Mumbai Gallery Weekend: Here are art exhibitions you definitely cannot miss

It is time when the high of the first week slowly fades and the city begins to slowly move through the gears For galleries across Mumbai though this is the time of the year to celebrate The 14th edition of the Mumbai Gallery Weekend will see galleries open doors on Thursday for a fourday run to celebrate their first and often best shows of the year With the fourday event featuring 33 galleries and six parallel art spaces we pick the exhibitions that have to be on your itinerary for 2026Dissolving Caves 2025 Prabhakar Pachpute Pic Courtesyartist Experimenter ColabaLos Angeles canvasKelly Weartslerrsquos curation By Fire brings to the city two collections shaped by her interactions with Indian artisans over multiple workshops through two collections Lahar and TarangAT Aequo Gallery Devidas Mansion behind Taj Mahal Palace Hotel ColabaMemory collectiveTerracotta and canvas becomes the medium for Chippa Sudhakarrsquos tale of rural and urban coexistence the impact of development on collective experience and memory as an evolving landscapeFROM January 8 to February 12AT Tao Art Gallery The View Dr Annie Besant Road WorliCharacter sketchesPrabhakar Pachputersquos examinations of the very current conflict of mining on natural and human lives find expression through Lone Runnerrsquos Laboratory a close reflection of characters who have informed his landscapesFROM January 8 to February 21AT Experimenter Colaba Sunny House Apollo Bunder ColabaRule of elevenDialogue Lalitha Lajmi etched on print Pic courtesyArtist Art and Soul GalleryWith Brinda Miller Jayasri Burman and the late Lalitha Lajmi this show mdash WomanGroveScapes of Still amp Life mdash features 11 contemporary women artists of Indian artFROM January 8AT Art amp Soul Gallery Madhuli 1 Dr Annie Besant Road WorliMany faces of MumbaiBal Gandharva MV Dhurandhar 1941 Pic CourtesyDAGFrom Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar to the first Baronet of India Sir Jamsetji Jeejeebhoy or the common street vendors of early colonial Bombay DAGrsquos Face to Face A portrait of a City captures the evolution of portraiture from academics to modern experimentationFROM January 8 to 11AT DAG The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel ColabaLife in the cityThe hustle of Mumbairsquos daily life finds new form in Ranjit Kandalgaonkarrsquos cityinflux that documents the inbetween spaces of the cityFROM January 8 till February 14AT Fulcrum Great Western Building Kala Ghoda FortEye on the lensUntitled 197475 Jyoti Bhatt Pic Courtesyartist SubContinentThis show turns the spotlight back on Jyoti Bhatt one of Indiarsquos most influential photographers and artists with a series of blackandwhite silver gelatin prints from the 1960s to 1980sFROM January 8 to February 21 AT Subcontinent A3 Apeejay Chambers Wallace Street FortReturn of the nativeAfter a hiatus of eight years Mithu Sen returns with her new exhibition What Do Birds Dream At Dusk a series of mixedmedia works that explore blindness as a political condition FROM January 8 to February 21AT Chemould Prescott Road Queens Mansion FortAlso check outgtgt Prakalpana amp RachanaAT Strangers House Gallery old Wodehouse Road Colabagtgt The Fourth WallAT Sakshi Gallery 3rd Pasta Lane Colabagtgt Azal se Abad Tak A journey between two eternitiesAT Chatterjee amp Lal 3rd Floor HC Dinshaw Building ColabaAttend this talkMapping Home South Asia and Global PerspectivesAt Godrej Theatre NCPA Nariman PointLog on to stir_world for registration details