Mumbai art guide: Must-visit exhibitions opening this week in Colaba and Fort

Raja Shitab Rai at Shitab Rai Ghat

Beauty and its secrets

Shivratri procession at the Purab Darwaza. Pics Courtesy/Artists, strangers House Gallery

In the age of new colonialism, Akshay Singh Maksudpur and Mahesh Soundatte's Veerane Pe Kya Guzari reminds us of the familiar slip-ups hidden behind the beauty pf that age. Maksudpur, a cinematographer, collaborates with Soundatte, a portraitist and painter from Ichalkaranji, to create an album on the city of Patna, drawing from the famed Patna Kalam Company paintings.
ON Tomorrow; 5.30 pm to 9.30 pm
TILL April 9; 11 am to 7pm
AT Strangers House Gallery, Old Wodehouse Road, Colaba.

Ancestral threads

To Find the Hidden Self, 1, Kaveri Raina. Pics Courtesy/Artist; Experimenter Gallery

Kaveri Raina finally makes her India debut with an exhibition that delves into memory, history and personal journey. The new series of works, of fire-harpoons, draws inspiration from the 14th Century Kashmiri poet, Lal Ded, becoming an inspiration for Raina's own exploration of her obscured and complex ancestry.
Till April 18; 10.30 am to 6.30 pm
AT Experimenter, first floor, Sunny House, Merewether Road, Colaba.

Encounter the unknown

Installation view, Goutam Ghosh. Pic Courtesy/artist; Project 88

Tactile, immediate, and arresting, Goutam Ghosh's Bite the Bullet, interrogates our visual perspective, and historical memory through sculpted creations. The work stands at an intersection of the artist's long examination of ideas.

Till May 2; 11 am to 7 pm (Tuesday to Saturday)
AT Project 88, BMP Building, Colaba.

The price of progress

Navjot Altaf, Gudhal/White Hibiscus, Hibiscus Arnottianus; Waste Archives as Landscape, 2024-25

What does innovation mean? What is the true cost of progress? Straddling the distinct worlds of Bastar and Mumbai, Navjot Altaf's latest examination questions the existential tensions between the ideas of progress and ecology through the visual memory of things left behind. Waste Archives as Landscape follows the remnant evidences of innovation and progress in an increasingly consumerist society.

Waste Archives as Landscape, 2024-25. Pics courtesy/the artist; Volte Gallery

Till June 10; 10.15 am to 6 pm
AT Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, second floor, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Fort.
ENTRY Museum tickets apply