Nature Morte

Nature Morte Nature Morte is a contemporary art gallery showcasing experimental forms of art; championing conceptual, lens-based, and installation genres.
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Founded in New York's East Village in 1982 and closed in 1988, Peter Nagy revived Nature Morte in New Delhi in 1997 as a commercial gallery and a curatorial experiment. Since then, Nature Morte has become synonymous in India with challenging and experimental forms of art; championing conceptual, lens-based, and installation genres and representing a generation of Indian artists who have gone on to

international exposure. Nature Morte was the first gallery from India to be included in the most important international art fairs (starting with The Armory Show in New York in 2005) and has participated in Art Basel, Fiac Paris, Art Basel Miami Beach, Paris Photo, Art Dubai, Tokyo Art Fair, Art Basel Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi Art Fair and Frieze New York, among others. Nature Morte has also organized projects and exhibitions with international artists coming to India and combining their works with those of Indian artists to foster cross-cultural communications. In addition to its own programming, Nature Morte has collaborated with institutions in India such as the British Council, the Alliance Francais, the Sanskriti Foundation, the India International Centre, the India Habitat Centre, Max Mueller Bhavan, the Italian Cultural Center, Khoj International Artists Association, the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, and the National Gallery of Modern Art in both New Delhi and Mumbai. Today, Nature Morte represents such well-known artists as Subodh Gupta, Jitish Kallat, Anita Dube, Mithu Sen, Bharti Kher, Imran Qureshi, Mona Rai, Pushpamala N., Seher Shah, Thukral & Tagra, Raqs Media Collective, and Asim Waqif, as well as others.

At the Lahore Museum (.official), Imran Qureshi () presents works that reflect on memory as something both fragile and e...
29/05/2026

At the Lahore Museum (.official), Imran Qureshi () presents works that reflect on memory as something both fragile and enduring.

As part of “Echoes Across the Divide,” curated by Anne-Sophie Finoulst () and Sana Durrani (), Qureshi’s works “Seeming Endless Path of Memory” (2024) and “Water Bodies” (2025) unfold within a wider exhibition exploring heritage, identity, and the role of museums in shaping dialogue across histories and borders.

The exhibition brings together contemporary artistic practices, displayed alongside historical works from the museum’s collection, to consider how remembrance, loss, and resilience continue to shape collective experience.

Drawing inspiration from the myth of ‘Varaha,” the incarnation of Vishnu who rescues the Earth Goddess from the ocean, L...
28/05/2026

Drawing inspiration from the myth of ‘Varaha,” the incarnation of Vishnu who rescues the Earth Goddess from the ocean, L. N. Tallur () brings together mythology and technology in a work that feels both ancient and sharply contemporary.

Inspired by a 10th century sculpture from the Gujari Mahal Archaeological Museum in Gwalior, Tallur reimagines ‘Varaha’ through the language of data mining, searching through layers of information, memory, and history to excavate meaning within an increasingly complex world.

The sculpture is now on view in our Dhan Mill gallery as part of “Shapes of Time.” Curated by Neeraja Poddar, the exhibition explores layered encounters with time, moving between the historical, the cyclical, and the deeply personal.

On view till June 28.

📍 Nature Morte, Dhan Mill

🗓️ Tuesday - Sunday (Mondays closed)

🕚 11 am to 7 pm

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L. N. Tallur
“Dark Data,” 2026
Bronze; 77×36×52 in. (195×91×132 cm)

What shape does time take when it is experienced rather than measured?“Shapes of Time,” curated by Neeraja Poddar, explo...
26/05/2026

What shape does time take when it is experienced rather than measured?

“Shapes of Time,” curated by Neeraja Poddar, explores time through cycles of creation and dissolution, memory and repetition, growth and change. Bringing together diverse contemporary practices, the exhibition reflects on how time moves differently through body, nature, and personal and collective histories.

Moving between the historical and the deeply intimate, the exhibition unfolds as a meditation on time in all its shifting forms.

On view till May 22

📍Nature Morte, Dhan Mill

🗓️ Tuesday - Sunday (closed Mondays)

🕚 11 am–7 pm

22/05/2026

Now concluded, Murari Jha’s () “The Future of Nostalgia” at our Dhan Mill space brought together works that reflected on the fragile relationship between memory and transformation. An installation of approximately 40 sculptures explored how everyday life shapes the myriad ways we both remember and belong.

Borrowing its title from Svetlana Boym’s influential book, the exhibition approached nostalgia not as a return to the past, but as a way of understanding the present and carrying it forward to our futures.

Thank you to everyone who spent time with the exhibition and became part of its journey.

Wishing Bharat Sikka a very happy birthday! 🎂
21/05/2026

Wishing Bharat Sikka a very happy birthday! 🎂

20/05/2026

Behind the scale of “एक मुट्ठी आसमान (A Fistful of Sky)” was a process shaped by movement, labour, and continual transformation.

As the exhibition at the Art House, NMACC concluded, this behind-the-scenes glimpse revisits the making of Subodh Gupta’s () ambitious installations. Works that evolved slowly through months of building, reworking, and reimagining.

Curated by Clare Lilley (.lilley), the exhibition brought together monumental installations that reflected on memory, aspiration, migration, and the textures of everyday experience.

We are grateful to everyone who visited, reflected on, and spent time with the exhibition. Thank you for being part of the journey of “एक मुट्ठी आसमान (A Fistful of Sky)“.

In Basist Kumar’s () solo exhibition entitled “The Shape of Standing,” single trees emerge as forms of presence, rendere...
19/05/2026

In Basist Kumar’s () solo exhibition entitled “The Shape of Standing,” single trees emerge as forms of presence, rendered in meticulous detail, both from a distance and at close range. Through muted tones and immersive surfaces, the works reflects on the invisible ways bodies shape, and are shaped by, the spaces around them.

With paintings, works on paper, and a single sculpture, Kumar approaches the landscape as something inhabited rather than observed, suspended between a timeless stillness and a palpable tension.

On view till June 6, 2026

📍Nature Morte, Mumbai

🕑 Monday - Saturday, 10 am to 6 pm

Time leaves traces. In landscapes. In memory. In the body. It repeats itself even as everything changes. Opening on May ...
16/05/2026

Time leaves traces. In landscapes. In memory. In the body. It repeats itself even as everything changes.

Opening on May 22, “Shapes of Time,” curated by Neeraja Poddar, explores the many ways time is experienced beyond chronology. Through cycles of growth and decay, through shifting landscapes, and through the emotional textures of remembrance and change. Bringing together a range of contemporary practices, the exhibition unfolds as a meditation on time as something fragmented, recurring, and deeply human.

📍 Nature Morte, Dhan Mill

🗓️ Tuesday - Sunday (Mondays closed)
🕚 11 am - 7 pm

13/05/2026

In Murari Jha’s () “The Future of Nostalgia,” memory is not frozen in the past. It moves through changing cities, disappearing landscapes, and the everyday experiences of people searching for belonging.

Borrowing its title from Svetlana Boym’s seminal text on nostalgia as both longing and reconstruction, the exhibition reflects on nostalgia as something lived in the present shaped as much by change as by remembrance.

🗓️ On view till May 17

📍 Nature Morte, Dhan Mill

🗓️ Tuesday - Sunday (closed Mondays)

🕚 11 am–7 pm

In the closing chapter of “एक मुट्ठी आसमान (A Fistful of Sky)”, Subodh Gupta () is in conversation with Mark Rappolt, Ed...
12/05/2026

In the closing chapter of “एक मुट्ठी आसमान (A Fistful of Sky)”, Subodh Gupta () is in conversation with Mark Rappolt, Editor-in-Chief of ArtReview ().

Rappolt, known for his incisive engagement with global contemporary art, joins Gupta to reflect on a practice that transforms familiar materials into expansive meditations on history, aspiration, and collective experience.

Set against the backdrop of the exhibition, the conversation brings into focus the ideas that continue to shape Gupta’s work today.

🔗 Register via link in bio (limited seats)

🗓️ 15 May 2026, Friday

🕑 4-5 pm

📍 L1, Art House, NMACC, Mumbai (entry through Gate 11)

What makes Dayanita Singh’s () “ARCHIVIO” so remarkable is not only the exhibition itself but also the way it came into ...
11/05/2026

What makes Dayanita Singh’s () “ARCHIVIO” so remarkable is not only the exhibition itself but also the way it came into being.

Built through decades of friendship, trust, and Singh’s long relationship with Italy, this exhibition belongs to the people who opened their homes, archives, libraries, and personal worlds to her. The result feels deeply personal while also rethinking how photography, memory, and exhibitions themselves overlap and exist.

It is for the first time in its history that the Archivio di Stato () in Venice has been opened to the public as an exhibition venue. A remarkable setting for a body of work that so thoughtfully reshapes the way photographs are experienced.

Congratulations to Dayanita Singh, curator Andrea Anastasio () and everyone involved in bringing this exceptional exhibition to life.

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The Dhan Mill, Chhatarpur
Delhi
110074

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 6pm

Telephone

+919810200082

Website

https://tinyurl.com/futureofnostalgiatalk

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