October brings a diverse lineup of exhibitions across India, from multimedia showcases in metropolitan hubs to intimate solo presentations in cultural cities. Here’s your curated roundup of must-visit shows, so you can plan your trail efficiently.
- 1. Delhi Art Weekend
Location: Delhi
Dates: 3 – 12 October 2025
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The capital’s leading galleries open doors for extended hours, walkthroughs, and special programming. Expect everything from blue-chip modern masters to cutting-edge digital experiments.
- 2. Ahmedabad Cultural Week
Location: Ahmedabad
Dates: 3 – 12 October 2025
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Museums, craft hubs, and artist studios come alive across the heritage-rich city. A great opportunity to explore textile traditions and contemporary craft dialogues.
- 3. The River in the Sky – Solo Exhibition by Sibaprasad Karchaudhuri
Venue: Emami Art, Kolkata
On View Until: 18 October 2025
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Karchaudhuri’s poetic canvases blur sky and water into dreamlike abstractions, evoking memory, myth, and elemental motion.
- 4. Shrines – Solo Exhibition by Abul Hisham
Venue: Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, New Delhi
On View Until: 23 October 2025
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Drawing from personal ritual and architectural symbolism, Hisham constructs intimate sanctuaries through sculpture and mixed media.
- 5. Crescendo – Solo Exhibition by Katayoun Karami
Venue: Vida Heydari Contemporary, Pune
On View Until: 25 October 2025
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Karami’s rhythmic compositions unravel the pressures and pleasures of repetition — where sound, pattern, and emotion collide.
- 6. Hifz – Solo Exhibition by Faiza Hasan
Venue: Galleryske, New Delhi
On View Until: 31 October 2025
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Hasan engages with memory and preservation through delicate drawings and found-object interventions, reflecting on care as resistance.
- 7. Gen-z Unboxed: The New Avant-Garde
Venue: Lakeeren Contemporary, Mumbai
On View Until: 31 October 2025
Image courtesy: Lakeeren Contemporary, in frame: artist Ashna Malik
A bold showcase spotlighting India’s experimental edge — think post-digital surrealism, sculptural sound, and radical material play.
- 8. Thinking Like A Mountain
Venue: Method Kala Ghoda
On View Until: 16 November 2025
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Curated by Sneha Shah, this eco-centric group show draws from Bill Plotkin’s model of human evolution, exploring the symbiotic relationship between inner growth and the natural world. Featuring artists such as Seema Kohli and Thukral & Tagra, the exhibition maps each stage of human development through artworks that reconnect us to purpose, community, and ecological belonging.
- 9. She Carries The Quiet
Venue: Art and Charlie, Mumbai
On View Until: 31 October 2025
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“She Carries the Quiet” is an exhibition at Art and Charlie, Bandra, showcasing works by Kajal Chaudhary, Khushbu Baria, and Nandhini Sree. The show explores themes of memory, silence, and inner reflection through contemporary art. It’s accompanied by a storytelling workshop, Voicing the Silent Spaces, led by theatre maker Sheena Khalid, encouraging participants to connect personal narratives with the artworks’ quiet emotional depth.
- 10. The Terrain Between Dreams in the Understory
Venue: Apparao Galleries, Chennai
On View Until: 31 October 2025
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The Terrain Between Dreams in the Understory is an exhibition at Apparao Galleries, featuring works by Eleena Banik. The show explores the delicate space between dreams and reality, where imagination and memory intertwine. Through her evocative visual language, Banik invites viewers to wander through a surreal landscape that blurs the line between the conscious and the subconscious.
October’s exhibitions offer a rich spread of perspectives across cities. From intimate galleries to large-scale cultural festivals, each space invites you to slow down, wander, and reconnect with art, with community, and perhaps with parts of yourself. Pick a show, step in, and let the month unfold in colour and conversation.
