The most awaited event on Mumbai's art and culture calendar, the Mumbai Gallery Weekend is back again this year on a grand scale with showcases in a wide range of galleries in Colaba, Fort, Kala Ghoda, Ballard Estate, Worli, Lower Parel, Byculla and Bandra. It began in 2012 with a group of nine galleries, with the belief that a collective approach would make for a more vibrant art scene. Now entering its 11th year, the Weekend will have 32 participating galleries and promises to be a sensational event.
The festival, organised by an association of Mumbai-based galleries, is a fantastic opportunity to engage with the visual arts, including painting, sculpture, photography, media art, installation, decorative arts and design. New entrants on Mumbai’s gallery scene that will be part of the event include Experimeter Colaba, Chemould CoLab, Art and Charlie, and the impressive Ice Factory Ballard Estate, which will host a Young Collectors’ Weekend. At the other end of the spectrum, the DAG art gallery will present a single work at their space in the Taj Mahal Hotel — the first-ever commissioned portrait by Raja Ravi Varma. There will be pop-up exhibitions organised especially for the Mumbai Gallery Weekend, by platforms such as The Upside Space. Art and Charlie, a contemporary art gallery, will host a dance performance called BhooterNach ('The Ghost Dance'), by Gia Singh Arora and some of the galleries will also host talks in their spaces.
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