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The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (F**A) is a New Delhi based non-profit that aims to broaden the audience for contemporary Indian art through education, programmes, funding, etc. F**A is committed to generating greater art philanthropy in India, and offers annual awards, grants and fellowships for Indian artists, creative practitioners and researchers in the field of visual arts. Through

exciting collaborations with international arts and research organizations F**A provides opportunities for professionals in the field to share, develop and extend their practice, and network and liaison with an extended community globally. F**A is also deeply involved with Art and Education through short and long terms programmes which looks at working with communities and student groups, and engaging with art as both a creative and pedagogic tool. In 2009 F**A set up the first open access art library in New Delhi, called the Reading Room, with a large collection of books, journals, magazines and catalogues on modern and contemporary art from India and around the world. This space is also used as a site for discussions, debates and interaction, with F**A hosting artist talks, panel discussions, screenings and workshops here all year long. Contact details:
THE FOUNDATION FOR INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART (F**A)
D-53, Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024, India
T +91 11 65474005 | E [email protected] | W www.ficart.org

F**A Reading Room
D-42 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024, India
T +91 11 46594456

Registered Office: D-178, Okhla Phase 1, First Floor, New Delhi 110020, India

01/08/2026

MOSFET Metaphysics; or, How to Uncompress a .DBAV File

Lecture/Performance/Theory-Jam with Vishal Kumaraswamy, Mithran RT Samuel, Suvani Suri, Praveen Ashokan and Rahee Punyashloka

5th August, 5:30 PM
At D-53, Vadehra Art Gallery, Defence Colony, New Delhi

As part of F**A’s ongoing exhibition ‘towards minor gestures: intensities in the making’, we invite you to a Lecture/Performance/Theory-Jam as part of Rahee’s project Fossil/Compression.
This session gathers practitioners and thinkers of porous boundaries, image entanglements, and anti-caste speculation, to lay out the stakes and possibilities of anti-extractivist image-making in today’s techno-scientific zeitgeist.
How can the marginalized body imagine itself outside registers of surveillance? How can artistic creation refute logics of compression/reduction? How to inaugurate images, rituals, and protocols that defy encasing of value as mere data?

The exhibition is on view till the 7th of August.
Image credit: Rahee Punyashloka

29/07/2026

Water as Ancestor
Tsetan Angmo, Tashi Morup and Kunga Tashi Lepcha in conversation
Moderated by Rigzin Chodon

With a performance by Sonam Gyalson, and screening of ཆུ་ ཆུ་མིག་ ཅང་ཐི་། Chu Chumik Changti by Tsetan Angmo

Royal Enfield Pit Stop Kharu
Thursday, 30 July, 2026 | 4:30–7:30 PM

Join us for the opening of ཉན་ཏག་ Nyantag — Hear, Here, presenting a solo exhibition of Kunga Tashi Lepcha’s ‘Children of the Snowy Peaks’ with a walkthrough by the artist, followed by Ladakhi folk singer Sonam Gyalson’s performance on Ladakhi ties to land and kinship, and a screening of Tsetan’s experimental animated documentary on the memories and oral histories of a natural spring water body. We close with an open conversation on sacred ecologies and modes of telling and holding stories.

🔸 Kunga Tashi Lepcha is a photographer and visual artist from Gangtok, Sikkim, whose practice centres around experimental documentary photography and in-depth research projects exploring indigenous cosmology, identity, memory and space by drawing from lived experience, to reimagine the social, spiritual, and ecological fabric of the Himalayas.
🔸 Tsetan Angmo is a visual artist and animation filmmaker from Ladakh, whose practice is rooted in storytelling through illustration, sketching, and animation, drawing inspiration from the landscapes, people, and diverse cultural traditions that surround her. to explore memory and human connection.
🔸 Tashi Morup is Projects Director of the Ladakh Arts and Media Organisation, Leh, with research focused on water, glaciers, development and music in Leh. He has previously worked as a journalist, and ran his own weekly newspaper ‘Magpie’.
🔸 Rigzin Chodon works as an Independent Research Consultant. She is the founder of Yige Publications, an independent publishing house based in Leh that aims towards bringing out literary works in different genres and languages, among other creative ventures by authors from Ladakh and the trans-Himalayan region. She recently curated the inaugural exhibition ‘Chuskhor Ranthag’ (water-run mills) for Rangthag, a contemporary art gallery around the memories of elders who lived in Chutey Rantak.

28/07/2026

Following the River
An interactive session with Kunga Tashi Lepcha and Tsetan Angmo
Thursday, 30 July, 2026 | 2:00-4:00 PM
Pit Stop Kharu

Registered event: Limited seats
Please write to [email protected] or message us at +918130119703 to reserve a seat.

In tandem with the opening of ཉན་ཏག་ Nyantag. Hear, Here, presenting a solo exhibition of Kunga Tashi Lepcha’s ‘Children of the Snowy Peak’, this workshop led by the artist along with Tsetan Angmo will reflect on memories, personal and shared, of rivers and river ecologies to forge collective imagination of these water bodies in the years to follow through storytelling, creative activities and group reflection.

Kunga Tashi Lepcha is a photographer and visual artist based out of Gangtok, Sikkim. His practice centres around experimental documentary photography and in-depth research projects exploring indigenous cosmology, identity, memory and space by drawing from lived experience, to reimagine the social, spiritual, and ecological fabric of the Himalayas. He is the co-founder of The Confluence Collective, a group of scholars and visual artists focused on community building in the Sikkim-Darjeeling Himalayas. Kunga has been awarded the Prince Claus Fund CAREC Fellowship (2026), Magnum Heat Fellowship (2024), F**A and Royal Enfield’s THF Fellowship (2023), and the Amiyaprabha Chaudhuri Memorial Grant (2019).

Tsetan Angmo is a visual artist and animation filmmaker from Ladakh. Her practice is rooted in storytelling through illustration, sketching, and animation, drawing inspiration from the landscapes, people, and diverse cultural traditions that surround her. Through her films, she explores emotion, memory, and human connection, creating characters and narratives that resonate with audiences. She is deeply interested in exploring and experimenting with the medium of animation, constantly delving deeper into the creative process to discover new ways of expressing ideas and emotions. Nature, reading, watching films and sketching are integral to her creative practice, and she is rarely without her sketchbook.

Poster design by Tsetan Angmo もも

28/07/2026

The Himalayan Fellowship For Creative Practitioners presents

THF Dialogues | Gender Dialogues in the Himalayas: The Role of Institution, Society and the Arts

A conversation with Avinam Manger, Davidson Kumam, Rosy Chamling, Sawang Wangchha and Shiva Pathak
Moderated by Lobsang Norbu Bhutia

📅 Friday, 31 July | 10:30 AM
📍 Cauvery Hall, 5th Mile, Sikkim University, Gangtok
🔗 Register via the link in bio for Zoom

This iteration of THF Dialogues in Sikkim brings together speakers from across the region for a series of presentations, conversations and discussion reflecting on the many lives, embodiments and temporalities of gender across the Himalayan region.

▫️Avinam Manger is a scholar, artist and educator working on indigeneity, gendered narratives, and identity through folk tales, poetry and storytelling that amplify the voices of marginalized communities, especially those of women and LGBTQIA+ communities in Sikkim.

▫️Davidson Kumam has extensive experience in transformative q***r activism, community work, research, writing and is the founder of Matai Society (2020), a women, q***r and trans-led organisation in Moirang, Manipur.

▫️Rosy Chamling is a Professor and Dean of the Department of English, Sikkim University, Gangtok. Recent publications include Folktales from Sikkim, Children’s Tales from Sikkim and the upcoming Folksongs from Sikkim.

▫️Sawang Wangchha is a graphic designer, illustrator, q***r rights activist and the founder of AP QueerStation, an LGBTQIA+ collective in Arunachal Pradesh advancing safer, inclusive communities through advocacy, mental health support, and storytelling.

▫️Shiva Pathak is a multidisciplinary arts professional and co-founder of Sandbox Collective (2013), a women-led organisation working at the intersection of art and gender where she has worked in diverse capacities. She also teaches theatre at St. Joseph’s College.

▫️Lobsang Norbu Bhutia (Moderator) is a doctoral student of Sociology at JNU. His research revolves around Urban Studies, Sociology of Emotions, Race and Sexuality Studies, with a focus on the intersections of identity, migration, and marginality. He is currently based between Sikkim and New Delhi.

26/07/2026

ཉན་ཏག་ Nyantag. Hear, Here

30 July - 30 September 2026
Pit Stop Kharu, Kharu, Ladakh

In a two-venue exhibition opening at Pit Stop Kharu and at Ladakh Arts & Media Organisation (LAMO) in September, the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (F**A) in collaboration with Royal Enfield presents ཉན་ཏག་ Nyantag. Hear, Here featuring recipients of The Himalayan Fellowship for Creative Practitioners 2023–24 and 2024–25.

Deeply informed by the Fellowship’s aims and shaped by its cohorts, this exhibition sited in Ladakh traces creative practices from across the Himalayan region, framing it as a locus of thought. It contends with questions of identity, home, language, and resilience as relations to attend to, asking whether listening’s polysemy and many unsettled meanings might offer a modality of attention equal to these precarities.

Borrowing from the Ladakhi word for ‘listening carefully’, the exhibition is an invitation, a call to tune in. One that impels us to gather around a hearth, under a dera, at land’s edge, and in mayel lyang. Working across a myriad of formats, it ensembles many acts of listening harbouring a wide range of meanings: intuition and premonition as states of attunement, modes of sensing and reading, the intermingling fields of experience and knowledge producing novel perspectives aligning land, places, peoples, and other histories. Alive to the region’s multiple tonalities, the works harness voice, gesture, road-mapping and mark-making to find common ground in practices of attention.

At Pit Stop Kharu, we open with a solo exhibition of Kunga Tashi Lepcha’s ‘Children of the Snowy Peak’ that takes the 2023 GLOF event of the Teesta river, Sikkim as a key point of departure to contemplate and explore the indigenous Lepcha worldview. An ongoing project that documents happenings in Dzongu valley and the lives of its inhabitants, it renders visible the voice of ancestral knowledge within stories of ongoing resistance—the river as sacred pathway and mountain as guardian deity.
Presented in Kharu, it brings stories of the Teesta in conversation with the Indus in Ladakh, intertwining two great transboundary rivers and their legacies.

25/07/2026

Our EAA+ 2026 cohort is currently attending a residency with us between Delhi and Kasauli.

Their time began in Delhi with a gathering at the EAA+ 2024 group show 'towards minor gestures: intensities in the making'. The exhibition became fertile ground for many generative discussions across different programmes between the two cohorts, our interlocutors and other participants.

The exhibition set the tone for open conversation and close listening. Over the next few days the group met various practitioners to think about the contours of their own practices. The sessions ranged from considering the ‘alternate’ artist portfolio with Gagan Singh; an engagement with a site like Yamuna Chila Khadar and the farmers living and working there, via Gyanwant Yadav and Untitled Kitchen; a deep dive into the world of comics and the specific case study of Inder Bhan Madan archive with Bharath Murthy; an introspective session on engaging with the artist archive with Uzma Mohsin, who shared her ongoing project Aligarh Photo Archive, within a larger context set by Sneha Ragavan of Asia Art Archive India, on the practice and process of archiving. At AAA we also engaged with their exhibition around the periodical 'Design,' titled ‘Delhi by DESIGN: Part II - Maneuvers around the Masterplan’. The Delhi leg of the residency was bookended by a session with F**A fellow Kaur Chimuk who led a collective, inter-textual reading and writing session with the cohort.

From Delhi we were teleported to misty Kasauli and now the second part of the residency unfolds here until the end of July. As part of SSAF Kasauli Art Project, we are being hosted at the Ivy Lodge, the home of Vivan and Navina Sundaram. Ivy Lodge had a previous life as the Kasauli Art Centre between 1976 and 1991 when Vivan organised summer camps, seminars and workshops. It began its new journey as SKAP in 2016 with renewed infrastructure and cross-disciplinary programmes that focus on process-oriented workshops, seminars and screenings. The current EAA+ cohort will be attending sessions facilitated by artists Susanta Mandal and Mochu over the next week. We will share updates on this soon!

23/07/2026

Over several gatherings and conversations hosted as part of F**A’s ongoing exhibition, ‘towards minor gestures: intensities in the making’, we have felt the exhibition transform into a shared space to contemplate, reflect and reimagine our everyday realities and the structures that govern them.

We began on 8th July with Rahee Punyashloka and Soumava Das's speculative exploration of surveillance, the subaltern, and the ways bodies are rendered visible and invisible within modernity, which flowed into an artist-led walkthrough. This was followed by the Untitled Kitchen's sharing about their journey along the Konkan coast— through stories, drawings, songs, and collective rememberings that invited us to think about companionship and forms of togetherness.

On the 9th, Ashis Kumar Palei, alongside poets Chandan Nag and Subrat Barik asked us to consider solidarities — how they come to be formed, are maintained, their futures and pasts, to then have participants reflect on their own social and political realities by exploring the intertwining qualities of poetry and image-making. We carried these discussions forward into a sharing with various artists, thinkers and makers around what constitutes the field in contemporary art today, its shifts and turns and what one may read in these movements.

On the 10th, we gathered around Bhikari Pradhan's Sweat Room with various pedagogues, artists and audience members to consider the sustained interests of the arts in re-orienting education systems, pedagogies, value and epistemologies for children, with opening remarks by the artist and Prof. Brahma Prakash.

On the 21st, we were joined by Partha Banik and Vijit Sinha from the Cross Cat Collective, and Tilottama.B from Zmayet, organised as part of Kaur Chimuk’s ongoing project with F**A, Cohesive Correspondence, to think through collective practices via independent publishing and zines. We thought about this practice of zine making built on the intersection of multiple selves, how it carried home and language in it. The speakers talked about holding space and searching for temporary sense of belonging found in the pages of a collaborative book, in the sharing of jhaal muri and Baul music!

Our engagements and conversation will continue in the coming weeks. The exhibition is on-view at Vadehra Art Gallery till the 7th of August, 2026.

17/07/2026

A dialogue with Cross Cat Collective (Partha Banik) and জমায়েত/zmayet (Tilottama B.)
Moderated by Sabar Saluja

In collaboration with Reunion in the form of Exchange / Within Cohesive Correspondence.

Tuesday, 21 July
5 - 8 PM

As part of F**A’s ongoing exhibition ‘towards minor gestures: intensities in the making’, we invite you to an open conversation between Cross Cat Collective (Partha Banik) and Zmayet (Tilottama B.) around the landscape of independent self-publishing and the ecosystem of comics, zines, and paper culture between Tripura and Dhaka and their neighbouring regions.

Reunion in the Form of Exchange / Within Cohesive Correspondence led by Kaur Chimuk, is an initiative that engages with temporary archives—in the form of publications, drafts, revisions—from artist-run spaces/units and collectives.

Cross Cat Collective is an independent comix crew from Tripura, dedicated to self-publishing comics, zines, graphic novels, stickers and posters. But more than just making cool art, they’ve built a wide community of scribblers, writers, activists, and self-taught artists—all coming together to create and collaborate.

জমায়েত/zmayet (pronounced as jomayet) is an open-initiative operating as a cooperative, interdependently in between Bangladesh and India. As an initiative, they are curious to amplify, recollect and share the perspectives of counter-cultural, loose narratives through diverse graphical mapping/tracing. zmayet is interested in expanding slowly over time through participatory events, community pop-ups, shared libraries, and inclusive collaborations.

Sabar Saluja is interested in storytelling. Her practice so far has been grounded in her fascination with nature, continuous cycles of life and death, growth and decay, the cellular and the planetary. She works across multiple mediums including stop motion animation, photosynthesised image-making, painting, sketchbooking, and lecture performances as means of formulating, creating and sharing her inquiries.

Artwork credit: Partha Banik & Tilottama B.

09/07/2026

As part of F**A’s ongoing exhibition, ‘towards minor gestures: intensities in the making’, we are hosting a conversation on art pedagogy taking cues from Bhikari Pradhan’s installation titled Sweat Room.

This interactive hybrid space was conjured in Bhikari’s mind with the coming together of a classroom and a Kotha Ghar (a theatre space, specifically the green room within it).
The two pedagogical worlds produce different kinds of knowledge, embodiment and cultural capital. Bhikari invites us to think of these sites of preparation —what dispositions, orientations and capacities are being cultivated in them? We will open the session by hearing from the artist and from Prof. Brahma Prakash (cultural theorist and Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) followed by a discussion with those present.

04/07/2026

𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘁 𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗲
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝗮𝗵𝗲𝗲 𝗣𝘂𝗻𝘆𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗹𝗼𝗸𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗺𝗮𝘃𝗮 𝗗𝗮𝘀

As part of F**A’s upcoming exhibition, ‘towards minor gestures: intensities in the making’, we invite participants to a reading session with Rahee Punyashloka and Soumava Das, where they come together in inquiry exploring image-making histories.

Wednesday, 8 July
3 - 4:30 PM

The notion of the body as a reference, as an assembly of sights, as image formation transforms in correspondence with ocular devices and spectatorial logics that emerge in colonial modernity. This mediation through optical devices distorts, displaces, and invisibilizes the body within the landscape, particularly the marginalized ones. What could be an epistemology of this remediation as it reshapes (and is reshaped by) vis-a-vis artistic creation?

This session brings two artistic enquiries around the spectacular assemblage as it pertains to bodily remediation into dialogue. Soumava delves into the formulation of body in the town-planning reports and in the narratives of land improvements. Rahee speculates what the diagram of the body could be when it’s entangled in the web of extraction, surveillance, and the Brahmanical gaze.

Through an assembly of various elements from the exhibited projects, dialogue between the two practices, as well as readings from various sources, the session will try to infer what the image of the body to come can be.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵
with participating artists
culminating in an interactive session with Untitled Kitchen
5 PM onwards

Following the Reading session, there will be a walkthrough of the exhibition by F**A and the participating artists which will culminate in an interactive session with Untitled Kitchen involving reading, singing, drawing and conversation as part of their continued practice towards creating unending camaraderies.

Venue:
Vadehra Art Gallery
D-53, Defence Colony, New Delhi

Hope to see you there!

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F-213 E/2, Second Floor, Old Mehrauli-Badarpur Road, Lado Sarai
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Saturday	10:30am - 5:30pm

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http://www.ficart.org/

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