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From: 26th May to 1st June 2026

Retrospective show

By Veteran Artist Jain Kamal

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery, 

Auditorium Hall

M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 7039448108

Renowned artist Jain Kamal’s Retrospective show in Jehangir Art Gallery 

A Spiritual Journey of an artist 

Senior artist Jain Kamal’s retrospective at Jehangir Art Gallery, bringing together 101 works, positions itself within an onerous yet compelling proposition: the translation of the ‘Namokar Mantra’ from an ethical utterance into a visual system. In Jain philosophy, this mantra is not supplicatory but hierarchical and ontological. It acknowledges perfected states of being rather than invoking intervention. Its recitation is an act of alignment, a recalibration of the self toward equanimity, restraint, and self-knowledge. The exhibition’s premise rests on extending this inward calibration into the domain of the visible.

Jain Kamal’s practice consistently mobilises script as structure rather than inscription. Letters accumulate into vortices, grids, and concentric dispersals, where language begins to behave as matter: compressing, radiating, dissolving. Elsewhere, manuscript-like grounds and typographic densities evoke the labour of chant-like repetition central to Jain meditative practices, where meaning is not delivered instantly but sedimented through sustained attention.

The reference to Jain cosmology, particularly the notion of cyclical existence and gradations of consciousness, is deployed not as illustrative narrative but as structural principle. The works often stage a movement from dispersion to centre, from multiplicity toward a tentative stillness. This compositional logic mirrors the ethical trajectory embedded in Jain thought: the gradual attenuation of karmic accretions through discipline and awareness.

Crucially, the exhibition’s invocation of global peace emerges as a derivative condition. Within Jain epistemology, peace is neither negotiated nor imposed; it is the by-product of an interior equilibrium achieved through self-regulation. Jain Kamal’s visual strategy: repetition, containment, and centripetal focus, attempts to materialise this proposition: that the ordering of perception precedes the ordering of the world.

The retrospective also folds into itself several parallel strands from the artist’s long professional trajectory. A section titled ‘Namokar Mantra for World Peace’ extends the exhibition’s meditative axis into a broader public-facing rhetoric of ethical coexistence. Another body of work, ‘Ek Fakir Se Doosra Fakir’, presents glimpses from a series of approximately 250 paintings centred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, positioning political portraiture and public image-making within the artist’s wider engagement with symbolic identity and circulation. Alongside these works, archival material from nearly fifty-five years of design practice for around sixty national newspapers and periodicals is also displayed, foregrounding Jain Kamal’s sustained involvement with print culture, graphic layout, and visual communication across editorial platforms. An Original design portfolio featuring 55 years of work for 60 national newspapers and periodicals will also be on display.

This retrospective, therefore, is best understood not as a devotional display, but as an extended inquiry into whether a rigorously inward philosophy can sustain a contemporary visual language without losing its ethical density and, moreover, how it might extrapolate into a globally aligned peace-making process.

This show was inaugurated on 26th May 2026 by Honorable Chief Guest Shradhyey Dattatreya Hosbale ji, in the presence of Mangalprabhat Lodha, Chandrakant Patil,  Kaushal Vikas, Ghevarchandji Bohra, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, Vijay Jain, Ashish Shah,

Manju Lodha, Charan Sharma, Ramesh Jain, Kamal Jain, Prakash Kothari, Kishor Khabiya Jain, Dr. Jitendra B Shah, Nirmal Jain, Ganpati Kothari, Mudith Jain, Pro. Banjare, Sureshchandra Sharma, Padmashree Bimal Jain, Vitthal Naadkarni among others

———–Sushma Sabnis (Art Curator & Writer)

Renowned Artist Jain Kamal’s Retrospective Show In Jehangir Art Gallery I 26th May To 1st June 2026

From: 25^th to 31^st May 2026

“A Floral Reverie”        

Solo Show of Paintings by eminent artist

Neena Bidikar

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Hirji Gallery

M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9930929996

Neena Bidikar’s solo exhibition, ‘A Floral Reverie,’ unfolds as an intimate encounter with the emotional and sensory life of flowers.

Moving beyond the conventions of decorative floral painting, Neena transforms petals, folds, textures, and colour into immersive fields of feeling, where softness and intensity coexist in delicate balance. Her large-scale canvases magnify fleeting botanical events into spaces of contemplation, drawing viewers into a world where nature appears both fragile and powerfully alive.

Working in a contemporary realist idiom, Neena approaches the flower not as a static object of beauty, but as a living form in transition – blooming, unfurling, fading, and renewing itself in cycles that quietly mirror human emotion. Rich blues, luminous whites, velvety rouges, and layered violets move across the canvas with an almost tactile presence. Light slips across petals like memory itself, revealing subtle tensions between stillness and movement, intimacy and grandeur.

Her long engagement with textile design and visual aesthetics is evident in the fluid orchestration of colour, rhythm, and surface. Yet the works resist excess. Instead, they cultivate attentiveness. Each painting invites the viewer to slow down and inhabit a moment that contemporary life often rushes past, the silent unfolding of beauty in its most transient state.

There is a meditative quality to Neena’s practice. The flowers seem less arranged than encountered, as though emerging from a deeply personal dialogue with nature, time, and perception. Through these works, the artist creates not simply images of blooms, but emotional environments where quiet observation becomes transformative.

‘A Floral Reverie’ offers a rare visual pause, a space where colour breathes, form softens, and the ephemeral presence of nature is allowed to linger just a little longer.

This show was inaugurated on Hon. Chief Guest Mr. Rajiv Mishra(Principal Sir J.J. School of Architecture), Guest of Honour – Ranjana Rane Das (Vice President, BJP Mumbai Mahila Morcha) among others.

This show is curated by Mrs. Anjali Kaur Arora ( Founder – BOA Gallery)

“A Floral Reverie” Solo Show Of Paintings By Eminent Artist Neena Bidikar At Jehangir Art Gallery

“Sumitaatman”

Soulful Strokes

Solo Show of Paintings
by Eminent Artist Sumitra Ahlawat

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Gallery No. 4

M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm.

Contact: +91 98682 60250

Sumitaatman:

In an age increasingly drawn toward irony, spectacle, and fragmentation, Sumitra Ahlawat’s paintings return to the enduring language of beauty, devotion, ornamentation, and emotional sincerity. Her works celebrate the richness of Indian cultural memory through luminous portrayals of divine figures, women adorned in traditional attire, musicians, dancers, and moments of quiet spiritual reflection.

Shaped through her art education in Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, Sumitra’s visual language carries subtle echoes of regional aesthetics, traditional attire, devotional atmospheres, and the warmth of lived Indian cultural experience. She completed a five year Diploma in Fine Arts, building a rigorous academic foundation that later expanded into diverse professional engagements across painting, illustration, broadcasting, and graphic design.

Working across oil, acrylic, charcoal, watercolour, and mixed media, Sumitra creates compositions deeply rooted in feminine figurative traditions while retaining a contemporary softness and immediacy. Her paintings are marked by flowing drapery, elaborate jewellery, expressive gestures, and richly textured surfaces that evoke the visual atmosphere of women at temple rituals, folk celebrations, varied painting traditions, and classical Indian aesthetics.

Alongside her independent artistic practice, Sumitra has also worked professionally across several important institutional spaces. She created oil paintings for the Rajputana Rifles Regiment Centre, Delhi, worked as a graphic artist with Doordarshan, Delhi TV, and UDK, contributed book illustrations for NCERT, and worked on illustration projects for Nandan magazine of HT. These experiences expanded her engagement with both fine art and public visual culture, allowing her practice to move fluidly between institutional, literary, devotional, and popular visual language.

Her devotional works depicting Krishna, Rama, Vitthala, Ganesha, and Radha are imbued with warmth rather than grandeur. These are not distant mythological icons, but intimate presences inhabiting the emotional world of everyday faith. Alongside these sacred images, her portraits of Indian women carry a similar dignity and grace, transforming adornment into a visual language of identity, memory, femininity, and cultural continuity.

Sumitra’s use of colour moves between earthy browns, deep vermilions, luminous golds, and muted monochromes, creating a balance between vibrancy and stillness. Her figures often emerge softly from the surface, as though suspended between dream, remembrance, and lived reality. There is a tenderness in the way the body is painted, not merely as form, but as a carrier of ritual, devotion, beauty, and inherited cultural memory.

Rather than pursuing conceptual excess or detached irony, Sumitra’s practice remains committed to emotional clarity and visual harmony. At a time when contemporary art often distances itself from decorative sensitivity, her paintings quietly reclaim these languages without apology. The decorative in her work becomes a vessel of continuity, intimacy, and cultural remembrance.

Her paintings invite viewers into a contemplative world where devotion, femininity, grace, and figuration coexist not as nostalgia, but as living emotional inheritances that continue to shape the Indian imagination.

This show was Inaugurated on 25th May 2026 by Hon. Guests Dr. Kishor Ingle(Director, Directorate of Art, Maharashtra State), Prof. Narendra Vichare(Chairman, The Bombay Art Society), Shri. Rajendra Patil(President, The Bombay Art Society, Founder – India Art Festival), Dr. Ganesh Tartare, (Former Professor, SirJ.J. School of Art), Shri. Shekhar Sane( Eminent Artist)

“Sumitaatman” Solo Show Of Paintings By Eminent Artist Sumitra Ahlawat In Jehangir Art Gallery