Exhibitions

Reba Hore | Do You Know How To Start a Fire?

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 25 Sep - 30 Nov 2024 “Do you know how to sow seeds?” “Yes.” “Do you know how to light a fire?” “Yes.” “Do you know how to put it out?” “Only a small one.” Experimenter presents Do You Know How To Start a Fire, a solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Reba... Read more

Aziz Hazara | Muqaddimah

Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai 12 Sep - 12 Oct 2024 Experimenter presents Muqaddimah, Aziz Hazara’s second solo at the gallery and his first solo at Experimenter – Colaba, Mumbai. The title of the exhibition is derived from the Persian/Arabic word ‘muqaddimah’ which means a prologue to an expansive milieu. The exhibition presents video installation, photography, sound sculptures and underscores what... Read more

ہم دیکھیں گے | We Will See | Pushpakanthan Pakkiyarajah & Vikrant Bhise

Experimenter - Colaba, Mumbai 26 Jul - 6 Sep 2024 Hum Dekhenge, Hum Dekhenge, | We will see, we will see, Lazim Hai Ke Hum Bhi Dekhenge, | It is inevitable (that) we too shall see, Hum Dekhenge, Hum Dekhenge, | We will see, we will see, Wo Din Ke Jis Ka Vaada Hai… | The day that has been... Read more

Of Friendships: Krishna Reddy & His World

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 20 Jul - 21 Sep 2024 Krishna Reddy’s (1925–2018) career, which spanned over seven decades, was defined by constantly pushing boundaries not only through his artistic practice but also in thought and philosophy. Reddy pursued a lifelong pedagogical approach and most importantly, built friendships that emphasised his influence across generations of artists and thinkers, who were... Read more

Tenzing Dakpa | Weather Report

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 24 May - 27 Jul 2024 Experimenter presents Weather Report, a solo project by Tenzing Dakpa, at Experimenter – Hindustan Road. The solo will showcase Dakpa’s recent body of photographic works Manifest and Weather Report. The images present a visceral imprint of his surroundings, where the human impact on the ecological world and the subjective gaze... Read more

(Un)Settled | Kanishka Raja & Rathin Barman

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 26 Apr - 15 Jun 2024 Experimenter presents (Un)Settled, a two-person exhibition by Kanishka Raja and Rathin Barman at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata. The exhibition draws its title from Barman’s monumental sculpture Unsettled Structures, and explores the oscillation between being ‘settled’ and ‘unsettled’, mapping the transitory nature of both interior and exterior, personal and spatial,... Read more

Of Friendships: Krishna Reddy & His World

Experimenter - Colaba, Mumbai 5 Apr - 15 Jun 2024 Krishna Reddy’s (1925–2018) career, which spanned over seven decades, was defined by constantly pushing boundaries not only through his artistic practice but also in thought and philosophy. Reddy pursued a lifelong pedagogical approach and most importantly, built friendships that emphasised his influence across generations of artists and thinkers, who were... Read more

Alexandra Bachzetsis | Notes on Becoming

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 19 Jan - 2 Mar 2024 Experimenter presents Alexandra Bachzetsis’ (b. 1974 lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland) first solo at the gallery and in India, Notes on Becoming that presents works from over a decade of the artist and choreographer’s practice. Positioned at the threshold of multiple moments in histories of art, theatre and choreography,... Read more

Afrah Shafiq | I Fell Asleep a Believer and Woke Up an Atheist

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 19 Jan - 2 Mar 2024 Afrah Shafiq’s (b.1989 lives and works in Goa, India) first solo show I Fell Asleep a Believer and Woke Up an Atheist revolves around the findings encountered by the artist during her extensive research (2020-2023) into the phenomenon of Illustrated Children’s books from the Soviet Union that were widely popular... Read more

CAMP | Bombay Tilts Down

Sassoon Docks, Mumbai 12 - 21 Jan 2024 Experimenter is thrilled to present, in collaboration with St+art India, CAMP’s monumental seven channel installation Bombay Tilts Down for the first time in its home city of Mumbai, during Mumbai Gallery Weekend . A landscape movie in facets, ‘Bombay Tilts Down' was filmed from a single-point location by a CCTV... Read more

Sohrab Hura | Ghosts in My Sleep

Experimenter Colaba 11 Jan - 16 Mar 2024 Experimenter presents Ghosts in My Sleep, Sohrab Hura’s (b.1981 lives and works in New Delhi, India) solo at Experimenter – Colaba during Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2024. The exhibition takes its title from a new body of work comprising works on paper made with gouache. Alongside these small paintings, the ongoing... Read more

Sahil Naik | Specters, Specimens and Ships in Doubt

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 24 Nov 2023 - 6 Jan 2024 Sahil Naik’s third solo at the gallery, Specters, Specimens and Ships in Doubt continues to extract patterns between the histories of colonization and non-alignment, through projects of natural history, architectural modernism and the modalities of the Indian Ocean. Through a range of objects in circulation across time and sites, he... Read more

Radhika Khimji | Cutting Into Space

Experimenter - Colaba Mumbai 9 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Experimenter presents Cutting Into Space, Radhika Khimji’s first solo at Experimenter - Colaba, Mumbai. Presenting a new body of work, the exhibition continues Khimji’s exploration of the liminal space between the body and the landscape, while also transcending the confines of fixed categorisations. Through interventions over images, pictures taken and... Read more

Julien Segard | Dark Was The Night

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 29 Sep - 11 Nov 2023 Julien Segard’s series Dark Was The Night creates a dialogue between the visceral and the peripheral, vacuity and mass. The body of work immerses the viewer in the minuteness of their elements while simultaneously operating as the entry points into vast infinite spaces. Through drawings made with charcoal and dust... Read more

Sakshi Gupta | If The Seas Catch Fire

Experimenter Colaba 14 Sep - 26 Oct 2023 Experimenter presents If the Seas Catch Fire, Sakshi Gupta’s debut solo at Experimenter Colaba and her first solo in Mumbai. Gupta’s practice centres the disconnect one experiences with oneself and the turmoil this creates, bringing to the fore the constant drone of an acute background suffering. The works in this... Read more

In Between The Notes

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 25 Aug - 14 Oct 2023 Experimenter presents In Between the Notes, an exhibition that builds on sonic experiences and aural memories. This exhibition, presenting works by Lala Rukh, Parul Thacker, Superhero Sighting Society (Taus Makhacheva & Sabih Ahmed), Biraaj Dodiya and Samson Young, brings together practices that either directly root themselves within sound as material,... Read more

Siege of Darkness | Payal Kapadia & Priya Sen

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 3 - 19 Aug 2023 Experimenter presents Siege of Darkness, an exhibition of two crucial films by artists and filmmakers Payal Kapadia and Priya Sen that underscore the swiftly changing dynamics of our social and political constructs and question the fundamental ways in which we experience relationships and share a common space of cohabitation and... Read more

Shadow Circus: A Personal Archive of Tibetan Resistance (1957 – 1974)

Experimenter Colaba 27 Jul - 26 Aug 2023 After the Communist Chinese invasion of 1950 and its subsequent takeover in 1959, Tibet has been a country under occupation. Since then, resistance to Chinese rule, both inside Tibet and in exile, has been unyielding and resilient, transforming over time in response to the changing situation in China and the... Read more

Julien Segard & Rathin Barman | Eyes of the Skin

Experimenter Colaba 20 May - 15 Jul 2023 Experimenter presents Eyes of the Skin, a two-person exhibition by Julien Segard and Rathin Barman. Referring to the seminal book by Finnish architect and academic Juhani Pallasmaa on architectures and the senses, the exhibition builds a dialogue between landscape, architecture and the built environment exploring the visceral and peripheral in... Read more

Soumya Sankar Bose | A Discreet Exit Through Darkness

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 21 Apr - 30 Jun 2023 Experimenter presents A Discreet Exit through Darkness, an exhibition by photographer Soumya Sankar Bose at Experimenter Hindustan Road. The exhibition brings together Bose’s debut work in moving image, in the format of a 360° VR film, delving into the disappearance of Bose’s mother from 1969 – 71. A series of... Read more

Aziz Hazara | No Starting Point for Revolution

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 21 Apr - 30 Jun 2023 Experimenter presents No Starting Point for Revolution, Aziz Hazara’s first solo at the gallery and in the country. Hazara works across the mediums of photography, video, sound and installation. Through his works one encounters themes of memory, archive, surveillance, the panopticon and politics of representation in the backdrop of violence... Read more

Kanishka Raja | Ground Control

Experimenter Colaba 9 Mar - 13 May 2023 Experimenter presents Ground Control, a solo by the late artist Kanishka Raja, with a body of works that converge several strands of enquiry that ran concurrently in Raja’s multi-dimensional practice. The exhibition opens at Experimenter – Colaba on 9th March and will be on view until 13th May 2023. Deeply... Read more

Bhasha Chakrabarti | Skin to Skin

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 21 Jan - 25 Mar 2023 my body writes into your flesh the poem you make of me. — Audre Lorde, Recreation 1 In contemplating matters of desire, it is useful to remember that reciprocity does not beget an arithmetic function, rather it ignites an exponential one. One notices such a generative, almost-erotic, dialogue... Read more

T. Vinoja | Anatomy of Remembrances | நினைவுகளின் உடற்கூறியல்

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 21 Jan - 31 Mar 2023 My dream was like a blurred image, A ruined composition. With no one carrying it, The coffin moved, by itself, towards the cremation ground. — Cheran, The trace of a dream (Kanavin tadam), 2003 Experimenter presents Anatomy of Remembrances, a debut solo exhibition by... Read more

Soumya Sankar Bose | A Discreet Exit Through Darkness

Experimenter Colaba 12 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 Experimenter presents A Discreet Exit through Darkness, an exhibition by photographer Soumya Sankar Bose at Experimenter Colaba, marking his first solo in Mumbai. The exhibition brings together Bose’s debut work in moving image, in the format of a 360° VR film, delving into the disappearance of Bose’s mother from 1969... Read more

Biraaj Dodiya | Every Bone a Song

Experimenter Colaba 10 Nov - 23 Dec 2022 Experimenter presents Every Bone a Song, Biraaj Dodiya’s second solo at the gallery and her first solo exhibition at Experimenter – Colaba in Mumbai, where Dodiya lives and works. Presenting a series of new paintings and sculptures, the exhibition continues Dodiya’s inquiry of the body and landscape and of related... Read more

Bani Abidi | The Song

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 3 Nov - 30 Dec 2022 Bani Abidi’s exhibition  The Song, marks her third solo at Experimenter, premiering a new film along with photographs, watercolors and an immersive sound installation at Experimenter Ballygunge Place in Kolkata. The exhibition opens on November 03 and will be on view until December 30, 2022.   Abidi’s solo debuts her... Read more

Ayesha Sultana | Making Visible

Experimenter Colaba 23 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 Experimenter presents Making Visible, a solo by Ayesha Sultana that marks the inaugural exhibition of Experimenter – Colaba, and Sultana’s first solo in Mumbai. Sultana’s exhibition stands at the precipice between two moments in time, paying attention to neither experiences in time, but only to the relationship between the two... Read more

Kanishka Raja | Ground Control

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 12 Aug - 15 Oct 2022 Kanishka Raja (1969 – 2018) was born in Calcutta, lived and worked in New York and Kolkata. The circuitry of his work is grounded in the particular contingencies of this apposition. Ground Control sheds light on Raja’s multiform practice, underscoring a constant pursuit in plurality of thought, materials and processes... Read more

Kallol Datta | Volume 3 Issue 2

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 15 Jul - 23 Sep 2022 Experimenter presents Volume 3 Issue 2, Kallol Datta’s second solo at Experimenter – Hindustan Road, bringing together Datta’s ongoing inquiry in native clothing practices in South-West Asia, North Africa, Indian Subcontinent and the Korean Peninsula. Making structural experimentations in pattern cutting, Datta skews traditional geometry to create silhouettes which shroud,... Read more

Conversations on Tomorrow

Sadie Coles HQ, London 11 May - 18 Jun 2022 “What comes after reason?” Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung asked last year.1 By addressing a strain of “reason” – a rational, canonizing, cerebral, and intoxicating form of thought prescribed by the West – Ndikung was adumbrating his intellectual resistance. In art, “reason” might suggest submission to the pervading institutional structures, and... Read more

A Site for Encounters for Drawn From Practice II

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 15 Apr - 30 Jun 2022 Drawing as a conceptual idea, or as a form, goes well beyond the boundaries of visual arts and does not necessarily restrict itself to the physical manifestations of the same, A Site for Encounters for Drawn From Practice at Experimenter Hindustan Road expands this thought. Atho Hidimba Katha by Samuho... Read more

Drawn From Practice II

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 14 Apr - 30 Jun 2022 Experimenter presents Drawn From Practice II, which relooks at the conceptual, notational, and foundational role of drawing without restricting itself to formal or conventional boundaries. Drawing's flexibility, its suppleness, its anti-monumental, and exploratory character, readily bring forth an intimate and nuanced, yet direct encounter with the mind of the practitioner,... Read more

Sunil Janah | Making a Photograph

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 3 Feb - 26 Mar 2022 Experimenter presents Making a Photograph, a solo exhibition of works by Sunil Janah (b.1918 – d. 2012), one of India’s pioneering photographers making images at a time in India that marked the emergence of modernity in the country. His work initially came into prominence as he documented the disaster of... Read more

Rathin Barman | There is Now a Wall

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 3 Feb - 26 Mar 2022 Experimenter presents There is Now a Wall, Rathin Barman’s fourth solo project at the gallery. For over a decade Barman has been weaving narratives of history, architecture and memory through his sculptures by forging long lasting relationships with inhabitants of a range of grand homes, some built over two centuries... Read more

Soumya Sankar Bose | Where The Birds Never Sing

Experimenter - Outpost 16 Dec 2021 - 31 Mar 2022 Experimenter is pleased to present Soumya Sankar Bose’s project Where the Birds Never Sing in Kumirmari, Sundarbans, West Bengal as part of Experimenter Outpost, an iterative exhibitions program outside the physical gallery, where an extension of the program temporarily inhabits unused spaces, imagining a renewed life for them. The programming... Read more

Varun Desai | Spectre

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 4 Dec 2021 - 8 Jan 2022 Experimenter presents Spectre, Varun Desai’s first solo exhibition. Spectre explores human perception through sonic experiences and spatial installations, testing the limits of what we see and hear and what we think we know The viewer is confronted by three distinct yet interconnected bodily experiences in the gallery that anchor themselves... Read more

Radhika Khimji | Adorning Shadows

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 23 Oct - 24 Dec 2021 Experimenter presents Adorning Shadows, Radhika Khimji’s first solo at the gallery. Entwined in the relationship between figure and ground, form and context, mark and page, subject and object, flatness and depth, Khimji explores the body, its transitory nature and the act of looking and experiencing the body in space. Employing... Read more

Gardens as Thought Form: Lexicons for Revolution

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 27 Aug - 31 Oct 2021 Experimenter presents Gardens as Thought Form: Lexicons for Revolution with works by Aziz Hazara, Bani Abidi, and Prabhakar Pachpute. Gardens exist in multiple forms – many are public, some are secret, some fragile, some even exist only in consciousness or imagination. In the nebulae of a garden lies a... Read more

Reba Hore | The Broken Foot Journal and Other Stories

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 12 Aug - 4 Oct 2021 Experimenter presents The Broken Foot Journal and Other Stories bringing together the works of the late painter, sculptor and printmaker Reba Hore (b. 1926 – d. 2008). Reba Hore’s practice is rooted in the dailyness that occupied her field of vision. Frenetic and at times even dizzying, her work was... Read more

Soumya Sankar Bose | Where the Birds Never Sing

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 21 Apr - 31 Jul 2021 Experimenter presents Where the Birds Never Sing (2017-2020), Soumya Sankar Bose’s second solo at the gallery. The exhibition brings together Bose’s long-term project on the Marichjhapi massacre, the forcible eviction in 1979, of Bengali lower caste refugees from Marichjhapi Island in Sundarbans, West Bengal, India, and the subsequent death of... Read more

Julien Segard | A View From Nowhere

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 21 Apr - 31 Jul 2021 Experimenter presents A View From Nowhere, an immersive solo by Julien Segard at Experimenter – Hindusthan Road. Rooted in experiences of solitude and silence within a remote, rustic cabin in France, where Segard spent most of the past year. The exhibition is a reflection on interiority, the passage of time,... Read more

Sahil Naik | All is Water, and To Water We Must Return

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 21 Apr - 31 Jul 2021 Experimenter is pleased to announce Sahil Naik’s solo project All is water, and to water we must return at Ballygunge Place (Projects room). The project will concurrently be on view as part of Galleries Curate: RHE. Over the past six years, Naik has extensively worked with families from Curdi to... Read more

Naeem Mohaiemen | Jole Dobe Na (Those Who Do Not Drown)

Experimenter - Hindustan Road 7 - 14 Apr 2021 Jole Dobe Na (Those Who Do Not Drown), a film by Naeem Mohaiemen premieres in Kolkata at Experimenter-Hindustan Road. The film was conceived in response to a prompt given by Raqs Media Collective (for Yokohama Triennial 2020) to think about the afterlife of caregivers. In an empty hospital in Kolkata,... Read more

Experimenter at On | Site

Bikaner House, New Delhi 3 - 9 Mar 2021 On | Site is a collaborative project organised by four Indian galleries at Bikaner House, New Delhi, which will take place between 3 – 9 March 2021 and is presented jointly by Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai; Experimenter, Kolkata; Nature Morte, New Delhi and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. Do You... Read more

Ayesha Sultana | Bare Bones

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 11 Feb - 10 Apr 2021 Experimenter presents Ayesha Sultana’s third solo at the gallery, Bare Bones bringing together an intensely personal yet acutely revealing body of work, that deals with the body and stillness, its relationship with space and movement, breaking down the act of painting to express an intimate moment, where physical and emotional... Read more

Adip Dutta & Meera Mukherjee | Nestled

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 22 Jan - 31 Mar 2021 Nestled brings together the works of sculptor and painter Adip Dutta and the revered artist late Meera Mukherjee, revisiting a layered and nuanced relationship between them. Although generationally apart, Mukherjee’s influence on Dutta’s work was formative to his visual language and the exhibition attempts to underscore a lesser known, yet... Read more

Sohrab Hura | Spill

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 7 Nov 2020 - 2 Jan 2021 Experimenter presents Spill, Sohrab Hura’s second solo. The exhibition opens at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place on 07 November, 2020 and will be on view until 02 January, 2021. Spill is an unfolding of a 15-year practice marked by constant probing of the medium of image making. With beginnings rooted strongly... Read more

Rupture

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 7 Oct - 12 Nov 2020 Experimenter presents Rupture, an exhibition by Ayesha Sultana, Biraaj Dodiya, Nadia Kaabi Linke, Praneet Soi and Radhika Khimji. By collapsing, dislocating and deconstructing body and form, the artists in the exhibition attempt to create a rupture of vision and experience. The works in the exhibition probe the fragile equilibrium between... Read more

Abhishek Hazra | Between Repetition & Reticence

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 9 - 30 Sep 2020 Experimenter presents Between Repetition & Reticence, an exhibition by Abhishek Hazra that posits itself in a crevice formed between the relationship of dissent, class, legacies of a graded vertical society and cultural history viewed through a lens constructed by the artist’s multidimensional practice. Using language, research text, historical scientific documents,... Read more

Four Positions

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 21 Aug - 30 Sep 2020 Experimenter presents four solo positions by Ayesha Sultana, Julien Segard, Krishna Reddy, and Rathin Barman at the Ballygunge Place space. The architecture of Experimenter – Ballygunge Place lends possibilities of viewing disparate exhibitions together. Krishna Reddy | In Search of Simultaneity Simultaneity may not be an absolute relation between events;... Read more

Biraaj Dodiya | Stone is Forehead

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 6 Mar - 30 Jun 2020 “Stone is a forehead where dreams grieve, without curving waters and frozen cypresses. Stone is a shoulder on which to bear time, with trees formed of tears and ribbons and planets.” Experimenter presents Stone is a Forehead, Biraaj Dodiya’s debut solo. The title of the exhibition is a reference to... Read more

Prabhakar Pachpute | Beneath The Palpable

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 22 Jan - 4 Apr 2020 Experimenter presents Beneath the Palpable, Prabhakar Pachpute’s solo at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place. Reflecting on complex relationships between human, social, economic and political crosscurrents that are at play in the battle for resource, ecology and power, the show furthers Pachpute’s ongoing interest in mining politics, farmers' movements and human conflicts... Read more

Sahil Naik | Monuments, Mausoleums, Memorials, Modernism

Experimenter – Hindustan road 8 Jan - 25 Feb 2020 Architecture is a complex cultural technology. It is an intersection of economic, technical, scientific, artistic, legal, media, religious, and political interests. In his second solo,   Monuments, Mausoleums, Memorials, Modernism , Sahil Naik investigates how the political shapes all other intersections in modern architecture. The exhibition previews on 8th January... Read more

Samson Young | Available Forms

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 27 Nov 2019 - 4 Jan 2020 Experimenter presents Available Forms, Samson Young’s second solo exhibition at Experimenter. The exhibition opens on 27 November, 2019 and will be on view until 4 January, 2020 at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place. In Available Forms, Samson Young explores openness in musical notation and how it relates to ideas of openness... Read more

Naeem Mohaiemen | দইু • dui

Experimenter – Hindustan Road⁣ 25 Aug - 5 Nov 2019 Experimenter presents দইু • dui, Naeem Mohaiemen’s solo at Experimenter Hindustan Road. This exhibition builds new links between two works which first appeared in another format in a journal (Volume Eleven), and in Bengali (Baksho Rohoshyo). In Volume Eleven (flaw in the algorithm of cosmopolitanism), Mohaiemen looks at four essays... Read more

Soumya Sankar Bose⁣⁣ | Let's Sing an Old Song

Experimenter – Outpost 24 Aug - 21 Sep 2019 Experimenter Outpost presents its first project in Kolkata with a solo exhibition of photographs from Soumya Sankar Bose’s Let’s Sing an Old Song. “I knew I had to work on this project when my uncle retired from the Jatra and joined a railway factory, hoping to do what he could... Read more

Searching for Stars Amongst the Crescents

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 23 Aug - 25 Oct 2019 Experimenter presents a group exhibition, Searching for Stars Amongst the Crescents. Looking beyond the confines of our mental and physical capacities and prejudices, the exhibition seeks propositions for a future living. Probing failures and slippages of modernity, the artists reimagine the inheritances of shared legacies, build unexpected alliances of solidarity,... Read more

Julien Segard | A Second Coming

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 26 Apr - 25 Jul 2019 Experimenter presents A Second Coming, New Delhi and Marseilles based artist Julien Segard’s solo at Experimenter Ballygunge Place opening on April 26 2019. The exhibition builds a dialogue between the visceral and the peripheral, vacuity and mass, and the relationship between man, landscape, and architecture. Segard’s work explores the severe... Read more

CAMP | A Photogenetic Line

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 13 Apr - 15 Jul 2019 A 100-foot long branching sequence of cutouts drawing from the photo archives of The Hindu, a 140-year old newspaper. Cutouts here are a way of reframing existing photographs as new organisms, not to remove their background environments, nor to frame heroic figures, but to create a new boundary or border... Read more

Rathin Barman | The Thinking Forest is Not a Metaphor

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 22 Feb - 26 Apr 2019 Experimenter is pleased to announce The Thinking Forest Is Not A Metaphor, Rathin Barman’s third solo at the gallery. Barman has long been exploring the nature of built structures and what lies beyond the visible. This exhibition is a continuation of this exploration as Barman probes how we live and... Read more

Krishna Reddy | To a New Form

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 18 Jan - 31 Mar 2019 Experimenter presents To A New Form, a solo by the late Indian master printmaker and sculptor, Krishna Reddy (1925 – 2018). Reflecting on a continuous exploration of form that fed into a practice of over seven decades, the exhibition will show rare drawings, zinc and copper etching plates and corresponding... Read more

Praneet Soi | Hold Still

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 1 Dec 2018 - 2 Feb 2019 Experimenter presents Hold Still, Kolkata-born and Amsterdam-based artist Praneet Soi’s second solo at the gallery Hold Still titled after Sally Mann’s seminal book, lays bare a layered lens through which Soi looks at his surroundings, creating a unique interplay between the narrative and the image. A deep association with the... Read more

Moyra Davey | Bring My Garters / Do Nothing

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 10 Nov - 5 Jan 2018 Experimenter presents Bring My Garters / Do Nothing, a solo exhibition by Moyra Davey, whose work comprises photography, film, and writing. Davey’s films often explore compulsion, creativity, and the feminine. Bring My Garters / Do Nothingoffers an intimate perspective into the artist’s world, her memories, stories of her family, friends,... Read more

Drawn from Practice

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place & Experimenter – Hindustan Road 18 Aug - 31 Oct 2018 Experimenter presents Drawn from Practice, an exhibition which relooks at the conceptual, notational, and foundational role of drawing across a wide arc of disciplines and media. The exhibition proposes to explore the conceptual idea of drawing as a scaffolding for building practices of expression, rather than restricting itself solely as... Read more

Ruminations on Labour

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 9 May - 31 Jul 2018 Experimenter presents, Ruminations on Labour, an exhibition that explores the act of labour, its politics and what labour means in an increasingly globalized and capitalist world. Showing works by Prabhakar Pachpute, Praneet Soi, Raqs Media Collective and Sanchayan Ghosh, the exhibition brings together sculpture, installation and painting, making disparate points... Read more

Soumya Sankar Bose | Full Moon on a Dark Night

Experimenter – Hindusthan Road 17 Mar - 31 May 2018 Experimenter presents Full Moon on a Dark Night, Kolkata based, photographer Soumya Sankar Bose’s first solo at Experimenter – Hindustan Road. Full Moon on a Dark Night navigates the fragile space between the private and the vulnerable where personal experiences of his friends in Bose’s photographic prints become evident. Through... Read more

I wish to let you fall out of my hands (Chapter II)

Experimenter – Ballygunge Place 28 Feb - 30 Apr 2018 Experimenter presents I wish to let you fall out of my hands (Chapter II), the inaugural exhibition for its second space in Kolkata, Experimenter – Ballygunge Place. The new space will run simultaneously with Experimenter – Hindustan Road, allowing the gallery to build a multifaceted, adaptive and discursive exhibitions programme... Read more

I wish to let you fall out of my hands (Chapter I) | Bani Abidi | Naeem Mohaiemen

Experimenter – Hindusthan Road 30 Jan - 3 Mar 2018 Experimenter presents, I wish to let you fall out of my hands (Chapter I), with works by Bani Abidi and Naeem Mohaiemen. This exhibition is the first of a two-part exhibition, the latter of which inaugurates Experimenter’s second space in Kolkata. The exhibition proposes an examination of longing, memory, identity,... Read more

Sahil Naik | Ground Zero: Site as Witness/Architecture as Evidence

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 25 Nov 2017 - 10 Jan 2018 Experimenter presents Ground Zero: Site as Witness/Architecture as Evidence, Sahil Naik’s first solo at the gallery. Using methods of distance and proximity, the exhibition explores Naik’s continued interest in conflicts around the world, and other state sponsored and independent terrorism. In his sculptural installations, lines between the real and the... Read more

Sohrab Hura | Sweet Life

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 9 Sep - 10 Nov 2017 Experimenter presents Sweet Life, Sohrab Hura’s first solo at the gallery. The exhibition offers an insight into the deeply poetic and personal journey of Hura’s relationships within his family and outside. Sweet Life opens on September 9 and will continue to be on view until November 10 2017. Sweet Life,... Read more

Kallol Datta | Random Access

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 10 - 31 Aug 2017 Experimenter presents Random Access, an exhibition by Kallol Datta, that explores the deeply linked conceptual, material and technical aspects of Datta’s design practice. The exhibition opens on August 10 and will continue until August 31 2017. Throughout his career, Datta has been working towards understanding how the body adapts to... Read more

Adip Dutta | By Darkling Ground

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 17 May - 8 Jul 2017 Experimenter presents By Darkling Ground, Kolkata based artist Adip Dutta’s second solo at the gallery. The exhibition opens on 17th May 2017 and will continue to be on view until 8th July, 2017. Over the last decade, Dutta has explored possibilities in re-looking at objects and sites of construction and... Read more

Prabhakar Pachpute | Shadows on Arrival

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 4 Mar - 29 Apr 2017 Experimenter presents Shadows on Arrival, Prabhakar Pachpute’s second solo at the gallery. Shadows on Arrival follows Pachpute’s continued interest in exploitation of land and mineral resources in which he imagines the future of a post-mined and post-industrial landscape through paintings, sculpture and installation. The exhibition opens on March 4th and... Read more

Ayesha Sultana | Making Visible

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 21 Jan - 27 Feb 2017 Experimenter presents Making Visible, Ayesha Sultana’s second solo at Experimenter, where Sultana explores simultaneously her pursuit of stillness, a deliberated rhythm of work and the aesthetics of silence through a series of drawings and sculptures. Silence exists as a persistent decision for Sultana, a continuous process of expressing herself through... Read more

Raster – Emerging from the Grid

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 18 Nov - 31 Dec 2016 Experimenter presents Raster – Emerging from the Grid an exhibition featuring work by Rathin Barman, Astha Butail, CAMP, Nabil Rahman, Julein Segard and Praneet Soi. Raster – a rectangular pattern of parallel scanning lines followed by the electron beam on a television screen or computer monitor, or any electronic device... Read more

Samson Young | Mastery of Language Affords Remarkable Power

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 20 Aug - 29 Oct 2016 Experimenter presents Mastery of Language Affords Remarkable Power, Samson Young’s first solo in India. Young is a trained composer and practicing sound artist. While his output is multi-disciplinary, he still maintains an active practice as a composer of concert hall music. Young’s work contextualizes political and communal structure and questions,... Read more

Krishna Reddy | Editionmaker: Contextual Sculpture to the Conceptual

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 20 May - 16 Jul 2016 Experimenter presents, Editionmaker: Contextual Sculpture to the Conceptual, Krishna Reddy’s first solo at Experimenter, Kolkata. The nonagenarian sculptor and pioneering printmaker shows a range of work encompassing his long and illustrious career spanning over seven decades Krishna Reddy’s solo at Experimenter includes a series of viscosity prints, watercolors, photographs and... Read more

Nadia Kaabi-Linke | Lost and Found

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 9 Mar - 30 Apr 2016 Experimenter presents Lost and Found - Nadia Kaabi-Linke’s second solo at Experimenter, Kolkata. Lost and Found marks a shift in Kaabi-Linke’s practice where she moves towards the act of print making to the act of an indexical, time-related mark making activity and explores cavities of time and space, which reveal... Read more

Bani Abidi | The Man Who Clapped for 97 Hours | Funland – Karachi Series II

Experimenter – Hindustan Road & Government College of Art & Craft 15 Jan - 27 Feb 2016 Experimenter presents Bani Abidi’s second solo at the gallery, The Man Who Clapped for 97 Hours, opening on Friday, Jan 15, 2016 and will continue until Feb 27, 2016. Simultaneously, her 6 part video installation Funland – Karachi Series II (2014), commissioned and originally screened at the 8th Berlin Biennale,... Read more

Immateriality in Residue

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 9 Nov - 26 Dec 2015 Experimenter presents Immateriality in Residue, an exhibition featuring the work of Ayesha Sultana, Gyan Panchal, Prabhakar Pachpute & Sanchayan Ghosh that explores ideas of form, material and value in its intrinsic form and residual afterlife. Ayesha Sultana’s practice over the last few years attempts to push the boundaries of perception... Read more

Julien Segard | Anywhere But Here

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 8 Aug - 19 Sep 2015 Experimenter presents Anywhere But Here, Julien Segard’s debut solo in Kolkata. Segard’s work explores the severe edges perpetuated by urban structures, free flowing contours of nature’s invasion into these structures and the shared intimacy that grow into each other’s spaces and claim each as its own. Abstract representation of the... Read more

Rathin Barman, Adip Dutta | Land of no Horizon - II

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 3 - 18 Jul 2015 The contention of owning a resource, to lay claim to it, whether it be tangible land or intangible knowledge emerges to be the nature of modern development. Land Of No Horizon II explores ideas of ownership, of development and application of resources and possibly that of accumulation and misbalances through... Read more

Praneet Soi | Srinagar

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 10 Apr - 30 May 2015 Experimenter presents, Srinagar, Praneet Soi’s first solo at the gallery. Delving into ideas linked to the depiction of the city’s cultural fabric and the slippages in the public understanding of its rich historical legacy the show is set against the backdrop of the violence, loss and longstanding misrepresentation of Kashmir... Read more

Rathin Barman | No... I Remember It Well

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 25 Feb - 28 Mar 2015 Experimenter presents, No…I Remember It Well, Rathin Barman’s second solo at the gallery. The idea of the ‘home’ acquires a distinctive eminence in conversations with and amidst people displaced. The gravity it commands far exceeds its role as a mere provider of shelter and, to that extent, has little to... Read more

CAMP | As If – I | Rock, Paper, Scissors

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 7 Jan - 10 Feb 2015 As If is the title of a series of exhibitions by CAMP in early 2015. Retrospective in spirit, these shows gather for the first time in solo exhibition form many of the artworks and ideas crafted by CAMP as a group since 2007, and by its constituent individuals since 2002.... Read more

Gauri Gill & Seher Shah | Ways of Seeing

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 28 Oct - 29 Nov 2014 In his well-known, 4-part, 1972 BBC television series and later a book of essays, Ways of Seeing, John Berger raises several questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The book is a critique of the more traditionalist view of Western artistic and cultural aesthetics and is an essential text for... Read more

Naeem Mohaiemen | The Young Man Was (contd.)

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 9 Aug - 27 Sep 2014 Since 2006, Naeem Mohaiemen has worked on a history of the 1970s radical left, through the prism of Bangladesh’s particular experience of these movements, while also spilling out into related movements in Germany, Japan, and the Middle East. The project has been described as 'engagements with a revolutionary past meaningful... Read more

Ashish Avikunthak | Rati Chakravyuh

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 4 - 18 Jul 2014 Experimenter in collaboration with Chatterjee & Lal presents Ashish Avikunthak Rati Chakravyuh, 2013 Single channel video 105 mins. On a lunar eclipse midnight, in a desolate temple, six young newlywed couples and a priestess meet after a mass wedding. They sit in a circle and talk. Experimenter is pleased to... Read more

Ayesha Sultana | Outside the Field of View

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 9 May - 6 Jun 2014 Rooted in process and the act of making, Ayesha Sultana’s first solo, Outside the Field of View, provides an insight into her ongoing investigation of drawing, of seeing space in continuum, of exploring gaps in visual memory and of looking at the periphery and what is overlooked in plain sight.... Read more

Waiting for the Wind

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 7 Mar - 26 Apr 2014 Experimenter presents Waiting for the Wind showing work by Shilpa Gupta, Iman Issa, Naeem Mohaiemen, Tushar Joag, Raqs Media Collective & Walid Raad. Waiting for the Wind takes The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) that has been in effect for now over 50 years, starting with the states of... Read more

Sanchayan Ghosh | Reversed Perspective: 3 Conjunctions

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 13 Dec 2013 - 8 Feb 2014 The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon, which no man has, but he whose... Read more

Prabhakar Pachpute | The Land Eaters

Experimenter - Hindustan Road 28 Sep - 16 Nov 2013 Experimenter in collaboration with the Clark House Initiative presents The Land Eaters, Prabhakar Pachpute’s first solo in Kolkata. Through a new body of work, Pachpute continues to explore his interest in labor ethics, economic exploitation, unequal social development and land politics. Pachpute belongs to a family with a three-generation history... Read more

Mehreen Murtaza | Score For A Film

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 9 Aug - 14 Sep 2013 Experimenter presents Mehreen Murataza’s second solo at Experimenter with Score For A Film opening on Friday, August 9, 2013. Score For A Film attempts to be a meld of sounds dedicated to recordings of low frequency transmissions, a sweeping soundtrack, noise patterns, historical recordings, and a fictitious narrative performed by... Read more

Filament | Year 2013

Experimenter - Hindustan Road 4 - 20 Jul 2013 Experimenter presents FILAMENT, its annual film based exhibition that reconnoiter contemporary film practice. FILAMENT will be on view from July 4 until July 20. This year FILAMENT will include four feature length films by Amar Kanwar, CAMP, Naeem Mohaiemen and Omer Fast that explore the complex relationship between strife, political... Read more

Nadia Kaabi-Linke | No One Harms Me...

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 12 Mar - 3 May 2013 Experimenter presents, No One Harms Me… Nadia Kaabi-Linke’s first solo exhibition in India opening on Tuesday March 12. The phrase, No One Harms Me… comes from the insignia of the Order of Knight of the Thistle and from emblems from the Scottish regiments of the British Army. The use of... Read more

Hajra Waheed | Sea Change

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 18 Jan - 2 Mar 2013 Experimenter presents Sea Change, Hajra Waheed’s first solo in India. Sea Change is a new (and ongoing) body of work that stitches together a story about the missing and the missed. It chronicles the disappearance of all those who do – in the name of salvation, a better life or... Read more

Bani Abidi | Then It Was Moulded Anew

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 5 Dec 2012 - 5 Jan 2013 The self-delusional aspirations of a small time Indian politician who wants to attain immortality by commissioning a statue of himself, the memoirs of an octogenarian sculptor who contemplates the changing ideologies behind political statuary in India, the dioramas scattered around the home of a military model hobbyist who subverts popular... Read more

Prajakta Potnis | Local Time

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 21 Sep - 3 Nov 2012 Experimenter presents Local Time, a solo by Prajakta Potnis on Friday, September 21, 2012. This is Potnis’ first solo in Kolkata. The notion of time and its passage has always seeped into Potnis’s work, sometimes bordering on an out of control situation, an outburst that is often a result of... Read more

Filament | Year 2012

Experimenter - Hindustan Road 14 Aug - 8 Sep 2012 Experimenter presents FILAMENT, a selection of experimental films and videos by four filmmakers – Ashish Avikunthak, Nilanjan Bhattacharya, Ranu Ghosh & Ruchir Joshi – opening on Tuesday, 14th August, 2012 at Experimenter. The exhibition will continue till 8 September, 2012. The films will be screened between 11 am - 6.30pm,... Read more

Saira Ansari | Conversations in Hyperreality

25 Apr - 31 May 2012 Experimenter presents Conversations in Hyperreality, Saira Ansari’s first solo exhibition in India from 25 April – 31 May 2012. Saira Ansari’s work is derived from responding to aggressive and vividly visual personal dreams and hallucinatory experiences that she has experienced for most of her memory. Her primary interest over the... Read more

Natasha de Betak | Nightshade

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 17 Feb - 31 Mar 2012 Curated by Aveek Sen Experimenter presents Nightshade, by acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Natasha de Betak in her first solo in India between, 17th Feb – 31st Mar 2012. In her urge to go deeper than what is apparent in Nightshade, Natasha captures the thin line between death and dream. Nightshade... Read more

Rathin Barman | And My Eyes Fill With Sand…

Experimenter - Hindustan Road 21 Dec 2011 - 5 Feb 2012 Unabated consumption, mindless consumerism and destabilizing economic growth over the last quarter of a century has brought the world to the brink of an unprecedented economic and thereby social and political crisis. Seemingly stable and secure ‘developed’ nations are reeling under the pressure of the public demanding answers to the... Read more

The Otolith Group | In The Year 2103

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 17 Dec - 8 Jan 2011 Read more

Tino Sehgal | This Situation

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 11 - 12 Dec 2011 Experimenter in collaboration with Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata present acclaimed Berlin-based artist, Tino Sehgal’s - This Situation at Experimenter on the 11th & 12th December 2011. Discourse as the key element recurs in “This Situation”, which Sehgal himself described as a kind of playful salon when he created the... Read more

CAMP | Two Stages Of Invention

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 23 Sep - 19 Nov 2011 Experimenter presents a solo, Two Stages of Invention, by CAMP. This exhibition suggests an after-life and before-life for two of art's usual objects. The first, The Country of the Blind and Other Stories, is a film based on video material gathered over a year on the English Channel, now re-installed... Read more

Adip Dutta | I have a face but a face of what I am not

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 5 Aug - 10 Sep 2011 Banality is a contention of late capitalism, a creation of macroeconomics, and an effect of material culture. Closely bound with notions of boredom and ennui, the banal is shorthand for those routines and value systems of high capitalism that are as annoying and trivial as they are obligatory. Our everyday... Read more

Naeem Mohaiemen | The Young Man Was (a few chapters)

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 8 Apr - 9 Jun 2011 Experimenter presents Naeem Mohaiemen’s first solo show in India. Naeem works in Dhaka and New York, using essays, photography and film to explore history, especially that of failed utopias. Since 2006, he has been researching the 1970s revolutionary left, and how it functioned as an “accidental trojan horse” for the... Read more

Raqs Media Collective | Premonition

Experimenter – Hindustan Road 4 Feb - 26 Mar 2011 Read more

Where Am I

Experimenter - Hindustan Road 4 Nov - 4 Dec 2010 Read more

Say Everything

Experimenter - Hindustan Road 18 Sep - 31 Oct 2010 Experimenter presents group exhibition by Baptist Coelho, Pushkar Thakur, Sajad Malik, Shreyas Karle, Sukanya Ghosh from September 18,2010 to October 31, 2010. Read more

This is Unreal

Experimenter - Hindustan Road 23 Jul - 5 Sep 2010 Experimenter presents group exhibition by Raqs Media Collective, Susanta Mandal and Yamini Nayar from July 23, 2010 - Sep 5, 2010 Read more

Mehreen Murtaza | Who Are You, Defenders of The Universe?

Experimenter - Hindustan Road 24 Apr - 5 Jun 2010 Read more

Sanchayan Ghosh | Sisyphus Effect

Experimenter - Hindustan Road 5 - 27 Feb 2010 Read more

Freedom is Notional

Experimenter - Hindustan Road 1 Nov 2009 - 31 Jan 2010 Read more