IN PHOTOS: Check out these handpicked art exhibitions at Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2026

During the weekend, there will not only will 33 galleries put up their best shows of the year, but January 11 is also the only Sunday in the year when all of them will stay open from 12 pm onwards (Story by Debjani Paul)

Updated On: 2026-01-07 12:06 PM IST

Compiled by : Nascimento Pinto

The Mumbai Gallery Weekend will take place from January 8-11. Photos Courtesy: File pics

Lone Runner’s Laboratory
Gallery: Experimenter, Colaba 
Artist: Prabhakar Pachpute
For more than a decade, Prabhakar Pachpute has critically examined the impact of mining on both the environment and human lives. What began as a study of altered natural and industrial landscapes has deepened into an exploration of the inner worlds of those most affected. The first iteration of Lone Runner’s Laboratory will bring together a new body of sculptures, and paintings, posing significant questions on what forms of resistance must be forged to allow our lands to bloom.

A map folded open
Gallery: Art & Charlie, Bandra
Artists: Sabeen Omar, Mahen Perera, and Urna Sinha
A map folded open is an invitation to see where its lines may lead, to follow memory where it lingers. Three artists in the exhibit — Sabeen Omar and Mahen Perera  from Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Urna Sinha from Goa — use various media and techniques (textile scraps, fabric sculptures, paints and photographs) to trace this journey

What Do Birds Dream At Dusk?
Gallery: Chemould Prescott Road
Artist: Mithu Sen
The exhibit explores blindness not as a medical state but as a political condition — shaped by selective seeing, curated truths, and collective denial. In a world where media edits reality, where militarism frames vision, and where comfort replaces conscience, sight becomes unreliable and blindness becomes systemic. Who controls what we see? Whose suffering remains invisible? What has been erased by design? By integrating Braille, the artist invites viewers to unlearn the visible and confront the worlds that remain unseen

By Fire
Gallery: Æquo, Colaba
Artist: Kelly Wearstler
One collection features a series of furniture pieces and table objects built around a massive cast bronze grid, inlaid with hundreds of hand-shaped enamel pieces, creating a contrast of colour and texture. The other takes shape in teak carved by hand into fluid forms, burnt to deepen its texture, and accented with delicate bronze elements. Presented together, they offer a landscape where fire meets wood and metal, and where structure and fluidity coexist. They reflect the meeting of Los Angeles and Mumbai, of a designer entering new territory

Double Consciousness
Gallery: Jhaveri Contemporary, Colaba
Artist: Lubna Chowdhary
There is no “one way” to feel when you view a work of art; for example, an artwork might fill you with both delight and foreboding. Lubna Chowdhary’s new exhibit is a delicate dance in duality

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