The Must-Visit Exhibitions happening in Mumbai during Art Mumbai Week

November in Mumbai marks a vibrant moment for the city’s art scene. Now in its third year, the Art Mumbai Fair will take place from 13 to 16 November 2025 at the Mahalaxmi Racecourse.

Alongside the art fair, galleries unveil new exhibitions and institutions highlight both established and emerging talent. The city comes alive during this week, drawing visitors from across India as well as an ever-growing international audience eager to experience Mumbai’s creative energy. LVH Art presents a curated guide to six unmissable gallery exhibitions on view in Mumbai during the Art Mumbai Fair. These standout exhibitions promise to inspire, engage, and draw you into the dynamic energy of Mumbai’s art scene.

Gallery Rooshad Shroff, Mumbai
Beyond Form
9 November — 15 November 2025

Beyond Form brings together works by sixteen leading international artists including Rita Ackermann, Peppi Bottrop, Salvatore Emblema, Sam Gilliam, Brice Guilbert, Ha Chong-Hyun, Camille Henrot, Donna Huanca, Poppy Jones, Anish Kapoor, Kristy Luck, Kylie Manning, Marina Perez Simão, Sean Scully, Ryan Sullivan, and Stanley Whitney, alongside distinctive contemporary design pieces by Rooshad Shroff. At a time when visual culture is saturated with figurative imagery, the exhibition turns deliberately toward abstraction, focusing on colour, form, process, and materiality rather than fixed narrative. By highlighting artists who stretch the limits of figuration or dissolve it entirely, Beyond Form uncovers new visual languages rooted in perception, gesture, and the material presence of the work itself. Together, these artists reveal how abstraction continues to evolve as a vital means of expression, inviting viewers to look beyond representation and engage with the sensory and emotional depth of form.

Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai
Of Dreaming and Remembering: Ramesh Miro Nithiyendran
11 November — 20 December 2025

Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran’s Of Dreaming and Remembering at Jhaveri Contemporary presents the Sydney-based artist’s most ambitious exhibition in India to date. Bringing together a vivid ensemble of ceramic and bronze sculptures, Nithiyendran merges figuration and vessel-making into dynamic, hybrid forms that pulse with ritual energy and contemporary sensibility. His works reimagine the vessel as a site of transformation, where body and object, myth and material, converge in acts of reinvention. Drawing from South Asian visual traditions, Tamil ritual forms and diasporic narratives, Nithiyendran animates clay, bronze and wood into speculative deities that embody the performative, the spiritual and the queer, situating ancient craft within a bold, contemporary imagination.

Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai
The Geometry of Ash, Anju Dodiya
31 October — 26 December 2025

In Politics of Pause, Anju Dodiya transforms stillness into an act of quiet defiance. Working from her Ghatkopar studio, she layers fabrics, collages, and painted fragments into restless tableaux that mirror the fractures of our times, social, political, and personal. Figures twist, mourn, and reflect within divided surfaces, their gestures oscillating between tenderness and tension. Inspired by the spectral presence of trees and the myth of Daphne, Dodiya’s new works meditate on transformation, grief, and the fragile pursuit of joy amid chaos. Refusing spectacle, these paintings invite us to linger , to pause, in a world that demands constant motion.

Galerie Isa, Mumbai
Amorphidian, Christian Achenbach
11th November — 22rd December 2025

Christian Achenbach’s Amorphidian at Galerie Isa marks a vibrant continuation of the German artist’s inquiry into colour, rhythm, and abstraction. At the heart of the exhibition lies Kreola, his most ambitious five-metre work to date, inviting viewers into richly layered worlds pulsing with movement and emotion. Drawing from diverse art historical and musical influences, Achenbach’s paintings vibrate with energy, their vivid surfaces revealing a dialogue between structure and spontaneity. Each painting unfolds like a symphony in colour, where landscapes dissolve into rhythm and hue echoes like music.

æquō Gallery, Mumbai
Tidal Fragments, Inderjeet Sandhu
11 November 2025

At æquō, the exhibition India Heritage traces the origins of India’s mother-of-pearl craft to the shores near Puri, where the sea once layered shells along the coast. Dutch designer Inderjeet Sandhu, of Indian heritage, collaborated with artisans Kinkar Ghosh and Souvik Roy to transform this story into form during a residency in central India. Working in Æquō’s workshop surrounded by nature, they created monumental vases through an act of accumulation, joining and polishing fragments until they seem to have grown organically from the material itself. The resulting pieces, both marine and architectural, reflect Æquō’s vision of connecting worlds through craft and allowing material histories to resurface as contemporary design.

Nature Morte, Mumbai
Ashes and Diamonds, Mona Rai
9 October — 8 November 2025

For over five decades, Mona Rai has expanded the language of abstraction through bold material experimentation and intuitive gesture. In Ashes and Diamonds, her first solo exhibition at Nature Morte’s Mumbai gallery, Rai presents new works on canvas and paper that trace a dialogue between texture, light, and emotion. Metallic tones, glitter, and layers of pigment coalesce into surfaces that shimmer and scar, evoking both resilience and fragility. Guided by repetition and rhythm, her compositions invite quiet immersion, transforming materiality into meditation.

Experimenter, Mumbai
No Race, No Colour, Pushpakanthan Pakkiyarajah
11 November — 20 December 2025

Pushpakanthan Pakkiyarajah’s No Race, No Colour at Experimenter Colaba in Mumbai marks the Sri Lankan artist’s first solo exhibition in the city. Bringing together new and recent works spanning drawing, sculpture, sound, and animation, the exhibition delves into the interconnectedness of human and ecological trauma within postwar and postcolonial landscapes. Pakkiyarajah’s practice, rooted in the soil life and climate of his native Batticaloa, intertwines organic materials such as jute, wood dust, and thread to reflect on regeneration, memory, and coexistence. Through works like Diary of Wounded Flowers, Hidden Mycelium in a Wounded Land, and Charred Hyphal Mat, the artist meditates on resilience and renewal amid cycles of violence and environmental devastation, inviting viewers to reimagine the interdependence between the natural world and collective healing.