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The best of Indian Contemporary Art Galerie 88 opened its first gallery in Kolkata way back in 1988.

Over the last fifteen years it has expanded its activity in Kolkata by adding two more gallery space to the existing one and has also opened its branch in Colaba in South Mumbai with 4000 sq ft of gallery space. We have, during the last 20 years, organised nearly 200 shows including artwork of all the present important artists of India and has curated several important art show in London and Singapore. Artists represented by Galerie 88 include M F Husain, S H Raza, F N Souza, Krishna Reddy, Somnath Hore, Ganesh Pyne, Bikash Bhattacharya, Lalu Shaw, Badri Narayn and Laxma Goud. Galerie 88 devotes an equal intensity in promoting the Gen next of Indian contemporary Art which includes Paresh Maity, Chittrovanu Mazumdar, S Harsha Vardhan, Chandra Bhattacharjee, Partha Shaw, Anupam Chakraborty, Mithu Sen, Samit Das, Riyas Komu and Kanchan Dasgupta. Galerie 88 has its own publication programme and has, over the last decade, published researched catalogues and books on art of India today. Galerie 88, in the recent past, was chosen by leading corporate houses to curate special art shows on selected themes, both in India and abroad.

17/09/2026

Remembering M. F. Husain on his birthday

09/09/2026

A Retrospective - featuring artworks by Tapan Mitra

The exhibition will be on view till 30 September, 2026

03/09/2026

Galerie 88 is pleased to present, A Retrospective Exhibition of Tapan Mitra

The exhibition will be inaugurated by Dr. Rahas Kumar Mohanty, Regional Secretary I/c Lalit Kala Akademi, Kolkata, Sri Pranab Ranjan Roy, Sri Gautam Ghosh and Sri Mrinal Ghosh on Saturday, 5 September | 5 - 7 pm

The exhibition will be on view till 30 September, 2026

11/08/2026

Enquiring Forms - The Sculptural Quest of Sutanu Chatterjee at Galerie 88

Exhibition will be on view till 31 August, 2026

03/08/2026

Galerie 88 is pleased to present, Enquiring Forms - The Sculptural Quest of Sutanu Chatterjee

The show previews on Saturday 8 August, (6 - 8 pm) and on view till 31 August, 2026 | at Galerie 88

24/07/2026

𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘

Project 88 is pleased to present 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘌𝘯𝘥 | 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘶 𝘓𝘢𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘪 : 𝘈 𝘙𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, curated by Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Nobina Gupta.

The show previews on 13 August 2026 from 6-9 pm, and runs from 13 August 2026 to 19 September 2026.

Coming from a family of artists, writers, dancers and singers, Shanu Lahiri (neé Majumdar) emerged from a distinguished cultural milieu of mid-century Calcutta, to step into an independent artistic life of her own. She was among the first few women students at the Government School of Art, Calcutta, (from where she graduated in 1951) who went on to pursue successful professional careers in art. Developing a diverse pictorial repertoire and a signature modernist style, and a parallel flair for writing and illustrating, Shanu Lahiri stood out in her time in many ways. With a flying start to her exhibition career, while she was still at the art school, Lahiri went on to have multiple exhibitions across India, U.S.A. and Canada over the next few decades, signposted by her first and last solo exhibitions in 1950 and 2012. Her interest in the artistic repertoire of the French ‘high modern’ came to fruition upon receiving the French government scholarship to study painting and art-appreciation at Académie Julian and École de Louvre in 1956. In 1983, Lahiri was involved in setting up the first women’s art collective in the country, based in Calcutta, called ‘The Group’. The 1980s also witnessed the artist initiating a series of public art projects on the streets of Calcutta in collaboration with art graduates, co-workers and different community members. One encounters Lahiri in the role of art pedagogue and administrator in the late ‘70s and ‘80s when she joined Rabindra Bharati University as Professor of Painting, and retired as Dean, Faculty of Visual Arts.

Till the end of her life, she remained committed to her art practice, to a collaborative vision of art making translating into diverse public art projects, and ebullient in her zest for life.

26/06/2026

In case you missed it, the exhibition titled Resilience, Reverie and Return by Prarthana Hazra, Portia Roy & Mausumi Roy has been extended till Saturday 18 July 2026 !

22/06/2026

A throwback image from July 1999 featuring some fine young artists surrounding the legendary Bikash Bhattacharjee. Their works were jointly featured at Galerie 88. (From L-R) Ashok Mallick, Biswapati Maiti, Parthosarathi and Shyamal Roy with Bikash Bhattacharjee (who celebrated his 86th Birth Anniversary yesterday)

18/06/2026

Join us tomorrow (19.06.2026) at Galerie 88 , 5:30 PM. Discussion on art, art practice, experience, and exploration reflects on contemporary art by the contemporary artists of the show Resilience, Reverie and Return. Mausumi Roy, Portia Roy, Prarthana Hazra

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