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TARQ: Sanskrit for “discussion, abstract reasoning, logic and cause.”
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TARQ: Sanskrit for "discussion, abstract reasoning, logic and cause" , is a contemporary art gallery in Mumbai dedicated to nurturing a conversation around art from a diverse range of contexts.

20/06/2026

Join us at TARQ next Saturday for a special book giveaway! We are giving away a selection of art and design books from our archive, ranging from photobooks, magazines, and artwork postcards, to publications from biennales, auction houses, and galleries around the world. Each book is a window into the ideas and practices that have shaped contemporary art over the past decade. Whether you are a seasoned art enthusiast, simply curious about the field, or a bookworm looking to add to their ever-growing “To-read” list, this is for you!

All attendees will also receive a complimentary TARQ tote bag to carry their books home in. No purchase or registration is necessary—simply come, browse, and pick what calls to you!

[Art Book Giveaway, Mumbai Art, Artists, Art Students, Design Books, TARQ]

19/06/2026

We are pleased to share that Sameer Kulavoor is part of the twelfth edition of the Drawing Biennial at Drawing Room London! His work titled Room for thought - Blue, 2024 is on view at the biennial, which brings together artists working at the forefront of contemporary practice, reaffirming drawing as a vital and enduring discipline.

The Drawing Biennial is on view till 23 June 2026 in London.

Images:
1, 3, 5, 6, 7: Installation views of Drawing Biennial 2026, Drawing Room, London. Photography: Benjamin Deakin
2. Room for thought - Blue, 2024. Fluid acrylic paints on acid free Cartapura paper.
4. Courtesy of Deshna Mehta

[Drawing Biennial 2026, Contemporary Art, Drawing, London, South Asian Art, TARQ]

18/06/2026

Art Basel 2026 | Rithika Merchant's paintings, rendered in watercolour and gouache, serve as portals into a parallel reality, rooted in our understanding of community, spirituality, and human potential.

In an essay accompanying her solo presentation at Art Basel, Ranjit Hoskote writes, "Mythic constants and historical variables come together in Merchant’s fluid temporality; her phantasmagorical frames attest to an interplay between vigilance and trance. This art is not steeped in idyllic nostalgia. Rather, it gestures allegorically towards redemptive pathways into the future. Rithika Merchant’s key themes of cyclic renewal and planetary regeneration offer us the necessary antidote of hope at a particularly bleak moment in our collective experience."

Discover Rithika's latest work at our booth in the Statements Sector (Booth M15) at Art Basel. The fair continues till 21 June 2026.

[Art Basel, Indian Contemporary Art, South Asian Art, Speculative Worldbuilding, Watercolour, TARQ]

17/06/2026

Art Basel 2026 | Central to Rithika Merchant's presentation at Art Basel is a transcendental installation titled As the Universe, So The Soul, featuring a seven-frame screen with an intentionally hidden inner sanctum. It encapsulates the Hermetic principle "as within, so without," which proposes the idea that who we are on the inside will be echoed in the world around us.

Shown alongside three watercolour and gouache paintings, this central work speaks particularly to the intellectual and emotional rigour that Merchant exercises in her narratives. Enhanced by the immersive quality already integral to her practice, it allows viewers into a world that thrives on hope.

See the installation at TARQ's booth in the Statements Sector (Booth M15) at Art Basel. The fair continues till 21 June 2026.

[Art Basel, Indian Contemporary Art, South Asian Art, Speculative Worldbuilding, Watercolour, TARQ]

16/06/2026

Art Basel 2026 | We are delighted to be at Art Basel, Switzerland for the first time with a solo presentation by Rithika Merchant, which includes a seven-frame installation and a series of paintings. We are at Booth M15 in the Statements Sector till Sunday. If you are at Art Basel, do come and say hello!

The nostalgic quality that weaves through Rithika's universe reflects a deep understanding that future evolution must be grounded in wisdom, traditions and collective consciousness, presenting the importance of peaceful coexistence in today’s time.

Statements Booth M15
Preview: 16 – 21 June 2026
Fair continues: 18 – 21 June 2026

[Art Basel, Indian Contemporary Art, South Asian Art, Speculative Worldbuilding, Watercolour, TARQ]

14/06/2026

In the studio with Rithika Merchant | Take a look at the making of the works we are presenting at Art Basel 2026, which opens on Tuesday!

This body of work traces its origins to 2020, when, in the midst of a global pandemic, Rithika began to imagine a fresh start for her characters as they leave Earth in search of a new home among the stars. Across subsequent series, culminating in Pillars of Fruit and Bone (2025), these beings—neither human nor animal, male nor female—build and populate a new universe. Over time, they develop systems of faith and belief, share knowledge and experiences, and ultimately tap into a collective consciousness.

We look forward to presenting Rithika's work in the Statements sector at Art Basel.

Booth M15
Preview: 16 – 21 June 2026
Fair continues: 18 – 21 June 2026

[Art Basel, Indian Contemporary Art, South Asian Art, Speculative Worldbuilding, Watercolour, TARQ]

13/06/2026

Join us for a collage workshop with illustrator and painter Aastha Choudhary Lodh, next Saturday at TARQ! Link in bio to register.

The workshop will focus on process over perfection, encouraging an engagement with layering, composition, and intuitive image making. You will receive a curated kit that includes basic shape cutouts, along with essential materials such as glue, scissors, paper, and magazines.

Aastha is a Mumbai-based illustrator and painter, inspired by people and everyday experiences around her. Her selected exhibitions include AAF with Museum of Goa, ASYAAF with Gallery LVS, Seoul, South Korea, and Art Houz, Chennai, among many more.

📅 20th June, Saturday, 11 am to 1 pm
📍 TARQ, KK (Navsari) Chambers, Fort, Mumbai

[Collage Art, Mumbai Workshops, Paper Collage, Art Events Mumbai, TARQ]

12/06/2026

We are delighted to be at Art Basel for the first time with new work by Rithika Merchant. Find us at Booth M15 in the Statements Sector from 16 to 21 June.

Our presentation for the fair delves into Rithika's preoccupations with worldbuilding and careful creation of a speculative cosmological universe. Her watercolour paintings become portals into a parallel reality where the viewer encounters not just visual spectacle but a world that engages our understanding of community, spirituality, and human potential.

Statements Booth M15
Preview: 16 – 17 June 2026
Fair continues: 18 – 21 June 2026

Pictured Artwork: Rithika Merchant, Incantation, 2025, Gouache, watercolour, ink and gel pen on paper, 29.5 x 38 inches

[Art Basel, Contemporary Indian Art, South Asian Art, Watercolour Paintings, Art Installation]

11/06/2026

Sameer Kulavoor's works are ruminations on the ever-changing metropolis and what it means to exist in it. In his work Blur Memo, he uses a found monthly memo pad to structure an evolving drawn timelapse, adding one mark at a time in response to the collapsing rhythms of urban life.

Sameer's practice emerges from a way of seeing and decoding his surroundings, translating impressions into imaginative and intuitive forms and compositions. With over two decades in art and design, Sameer has found himself drawn to investigating patterns, peculiarities and anomalies in our complex landscape.

View the works at ‘Bric by Brac’, a group exhibition conceived and organised by Sameer and Tom Burckhardt. The show continues at TARQ till 4 July 2026.

Images:
1. BLUR MEMO - Drawn Timelapse, 2026. Digital Video
3. Installation View
5. Sameer Kulavoor

*Please note: The exhibition is restricted to visitors aged 18 and above.

[Group Exhibition, American Artists, Art In Mumbai, Repetition, Contemporary Art, TARQ]

10/06/2026

New York-based artist Matthew Northridge has a collection of works from two ongoing series on view at our group show ‘Brick by Brac’ at TARQ. In the first series, Charting the Known Universe From Memory, Matthew builds collage grids of 361 cells each from found material, while in the series The World We Live In, he rearranges found graphic fragments into dilapidated architectural forms set against pastoral wilderness.

Working across collage, paper, found material, sculpture, and installation, Matthew’s practice explores accumulation, repetition, and the possibilities that emerge through rearrangement.

The exhibition ‘Brick by Brac’, conceived and organised by artists Tom Burckhardt and Sameer Kulavoor, is on view at TARQ until 4 July 2026.

*Please note: The exhibition is restricted to visitors aged 18 and above.

Images:
1. Charting the Known Universe From Memory, No.2, 2025. Collage/mixed media on paper.
2. Installation view
3, 4, 6. From the series The World We Live In. Collage/mixed media on paper.
7. Matthew Northridge

[Group Exhibition, American Artists, Art In Mumbai, Repetition, Contemporary Art, TARQ]

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KK (Navsari) Chambers, Ground Floor, 39 AK Nayak Marg, Fort
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Tuesday	11am - 6:30pm
Wednesday	11am - 6:30pm
Thursday	11am - 6:30pm
Friday	11am - 6:30pm
Saturday	11am - 6:30pm

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