Current
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Thinai
Senaka Senanayake, Riyas Komu, Kamala Das, Benitha Perciyal, C.N. Karunakaran, Smitha GS, KG Babu, Arieno Kera, Santhi EN 12 Dec 2025 - 5 Mar 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... Read more -
Time and Place
Mansoor Mansoori, Nivedita Shinde 8 Jan - 28 Feb 2026 To inhabit a place is to be marked by it, just as surely as it is marked by us. Whether we arrive, depart, or remain, time courses through both body and landscape, weaving memory into stone, light, and air. The city at night, a skyline veiled in shifting clouds, or... Read more
Past
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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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
