“From The Visible To The Invisible” An Exhibition Of Paintings By Annpurna Shukla In Jehangir Art Gallery
From: 14th to 20th September 2026
From The Visible To The Invisible
An Exhibition of Paintings
By
Annpurna Shukla
VENUE:
Jehangir Art Gallery
Hirji Gallery
M.G. Road
Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001
Timing: 11am to 7pm
Contact: +91 9414440030
Annpurna Shukla was born on the 1st of September, 1964, and has spent the better part of her life in Jaipur, a city whose light, colour, and centuries-old visual traditions seem to have settled somewhere deep in her practice. She didn’t arrive at art as a hobby that grew into a career; she built an entire life’s architecture around it, as a painter, a teacher, a researcher, and eventually, a chronicler of the very traditions she grew up around. Her early recognition came through the circuit familiar to so many serious Indian artists: state exhibitions, teachers’ art shows, regional Lalit Kala Akademi platforms.
Her current work tells the story of narrowing, and that’s really the more interesting story. This September, that narrowing arrives at one of India’s most storied art addresses, the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai, with a solo show called Drishya Se Adrishya, “From the Visible to the Invisible.” Opening on the 14th of September and running through the 20th at Hirji Gallery inside Jehangir Art Gallery, the show is framed by Shukla not as a landscape show but as a record of her own maturing eye. In her own words, an artist’s early years are usually spent chasing clarity, trying to render the visible world with more and more precision. But somewhere along the way, if the practice deepens, the opposite instinct takes over. Detail starts falling away. What’s left isn’t less, exactly, it’s more distilled. A few lines, a few colours, a gesture, and somehow the whole feeling of a place survives the reduction.
For Shukla, that’s not a stylistic choice so much as a spiritual one. She describes it as a movement from the external toward the internal, from what the eye records toward the quieter consciousness that she feels pulsing behind everything visible. Nature, in this telling, was never really the subject. It was the doorway. The show builds toward this idea in its final stretch, in a series of still-life paintings of potted flowers. Instead of a sprawling landscape, the natural world is gathered into a contained, quiet space, and in that containment, Shukla finds a kind of wholeness that the wide view couldn’t offer. Many forms, many directions, folding into one harmonious presence.
Walk into Hirji Gallery this September and you’ll find work that rewards slowness: watercolours where mountains soften into memory, and canvases where the density of brushwork, closer up, dissolves into abstraction, all cream, ochre and indigo, before resolving again into something like a forest floor or a tangle of undergrowth. It’s the kind of painting that changes depending on how close you stand to it, which feels like the whole point. Six decades in, Annpurna Shukla isn’t done chasing precision, she’s just decided precision might live somewhere other than detail. Drishya Se Adrishya is less an exhibition of paintings than an invitation to look the way she’s learned to: past the visible, toward whatever it’s quietly pointing at.
This show was inaugurated on 14th September 2026 by Honorable Guests – Prof. Him Kumar Chatterjee – Vice Chancellor, Sir J.J. School of Art, Architecture & Design, Mumbai, Mr. Prakash Bal Joshi – Chairman, Artist Center Art Gallery & Eminent Artist , Mr. John Douglas ( Renowned Artist) among others.
“From The Visible To The Invisible” An Exhibition Of Paintings By Annpurna Shukla In Jehangir Art Gallery
“UNTOLD STORIES” A Solo Show Of Paintings By Renowned Artist Rajesh Kedare In Jehangir Art Gallery
From: 7th to 13th September 2026
“UNTOLD STORIES”
A Solo Show of Paintings
By Renowned Artist Rajesh Kedare
VENUE:
Jehangir Art Gallery
Hirji Gallery
M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda,
Mumbai 400001
Timing: 11am to 7pm
Contact: +91 9890404641
UNTOLD STORIES — Exploring the Mysterious World Between Books and Their Readers
Solo Exhibition of Paintings by Rajesh Kedare at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
Mumbai, September 2026: Artist Rajesh Kedare presents UNTOLD STORIES, a solo exhibition of paintings exploring the fascinating relationship between books, readers and the unseen stories that unfold between them.
For Kedare, among the most beautiful sights in the world are books and people absorbed in reading them. A reader may be physically present before us, yet the mind is somewhere else—wandering through another world, another time, another life. It is this quiet sense of mystery that forms the heart of Untold Stories.
The exhibition looks beyond the stories printed on the pages of a book to explore the stories that begin to form around it. A book can awaken a memory, change a thought, create an emotion, spark curiosity or simply leave behind a silence. Sometimes, the most interesting story is not the one being read, but the one unfolding within the reader.
Through gestures, expressions, relationships and imagined moments, Kedare’s paintings invite viewers to pause and wonder about the invisible worlds carried by every reader.
“Every book tells a story. Every reader carries another. And somewhere between the two are countless stories that may never be spoken—the Untold Stories.”
This show was inaugurated on 8th September 2026 by Honorable Guests – Jitendra Joshi Renowned actor, Yogesh Shirsat – well-known actor, Ashok Hinge – Renowned artist among others.
“UNTOLD STORIES” A Solo Show Of Paintings By Renowned Artist Rajesh Kedare In Jehangir Art Gallery
“SHIVOHUM 2.0: THE UNIFICATION” Art Exhibition By Renowned Artist Dr. Amitabh Shrivastav In Jehangir Art Gallery
From: 2nd to 7th September 2026
“SHIVOHUM 2.0: THE UNIFICATION”
Art Exhibition by Renowned artist Dr. Amitabh Shrivastav
VENUE:
Jehangir Art Gallery,
Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001
Timing: 11am to 7pm
MUMBAI, INDIA — Biophilic Visual artist Dr. Amitabh Shrivastav will present his solo exhibition, “Shivohum 2.0: The Unification,” from 2 to 7 September 2026 at the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai. Rooted in the artist’s ongoing exploration of coexistence, oneness in duality, and interconnectedness, the exhibition examines the convergence of seemingly contradictory forces through a powerful visual palette of red and black.
The exhibition brings together richly layered acrylic on canvas paintings and innovative Biophilic installation utilizing vetiver roots. Through color, gesture, and texture,
Dr. Shrivastav explores the philosophical union of Shiva and Shakti, represented through the contrasting yet interdependent energies of black and red. Rather than treating these forces as oppositional, the artist considers their entanglement fundamental to creation itself. Red evokes vitality, passion, and generative energy, while black embodies depth, mystery, and the unknown. Their convergence creates a visual tension that gradually transforms into harmony, suggesting a fluid understanding of identity, nature, and existence beyond fixed binaries.
In “Shivohum 2.0: The Unification,” Dr. Shrivastav draws profound inspiration from the intricate structures and ecological intelligence of vetiver roots (Chrysopogon zizanioides). Known for deep-reaching systems that hold soil, conserve groundwater, and participate in networks of natural exchange, vetiver serves as a metaphor for interconnected life. The organic complexity of these roots informs the artist’s visual vocabulary—where branching forms, rhythmic movements, and enveloping voids evoke bodily structures, circulation, memory, and the womb as a site of creation.
Dr. Shrivastav holds a degree in Fine Arts from Banaras Hindu University and a PhD in Art & Design from the Sorbonne in France. His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, mixed-media installation, AI-robotics, and public art. By merging ecological, philosophical, and spiritual thought with contemporary artistic processes, his work deeply investigates the relationship between human existence and the natural world.
“Shivohum 2.0: The Unification” invites viewers to contemplate their own relationship with the body, nature, and the invisible forces that bind seemingly separate entities together. Ultimately, the exhibition proposes coexistence not as the erasure of difference, but as the realization of wholeness through deep interconnectedness.
This show was inaugurated on 2nd September 2026 by Honorable Guest Mr. Prayag Shukla(Poet, Curator, Art Critic), in the presence of Prof. Ganesh Tartare(Eminent Artist), Ms. Simran Ahuja (Eminent Actress, TV talk show Host), Anjali Arora(Art Curator) among others.
“SHIVOHUM 2.0: THE UNIFICATION” Art Exhibition By Renowned Artist Dr. Amitabh Shrivastav In Jehangir Art Gallery
“PRAVAH” Solo Show Of Paintings By Anjali Prabhakar In Jehangir Art Gallery
From 31st August to 6th September 2026
“PRAVAH”
Solo Show of Paintings
By well-known artist
Anjali Prabhakar
VENUE:
Jehangir Art Gallery
M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda,
Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001
Timing: 11am to 7pm
Contact: +91 9425195496
PRAVĀH
There is a flow within us that is rarely still. It moves quietly beneath everyday life—through memory, emotion, thought, and experience. We may not always notice it, but it shapes how we feel, how we respond, and ultimately, how we see the world. It is this inner movement that forms the starting point for Pravāh, a body of work by Anjali Prabhakar. Anjali’s practice has developed alongside a deep engagement with meditation and an awareness of the energy that exists within and around us. She does not approach the canvas with a finished image in mind. Often, there is simply a feeling, a colour, or an impulse that she wants to follow. The painting then becomes a way of staying with that feeling and seeing where it takes her.
The most interesting aspect of her process is that the artist does not try to explain an emotion through the painting, nor does she try to give it a fixed form. Instead, she allows herself to work intuitively, responding to what is happening on the canvas. She allows these discoveries to happen rather than forcing the painting towards a predetermined conclusion.
Colour is perhaps where the energy of these paintings is felt most immediately. Anjali responds to colour instinctively, allowing it to carry the mood of the moment rather than assigning it a fixed meaning. The deep reds, blues, and luminous passages that recur through the works can feel intense, warm, quiet, or expansive, sometimes within the same painting. They draw us in before we have had the chance to make sense of them. In that sense, colour becomes more than what we see—it becomes something we feel. Meditation, on the other hand, has also taught her the value of stillness. For her, stillness is not a withdrawal from the world, but a way of becoming more attentive to what is happening within. It is in this quieter state that she finds the space to notice subtle shifts in feeling and energy, and to allow them to enter the work without forcing them into words or fixed forms.
Pravāh is Sanskrit for flow or current—it is ultimately a meeting place. It is about the things we carry within us and the ways they shift with time. It is about allowing rather than controlling, and about recognising that not everything we experience needs to be explained in order to be felt.
Pravāh, therefore, is that meeting point—a space between stillness and movement, between what is felt and what can be expressed, between the inner world and the canvas.
This show was inaugurated on 31st August 2026 by Honourable Chief Guest Mrs. Nidhi Chaudhari, IAS, Director – NGMA, Mumbai
Guests of Honor – Prof. Him Kumar Chatterjee, Vice Chancellor, Sir J.J.School of Art, Architecture & Design, Mumbai, Shri. Prayag Shukla, Art Critic, Poet, Fiction Writer, Curator, Shri. Rajendra Patil, President – The Bombay Art Society, Director – India Art Festival, Shri. Praveen Upadhye, Artist, Founder Director, Gallery Pioneer New Delhi
Shraddha Purnaye (Art Researcher & Writer)
“PRAVAH” Solo Show Of Paintings By Anjali Prabhakar In Jehangir Art Gallery
“SPANDANE” Solo Show Of Paintings By Renowned Artist Sachin Sagare In Jehangir Art Gallery
From: 25th August to 31st August 2026
SPANDANE
Sacred Moments Beyond Words
Solo Show of Paintings
By
Renowned artist Sachin Sagare
VENUE:
Jehangir Art Gallery
161-B, M.G. Road
Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001
Timing: 11am to 7pm
Contact: +91 9011251869
Email: mindscape.sachin@gmail.com
Spandane
Spandane is delicate, but potent. Spandane literally means vibration. It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This particular brand of manipulation is familiar territory for painter Sachin Sagare, who in his seventeenth solo show is proving himself a consummate craftsman of this complex emotion. His twenty-one elegiac paintings on display each take the form of womanhood, but what drives this artist’s moody remembrances is the figurative element within each work: Spandane surrogates that what is always beautiful, winsome, and perfectly attired. Today’s practice of acrylic painting is itself fueled by nostalgia, reminding us of a purer time when art seemed to have a sacred quality, either literally or figuratively. What’s remarkable about his practice, however, is the way he uses different strategies to describe not only memory but also the fading of memory that stirs in us a longing to be reunited with our past.
In his dreamy paintings of women in verdant landscapes, Sagare toys with conventional associations of nature, femininity, childhood and innocence. The foregrounds of his pictures are occupied by colorful women. Sagare paints these with a deft, brushy touch that gives the surfaces of his canvases a sensuously tactile presence. The diminutive figures of women that Sagare inserts into these environments look almost as if they’d been present in nostalgia, Sagare’s primary focus is on the unspoken the silent scenes that carry thought beneath their calm surface. He gazes through these images to understand how history lives in bodies and behaviors, especially those of women, who often remained functional yet invisible within dominant narratives. With few if any signs of civilization in view, you get the feeling they’ve escaped not only from parental supervision and the rules of their community but from modernity in general and the mess made of the world by the Industrial Revolution. It’s a short step to see Sagare’s heroines’ escape into the bosom of Mother Nature as a romantic protest against the dominion of patriarchal consciousness. Insofar as the artist himself may be said to personify the life and freedom of art and imagination. This gives Sagare’s paintings a touching personal urgency. He’s projecting his own sense of what it takes to be an artist in the modern world. You have to be some kind of outlaw. He employs an academic style, showing off the gestural nature of figure painting. Every stroke reflects a motion, yet everything is precise, with intention.
Very few contemporary figurative painters reveal subtle enigmatic juxtaposition. Artist such as Sachin Sagare uses caricature, irony and broad stylization to deliberately provoke, filtered through a faux academic plainness, the paintings in the current series done between 2025 and 2026 depict multi figure scenes populated by late adolescent women engaged in enigmatic encounters, or just as often disengaged and daydreaming. Women roam in mass in sarees and blouses, barefoot with vermilion smeared over their forehead. All the paintings seem woven from disparate sources. Sachin Sagare’s female protagonists seem to project something different from these sources, perhaps a more contemporary hauteur. They never fully declare just what they are up to, and seem unhurried by events. The multiple scenarios on display are like formal qualities of the paintings, still ever so slightly sketchy and undercooked, but with much to savor for those who like their mysteries that way.
This show was inaugurated on 25th August 2026 by Honourable Chief Guest – Parvez Damania Director – Mumbai Art House, Guest of Honor – Sonam Shivdutt Das Chairperson –Shivdutt Das Art Foundation
Abhijeet Gondkar (Art Curator & Writer)
“SPANDANE” Solo Show Of Paintings By Renowned Artist Sachin Sagare In Jehangir Art Gallery
