Exhibitions

A Thousand Thunders

Khandakar Ohida 26 Sep - 31 Oct 2024 আমি কোন নৌকায়? This is the predicament that artist Khandakar Ohida tries to grapple with in life and art: which world do I belong to? Recognising the double-bind of oppression manifesting in the form of familial pressure to conform to socio-religious norms on the one hand, and state obligations to... Read more

The Rhythms of Refuge

Sudhir Ranjan Khastgir 8 Aug - 14 Sep 2024 Project 88 is pleased to present Sudhir Khastgir: The Rhythms of Refuge – a retrospective of the noted modernist and pedagogue, Sudhir Ranjan Khastgir (1907 – 1974), in collaboration with Galerie 88, Kolkata. For the first time, an expansive curation of his paintings, drawings, and prints, will be exhibited in... Read more

Artists’ Film International 2024: Solidarity

in collaboration with Forma 11 - 20 Jul 2024 Project 88 is proud to announce the launch of this year’s Artists’ Film International (AFI’24) - a touring film programme which is collectively curated and presented by fifteen international arts organisations and convened by Forma. AFI’24 introduces the work of talented moving image artists to worldwide audiences, and will be... Read more

Porous Earth

Neha Choksi 28 Mar - 15 Jun 2024 Read more

Her Nature

Ashwini Bhat 11 Jan - 2 Mar 2024 In this exhibition, transdisciplinary artist Ashwini Bhat explores a trajectory toward a metaphysical understanding of nature and self. In both English and in Kannada, Bhat's mother tongue, "nature/prakriti", reference wilderness and the inherent qualities of a personality. Through sculpture, installation, and video, Bhat connects visual language to the yearning to be part of nature, to the recognition of human interconnectedness with the more-than-human. Read more

A Butterfly in Amazon

Mahesh Baliga 9 Nov - 30 Dec 2023 For his sixth solo exhibition at our gallery, Mahesh Baliga returns to large-scale paintings made with casein tempera. His subjects are elusive - they pass slowly, silently, muted in their small struggles. 'I start with the ordinary life of objects and people', he has said. 'I begin with the perceptible, but these specified contours are soon lost! Read more

Exit Only, No Exit / No Entry, Entry Only

Shreyas Karle 14 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 Project 88 is pleased to present Exit Only, No Exit / No Entry, Entry Only, Shreyas Karle’s fourth solo exhibition at our gallery space in Mumbai. With over 95 drawings, paintings, notebooks, and archival material – primarily from CONA, a foundation he co-runs with his partner Hemali Bhuta – this... Read more

Lyric, Still

Sushen Ghosh 10 Aug - 2 Sep 2023 Project 88 is pleased to present Lyric, Still - a retrospective of the reclusive sculptor, Sushen Ghosh (1940 – 2023), in collaboration with Galerie 88, Kolkata. Renowned for his colossal sculptural installations at Santiniketan, out here, viewers will encounter this ‘monumentality’ as it unexpectedly emerges in the late artist’s smaller,... Read more

Artists' Film International

13 - 20 Jul 2023 Project 88 is pleased to announce its tenth exhibition in affiliation with Artists’ Film International (AFI). Established by the Whitechapel Gallery in 2003, AFI is a collaborative project with 22 global partner organizations featuring film, video, and animation from around the world. Each organization nominates an exciting recent work by... Read more

Approaching Limits

Sandeep Mukherjee 11 May - 1 Jul 2023 Project 88 is pleased to present Approaching Limits, Sandeep Mukherjee’s third solo exhibition at our gallery space in Mumbai. With life-sized sculptural forms and acrylic paintings, this new body of work is typical of Mukherjee’s oeuvre, wherein an immersive experience is an integral component of the artwork itself. The artist... Read more

Black Masks on Roller Skates

Amol K Patil 23 Mar - 29 Apr 2023 Project 88 is pleased to present Black Masks on Roller Skates, a selected excerpt of Amol K Patil’s larger project exhibited at Documenta Fifteen. This exhibition encompasses kinetic sculpture, drawings, holographic videos, music, and performance art. Map lines of migration and transformation outline a stage, with performers as if beneath... Read more

Spectral Theatre

Rohini Devasher, Sandeep Mukherjee 12 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 a body vanishes from the surface/ its remains seep into the stage-screen/ diatomic actors flicker in the sky-light/ a chimeric dance across thresholds The ghosts of words and borders continue to haunt artists of colour in global contemporary art stages. What does it mean to inhabit that stage with a... Read more

Kromosho

Munem Wasif 10 Nov - 31 Dec 2022 Project 88 is pleased to present Kromosho, Munem Wasif's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Kromosho, or 'step by step' in Bengali, hints at an oeuvre developed gradually in close relationship with the city and the people inhabiting it. Composed across two decades, the bodies of work it displays rediscover... Read more

Aha!

Hemali Bhuta 23 Sep - 31 Oct 2022 “Materials carry their own geologies, and in this body of work, the artist goes back in time to bring something forth from that which remains. These processes of transmutation are invisible to us as viewers, but nonetheless suggest that the works of art, and the matter they contain, belong to... Read more

Meera Mukherjee: Photographs by Arun Ganguly

17 Aug - 10 Sep 2022 Project 88 is pleased to present Meera Mukherjee: Photographs by Arun Ganguly, an exhibition of extraordinary photographs from an unseen archive – jointly curated by Adip Dutta and Tapati Guha-Thakurta. Marking Meera Mukherjee’s centenary year, this show first opened at Galerie 88 in Kolkata, and will now make its way... Read more

Tracing Echoes

Group Show 12 May - 30 Jun 2022 Project88 is pleased to present ‘ Tracing echoes’ a group show by artists Ashwini Bhat, Hemali Bhuta, Minal Damani, Neha Choksi, Prajakta Potnis, Prajakta Palav, Sandeep Mukherjee, and Velu Viswanadhan. Each visual gesture holds its own negative shadow - a permanent absence etched into the frames of ordinary perception. These... Read more

Tropisms

Amitesh Shrivastava 10 Feb - 31 Mar 2022 The first thing we notice about Amitesh Shrivastava’s paintings is that they are, above all, celebrations of painterliness; they are, in Wölfflin’s sense, malerisch. The brushstroke is the formative unit in these works, varying in its handling of paint from a robust impasto to a velvet sleekness. It is no... Read more

Artists' Film International

11 - 24 Nov 2021 Project 88 is pleased to announce its ninth exhibition in affiliation with Artists’ Film International (AFI). Established by the Whitechapel Gallery in 2008, AFI is a collaborative project with 22 global partner organisations featuring film, video, and animation from around the world. Each organisation selects an exciting recent work by... Read more

The Heart of the Heart

Pallavi Paul 9 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 This show, The Heart of the Heart, makes a case for political envy. Unlike jealousy, which stems from the fear of losing what is already in one’s actual or notional possession, envy arises from desiring what the self lacks. This envious recognition of emptiness can be a provocation to... Read more

Annex and Dissever

Khageswar Rout 25 Mar - 29 May 2021 Project 88 is pleased to present Annex and Dissever, Khageswar Rout’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Drawing inspiration from organic forms, Rout renders complex vegetal matter in his intricate sculptures. By eternalising objects that evolve continuously within their lifespans, he examines the space between the perpetual and the obsolete.... Read more

Seeing Time: Public Clocks of Bombay

Chirodeep Chaudhuri 26 Nov 2020 - 27 Feb 2021 I have regularly been asked about how I found these buildings. I could say – with tenacity. But, perhaps, I should just say that it was a combination of observation, legwork and sometimes, a feeling in the gut. As a photographer of the streets it isn’t uncommon to develop an... Read more

A Body Without Organs

Prajakta Potnis 12 Mar - 12 Sep 2020 Project 88 is pleased to present Prajakta Potnis's second solo exhibition at the gallery, A Body Without Organs. Deleuze and Guattari in their philosophical tour de force Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972-1980) proposed the concept of a Body without Organs. Mounted as a counter to the structures of social code and... Read more

It's a Normal Day...

Mahesh Baliga 9 Jan - 29 Feb 2020 Project 88 is pleased to present Mahesh Baliga's fifth solo exhibition: It's a normal day... This exhibition examines the sense of normalcy that everyday offers. While each day is seemingly a regular occurrence, Baliga exposes and highlights dissonances that are overlooked or ignored. Viewers are invited to pay attention to... Read more

Counsellors

Amitesh Shrivastava 3 Dec 2019 - 4 Jan 2020 Project 88 is pleased to present Counsellors, an exhibition of paintings by Amitesh Shrivastava. This is his second solo at the gallery. Consider the terrain. Rough earth and boulders about to tumble out of grip. Long afternoons of suspense spent tracking rumours concealed in crevices. Dappled shade giving over to... Read more

The Shape of The Tortoise

Goutam Ghosh 17 Oct - 30 Nov 2019 Project 88 is pleased to present The Shape of the Tortoise by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Goutam Ghosh & Sussane M. Winterling from the Kalpana Group. Into the middle of things, right away, not only in terms of time, but also of space, there is the glistening brown horizon of the future,... Read more

Life in Prints: Pinaki Barua

Curated by R. Siva Kumar 19 Sep - 10 Oct 2019 Project 88 is pleased to present Life in Prints: Pinaki Barua, curated by R. Siva Kumar. It is the artist’s first major exhibition featuring prints spanning the three decades of his distinguished career. Barua (b. 1951, Kolkata) trained at Santiniketan under Somnath Hore and is among the finest printmakers of... Read more

Blurred Lines

Maggie Baxter 8 Aug - 7 Sep 2019 Project88 is pleased to present Blurred Lines, a solo exhibition by Australian artist Maggie Baxter. The exhibition features new works by Maggie Baxter that appropriate traditional textile practices to address concerns surrounding notions of repetition, arbitrariness, and disintegration. Baxter has engaged and collaborated with local block printers and embroiderers in... Read more

Father and Daughter – Laying Down the Linework

Asit Kumar Haldar, Atasi Barua 11 Jun - 31 Jul 2019 Project 88 is pleased to present Father and Daughter - Laying Down the Linework an exhibition featuring artworks by Asit Kumar Haldar (1890-1964) and his daughter Atasi Barua (1921-2016). A member of the Jorasanko Tagore family and a first generation artist of the Bengal School, Asit Haldar is known for... Read more

Artists’ Film International

18 - 31 May 2019 Project 88 is pleased to announce it’s seventh exhibition in affiliation with Artists’ Film International (AFI). Organized annually since 2009 by the Whitechapel Gallery in London, AFI showcases artists working with film, video, and animation that are selected by 13 partner institutions around the world and presented over the course... Read more

De-notified Land

Anupam Roy 14 Mar - 4 May 2019 Project 88 is pleased to present De-notified Land, Anupam Roy’s first solo show at the gallery. Reflecting Roy’s long-term engagement with grassroot movements, the exhibition features works that expand the dialogue surrounding art and activism through a careful deliberation of socio-political and phenomenological conceptions of land. Roy’s body of work... Read more

Provisions

Raqs Media Collective 16 Jan - 9 Feb 2019 Raqs Media Collective returns to Project 88, Mumbai with Provisions , an exhibition that brings together the premiere in India of an ambitious recent video travelogue, Provisions for Everybody (2018), as well as a new body of work — photo/text/objects that embody an agile and playful skepticism towards the civilisational... Read more

Hopeful Monsters

Rohini Devasher 4 Dec 2018 - 12 Jan 2019 “I don’t think we’re looking at a plant,” Whitby says, tentative, at one status meeting, risking his new relationship with the science division, which he has embraced as a kind of sanctuary. “Then why are we seeing a plant, Whitby?” Cheney, managing to convey an all-consuming exasperation. Why are we... Read more

Not a Simple Disappearance, but a Slow Dissolution

Pallavi Paul 24 Oct - 24 Nov 2018 Project 88 is pleased to present Pallavi Paul’s second solo exhibition, Not a Simple Disappearance, but a Slow Dissolution. The show brings together works done between 2016 - 2018 and addresses the questions of resilience, violence and the agility of thought. How is violence produced? What is the stake of... Read more

Civilisation and its Material Contents

Khageswar Rout, Mahesh Baliga, Neha Kudchadkar 11 Sep - 15 Oct 2018 Project 88 is pleased to present Civilisation and its Material Contents , a group exhibition featuring new works by contemporary artists Neha Kudchadkar, Khageswar Raut, and Mahesh Baliga. Brought together by their ongoing explorations with clay, the artists collaboratively address the relevance of the medium within the age of the... Read more

Artists' Film International

21 Aug - 5 Sep 2018 Project 88 is pleased to announce its sixth exhibition in affiliation with Artists’ Film International (AFI). Organized annually since 2009 by the Whitechapel Gallery in London, AFI showcases artists working with film, video, and animation that are selected by 16 partner institutions around the world and presented over the course... Read more

Prints from Bengal: modernism in colonial India

Ramkinkar Baij, Ramendra Nath Chakravorty, Rani Chanda, Mukul Dey, Gaganendranath Tagore 17 May - 16 Jun 2018 Project 88 is pleased to present Prints from Bengal: modernism in colonial India, featuring graphic prints by artists, Ramkinkar Baij (1906-1980), Ramendra Nath Chakravorty (1902-1955), Rani Chanda (1912-1997), Mukul Dey (1895-1989), and Gaganendranath Tagore (1867-1938). The exhibition features works spanning the early to mid 20th century by artists native to... Read more

Transactional Objects

Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty 8 Mar - 8 May 2018 Project 88 is pleased to present Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty’s first exhibition with the gallery – Transactional Objects . This show is a part of a long-term research undertaken by the artists towards conceptualizing urban form. Parts of this work have been shown at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015)... Read more

Unnecessary alcove

Shreyas Karle 31 Jan - 3 Mar 2018 Project 88 is pleased to present Shreyas Karle’s second solo exhibition with the gallery - Unnecessary alcove that enquires into the notion of archiving the domestic. As the fingernails attain a certain length, the fingers itch to scratch the surface of the body. They scavenge for the wax accumulated in... Read more

Jomin o Joban - a tale of the land

Munem Wasif 27 Oct - 6 Dec 2017 Project 88 is pleased to present Munem Wasif's debut solo in Mumbai titled Jomin o Joban – a tale of the land . Jomin o Joban is an account of personal relationships with land and its ever-changing forms, intertwining issues of borders, territory, economy, and political ecology. Each of Wasif’s... Read more

Trespassers and Translators

Amitesh Shrivastava 10 Aug - 12 Oct 2017 Project 88 is pleased to present Trespassers and Translators , an exhibition of new paintings by Amitesh Shrivastava. This is Shrivastava's first solo at Project 88. The surfaces in Amitesh Shrivastava's works are permeable. He sets up an entry for the viewer's eye but the exits remain many. And whether... Read more

Cut-Price Paradise

Sarnath Banerjee 13 - 29 Jul 2017 Project 88 is pleased to present Cut-Price Paradise , six animation films by Sarnath Banerjee that explore the idiosyncratic textures of urban life to broadly comment on human behaviour and identity. He playfully dramatizes mundane moments to make viewers reexamine their perceptions of history and the value of knowledge. 1943,... Read more

Wooden Horse in Boggy Land: Four Propositions about Landscape

Tejal Shah, Prajakta Potnis, Gobardhan Ash, Gieve Patel 18 May - 29 Jun 2017 Project 88 is pleased to present Wooden Horse in Boggy Land: Four Propositions about Landscape curated by Prajna Desai with works by Gobardhan Ash, Prajakta Potnis, Gieve Patel, and Tejal Shah. In looking for landscape— Eyes by the windowsill wait for the brain to light up the slope of the... Read more

Artists' Film International

21 Apr - 8 May 2017 Project 88 is pleased to announce its fifth exhibition in association with Artists’ Film International . Organized annually since 2009 by the Whitechapel Gallery, Artists’ Film International showcases artists working with film, video, and animation, selected by 16 partner organizations around the world and presented over the course of a... Read more

In The City, A Library

Chirodeep Chaudhuri, Jerry Pinto 9 Mar - 15 Apr 2017 The question: What is a library? Is it a collection of books? Is it a collection of readers? Is it an interaction between books and readers? Is it that interaction posited against time? It is now a commonplace to say that time is a thief. But its depredations leave books... Read more

Bootstrapping

Goutam Ghosh 20 Jan - 28 Feb 2017 Read more

8688

Group Show 11 Nov - 31 Dec 2016 'Being able to grasp something that is in constant motion, hard to see and far away is a constant challenge technologically and conceptually, but our ability to make that leap can only help us make better local/global decisions.' - Kirsten Mosher 8688 is an exhibition that challenges our perception of... Read more

Stalkings and other stories

Amitesh Shrivastava, Rehaan Engineer and Sanjeev Mirajkar 22 Sep - 29 Oct 2016 Project 88 is pleased to present Stalkings and other stories curated by Prajna Desai with works by Rehaan Engineer, Sanjeev Mirajkar, and Amitesh Shrivastava. What happens when a visual vocabulary forks, splits off further, much like a stalk, and stays stalk-like? What happens when evolving a story is not about... Read more

Save the translation for later

Neha Choksi 23 Apr - 18 Jun 2016 I am spent. I will not “examine, uncover, unmask, expose, reveal, reflect, illustrate, comment.” There is me and there is a whole world of yous. We are all solitary. Where do we touch? When do we battle? The littlest things matter. The senses are aquiver, the depths travel to the... Read more

Measure of a foot

Hemali Bhuta 11 Mar - 16 Apr 2016 On entering a quarry, one enters the earth. One descends into that which as long as it existed could not be accessed. A rock is a record of everything that formed it—the magma from millions of years ago when a volcano erupted. Inside a quarry, the surface of the rock... Read more

Archaeologies of the Future: Chaos and Coincidence

Rohini Devasher 4 Mar - 19 Apr 2016 For the apparent realism of SF (science fiction) has concealed another, far more complex temporal structure: not to give us images of the future - but rather to de-familiarize and restructure our experience of our own present.. – Fredric Jameson Like archaeologists of the future, we must... Read more

When the wind blows

Prajakta Potnis 22 Jan - 27 Feb 2016 When the wind blows. Quotidian objects of domestic use – table fans, chopping boards, kitchen mixers, synthetic packing material – take on the semantic and material qualities of drawing, photography, and sculpture to chart conceptual routes between drawing and photography, photography and sculpture, sculpture and installation. Parts of appliances, even... Read more

Artists' Film International

Curated by Rohini Devasher 5 - 14 Jan 2016 “There is a universe of content out there. There is a universal content out there. This is the redirectory. Be here with us right now. Be there in a few mins. Be well, This is presence” - The Institute for New Feeling, This is Presence, 2016. Project 88 is pleased... Read more

When dead ships travel

Shumon Ahmed 1 Oct - 7 Nov 2015 Project 88 is pleased to present Shumon Ahmed’s new series of photographic prints for his debut solo in India, When dead ships travel, along with a selection from his earlier acclaimed series, Metal Graves. Metal Graves (2008-09) shows stripped and eviscerated freighters and tankers rusting on the shores of Baro... Read more

Between here and there

Baptist Coelho 13 Aug - 19 Sep 2015 Project 88 is pleased to announce, Between here and there, Baptist Coelho’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. The title of the exhibition comes from Coelho’s installation, Dream Speech, a five-channel audio with voices of four soldiers and an officer who appear to be communicating with each other through a... Read more

Passages from Reclusive Conversations

Mahesh Baliga 23 Apr - 30 May 2015 Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don’t take it too hard. Your work is ingenious.It’s quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that’s all. Just cut a few and it will be perfect. Mozart: Which few did you have in mind, Majesty? -From the Hollywood film Amadeus... Read more

Artists' Film International

Curated by Pallavi Paul 4 - 9 Apr 2015 Project 88 is pleased to announce the opening exhibition of Artists’ Film International . Organized annually since 2009 by Whitechapel Gallery (London), Artists' Film International showcases artists working with film, video and animation, selected by 17 partner organizations around the world and presented over the course of a year at... Read more

Earth Bound

Group Show 15 Jan - 14 Mar 2015 We are in an epoch of our own making. The Age of Man: the Anthropocene. Humanity now is a force of nature, inducing planetary transformations of stratographical scale. In light of on-going debates around this paradigmatic shift, Project 88 presents Earth Bound , a group exhibition that intimates how nature... Read more

Mistaking < > for Direction Signs

Pallavi Paul 13 Nov 2014 - 3 Jan 2015 Mistaking < > for Direction Signs is Pallavi Paul’s first solo exhibition. The show traverses imagined conversations between poets living across historical epochs, propositions for post-humanity, cryptograms from World War II, residues from performances in an empty museum, amongst other speculations. An inherent suspicion of ‘evidence’, alongside the search for... Read more

Noise Life

Desire Machine Collective 26 Aug - 31 Oct 2014 Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai and Project 88 are pleased to invite you to Desire Machine Collective’s first solo exhibition in India. Noise Life is the new installation by DMC comprising video, sound and images. In the process of making the work schizoanalysis was employed, which privileges empirical... Read more

Spaghetti Harvest

Group Show 12 Jun - 5 Jul 2014 The conclusion of the recent elections to the European Parliament saw many nations emerge from their World War II guilt onto a path of xenophobia, the rise of Jobbik in Hungary, Front National in France, the United Kingdom Independence Party and Geert Wilders's Party for Freedom in the Netherlands not... Read more

Artists’ Film International- Performing Resistance

30 Apr - 31 May 2014 erforming Resistance is the opening exhibition of Artists’ Film International. Organized annually since 2009 by the Whitechapel Gallery, Artists' Film International, showcases artists working with film, video and animation, selected by 14 partner organizations around the world and presented over the course of a year at each venue. This is... Read more

Traces and Tears

Sandeep Mukherjee 13 Mar - 19 Apr 2014 races and Tears, is a series of new paintings by Los Angeles based artist Sandeep Mukherjee. In this series of experimental paintings on duralene (a polymer film, that simulates the slick, luminous surface of celluloid), thin layers of paint are spontaneously applied and repeatedly layered using diverse tools ranging from... Read more

Deep Time

Rohini Devasher 29 Nov 2013 - 11 Jan 2014 nce a certain idea of landscape, a myth, a vision, establishes itself in an actual place, it has a peculiar way of muddling categories, of making metaphors more real than their referents; of becoming in fact, part of the scenery. Simon Schama When trying to imagine the unimaginable we are... Read more

Iceboat and Sky Fold

Neha Choksi 3 Oct - 16 Nov 2013 Project 88 is pleased to announce Neha Choksi's solo exhibition, Iceboat and Sky Fold, opening on October 3, 2013 and closing on November 16, 2013. Two works are being shown. Iceboat is a video of a performance in February 2012. Sky Fold is a series of photographic cyanograms made this... Read more

Artists' Film International - Touched

8 Aug - 4 Sep 2013 Touched is the opening exhibition of Artists' Film International. Organized annually since 2009 by the Whitechapel Gallery, Artists' Film International showcases artists working with film, video and animation, selected by 14 partner organizations around the world and presented over the course of a year at each venue. This is the... Read more

No Less A Drawing

Group Show - Curated by Prajna Desai 13 Jun - 6 Jul 2013 There is the honoured way to draft a picture, to let a tip nick a surface. This is how drawing began when a point was pushed to make a mark. Beyond running on paper a pencil or pen, lead or ink the colour of soot, or caramel, one might even... Read more

Between the Waves

Tejal Shah 4 - 10 Apr 2013 Tejal Shah's Between the Waves was commissioned by artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and premiered at dOCUMENTA (13), 2012 under the curatorial rubric of 'Collapse and Recovery'. Between the Waves is no vast sanctuary of shimmering waters and its ensuing crests and troughs. It intimates a quake. The quietness of the... Read more

A Village in Bengal

Chirodeep Chaudhuri 14 Mar - 26 Apr 2013 Chirodeep Chaudhari's portrait of rural Bengal titled A Village in Bengal is his second show at Project 88. What is closest to us is hardest to see and even harder to show. Mumbai-based photographer Chirodeep Chaudhuri photographed his ancestral village in Bengal for twelve years, visiting annually during the festival... Read more

Metropolyptical: A Tale of A City

Risham Syed 8 Feb - 23 Mar 2013 As I drove along the 'ring road' today I felt I was a complete stranger to this city that I call 'home'. But this is the new Lahore, Lahore that will be home to millions that inhabit the new housing schemes' very sought after new houses. I have lived mostly... Read more

Point-Shift and Quoted Objects

Hemali Bhuta 7 Dec 2012 - 2 Feb 2013 Project 88 is pleased to announce Hemali Bhuta’s second solo exhibition Point-Shift and Quoted Objects. In the last three years since her debut solo exhibition at Project88, The Hangover of Agarlum, (2010) Hemali Bhuta’s career has taken her all over the world and her command of materials and depth of... Read more

Barwa Khiladi- a gallery of underachievers

Sarnath Banerjee 1 Oct - 3 Nov 2012 A boxer whose entire career is built around dodging punches, a pole-vaulter who, just before a jump, realises that perhaps he has chosen the wrong sport, a judoka who learned judo through correspondence courses, a high jumpers who achieves levity by eating light food, listening to light music and reading... Read more

Empty Studio & Other Works!

Shreyas Karle 30 Jul - 11 Aug 2012 Read more

The Caucus Race

Mahesh Baliga 10 May - 20 Jun 2012 The Caucus Race makes reference to the illusory race in Lewis Carroll's Alice in the Wonderland. Thoughts appear according to one's own wishes and seem to stop at their own will, and they are in a race with each other where no one wins or loses or starts or stops... Read more

AuViCo 2109-2110

The Otolith Group 7 Apr - 5 May 2012 Following Westfailure, The Otolith Group's first solo exhibition in Mumbai this second exhibition presents Otolith Timeline (2003- 2010) and The Otolith Trilogy (2003- 2009). Otolith Timeline (2003- 2010) offers an extensive insight into the scope and the scale of the enfolded universe of The Otolith Trilogy. The Otolith Trilogy is... Read more

Westfailure

The Otolith Group 10 - 31 Jan 2012 Westfailure, the title of the exhibition chosen by the artists, has been adopted from The Westfailure System, the influential essay written by British economist Susan Strange in 1999. Westfailure is a homonymic pun that refers to the Westphalia System, the 'international political system of states claiming exclusive authority and the... Read more

Twilight

Huma Mulji 10 Nov 2011 - 4 Jan 2012 Twilight the vestige of a day, a slow approaching of the end of time and the suspension of all optimism - these are the qualities that suffuse Huma Mulji's new work which consists of paintings and sculptural installations. From the absurd buoyancy of her earlier sculptures, the new paintings have... Read more

New Work

Sandeep Mukherjee 22 Aug - 28 Oct 2011 This is Los Angeles based artist Sandeep Mukherjee's first solo in Mumbai consisting of site sensitive paintings. Acrylic painting and embossed drawing on duralene activates the gallery space, creating an experience of 'sensation' in the viewer. Mukherjee's attempt towards sensation is philosophically driven to go beyond illustrating a narrative or... Read more

Propositions- on Text and Space II

Zuleikha Chaudhuri 23 Mar - 26 Apr 2011 Propositions: On Text and Space II, an exhibition of light installations and video by Zuleikha Chaudhari, is based on texts from Roland Schimmelpfennig's play 'Before/Afterwards'. Schimmelpfennig's fragmented stories suggest how personal and internal histories and experiences reflect a changing world that is constant invention, constant failure, constant effort; constant flux.... Read more

Form and Phenomenon

Hemali Bhuta, Huma Mulji, Sandeep Mukherjee, Rana Begum, Nivedita Deshpande, Gyan Panchal, Iqra Tanveer, Jaret Vadera, Asim Waqif 17 Dec 2010 - 30 Jan 2011 Form and Phenomenon, a group exhibition curated by Heidi Fichtner, brings together a selection of works in a variety of media that employ abstraction and formal strategies to address the nature of perception, representations of space, questions of materiality, absence, as well as the dynamic relationship between energy and process.... Read more

Somnath Hore

25 Nov - 9 Dec 2010 SOMNATH HORE graphic retrospective, is a tribute to the lifetime achievement of the fabled artist in the field of printmaking in modern Indian art. The retrospective emphasizes his unmatched achievement and innovative skill in this technique-oriented medium of art, that has been eclipsed, over time, by his sculptures. Galerie 88,... Read more

The Capital of Accumulation

Raqs Media Collective 20 Oct - 20 Nov 2010 The Capital of Accumulation is a two screen video installation that writes an oblique narrative of the relationship between metropolises and the world in counterpoint to Rosa Luxemburg's exceptional critique of global political economy - 'The Accumulation of Capital'. Raqs trawls through a haunting, dream like landscape straddling Warsaw, Berlin... Read more

Section Yellow

Bani Abidi 13 Sep - 11 Oct 2010 The inspiration for the title of this show comes from bureaucratic reins that one has to face while crossing boundaries. In keeping with her earlier works like RESERVED, Security Barriers A- L and Intercommunication Devices, Abidi continues to explore notions regarding spaces, objects and situations that exert control over societies.... Read more

If Nothing Else, Just a Smile

Neha Choksi 2 - 28 Aug 2010 In her latest solo show at Project 88, If Nothing Else, Just a Smile, Neha Choksi presents a new series of large-format color photographs. The photographs serialize a tour through a single cemetery approached as an altered garden in the tradition of nature-morte. In addition to selecting amputated trees, Choksi... Read more

Confabulations

Mahesh Baliga 15 Apr - 8 May 2010 Confabulations, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Mahesh Baligais the artist's second solo with the gallery, after Looking Sideways (January 2009). Confabulations -- replacement of the gaps left by a disordered memory with imaginary happenings. - Anthony Burgess The works that I am showing are the attraction of the... Read more

Karle ki Koshish

Shreyas Karle 22 Feb - 13 Mar 2010 Karle Ki Koshish, a solo exhibition by Shreyas Karle comprises of drawings, sculptures, prints & installations. Jyon til mahin tel hain, jyon chakmak mein aag, Tera sai tujh mein hain, tu jaag sake toh jaag. I quote from mystic saint-poet Kabir in order to decipher Shreyas' works. Just as Kabir... Read more

The Hangover of Agarlum

Hemali Bhuta 18 Jan - 13 Feb 2010 Project 88 serves as one of the inspirations for The Hangover of Agarlum in which Hemali Bhuta has transformed the strong impression and identity of the exhibition space into a tangible experience. Hemali draws on her own experiences, memories and understanding of various elements to create her works; they articulate... Read more

You can't afford to have emotions out there...

Baptist Coelho 5 - 26 Aug 2009 Read more

First Look

Hemali Bhuta, Ranjan Ghosh, Kumar Jasakiya, Siddartha Kararwal, Praveen Maripally, Rohini Devasher 9 - 23 Jul 2009 Project 88 is delighted to present the second edition of First Look, our annual student exhibition. This year we showcase the works of five post-graduate students from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. Read more

Don't hold it in breathe out

Neha Choksi 27 Apr - 6 Jun 2009 Neha Choksi's new solo exhibition titled don't hold it in breathe out, enlarges on the conflicting desires for bodily absence and presence. In addition to performance and video pieces, Neha's body of work includes sculpture, paintings and prints. Her most recent cycle of work uses absence and abeyance, both in... Read more

Breed

Rohini Devasher 25 Mar - 11 Apr 2009 Project 88 announces the first solo exhibition of Rohini Devasher, titled Breed comprising digitalprints, drawings and videos. As the title suggests, Devasher's works explore the possibilities contained within nature, where organisms are born, breed and multiply. However, Devasher has moved beyond to create creatures that draw upon and morph elements... Read more

Looking Sideways

Mahesh Baliga 14 - 31 Jan 2009 My works are mostly about looking sideways at the overlooked. The trivialities of our day to day life bring out incongruities that appeal to me. The boy in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince was intrigued by the accustomed visual knowledge and the difficulty in reading images from unlikely angles.... Read more

Bird in Hand

Praneet Soi and Carlos Amorales 14 Nov - 6 Dec 2008 Following an old saying 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush', Carlos Amorales and Praneet Soi place together within the Project88 gallery space specific artwork in conversation with each other, and create a new work as a wallpaper installation. Soi places ten identical fiberglass sculptures titled... Read more

Recent Works

Hemali Bhuta, Baptist Coelho, Shreyas Karle, K. L. Leon, Bhuvanesh Gowda, Sandip Pisalkar 1 - 20 Sep 2008 Recent Works, a group show of six young contemporary artists, comprises of works in sculpture, photography, video installations, pastels, and drawings. Amongst the artists , three of them Shreyas, Hemali, and Sandip hail from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Baroda. While Leon has completed his Masters in painting form... Read more

Trash

Vivan Sundaram 21 Apr - 17 May 2008 Read more

Tito Years : Forensics of the local

Sarnath Banerjee 17 Mar - 5 Apr 2008 When an 1200 horse power Mercury Marine outboard engine is fitted to a old fishing trawler, the ancient vessel eventually assumes the speed that the engine promises, however, somewhere in the high sea, cracks appear on its hull. Tito years is a series of graphic commentaries that examine these cracks.... Read more

Juggernaut

Praneet Soi 28 Jan - 9 Feb 2008 Read more

Reading ^ the lines

Neha Choksi 20 Sep - 13 Oct 2007 Project 88 and Contemporary Urban are proud to present Reading ^ the lines , a re-evaluation of the project representing Mumbai at the 10th Venice Biennale for Architecture, 2006. The starting point for the Venice Biennale project was the Bombay Municipal Corporation’s Development Plan (1) and the citizen’s desire for... Read more

The One-Rupee Entrepreneur

Chirodeep Chaudhuri 20 Sep - 13 Oct 2007 Read more

Who is in Town Anyway

Neha Choksi 11 - 16 Jun 2007 'At the start of the Who is in Town show dates, I started the project of meeting and interviewing new arrivals to the city. The newcomers have chosen to leave their homes elsewhere. I ended up interviewing mostly lower class and lower middle-class folk, but that was simply chance. I... Read more

That Time / Sun Sets For Sam

Neha Choksi and Rehaan Engineer 30 - 31 Mar 2007 THAT TIME / Sun sets for Sam is a theatrical installation based on THAT TIME by Samuel Beckett. -that time you went back that last time to lookwas the ruin still there where you hid as a childwhen was that- COLLABORATORS: Rehaan Engineer | Neha Choksi PERFORMERS: Radhika Apte |... Read more

The Secret Love Life of Ophelia

Rehaan Engineer 29 Jun - 2 Jul 2006 the industrial theatre co. presents Imogen Butler-Cole and Jens Bo Jo Berkoff in ...T H E S E C R E T L O V E L I F E O F O P H E L I A a new play by STEVEN BERKOFF directed by REHAAN ENGINEER Hamlet... Read more