Tap Into Culture: India Art Fair 2025
The India Art Fair stands as South Asia’s leading platform for discovering modern and contemporary art, offering an immersive journey into the region’s rich cultural landscape. From 6 to 9 February, IAF holds its 16th edition, and largest to date—with 78 galleries and 28 non-profits exhibiting at the NSIC Exhibition Grounds—India Art Fair 2025 is set to redefine how audiences engage with art whether you’re drawn to classical paintings, contemporary installations, or experimental performances, this year’s fair promises a multi-sensory celebration of creativity, culture, and conversation. But what do you keep an eye out for? We might have a few suggestions:
Ai Weiwei - Galleria Continua
Showcasing a provocative exploration of contemporary issues through the lens of historical and artistic reference - Ai Weiwei’s exhibition invites audiences to engage with a rich tapestry of ideas and emotions, unearthing connections between personal, political, and artistic narratives. This showcase serves as an exploration of the enduring questions that define the human experience and is testament to Ai Weiwei’s profound ability to provoke thought and inspire dialogue, ensuring that his work resonates powerfully within the contemporary art landscape.
Visit Galleria Continua at Booth E04 NSIC Grounds, Okhla, from Feb 6 - 9, 2025
Jayasri Burman - Art Alive Gallery
Jayasri Burman’s art blends mythology, folklore, and fantasy, creating intricate, dreamlike compositions. Influenced by Kalighat and Patachitra traditions, her works feature divine feminine figures adorned with elaborate patterns and vibrant hues. Using watercolors and acrylics, she portrays ethereal beings intertwined with nature, symbolizing spirituality, protection, and fertility. Her color palette—rich in red, gold, and blue—enhances the mystical aura of her paintings.
Visit Art Alive Gallery at Booth B15 at NSIC Grounds, Okhla from Feb 6 - 9, 2025
Oscar Murillo - David Zwirner
Oscar Murillo is known for an inventive and itinerant practice that encompasses paintings, works on paper, sculptures, installations, actions, live events, collaborative projects, and videos. Taken as a whole, his body of work demonstrates a sustained emphasis on the notion of cultural exchange and the multiple ways in which ideas, languages, and even everyday items are displaced, circulated, and increasingly intermingled.
Visit David Zwirner at Booth B06 at NSIC Grounds, Okhla from Feb 6 - 9, 2025
Darshika Singh - Method India
Darshika Singh works across video and paintings. She describes her art practice, as a process of “seeing”, and believes that all sight has to start from the observance of the mundane, and elevate itself into the essential of things. Her art is an attempt to translate this essential sight, into a world filled with its own symbology and metaphysics that can contain and exist simultaneously both inside and outside the perceptible world. Her current series, ‘Lip Service To The Transcendental’ focuses on: rhyme, rhythm & repetition; the absurd and the ambient.
Visit Method India at Booth F05 at NSIC Grounds, Okhla from Feb 6 - 9, 2025
Shirazeh Houshiary - Lisson Gallery
Houshiary will show two significant paintings spanning 15 years of her practice, alongside a floor-based sculpture, Cleave (2022), composed of Murano glass bricks in a palette evoking smoke and water. Houshiary’s paintings combine rigorous inscriptions with layers of sediment formed by pouring water mixed with pure pigment, exploring modes of perception that bridge the scientific and cosmic, and draw inspiration from a rich array of sources from Renaissance painting to contemporary physics and poetry.
Visit Lisson Gallery at Booth E01 at NSIC Grounds, Okhla from Feb 6 - 9, 2025
Want to know more about their works? Shirazeh Houshiary will participate in an in-person panel on 7th February as part of the fair’s BMW Art Talks programme in Delhi.
