HOME?! বাড়ি घर گھر

Exhibition Details

Dates

29 January – 30 March 2025

Season

Spring 2025

Space

Ground Floor & First Floor Galleries

Curator(s)

Lekha Poddar

Booking Information

Free

Accessibility Note

Use of stairs is required to access the building. Curatorial content is available in both English & Bangla. Please write to us at info@triartandculture.com for any unlisted accessibility support.

EXHIBITION

VISUAL ARTS

On the occasion of TRI Art & Culture’s first anniversary, HOME?! বাড়ি ঘর ঘর invites you to explore the meaning of home — its spaces, sounds, textures, and memories — through the imagination of twenty contemporary artists.

What creates and punctuates home? What does home look, sound, smell, and feel like? What is home to you?

Once a private residence, 53/2/2 Hazra Road became Kolkata’s home for art and culture in January 2024. To celebrate TRI Art & Culture’s first anniversary, we present HOME?! বাড়ি घर گھر, an immersive exhibition curated by Lekha Poddar from the collection of Devi Art Foundation.

Equal parts a celebration of our institutional anniversary and a creative homecoming for Poddar, whose familial roots reside in Kolkata, this exhibition invites visitors to view places of dwelling as sites of discovery. Through works by twenty contemporary artists, accompanied by poetic excerpts in Bangla, Hindi, Urdu, and English, HOME?! বাড়ি घर گھر portrays the ordinary through the extraordinary, transforms functional objects into fantastical forms, and explores the language of our architectural and embodied interiors.

This exhibition asks visitors to reflect on the personal and collective meaning of home, and to explore how physical spaces, memories, and everyday objects shape our sense of belonging. Each work has been selected to evoke both intimacy and imagination, offering a layered experience that encourages discovery and dialogue.

About The Curator

Lekha Poddar is a Kolkata-born and Delhi-based art collector, philanthropist, and businesswoman. In 1990, she restored and started the Neemrana Fort Palace Hotel in Rajasthan, and between 2000 and 2011, opened three more hotels with her son, Anupam. This initiative led to the formation of Textile Arts of India in 1997, promoting excellence in traditional handloom crafts.

Poddar’s passion for contemporary art fueled the establishment of the Devi Art Foundation in 2005, which has hosted several major exhibitions from its vibrant collection. Completing two decades of operation in 2025, the Foundation continues to make art accessible to the public while representing Indian and South Asian contemporary artists.

Artists

Anita Dube
Anoli Perera
Intekhab Ahmed Rafooghar
Kanishka Raja
Lekha Poddar
Manish Arora
Minam Apang

Mithu Sen
N. Pushpamala
Navin Thomas
Prajakta Potnis
Prem Sahib
Rakesh Thakore
Ratna Gupta

Sachin George Sebastian
Sakshi Gupta
Sudarshan Shetty
Sumedh Rajendran
Udeya Vir Singh
Vipeksha Gupta

Artists

Anita Dube
Anoli Perera
Intekhab Ahmed Rafooghar
Kanishka Raja
Lekha Poddar
Manish Arora
Minam Apang
Mithu Sen
N. Pushpamala
Navin Thomas
Prajakta Potnis
Prem Sahib
Rakesh Thakore
Ratna Gupta
Sachin George Sebastian
Sakshi Gupta
Sudarshan Shetty
Sumedh Rajendran
Udeya Vir Singh
Vipeksha Gupta