11 Must-See Art & Cultural Exhibitions in India This Season
Check out what’s on this October as top galleries across India
As the festive season sets in and cultural calendars begin to fill up, India’s art world is coming alive with a stunning array of exhibitions across its major cities. From bold retrospectives of modern masters to intimate solo shows and immersive multimedia experiences, this season’s lineup offers a rich tapestry of visual storytelling.
Whether you're strolling through the contemporary corridors of Delhi’s art districts, diving into Mumbai’s vibrant gallery scene, or discovering cutting-edge curation in Kolkata, there's something to spark every imagination. With the art showcases these exhibitions reflect the pulse of a country constantly negotiating tradition, modernity, memory and innovation.
We’ve curated a list of the most compelling art and cultural exhibitions happening across India this season. Add them to your calendar, so you won’t want to miss these. Here are 11 must-visit art and cultural exhibitions across India that should be on your radar this autumn:
Bvlgari Serpenti Exhibition
Where: NMACC, Mumbai
When: October 1- October 17,2025
This opulent showcase by Italian luxury brand Bvlgari celebrates the iconic Serpenti motif through a blend of jewellery, heritage, and contemporary art. Expect a fusion of craftsmanship and storytelling with a luxe edge. The exhibition marks a dazzling cultural moment; a multi-sensory celebration of the iconic Serpenti symbol that has captivated the world for decades
In-Between Dreams by Pema 'Tintin' Tshering
Where: Threshold Art Gallery, C-221, Sarvodaya Enclave, New Delhi
When: Until October 18, 2025
Dive into dreamscapes and inner mythologies in this deeply personal solo exhibition. Pema Tshering’s unique visual language blurs memory, fantasy, and reality.
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Woman Song | Looking Back
Where: Vadehra Art Gallery, Defence Colony, New Delhi
When: Until October 11, 2025
A powerful retrospective that revisits the voices of women in Indian contemporary art, this exhibition explores femininity, resistance, and reclamation. The art exhibition is a solo show by artist Vasundhara Tewari Broota at the Vadehra Art Gallery in New Delhi, featuring her feminist figurative paintings from the 1980s to the present. The exhibition explores the female form as a site of strength and process, with a gaze that moves from the physical to the psychic.
FN Souza: Drawings and Chemical Alterations
Where: Emami Art, Kolkata
When: August 29 – October 18, 2025
A rare chance to witness experimental works by modernist master FN Souza, highlighting his lesser-known altered drawings that challenge both medium and message.
Mishran: A Medley of Mediums
Where: Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
When: October 1 – October 5, 2025
A vibrant short-run group show featuring a collision of styles and materials. From sculpture to digital art, Mishran is a treat for the visually curious.
Madhvi Parekh: Remembered Tales
Where: DAG, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai
When: Until October 31, 2025
Step into the world of Madhvi Parekh, where folk traditions meet surreal storytelling. A lyrical journey into India’s cultural subconscious. Madhvi Parekh: Remembered Tales showcases a fresh, never-before-seen body of work that reaffirms the artist’s pioneering role in shaping a unique idiom of modernism.
The exhibition takes its name from Parekh’s lifelong habit of drawing—her sketchbooks, filled with spontaneous images and everyday details, inspired many of these new paintings. In revisiting them, Parekh finds not repetition but renewal. They speak to the rhythms of daily life—where her art remains inseparable from the domestic realm.
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Nikhil Chaganlal: Intimate Vistas of the Interiors
Where: Art Musings, Mumbai
When: Until October 24, 2025
A contemplative exploration of domestic spaces and quiet corners, Chaganlal’s paintings are visual meditations. The interiors that Nikhil Chaganlal evokes in his recent paintings are atmospheres rather than spaces. Cast as memoirs, they capture the flavour of remembered occasions, the texture of half-expressed desires, the fugitive moods that linger in the aftermath of conversation, festivity and the disclosure of self to other.
In these frames, the artist fuses the actual with the imagined or symbolic: he merges features that exist, in childhood homes and adult staging-points he has known, with tropes that emblematise styles, periods and idioms of comfort that he cherishes.
Anupam Roy: …ing: Sceneries Without Sovereignty
Where: Project 88, Mumbai
When: Until October 31, 2025
Pushing the boundaries of landscape as a genre, Roy's work interrogates political and ecological terrains through abstract mappings and interventions.
Abul Hisham: Shrines
Where: Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, New Delhi
When: Until October 23, 2025
Bridging the personal and the sacred, Shrines evokes the quiet power of spaces that hold memory, ritual, and loss. A hauntingly beautiful experience.
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Shobha Broota: Painting Infinity
Where: DAG, New Delhi
When: Until October 18, 2025
Veteran artist Shobha Broota meditates on the infinite through minimalism and pattern. Her textured canvases draw viewers into a contemplative stillness.
The Body of the Ascetic
Where: DAG, New Delhi
When: Until October 18, 2025
This thematic group exhibition explores spiritual embodiment through classical and contemporary lenses, examining how asceticism is visualised in Indian art.
Curated by Gayatri Sinha, The Body of the Ascetic explores how asceticism has been represented across diverse spiritual and cultural traditions in the history of the Indian subcontinent.
Featuring works that span different media, time periods, and identities, the exhibition presents a nuanced view of the ascetic figure by various artists including A. H. Müller, A. P. Bagchi, Altaf, Amit Ambalal, Ardeshir Duishajee Tavaria, Asit Kumar Haldar and more
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From Delhi’s thriving gallery districts to Mumbai’s historic art spaces and Kolkata’s avant-garde enclaves, this season is rich with opportunities to engage with thought-provoking and visually stunning exhibitions. Whether you're looking for socio-political commentary, spiritual introspection, or bold experimentation, there's something for every art lover.