Curated by Rukminee Guha Thakurta This exhibition of books brings together artists across disciplines. The animators, graphic designers, photographers, painters, book artists, calligraphers, interaction designers and students in this space all have the book at the heart of their practice. There are books and book objects, published by eminent publishers, which explore the idea […]
Performed by: Tanmay Dhanania, Bornila Chatterjee Co-writers: Priyanka Chatterjee, Bornila Chatterjee Crew: Illustrations, Graphic design: Devika Dave Typography, Graphic design: Mohor Mukherjee Sound design: Subhagata “Rivu” Singha Lights: Soumyak Kanti de Biswas, Tanaji Dasgupta Design, Direction: Priyanka Chatterjee MAIN LOVER is a fragmentary play that comprises a series of monologues. We peek into the […]
Play Pray Play | Bikaner House | Delhi
Drawing a line through landscape
Extended hours till 9.30pm. Catch the ongoing exhibition - Lila: Play in Indian Visual Culture
Live artists Nikhil Chopra, Sajan Mani and Madhavi Gore A durational drawing performance by Nikhil Chopra will result in a large-scale work that will remain part of the exhibition until its close. Also performing will be Sajan Mani, known for his work around the politics of skin and Madhavi Gore 'replacing' the mannequin in a […]
A brand new exhibition by gallery artist, Minam Apang
The artist's debut solo with Chatterjee & Lal
0penings at participating spaces | From 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Chatterjee & Lal is gearing up to be part of India Art Fair 2018 in New Delhi from February 9 - 12. Stop by our booth C2 to see works by 10 of India's established contemporary artists. Amshu Chukki Amshu Chukki explores the theme of fiction through multimedia artwork, integrating film, sculpture, drawings and photographic […]
Chatterjee & Lal is happy to announce the preview of our artist Sahej Rahal’s work The Dekkan Trap on 16 February, Friday at the Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham.
Chatterjee & Lal will be a part of D/Code, a design + art fair curated by ar. Ashiesh Shah. It will be held at the Four Seasons in Mumbai on 17 March and 18 March.
Chatterjee & Lal is happy to announce that Minam Apang will be showing at the Lahore Biennale 2018 from March 18 - 31.
Sahej Rahal will be performing at Reimagine India: Here, There & Everywhere Summit on Friday, 23 March at MAC Birmingham. Here, There and Everywhere is an artistic collaboration between India and the UK, showcasing the finest contemporary art practices across two unique cultures. The diverse and in-depth programme launches this January in Mumbai and culminates in […]
Preview on 19 May, 6pm at 1 Shanthiroad Gallery, Shanti Nagar, Bengaluru Click here for event details.
Nikhil Chopra's performance Fire Water will be a part of the 2nd Yinchuan Biennale, China. Read more here.
The exhibition, researched and curated by Aditya Ruia, presents new thoughts on broadsides, large paper sheets historically used as posters and advertisements. These collages, found in the Havelis of Shekavati in Rajasthan, were created at the cusp of Independence and ingeniously promote the cause of nation building The painted backgrounds were produced by women artists […]
Chatterjee & Lal is excited to announce a new series of exhibitions focussed on ideas emerging from outside the ambit of the visual arts; ideas that have had a direct impact on art practice over the last century in India.
Lands, Waters and Skies, a solo show by Nikhil Chopra, featuring his latest drawings opens on 15 November at Chatterjee & Lal. The artist is showing in Mumbai after a gap of eight years.
Chatterjee & Lal is pleased to announce that Kausik Mukhopadhyay will be a part of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale to be held from 12 December 2018 to 29 March 2019.
To coincide with Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2019, Chatterjee & Lal is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Sahej Rahal. Juggernaut will feature works by the artist never shown before. MGW Digital Schedule_
Chatterjee & Lal will be particpating at the India Art Fair to be held from 31 January - 3 February, 2019
Part of the culturebagh series, a festival of film screenings, sound performance and music recitals The film screenings are each concerned with the nature of live performance and seen through the lens of Indian classical music. Returning To The First Beat | 2017 | 82 mins 59 secs | Dir. Surabhi Sharma Hindustani music and its […]
PAVING THE WAY IS AN EXHIBITION OF RARE ARCHIVAL MATERIAL CELEBRATING THE INDIAN TILING INDUSTRY The past few years have been witness to a plethora of conversations and exhibitions around the architectural diversity of Mumbai. This narrative, unfortunately, is incomplete and excludes another, less-documented area: the interiors of the city’s iconic buildings which were as stylized as […]
The exhibition presents select work by Nasreen Mohamedi encompassing a period of over twenty-five years. There is a concentration on her late line drawings - the austere graphite and ink works she executed shortly before her death in 1990. Nasreen Mohamedi trained both in London and Paris before returning to India in the early 1960s. […]
Ashish Avikunthak Vrindavani Vairagya | Dispassionate Love Seminal moving image works 1999 - 2019 17 JULY 6.30 pm registration | 7 pm screening PREMIERE Virndavani Vairagya (Dispassionate Love), 2017, DCP, Color and B&W, Bengali, 91 minutes 18 JULY 11 - 6:30pm screenings in rotation Vakratunda Swaha, 2010, 35mm, Color and B/W, Hindi, 22 minutes Kalighat […]
The Arthur Bunder Press, Colaba For ten days in August, Chatterjee & Lal will transform into THE ARTHUR BUNDER PRESS, COLABA, the site of a workshop facilitated by Prati, The Atelier. Positioned at the intersection of an erstwhile press, an artist’s studio and a gallery, the workshop will encourage participating artists to explore different printmaking processes. […]
Lands, Waters, and Skies Free with Museum admission Lands, Waters, and Skies is a live performance by Indian artist Nikhil Chopra, created for The Met's galleries. For nine consecutive days, Chopra will inhabit various personae and interact with The Met collection. Akin to a nomadic traveler, Chopra will move through the Museum, following an […]
What can drawing do? What can be done in drawings? Gagan Singh uses lines to restage lived experiences and to orchestrate transgressive situations that give form to desire, violence and loss. Many of these investigations bring into focus the construction of masculinity, particularly in South Asia, through attention to its various enactments of power as […]
Rustom Siodia, born in the late 19th Century, was an artist, poet, and essayist. Having attended JJ School of Art in Bombay, he was the first ever Parsi to study at London’s Royal Academy. Living between India and England, he went on to forge a career that spanned the painting traditions of portraiture, landscape, […]
Come visit us at C-2! We look forward to meeting as many people as possible during the India Art Fair 2020.
One day symposium consisting of keynote, masterclass, talks, and panel discussions on life and times of Riten Mozumdar at G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture, Laxmi Mills Estate. About Culturebagh x G5A The Culturebagh x G5A collaboration brings exciting programming from the visual arts ecosystem. Presented in the form of lectures, panel discussions and masterclasses, our […]
Solo show by Mark Prime On view: 13 March to 11 April 2020
Please join Ushmita and Richa Agarwal for a series of live stream conversations which I am curating for Emami Art. In response to a growing sense of urgency to reach out and to try and foster a sense of solidarity within the arts community.This series of digital programme features Arunima Choudhury Gautam Choudhury Pranati Panda Jagannath Panda Pooja Iranna GR Iranna Mithu […]
Tune in at 7 PM on 7th May, Thursday, on Avid Learning's Instagram, Facebook or YouTube channel for a session with Mort Chatterjee on: Raja Ravi Varma's Art in the Time of Pandemic Gallerist and Writer with Mortimer Chatterjee Avid Online Avid Online YouTube Playlist: http://tinyurl.com/AVIDPlaylist Avid Instagram: @avidlearning Avid Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/avidlearning Twitter : @avidLearning
Culturebagh invites you to register now to attend a two hour virtual drawing workshop, "How to think through drawing", with Chatterjee & Lal artist, Gagan Singh, on Saturday 30 May, 4 - 6 pm. The artist is known for his quirky, whimsical drawings which often reflect on daily life in urban India. In addition to […]
Join us for an online presentation with Sahej Rahal on Saturday, 27 June at 5 pm. The session can be accessed on our Facebook page and YouTube channel: Facebook.com/chatterjeeandlal https://tinyurl.com/chatterjeeandlal Sahej is primarily a storyteller. His stories weave together fact and fiction, to create counter-mythologies that interrogate the dominant mythologies shaping the present. This myth-world […]
The Inlaks India Foundation invites applications for the selection of Inlaks Fine Art Awards 2021. Deadline: 1st October, 2020 The award is intended to help young artists in their formative years to develop their creative talent. It provides financial assistance to enable them to work independently anywhere in India. ABOUT THE AWARD: The Award is […]
The career and life of polymath artist-designer Riten Mozumdar (1927-2006). Ushmita Sahu in conversation with Mortimer Chatterjee. Riten Mozumdar (1927 – 2006) was one of the most significant artist-designers of the Indian Modernist Design Renaissance in the decades immediately following Independence. Responding to the socio-economic and cultural upheaval sweeping through the country, Mozumdar approached design as a complex […]
The Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation in collaboration with the Peabody Essex Museum presents Mind the Dash: The Modern/Contemporary & the ‘In-Between’ in Indian Art A Talk Series | 11, 18, 25 September 2020 Register for the 11th September Talk This series brings international scholars and seminal public collections together, exploring connections and continuities through Modern […]
Join us for an online Performative conversation with Nikhil Chopra and Hetain Patel on Sunday 27 September, 05:30 PM IST. 01:00 PM GMT 08:00 AM EST ** The session can be accessed on C&L’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. It can also be accessed on Architectural Digest India’s Facebook page and YouTube channel ** Born […]
We are delighted to be hosting special screenings of Hetain Patel's short film 'Don't Look At The Finger' at Chatterjee & Lal on 9th, 10th & 11th of November. The film will be on loop between 12 noon to 5 pm. Drop by anytime! We are hosting these screenings to celebrate Hetain win at Kino […]
SQUEEZE LIME IN YOUR EYE A film on Kausik Mukhopadhyay by Avijit Mukul Kishore. Associate Director: Rohan Shivkumar. Watch it exclusively on Chatterjee & Lal ‘s YouTube channel 26th November to 3rd December: 'Squeeze Lime in Your Eye' is a documentary film about the inimitable artist Kausik Mukhopadhyay. His art works exist on the peculiar […]
Chatterjee & Lal is delighted to present Short Notice, works by Nityan Unnikrishnan for IN Touch Edition 5. Join us on Wednesday, 16th Dec 2020 on www.artintouch.in. IN Touch is a collaborative platform created in partnership between galleries to present online exhibitions.
Register here to watch the introduction to In Touch Edition 5 and gallerists present a short overview of their In Touch edition 5 presentations
Visit Bangalore International Centre's website here Register for the sessions here: Art of Gold- https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7016076833342/WN_a2P8HLkzQmaafn8ugCtDYQ Culturebagh- https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2816075398059/WN_a2P8HLkzQmaafn8ugCtDYQ Yarn Club- https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4716075398127/WN_a2P8HLkzQmaafn8ugCtDYQ The luxurious, handwoven brocades of Banaras (Varanasi) have held the imagination of India and the world for a long time. By the late 19th-century, these had emerged as among the most fashionable of fabrics worn across the […]
Over the last decade, Chatterjee & Lal has hosted a number of exhibitions in an ongoing series titled Simple Tales. The latest instalment is titled Head in the Clouds. Each iteration of the series has brought together works from contemporary and historical contexts across a range of media. The proposition of Simple Tales is that […]
Chatterjee & Lal is pleased to present a new body of drawings by Mumbai-based artist, Sahej Rahal for IN Edition 6. Join us on Wednesday, 28th May 2021 on www.artintouch.in. IN Touch is a collaborative platform created in partnership between galleries to present online exhibitions.
To mark the launch of In Touch edition 6, eleven galleries from our participating galleries across India and Dubai will take you through a presentation of their online viewing rooms. Join here Sharing details of the artists, artworks and also taking in questions from attendees, this one hour online chat will allow collectors, curators and […]
Culturebagh invites you to register now to attend a weekend virtual drawing workshop, "Come let's get inky!", with Chatterjee & Lal artist, Gagan Singh, from 26 August, Saturday, 5:30 pm to 29 August, Sunday, 5:00 pm. It's a weekend drawing party. Come let's celebrate drawing in all its glory. Let us spend the the next […]
Join Nancy Adajania for a walkthrough of The Unpaved, Crusty, Earthy Road | Nelly Sethna: A Retrospective This first-ever retrospective of Nelly Sethna (1932-1992) contextualises this all-but-forgotten fibre artist’s versatile and experimental practice: as a weaver, textile designer, researcher and crafts activist. We present Sethna as a transcultural practitioner, a participant in the global […]
In anticipation of the India release of Hetain Patel’s new film TRINITY at the gallery in January 2022, we are pleased to open an exhibition of the artist’s existing work covering 18 years of practice, much of which has never been seen before in the country. The exhibition includes photography, video and documentation of performance. […]
Join us this Thursday for an hour-long interaction between filmmaker and anthropologist Ashish Avikunthak and film and cultural theorist Ashish Rajadhyaksha as they discuss the current trends and state of Indian cinema, the role of online streaming platforms, issues surrounding censorship in films, and plenty more. The session will also delve into Ashish Avikunthak's filmmaking practice in India since the mid […]
We are delighted to announce the opening of Sahej Rahal’s solo exhibition, Ancestors (पू र्व ज) curated by Puja Vaish on occasion of the CSMVS Museum's centenary at the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery. The exhibition brings together an extensive body of Rahal's work that resonates with the underpinnings of the Museum in telling stories of civilisations. Ancestors stages sculptural […]
We are delighted to announce the opening of Amshu Chukki’s second solo exhibition at Chatterjee & Lal! Behind the cinematic image are invisible processes of divination – bodies and apparatus that converge to form contraptions for production. Several practices and objects associated with cinema are often identified using terminology only understood by those in the […]
Chatterjee & Lal is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition, Lost In Space, presenting recent work by Minam Apang, Sahej Rahal, Gagan Singh and Nityan Unnikrishnan. The exhibits are mostly small format paper works, portraying the animate and inanimate inhabitants of strange worlds. Creatures creep and crawl, bounce and bob; landscapes of […]
India Art Fair, Mortimer Chatterjee and The Shoestring Publisher are delighted to invite you to the book release of Moving Focus, India on Friday, 29 April at 6:30pm at the India Art Fair auditorium. The event will begin at 6:30pm sharp with a panel discussion on Moving Focus, India and the questions it raises. Our […]
Autobiography of a Line: the photographs, prints and paper cutouts of Nasreen Mohamedi Imagination fills a space with spirit and meaning. Reciprocally, that space then evokes feeling, memory, thought – giving it form. Taking from Gaston Bachelard's 'The Poetics of Space', 1958 - an interrogation into the meaning of spaces which preoccupy poetry (both intimate […]
This design-led exhibition focuses on the history of Khotachi Wadi, located in south Mumbai’s Girgaum, through disciplines as diverse as architecture, culinary histories, speculative art, early street photography and product design. In keeping with the mandate of C&L Design exhibitions, a wealth of archival material has been brought into conversation with contemporary design objects. Curated […]
Chatterjee & Lal announces Arshi Irshad Ahmadzai’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Qissah-e Kabul. The paintings are inspired by the architecture, gardens, poetry, and court paintings that flourished in the Mughal court at Kabul; they are representative of the era’s cosmopolitanism, with the coming together of multiple aesthetic influences. The journey of these works […]
We are delighted to announce a presentation at Chatterjee & Lal of the residues of Nikhil Chopra’s 2019 performance ‘Land, Waters, and Skies’. Nikhil Chopra (born 1974) was The Met’s 2019-2020 Artist in Residence and he lived at The Met Fifth Avenue for nine continuous days in September 2019. Chopra prepared for this performance over the […]
The question of what it meant to be progressive, in thought and form, was a pressing one in the decades following Independence. This exhibition offers an insight into a moment when diverse players converged in mid-twentieth century Madras (now Chennai) to participate in this discussion, enriching the aesthetic and cultural scenario. Of central importance was […]
Meera Mukherjee (1923 - 1998), best known as a sculptor of bronzes, was committed throughout her career to an understanding of art and design that travelled outside the confines of the academy and into the interiors of the country. To further her own practice she had learned metalworking techniques in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, and, indeed, had […]
Chatterjee & Lal is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition, 'Knotted Roots', presenting works by Shanti Dave, Akkitham Narayanan, Nareen Nath, Laxman Pai, Sohan Qadri, P. C. Sagara and Nelly Sethna. This exhibition comprises art objects dating from the 1950s until the 1990s, by artists whose mode of expression was primarily abstraction and who were often influenced and […]
Chatterjee & Lal is excited to be part of the 11th edition of MGW and looks forward to hosting Nityan Unnikrishnan's solo show at the gallery! In Nityan Unnikrishnan’s Every Day is an Admission of Guilt, both the painted and sculpted works raise questions about space, formalism, and content; there is a residual tension between […]
London-based Hetain Patel returns for his fifth solo at Chatterjee & Lal with a series of paintings and carpet works. Now entering the third decade of his practice, he remains committed to a multidisciplinary approach and this is his first time presenting a show of paintings in India, following a return to drawing during the […]
C&L Design presents The House Style: Culture of the Expanded Book, bringing together a range of important India-based publishing houses and self-published authors. In addition to presenting an array of books focussed on arts and culture, the exhibition also pays particularly attention to publishing projects that have been informed by, or have provided impetus to, […]
K.G. Subramanyan (1924–2016) was a force of nature, and over a six-decade career in art, craft and design—both as a practitioner and educator—his impact on the cultural sphere has been immense. On the eve of his birth centenary, C&L Design presents Do Hands Have a Chance? — an experimental two-part exhibition, the first of many commemorative events […]
This is the second of a two-part exhibition exploring the practice of K.G. Subramanyan (1924 - 2016). It takes place on the eve of his centenary birth year. The selection of objects at Chatterjee & Lal has been determined by two key influences in Subramanyan’s career: his training at Santiniketan during the 1940s and his […]
