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16 Jul 2026 - 21 Aug 2026
An institutional exhibition bringing together modern, contemporary, folk, and indigenous artistic practices from South Asia.
KNMA presents The Meeting Ground: Scenes from the KNMA Collection, a major institutional exhibition in collaboration with Christie’s, opening at Christie’s, King Street, London, from 16 July to 21 August 2026. Bringing together works from the KNMA Collection across modern and contemporary practices alongside folk and indigenous traditions from South Asia, the exhibition creates new ways of engaging with the region’s artistic histories.
Curated by Akansha Rastogi with Preeti Bahadur, Avijna Bhattacharya, Premjish Achari, and Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, the exhibition unfolds through a series of interconnected “scenes” moving across histories, geographies, materials, and forms of belonging.
The exhibition traces dialogues and contestations between modernist artists including M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, Jeram Patel, K.C.S. Paniker, K.G. Subramanyan, and K. Ramanujam, while also exploring performative and material practices through artists such as Neha Choksi, LN Tallur, and Simryn Gill.
Another strand foregrounds artists including Zainul Abedin, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Zarina Hashmi, F.N. Souza, and Bani Abidi, whose works engage with migration, displacement, multiple homelands, and the fluidity of borders. Interwoven within these narratives are indigenous and folk traditions represented through artists such as Jangarh Singh Shyam, Jivya Soma Mashe, and the collaborative works of Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad.
Through these layered movements across memory, desire, belonging, and loss, The Meeting Ground reconsiders how collections can be experienced and how institutions can create space for multiple artistic histories to coexist. Bringing these dialogues beyond KNMA’s physical spaces, the exhibition reflects the museum’s commitment to expanding engagement with South Asian artistic practices within international cultural conversations.
Christie’s King Street, London
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