Must-See Art Exhibitions Across India This October
As we start planning the year-end calendar, October offers a chance to make room for art while enjoying the Diwali festivities. Across India, galleries are opening their doors to a vibrant lineup of exhibitions that spark curiosity and conversation. From reimagining discarded materials and exploring abstraction to reflecting on memory, ancestral wisdom, and the meaning of home. This month’s shows find expression through art, and here are the art shows to add to your calendar this fall.
What the Light Remembers by Riddhi Shah | Gallerie Nvya, New Delhi
For those looking to explore contemporary Indian art, Shah’s works offer an interesting study of pattern, nature and memory. Using gouache, watercolour, gold pigment and walnut stain on Sanganeri and acid-free paper, the artist combines painted botanical details with intricate, cut-paper jaali designs.
Works such as Champa Outside My Window, Nilgiri and Krishna Kamal are particularly worth looking out for. By cutting sections out of the paper, Shah allows light and shadow to change the appearance of each composition as visitors move around it.
Beyond the visual interplay of paper, paint and light, the works invite visitors to consider how memory is shaped by personal experiences, family histories and inherited traditions. For anyone planning an art-focused outing, the show offers an opportunity to look beyond the surface and engage with ideas around nature, identity and the structures that shape our lives..
Date: 26th September - 15th November 2026
Time: 11 AM - 7 PM
Venue: Gallerie Nvya, 101–103, Square One Designer Arcade, C-2, District Centre, Saket, New Delhi – 110017
Golpo Kotha by Debosmita Samanta | Method, New Delhi
If you’re looking for an art exhibition that draws on storytelling and cultural memory, Golpo Kotha at Method Delhi is worth adding to your list. The solo exhibition by Debosmita Samanta looks at the fairytales passed down by grandmothers, using them as a starting point to explore family, womanhood and the social realities that shape our lives.
Rather than treating fairytales as simple stories of fantasy, Samanta draws on the experiences and metaphors woven into her grandmother’s tales. References to Bengali folklore, literature and mythology add another layer, connecting personal stories with a wider cultural history. The theme of ‘Home’ runs through the show, bringing questions of belonging, changing family relationships and inherited wisdom into focus.
Date : 9th October - 26th November
Time: 12 PM to 7 PM | Every day except Mondays
Venue: Method, Delhi D-59, Basement, Defence Colony
MARKING TIME: what remains, passes, and returns by Rahul Kumar | Gallery Exhibit 320, New Delhi
If you’re interested in art that looks at life’s bigger questions, MARKING TIME: What Remains, Passes, and Returns at Exhibit 320 is worth a visit. The solo exhibition by Rahul Kumar brings together over 70 recent ceramic works, using clay to explore memory, impermanence and what it means to leave something behind.
Through his ceramic works, Kumar considers how experiences shape us, what we choose to hold on to and what inevitably slips away. Drawing on philosophical and sacred texts from different traditions, he also explores the idea of death as a transition rather than a definitive end.
It is a thoughtful addition to Delhi’s contemporary art calendar, particularly for those drawn to exhibitions that leave room for interpretation rather than offering easy answers.
Date: 17th October - 30th November
Time: 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM (Closed on Sunday)
Venue: Gallery Exhibit 320, F-320, Lado Sarai, (320, F-320, Lado Sarai, New Delhi)
TARA by Ka-Sha | 47A Khotachiwadi, Mumbai
TARA by Ka-Sha explores how discarded materials can find new life through mindful making and reconstruction. At the centre of the showcase is Heart to Haat, the label’s initiative that reworks production waste, pre-loved garments and everyday materials such as beads, buttons and wires into clothing, accessories and new objects.
Going beyond finished pieces, there is an evolving installation, complete with a Maker’s Table, that invites visitors to experiment with fabric scraps and textile remnants, offering a glimpse into how discarded materials can become something new. Rather than simply presenting sustainability as an idea, the showcase encourages visitors to engage with it through making and experimentation.
Date: 4th October- 8th November
Time: 11AM - 7PM (Daily, except Monday)
Venue: 47A, Khotachiwadi, Mumbai
MORPHOLOGY featuring Meenal Singh and Sandilya Theuerkauf | KYNKYNY, Mumbai
MORPHOLOGY brings together Meenal Singh and Sandilya Theuerkauf at KYNKYNY, Mumbai, to explore the ways in which forms evolve and transform through nature and abstraction. Although markedly different in their physical and material vocabularies, both artists share an attentiveness to ecology and the processes through which forms evolve.
While Singh works with colour, pigment and memory to create fluid, atmospheric compositions, Theuerkauf transforms organic materials like tree bark, twigs and dried vines into textured, geometric arrangements. Bringing together two distinct artistic practices, the exhibition reflects on how forms emerge, shift and take on new meaning through material and perception. In the work of Singh and Theuerkauf, morphology becomes less a study of what forms are than of how they become.
Date: 9 October - 6 November 2026
Time: Monday - Saturday | 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM (Closed on Sundays)
Venue: KYNKYNY, Mumbai
Address: 4th floor, 20, Gool Mansion, Homji St, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400001
Intersections by Ashok Bhowmick | Artisera, Bangalore
Marking his debut solo exhibition in Bangalore, Ashok Bhowmick brings five decades of his artistic practice to Artisera in Intersections, presented in collaboration with New Delhi’s Dhoomimal Gallery. Bhowmick’s visual language is instantly recognisable for its extraordinary cross-hatching technique, where thousands of intricate lines converge to create remarkable depth, form, and emotion.
The exhibition brings together paintings, drawings, and sculptures spanning some of the artist's most significant subjects. Workers, coal miners, birds, animals and recurring figures such as ‘Amina’ inhabit Bhowmick's pictorial world, while his sculptural practice allows familiar forms to move from accumulated lines into mass, contour and volume. Rather than presenting Bhowmick's practice chronologically, Intersections draws connections across different periods, subjects and mediums, revealing the continuities that have shaped his work over decades.
Date: 26th September - 5th November 2026
Time: 11 AM - 6 PM (Closed on Sunday)
Venue: Artisera, 3rd Floor, B.K.N. Ambaram Estates, 648/L, 1st Main, Indiranagar Stage 1, Bangalore 560038, Karnataka, India
Whisperings from Transcending Meadows by G. R. Iranna | Gallery Espace and Bihar Museum, Patna
Gallery Espace, in collaboration with Bihar Museum, presents Whisperings from Transcending Meadows, a solo exhibition by G. R. Iranna featuring recent paintings and sculptures that touch upon ideas of spirituality, nature, history and the human condition.
The exhibition’s title, drawn from the poetry of 12th-century Kannada poet Allama Prabhu, invokes the concept of bayalu—the infinite void, where a single blade of grass symbolises hope and the continuity of life. In this new body of work, these philosophical concerns find visual resonance in Bihar’s rich history and cultural legacy. References to the Buddha, Bodh Gaya and Nalanda connect these ideas to Bihar’s cultural and historical legacy, offering visitors another way to engage with the region’s past. Through contrasting forms, materials and scales, the exhibition explores the relationship between presence and absence, destruction and hope.
Dates: November 21, 2026 - February 4, 2027
Venue: Temporary Art Gallery, Bihar Museum, Jawaharlal Nehru Marg, Bailey Road, Patna, Bihar 800001
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