“Poison & Elixir”, a solo exhibition by Elsa Martini. Curated by Abhijeet Gondkar

 

You are warmly invited to 

“Poison & Elixir”,

a solo exhibition by Elsa Martini.

Curated by Abhijeet Gondkar 

The exhibition unfolds like a quiet walk through memory—where innocence, tenderness, and unease exist side by side, exploring the thin line between beauty and violence, memory and forgetting - where what sustains life may also quietly erode it, much like Poison and Elixir within the same moment.

Elsa Martini is a Vienna-based artist and curator with a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, multimedia, site-specific work, performance, and text art. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, Tirana, and certified by the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, her work explores tensions between the individual, society, and environment, engaging with themes of social trauma, space, and gender. Her works have been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, biennials, and major art platforms. She is the founder and curator of the NATA International Art  Collective. 

Preview: 31st January, 5:30 pm onwards

Exhibition Dates: 31st January – 6th February 2026

Timings: Daily, 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Venue:

Nippon Gallery/ 30/32, 2nd Floor, Deval Chambers,

Nana Bhai Lane, Flora Fountain, / Fort, Mumbai – 400001

We look forward to your presence.

JMD Gallery Presents “Breath of The Infinite” A Group Exhibition of Paintings by 5 renowned artists at JMD Art Gallery

 A Group show of Paintings by five contemporary renowned artists 

Chetan Katigar, Dinesh Kumar Parmar, Pradip Kumar Sau, Ranjit Kurmi, Santosh Kumar Sandilya will be displayed at JMD Art Gallery, J-109, Ansa Industrial Estate, Saki Naka, Andheri(West), Mumbai from 16th to 31st January 2026 between 11am to 7pm.

Santosh Kumar Sandilya paints Kashi not as a picturesque city but as a living cosmology, where architecture, river, boats, and human ritual are bound into one breathing organism. Working with Ganga -jal as both medium and meaning, his layered ghats turn Varanasi into a site where faith, time, and everyday life flow through the same visual bloodstream. 

Ranjit Kurmi’s abstraction moves like a charged weather system; bands of colour collide, fracture, and recombine, producing a painterly turbulence that feels both lyrical and volatile. His canvases hold the tension between structure and release, where pigment behaves like memory in motion rather than fixed form. 

 

Chetan Katigar builds a lush narrative theatre where myth, music, flora, and human presence fold into a single ornamental rhythm, giving devotional storytelling the pulse of contemporary colour. His figurative worlds feel ceremonial yet intimate, where Krishna, musicians, animals, and forest become a single breathing choreography rather than separate motifs. 

 

Pradip Kumar Sau constructs a metaphysical theatre in blue, where floating heads, ascending triangles amidst celestial bodies, and drifting bodies map the human mind’s restless pull between gravity and transcendence. His paintings stage the psyche as a dream-space in which the finite body strains toward an infinite, luminous elsewhere. 

 

Dinesh Parmar composes memory like a palimpsest; layered fields of colour, fractured faces, and symbolic geometry drifting through one another as if time itself were being slowly repainted. His mixed-media surfaces feel archaeological, where emotion, history, and private myth surface and dissolve in the same breath.

 

This show will be inaugurated on 16^th January 2026 at 4.30pm by Honourable Guests Mr. Milind Pai(Principal Architect), Mr. Sameer Bhambere(Founder of Lemon Yellow LLP)

 

Sushma Sabnis

Art Curator & Writer

From: January 16 - 31, 2026

JMD Gallery Presents

“Breath of The Infinite”

A Group Exhibition of Paintings by Chetan Katigar, Dinesh Kumar Parmar, Pradip Kumar Sau, Ranjit Kurmi, Santosh Kumar Sandilya

 

VENUE: 

JMD Art Gallery

J - 109, Ansa Industrial Estate,

Saki Vihar Road, Saki Naka,

Near Shiv Sagar Restaurant, Andheri East,

Mumbai, Maharashtra 400072

Phone: 093231 29595 / 09221133506

www.jmdartgallery.com

Timing: 11am to 7pm  

"Relations" - "A Solo Show of Paintings & Drawings by Renowned Artist Sajal Kanti Mitra at Jehangir Art Gallery, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai

In the works of Sajal Kanti Mitra, figuration and abstraction exist in a continuous, deliberate dialogue. His paintings unfold within a threshold space where faces, bodies, and gestures momentarily emerge from layered fields of colour, only to recede again into atmosphere and rhythm. Rather than offering linear narratives, the works propose states of becoming, images held in suspension, as if caught between thought and emotion.

Recent painting by Sajal Kanti Mitra

Mitra’s visual language is rooted in an urban consciousness, yet it is tempered by an inward, almost musical lyricism. The recurring female forms across his canvases function less as portraits and more as presences, self-contained, introspective, and quietly resonant. Their elongated physiognomies and gently fractured planes evoke relational memory, suggesting how identities are shaped through closeness, distance, and unspoken exchange rather than fixed definition.

Colour operates here as cadence rather than embellishment. Dense reds and ochres lend gravity and corporeal weight, while blues and greens open into contemplative, meditative intervals. The worked surfaces scraped, layered, and reassembled, retain traces of process, allowing the act of painting itself to register as an attentive, almost listening gesture.

Artist: Sajal Kanti Mitra

Seen together, the exhibition reads as a sustained meditation on rhythm: of bodies, emotions, and lived urban experience filtered through personal mythology. Mitra does not seek resolution; instead, he holds form at the edge of recognition, inviting the viewer into a quiet, continuous encounter.

Sushma Sabnis

Mumbai

From: 13th to 19th January 2026 “RELATIONS”

An Exhibition of Paintings & Drawings

By Eminent artist Sajal Kanti Mitra

VENUE: Jehangir Art Gallery, 161-B, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing:11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9831429243

“Sacred India” 17th Solo Show of Paintings By Renowned artist Paramesh Paul

Mumbai based Renowned artist Parameh Paul will be displayed his recent work series named –“Sacred India” at Nehru Centre Art Gallery, AC Gallery, Worli, Mumbai from 13th to 19th January 2026 between 11am to 7pm

Artist: Parameh Paul

A Luminous Journey through Sacred Sites Paramesh Paul pays an earnest and deeply emotive tribute to the scenic and sacred beauty of places like Varanasi and Pandharpur. In glowing, warm colours — amber, gold, and vermilion — these works are created with utmost care and devotion. A sense of awe is evoked through the dense compositions, while a serene, sublime calm pervades the picture space, immersing the viewer in prayer-like feelings, known and ‘unknown’, In a work, the sky shines with saturated oranges and golds, while floating, Diya's and lotus blooms transform the river itself into an altar — majestic, fluid, and sanctified. The Ghats of Varanasi at dusk, the sculpted Nandi, the pilgrims and devotees performing rituals, lend the paintings a rich narrative fullness, conveying faith as a lived, luminous presence. Scripted with fine, brooding strokes, these paintings are soothing and richly rewarding on both visual and emotional terms. 

The lines and forms that construct boats and houses have a quiet charm. Details of rituals — aarti, bathing, prayer, procession — and of temples, pavilions, and arches, are sensitively rendered; they carry a fascinating presence and grace, binding all elements into a shared ceremonial glow. In another piece, the palette shifts to greys, ash-whites, muted blues, and smoky browns. Against this subdued ground, ornate bamboo chhatris punctuate the surface, as if reflecting continuity — ritual, belief, and the ceaseless flow of life along the river. India is a vast land with various traditions of celebration, devotion, worship, and holy places. Works such as these, recalling the “purity” of the sacred riverine sites on painterly terms, are a noteworthy aspiration.

Prayag Shukla

Poet & Art Critic

January 13 to 19, 2026 - “Sacred India” - 17th Solo Show of Paintings By Renowned artist Paramesh Paul

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VENUE:  Nehru Centre Art Gallery, AC Gallery, Discovery of India Building

Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai – 400018, Timing: 11am to 7pm, Contact: +91 9833748993