A frequently offered piece of advice is to “keep the best for the last” and that’s what Mumbai’s newest art spot, Gallery XXL has also done. But we prefer to start with the last artwork we saw during our walkthrough at the Cuffe Parade gallery. Amitabh Kumar, a Bengaluru-based artist and the curator of the show Outsiders, walks us through the 8,000 sq ft exhibition, where the last room on our tour has artworks by a Kerala-based art collective called the Trespassers. What we can’t help marvel at is the fact that all six members worked on the painting at the same time. 

Gallery XXL, a newly-launched gallery in Colaba, is housed in a 100-year-old bungalow called the Kalanjee Project. The gallery is set up by the founders of St+Art India Foundation, who have been working in the field of urban street art, and Joe Cyril, who is the director and CEO of Gallery XXL. The exhibition can be seen from a few metres away, with England-based Filthy Luker’s inflatable tentacles snaking their way out of the first floor window.