India’s art map is glowing this November — from Mumbai to Delhi, Ahmedabad to Kolkata! The country’s galleries and museums are alive with dynamic exhibitions, global collaborations, and fresh voices.
Dive into Continuum by Nandan Purkayastha and Christian Achenbach’s AMORPHIDIAN, celebrate a century of brilliance with Krishen Khanna at 100, and feel the creative pulse of Art Mumbai. Meanwhile, Kolkata’s IMAGINARIUM 5.0 and Sohrab Hura’s The Forest blur the lines between memory, imagination, and identity. In Delhi and Ahmedabad, colour, texture, and thread redefine the language of abstraction. Here’s your definitive guide to November’s unmissable art circuit across India.
‘Continuum’ Solo Show by Nandan Purkayastha
🗓️06 – 10 Nov 2025
🌍Jehangir Art Gallery, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai
Sanchit Art presents Continuum, a solo exhibition by Nandan Purkayastha at the iconic Jehangir Art Gallery. Purkayastha’s works trace the invisible threads of continuity that weave across human experience — the fluid transformations of time, memory, and form. His compositions, marked by layered surfaces and meditative abstraction, reflect on the ever-evolving rhythms of contemporary Indian art. Set within the cultural heart of Mumbai, Continuum offers viewers a bridge between the traditional and the modern, the personal and the collective. It’s a visual dialogue about persistence — of form, thought, and emotion — that resonates far beyond the canvas.
Christian Achenbach ‘AMORPHIDIAN’
🗓️12 Nov – 22 Dec 2025
🌍Galerie Isa, Ballard Estate, Fort, Mumbai
Galerie ISA welcomes back German artist Christian Achenbach for his much-anticipated second solo, AMORPHIDIAN. Expanding his exploration of abstraction, Achenbach presents his most ambitious piece yet — Kreola, a five-meter-wide painting that commands attention. His works, inspired by 20th-century movements but filtered through a distinctly postmodern lens, dissolve boundaries between sculpture, sound, and painting. The result is a visceral, rhythmic experience where colour collides with form in dynamic energy. AMORPHIDIAN isn’t just a visual encounter; it’s an immersion into the physical act of creation — where chaos finds structure and the painter becomes both observer and performer.
Art Mumbai
🗓️13 – 16 Nov 2025
🌍Mahalaxmi Race Course, Mumbai
Now in its third edition, Art Mumbai returns to the Mahalaxmi Race Course, uniting galleries, collectors, artists, and art lovers under one vibrant roof. With participation from leading Indian and international galleries, this year’s fair promises to be a celebration of diversity and dialogue. Expect everything from blue-chip masters to emerging experimentalists, alongside curated talks, special projects, and immersive installations. Beyond commerce, Art Mumbai fosters a sense of community — a meeting point for ideas and conversations shaping India’s contemporary art narrative. For four exhilarating days, the city’s creative pulse beats stronger than ever.
Where The Thread Turned: Wilna Simpelaar
🗓️02 – 09 Nov 2025
🌍Kanoria Centre for Arts, University Road, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad
At Ahmedabad’s Kanoria Centre for Arts, Wilna Simpelaar’s Where the Thread Turned reimagines the language of textiles and weaving. Her delicate yet powerful works use thread as both metaphor and medium, exploring how materiality can speak of history, emotion, and resilience. Each piece unravels a tactile narrative of transformation — of things stitched together, pulled apart, and reformed into something new. The exhibition invites viewers to slow down, to trace the rhythm of the handmade, and to rediscover the intimacy of craft as an act of storytelling. Simpelaar’s practice merges discipline with dream, structure with softness.
Krishen Khanna at 100: The Last Progressive
🗓️11 Nov – 10 Dec 2025
🌍National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai
The National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, pays homage to one of India’s most beloved modernists with Krishen Khanna at 100: The Last Progressive. Co-curated by Dr Zehra Jumabhoy and Kajoli Khanna, this landmark retrospective marks a century of the artist’s life and vision. Featuring rarely seen works from private and public collections, the exhibition captures Khanna’s profound engagement with humanity — from his depictions of Partition’s pain to his tender portrayals of musicians, workers, and everyday lives. Khanna’s brush continues to echo empathy, storytelling, and timeless artistic integrity — a testament to the enduring spirit of the Progressives.
IMAGINARIUM 5.0
🗓️07 Nov – 24 Dec 25
🌍Emami Art, 777, Anandapur, Adarsha Nagar, Kolkata
Emami Art’s IMAGINARIUM 5.0 — the fifth edition of its annual nationwide open call — amplifies the voices of ten emerging artists redefining contemporary practice in India. Selected by a distinguished jury, the participants explore painting, sculpture, installation, printmaking, video, and lens-based works. The exhibition asks: can art help reimagine the continuum of life in a fragmented world? The answers lie in the artists’ poignant reconfigurations — fragile yet forward-looking. Supported by the Emami Foundation and KCC, IMAGINARIUM 5.0 becomes more than a showcase; it’s a laboratory of ideas, gesturing toward art’s role in shaping collective futures.
Sohrab Hura | The Forest
🗓️05 Nov 2025 – 03 Jan 2026
🌍Experimenter, Ballygunge Place, Kolkata
In The Forest, Sohrab Hura invites us into a liminal world where the real and imagined intertwine. Presented at Experimenter, the exhibition features new oil paintings, works on paper, and a video installation that collectively evoke the act of waiting — of inhabiting spaces where mystery and memory coexist. The forest, for Hura, becomes both metaphor and mirror: a place that shelters secrets and reveals human fragility. Known for his deeply personal approach to image-making, Hura’s visual language captures the tenderness of ordinary moments — love, loss, and belonging — transforming them into poetic meditations on time and transformation.
What Memory Built in Colour: Dasha Buben & Thilini Jinadasa
🗓️08 Nov – 24 Dec 2025
🌍Pristine Contemporary, A-178, Basement, Saini Bhawan, Kotla Mubarakpur, New Delhi
At Pristine Contemporary in New Delhi, What Memory Built in Colour brings together Dasha Buben (Belarus/Germany) and Thilini Jinadasa (Sri Lanka) in a contemplative dialogue about memory and abstraction. Buben’s series Vivid Memories of Things That Never Happened to Me explores the shifting terrain of recollection through vibrant, layered abstraction — where imagined moments feel as tangible as lived ones. Jinadasa’s The Secret of Hues turns colour into emotional architecture, balancing restraint with intensity. Together, their works transform the gallery into a space of introspection — a quiet meeting point where feeling becomes form, and colour becomes language.
Closing Note
From Mumbai’s landmark retrospectives to Kolkata’s experimental frontiers, November 2025 unfolds as a panoramic celebration of art’s ability to connect, challenge, and inspire. Whether it’s the gestural energy of Achenbach, the introspective textures of Simpelaar, or the lyrical intimacy of Hura, each exhibition contributes a distinct voice to India’s evolving creative conversation. This month, art isn’t just something to look at — it’s something to step into, breathe with, and be moved by. So, mark your calendars, open your senses, and let India’s art map guide you through a season of imagination, colour, and continuum.
