Exhibitions

Thinai

12 Dec 2025 - 25 Jan 2026

Thinais are world-making systems from the Sangam era, built on the idea that human feeling is inseparable from the environment. Literary critic S. Murali calls this “the earliest attempt at formulating an environmental aesthetic, where the human bhava (emotion) seeks its correspondence in the natural vibhava (cause).” Each thinai is...

Who Made The Firecracker Red?

A solo exhibition of works by Harsimran C Juneja

11 Nov 2025 - 2 Jan 2026

In Harsimran C Juneja ’s paintings, yellow is a living force, a language through which he thinks, feels, and releases. Across his canvases, it breathes in layers both literal and figurative, forming a terrain where conflict, wit, and reflection coexist. It is a hue that reveals as much as it...

Grammar of Bodies

Latheesh Lakshman, C.N. Karunakaran

9 Oct - 5 Nov 2025

From the ‘Dancing Girl ’ of Mohenjo-Daro to today’s experimental canvases, the human body has remained art’s most vital subject; never only anatomical, but a vessel of memory, myth, and meaning. Grammar of Bodies continues this lineage through juxtaposing practices of C.N. Karunakaran (1940–2013) and Latheesh Lakshman. Karunakaran, a Madras...

Memory Palace

Curated with Ayaz Basrai

14 Aug - 21 Sep 2025

Memory Palace, curated with architect and spatial researcher Ayaz Basrai, opens Muziris Contemporary with works by Harsimran C Juneja, Nandita Mukand, Kuber Shah, N. N. Rimzon, Santhi E. N., Tulika Shrivastava, Kapil Jangid, and the Vayeda Brothers. Through varied media and material vocabularies, the artists consider how memory inhabits the...