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    Plan for artsy time with a 4-day Mumbai Gallery Weekend in Colaba, Fort & Kala Ghoda

    Synopsis

    Mumbai Gallery Weekend began in 2012 with a group of 9 galleries.

    Gallery Isa 9 | Antonio Santin Al lío, 2022Agencies
    Gallery Isa 9 | Antonio Santin Al lío, 2022
    Don’t know what to do this weekend? Mumbai Gallery Weekend has you covered with exhibitions in Colaba, Fort, Kala Ghoda, Ballard Estate, Worli, Lower Parel, Byculla and Bandra.

    The four-day gallery weekend is a fantastic opportunity to engage with the visual arts — including painting, sculpture, photography, media art, installation, the decorative arts, and design. Mumbai Gallery Weekend began in 2012 with a group of 9 galleries, with the belief that a collective approach would make for a more vibrant art scene. Now entering its 11th year, MGW has 32 participating galleries and promises to be a sensational event.

    New kids on the block
    New entrants on Mumbai’s gallery scene that will be part of the Weekend, include Experimeter Colaba, Chemould CoLab, Art and Charlie, and the impressive Ice Factory Ballard Estate — which will host a Young Collectors’ Weekend. At the other end of the spectrum, DAG will present a single work at their space in the Taj Mahal Hotel — the first-ever commissioned portrait by Raja Ravi Varma. This portrait of the Menon family can be considered the first work of ‘modern art’ to emerge from India, painted 152 years ago, in 1870. This group portrait is, therefore, a historical work: the first Indian modernist’s first commissioned work—thereby heralding the modern art movement in India. This would prove to be a game-changer for Indian art in general and portraiture in particular.

    There will be pop-up exhibitions organised especially for the weekend, by platforms such as The Upside Space. Some of the galleries will host talks in their spaces. Art and Charlie will host a dance performance, Bhooter Nach // The Ghost Dance, by Gia Singh Arora.

    Top picks for the weekend

    Art Alive Gallery at The Quorum
    Name of Exhibition:
    Veins of the earth
    Name of Artist/s: Chandra Bhattacharjee
    ​ Art Musings: Jayasri Burman | DHARRA​​Agencies
    Art Musings: Jayasri Burman | DHARRA

    Art Musings
    Name of Exhibition:
    DHARRA
    Name of Artist/s: Jayasri Burman

    Art and Charlie
    Name of Exhibition:
    Home, a belonging
    Name of Artist/s: Jasjyot Singh Hans, Osheen Siva, Ranjeeta Kumari, Arvind Sundar

    Chatterjee & Lal
    Name of Exhibition:
    Nityan Unnikrishnan
    Name of Artist/s: Everyday is an admission of guilt

    DAG
    Displaying the first-ever commissioned painting made by Raja Ravi Varma. exhibition with the same title.

    Galerie Isa
    Name of Exhibition:
    Untitled (for now)
    Name of Artist/s: Emilie Pugh

    IFBE
    Name of Exhibition:
    Young Collectors' Weekend
    Name of Artist/s: Group Show
    Tito Stanley, Merci Maku, Tara Anand, Laxmi Panigrahi, Akshita Gandhi, Hashim Badani, Megha Gavireddy, Purvai Rai, Koyal Raheja, Shailesh BR, Divya Singh, Sachin George Sebastian, Teppala Kodandarao, Sukanya Garg, Birender Yadav
    Method Kala Ghoda, DemskyAgencies
    Method Kala Ghoda, Demsky

    Method Kala Ghoda
    About the artist:
    DEMSKY (Spain)
    Demsky started his creative journey getting immersed in the graffiti boom in the early 90s. Since then he has been travelling and spraying throughout more than 50 countries and still feels obsessed with twisting the morphology of his name in multiple, unconventional shapes.

    Pundoles
    THE DECORATIVE ARTS SALE
    Live auction:
    January 19, 2023
    Online auction: January 20, 2023
    Pundole’s upcoming Decorative Arts Sale will be on display for Mumbai Gallery Weekend. The sale covers a wide range of collecting categories including furniture, silver, rugs, ceramics, glass and lights.

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