporary Indian artistic practice in dialogue with historical objects, icons, manuscripts, frescoes, and decorative works from the collections of the State Hermitage Museum and other major Russian institutions.
Moreover, founded by Catherine the Great in 1764, the Hermitage is one of the world’s most historically significant museums, housing over three million objects across centuries of global art history. Within this context, the exhibition positions contemporary Indian art within a broader international and civilisational discourse.
When: Until 30 June
Where: NGMA, Mumbai
The exhibition features works by some of India’s most respected photojournalists - Pradeep Chandra, Shantanu Das, Sudharak Olwe, and Bandeep Singh - alongside a rare archival showcase curated by noted archivist, author, and film historian SMM Ausaja, as well as Neha Kamat of Kamat Foto Flash, granddaughter of Damodar Kamat.
The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, presents ‘Lens and Legacy: Bollywood in Focus’—an expansive exhibition celebrating the visual evolution of Indian cinema. The exhibition opens on April 30 to honour the birth anniversary of cinema pioneer Dadasaheb Phalke, while celebrating Mumbai’s global recognition as a UNESCO Creative City of Film.