📍Kolkata, India
Hi! This is me, @ananyasaraf.design‘s personal art and design exhibit agenda for the month; shared here because art and organised grids (two things sitting conveniently high on my list of interests) now felt worthy of an audience.
I’m drawn to contemporary art and design, especially the ones that makes me physically move, look twice. The kind that makes my brain tingle.
This list focuses on Kolkata since I’m based here, with occasional exhibits from other cities I plan to visit (and as my chronically online self digs deeper.) Do reach out if I miss anything :)
Cover photo: ‘All that you leave behind’ at Art Exposure
| Dates (start–end) | Exhibit Name | Venue / Gallery / Museum | Artist(s) / Curator(s) | Ananya’s Reflections |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 March – 14 June 2026 | The cage broke, and I found the horizon | Experimenter Outpost | ||
| (at Alipore Museum) | Rathin Barman | I would not have thought that the choice of an erstwhile prison as a venue for an exhibition about home and liberation could add so much depth to it. As for the work, the varied interpretations of home in food or architecture really made me think about how different categories of society differently remember and understand home. | ||
| 18th March – 16 May 2026 | All that you leave behind | Art Exposure | Multiple Artists | |
| Curated by Gayatri Sinha | How nuanced and open-ended is the concept of “residue”! With one artwork, I looked at the theme from the perspective of legacy and heritage, with some: real-life consequence, and some from a media and data lens. No two artists felt the same, visually or conceptually, but the idea of what is retained and what is left behind, well, remained. | |||
| 20th March – May 9th | Nothing Twice | Emami Art | ||
| (Kolkata Centre of Creativity) | Multiple Artists | |||
| Curated by Ushmita Sahu | I usually find it difficult to understand the underlying thread between different works in a group show. This show for me was no different, but it did come together slowly and quite interestingly. Moving back and forth the entire show, I think Riti Sengupta’s photography was the work that tied it together for me, underlining my previously noted keywords of temporality, everyday existence and the female experience. | |||
| 20th March – May 9th | Chance Remains of Another Time | Emami Art | ||
| (Kolkata Centre of Creativity) | Suman Dey | I really enjoy textural work for the love of the visual and the tactility. But this show did not just check that box, it transported me through different experiences of my own urban life in Kolkata. | ||
| 27 March – 6 June 2026 | Where We Come From | Experimenter Hindustan Road | Emily Jacir | |
| 2 April – 6 June 2026 | We Need to Talk in Whispers | Experimenter Ballygunge Place | Soumya Sankar Bose | Without much context about the show, I walked into large scale and high contrast photographs — beautiful looking and at the same time disturbingly confusing. It made me want to know more but also made me feel like I should not. But as I saw and read more, the discomfort somewhat subsided and I became surprisingly curious in understanding the life (and the end of it) of strangers. |
| 24th April – May 9th | On the Limits of Superstition | Seagull Books | Kiron Khosla | |
| 16 May – 29 May | Touching Light | Kolkata Centre of Creativity | KCC x Museo Camera | |
| 16 May – 2 August | Madhvi Parekh: A Life in Line, Memory and Myth | Alipore Museum | Madhvi Parekh | |
| 22 May – 10 July | Alchemy of Absolute Intimacy | Emami Art | Sayani Sarkar | |
| 22 May – 10 July | An Ancient Ballad | Emami Art | Group Exhibition | |
| 29 May – 2 August | Hand Prints / Mind Prints | TRI Art & Culture | Gulammohammed Sheikh | |
| Curated by Pushapmala N. |
| Date/s | Name | About | Venue / Gallery / Museum |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st May 2026 | |||
| 4-5pm | “All That You Leave Behind” Exhibition Walkthrough | Ongoing exhibition walkthrough concluding with a film screening | Art Exposure |
| 2nd May 2026 | Improvisations: A zine-making workshop | Facilitated by Marchbaari as part of Nothing Twice | Emami Art |
| 9th May 2026 | |||
| 6-7pm | |||
| (Cancelled) | Abhivyakti | A three-act responsive performance by Odissi soloist Rohini Banerjee. | Emami Art |
| 15th May 2026 | |||
| 3:30 - 5:30pm | Cynotype Printing Workshop | Kaee Contemporary | |
| 16th May 2026 | Miniature Muse | A hands-on Miniature Art Workshop. Using simple materials like ice cream sticks, foam, paper, straws, and beads, participants will craft their own miniature frames. | Kolkata Centre of Creativity |
| 16, 17, 18th May 2026 | A Weekend in Museums | An invitation to reimagine museum visits through play, movement, archives and film, and this year we are raising the question of who museums are built for | Indian Museum, Alipore Museum |
| 23rd May 2026 | |||
| (postponed from 9th May) | A Mark Making Workshop through North Kolkata | Inspired by Suman Dey’s practice facilitated by Priyanka Lodh | Outdoor (by Emami Art/KCC) |
| 29th May 2026 | |||
| 6:30pm | A Parallel Practice | A conversation on seven decades of printmaking with polymath Gullamohemmed Sheikh with curator Dr. Paula Sengupta | TRI Art & Culture |
| 30th May 2026 | Stitched Stories | A mixed-media art workshop that explores storytelling through watercolour, fabric, paper, and hand stitching. | Kolkata Centre of Creativity Gallery Store |
| 30th May 2026 | |||
| 5pm | Conversation: Architect Abin Chaudhuri, Artist Rathin Burman, moderated by Prateek Raja | Experimenter Outpost at Alipore Museum |
Archive: **Art&Around : March ‘26 Art&Around : April ‘26**
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Last updated: 31 May, 2026.