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Art and Charlie is a contemporary art gallery that is committed to showcasing and supporting contemporary artists from India and the South Asian diaspora. We are not a neutral gallery. Our space exists to dismantle the silences enforced by caste, patriarchy, colonialism, and the violence of forgetting. We stand with artists who reclaim stolen histories, confront systemic oppression, and insist on visibility for the marginalized. Our exhibition programming is rooted in resistance.

As a gallery we are committed to exploring what lies beyond the white cube. Our gallery is housed in a heritage Portuguese bungalow and situated in a village that dates back to the 15th century before Mumbai was the city it is today. Our walls maybe white, but they are flanked by wooden beams, doors and windows that tell their own stories of those who lived there.

We believe that artists and audiences have much to gain from a holistic and immersive engagement with culture, in a way that goes beyond the confines of visual art. We believe that there is a need to be more inclusive in how we talk about art and encourage engagement with it in ways that do not intimidate new audiences. We pride ourselves for experimenting with unconventional collaborations for example, with a game designer who gamified how you learn more about the exhibition, a school teacher using movement related concepts to tell kids about the art presented, dancer who responded to our exhibition through classical dance and so on.

Our gallerist Ayesha Parikh is co-leading Mumbai Gallery Association with 35 top galleries across the city. To date, Art and Charlie has presented over 20 exhibitions. Till date, we have exhibited over 50 artists through the years. Today, we represent 12 artists and support their careers more closely as a gallery.

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Current show:

Whose Land Is It Anyway

Himmat Gayri, Taslim Jamal Sonaa, Nirbhay Raj Soni | Curated by Abhijeet Karwa

3 Jun - 27 Jun 2026

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आख़िर ये ज़मीन है किसकी?हाथियों की? राजा-रानियों की, पूर्वजों की?पेड़-पौधों की? देवी-देवताओं की?या आप और हम जैसे आम लोगों की?जिस तरह भेड़िये जगह-जगह पेशाब कर अपना क्षेत्र घोषित करते हैं,कुछ वैसे ही इंसान भी सदियों से ज़मीन पर अपना हक़ जताने की कोशिश करता आया है

Whose Land Is It Anyway? brings together the works of Nirbhay Raj Soni, Taslim Jamal Sonaa, and Himmat Gayri, three artists from Southern Rajasthan whose practices emerge from very different social and cultural worlds yet remain deeply tied to the same landscape.The exhibition looks at land not simply as scenery, but as something continuously occupied, worshipped, crossed, divided, and inherited. Kingdoms, communities, forests, ancestors, animals, and gods all leave their presence upon this region, only to eventually give way to something else.Nirbhay Ji’s miniature paintings place elephants within the forests and terrains of Mewar, quietly releasing symbols of royalty and power back into the open landscape. Taslim’s paintings emerge from the rhythms of life in her village of Gahri, shaped by memory, ecology, seasonal rhythms, and community. Himmat’s works draw from vernacular faith systems where माताज) (life-giving mother form), राड़ाज) (guardian spirits), sacred trees, stones, snakes, and ancestors remain deeply embedded within the land itself.Different people have known the same land in different ways, worshipped it differently, and lived upon it differently. As forests shrink, hills are quarried, towns expand, and older belief systems slowly disappear, the meaning of land itself continues to shift across the region.The question still remains:आख़िर ये ज़मीन है किसकी?

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