Art exhibitions in Mumbai (in 2025) are redefining the city’s cultural landscape, showcasing everything from contemporary installations to traditional artworks by India’s leading artists. Whether you’re an art lover, collector, or first-time visitor, Mumbai’s art galleries & expo centers are hosting an incredible lineup of shows this year. From Fort to Colaba to Worli, this guide highlights the top exhibitions, venues, and creative showcases you shouldn’t miss.
Top Art Exhibitions in Mumbai 2026
Salt Lines: Hylozoic/Desires
Event Date
6 December 2025 to 8 February 2026
Event Venue
Special Project Space, Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Byculla, Mumbai
Event Organizer
Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum
Salt Lines: Hylozoic/Desires explores the forgotten history of the Inland Customs Line and the colonial salt tax through immersive installation, sound, textile and archival research. The exhibition reflects on extraction, control and resistance while reimagining a vanished border that once cut across the subcontinent. It offers a poetic and political meditation on memory, ecology and the afterlives of empire.
The exhibition is by artist duo Hylozoic/Desires, comprising Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser, whose interdisciplinary practice blends historical research with speculative imagination. Their work animates lost infrastructures and natural forces to question how history continues to shape contemporary life.
Why You Should Visit
A rare immersive exhibition that combines history, ecology and sensory experience in a powerful and thought provoking way.
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A map folded open
Event Date
8 January to 8 February 2026
Event Venue
Art and Charlie, Pali Village, Bandra West, Mumbai
Event Organizer
Art and Charlie
A Map Folded Open reflects on movement, memory and the uncertain paths we traverse in personal and collective life. Like an opened map, the exhibition reveals both peril and possibility, inviting viewers to follow lingering memories and emotional distances. It is an exploration of routes that shape inner worlds through material, gesture and reflection.
The exhibition brings together three artists whose practices trace these routes in distinct ways. Sabeen Omar works with discarded textiles, Urna Sinha explores waiting and longing through painting and photography, and Mahen Perera records gestures suspended between desire and withdrawal through sculpture.
Why You Should Visit
A thoughtful group exhibition that rewards slow looking and invites quiet reflection on memory and movement.
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The Collective Memory of Contemporary Change
Event Date
8 January to 12 February 2026
Event Venue
Tao Art Gallery, 165 The View, Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai
Event Organizer
Tao Art Gallery
The Collective Memory of Contemporary Change reflects on how landscapes and lives transform under the pressures of development and migration. Working primarily with terracotta and organic materials, the exhibition draws attention to the fragile relationship between land, labour and memory. It offers a quiet yet powerful meditation on change as a lived and ongoing process.
The exhibition features works by Chippa Sudhakar, whose practice engages deeply with material, land and the experience of transition between rural and urban worlds. His sculptural forms carry traces of erosion, resilience and collective memory shaped over time.
Why You Should Visit
A contemplative exhibition that invites you to slow down and reflect on how change reshapes both place and identity.
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A Painter with a Camera
Event Date
8 January to 21 February 2026
Event Venue
Subcontinent, Apeejay Chambers, Fort, Mumbai
Event Organizer
Subcontinent
A Painter with a Camera presents a focused body of experimental photographic works that expand the possibilities of the medium beyond documentation. The exhibition explores photography as a space of sustained visual enquiry through layered images and tactile surfaces. It highlights analogue processes that blur the boundaries between painting, print and photograph.
The exhibition features works by Jyoti Bhatt, whose background as a painter informs his experimental approach to photography. Created between the 1960s and 1980s, the works reflect his engagement with multiple exposure, collage and hand intervention on photographic prints.
Why You Should Visit
A rare opportunity to see pioneering photographic experiments that shaped modern Indian art practice.
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Becoming UnBecoming
Event Date
8 January to 25 January 2026
Event Venue
Artisans’ Gallery, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai
Event Organizer
Artisans’ Gallery
Becoming UnBecoming explores transformation, memory and imagination through richly layered visual narratives. The exhibition moves between real and imagined worlds, drawing from ritual, childhood and mythology. It reflects on identity as something fluid and continuously evolving rather than fixed.
The exhibition features works by Santosh Kumar Das, whose practice is rooted in the visual language of Mithila painting while engaging with contemporary themes. His works blend traditional motifs with personal symbolism to explore inner worlds and self becoming.
Why You Should Visit
A visually engaging exhibition that reinterprets tradition through a deeply personal and contemporary lens.
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Cityflix
Event Date
8 January to 14 February 2026
Event Venue
Fulcrum, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai
Event Organizer
Fulcrum
Cityflix examines the fleeting and often overlooked moments that shape everyday life in Mumbai. The exhibition presents the city through fragments, pauses and in between spaces rather than landmarks. It builds an intimate portrait of the city as something constantly unfolding through time and movement.
The exhibition features works by Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, whose long running project observes subtle urban gestures and chance encounters. Working across photography, drawing, painting and interactive media, he captures the rhythms and logic of city life with quiet attention.
Why You Should Visit
A nuanced and thoughtful look at Mumbai that reveals the poetry hidden in its everyday moments.
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Have We Forgotten How to Feel?
Event Date
8 January to 19 February 2026
Event Venue
Chemould CoLab, Colaba, Mumbai
Event Organizer
Chemould CoLab
Have We Forgotten How to Feel? brings emotion to the forefront through intimate and tactile textile works. The exhibition reflects on vulnerability, humour and emotional memory using familiar symbols and handcrafted processes. It invites viewers to reconnect with feeling as something lived, stitched and remembered.
The exhibition features works by Rachita Dutta, whose practice centres on hand embroidery and textile assemblage. Drawing from personal experience and traditional craft, her works explore emotional tension and the quieter states often overlooked in everyday life.
Why You Should Visit
A sensitive and quietly powerful exhibition that reconnects craft with emotional expression.
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Lone Runner’s Laboratory
Event Date
8 January to 21 February 2026
Event Venue
Experimenter, Sunny House, Colaba, Mumbai
Event Organizer
Experimenter
Lone Runner’s Laboratory presents a powerful and introspective body of work that reflects on labour, extraction and the psychological landscapes shaped by systems of control. Through sculpture and installation, the exhibition explores vulnerability, endurance and the inner lives shaped by social and economic forces. It invites viewers to sit with discomfort while considering resilience and responsibility.
The exhibition features works by Prabhakar Pachpute, whose practice engages deeply with mining, labour and altered environments. Drawing from long term research and lived encounters, his works translate social realities into evocative visual form.
Why You Should Visit
A compelling and thought provoking exhibition that combines social critique with strong visual presence.
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Gardens of Song
Event Date
8 January to 21 February 2026
Event Venue
Art Musings, 1 Admiralty House, Colaba Cross Lane, Mumbai
Event Organizer
Art Musings
Gardens of Song presents a lyrical and immersive body of work that celebrates nature, rhythm and visual abundance. Through intricate compositions of flowers, birds and flowing forms, the exhibition creates a sense of movement and harmony. It invites viewers into a poetic world shaped by joy, play and quiet contemplation.
The exhibition features works by Maya Burman, whose practice blends detailed line work with Indian motifs and European influences. Her compositions are rich with storytelling, colour and a sense of lived imagination.
Why You Should Visit
A visually uplifting exhibition that rewards slow looking and attention to detail.
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What Do Birds Dream at Dusk
Event Date
8 January to 25 January 2026
Event Venue
Chemould Prescott Road, Queens Mansion, Fort, Mumbai
Event Organizer
Chemould Prescott Road
What Do Birds Dream at Dusk unfolds as a quiet and poetic reflection on transition, memory and the fleeting light of evening. The exhibition captures dusk as a threshold between day and night, presence and absence. Through subtle atmospheres and layered imagery, it evokes longing, stillness and dreamlike states.
The exhibition features works by Sharmila Samant, whose practice engages with painting and installation to explore emotional landscapes. Her use of colour, space and light draws viewers into moments suspended between memory and imagination.
Why You Should Visit
A contemplative exhibition that invites slow viewing and an intimate engagement with mood and time.
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Brobdingnag Paradox
Event Date
8 January to 21 February 2026
Event Venue
TARQ, KK Chambers, Fort, Mumbai
Event Organizer
TARQ
Brobdingnag Paradox examines Mumbai’s ever changing urban landscape through large scale photographic collages that play with perception and scale. The exhibition draws attention to the city’s constant cycles of construction, compression and transformation. It reflects on how built environments shape both physical space and psychological experience.
The exhibition features works by Pratap Morey, whose practice focuses on visual density and architectural form in urban settings. Through layered compositions and fine detailing, he transforms construction sites into abstract yet recognisable visual narratives.
Why You Should Visit
A striking visual exploration of Mumbai’s architecture that reveals the tension between monumentality and fragmentation.
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Double Consciousness
Event Date
8 January to 21 February 2026
Event Venue
Jhaveri Contemporary, Colaba, Mumbai
Event Organizer
Jhaveri Contemporary
Double Consciousness presents a refined body of ceramic works that explore duality in perception, form and feeling. The exhibition invites viewers to engage with surfaces that shift between structure and sensuousness. It reflects on how meaning and emotion can coexist within carefully constructed forms.
The exhibition features works by Lubna Chowdhary, whose practice draws from geometry, architecture and layered glaze techniques. Shaped by her transnational background, her ceramics balance precision with tactile richness to create a deeply sensory experience.
Why You Should Visit
A quietly powerful exhibition that rewards close looking and an appreciation for material and form.
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