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Galerie ISA was founded by Ashwin Thadani in 2011, and has established itself as a leading proponent of international contemporary art on the Indian subcontinent. Located in the iconic Kamani Chambers building in the Art Deco district of Ballard Estate, Galerie ISA has a space of 5000 square feet, and a program focused on the world’s most dynamic contemporary artists. The gallery has distinguished itself for developing a long-standing dialogue with established and mid-career artists such as Diana Al-Hadid, Louise Despont, Santiago Giralda, Haroun Hayward, Gregor Hildebrandt, Michael Kunze, Idris Khan, Annie Morris, Antonio Santin and David Brian Smith as well as helping to foster emergent and diversified diasporic figures such as Maha Ahmed, Ian Malhotra, Eeman Masood and Anoushka Mirchandani.

The gallery regularly produces scholarly catalogues and collaborates with external curators to create exciting, thought-provoking exhibitions. These shows have included works from critically acclaimed artists such as Ali Banisadr, Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Olafur Eliasson, Adrian Ghenie, Alicja Kwade, Chris Ofili and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Galerie ISA offers a unique platform for those wishing to explore a compelling range of international and diaspora artists. Visitors will discover new talents as well as finding exemplary works by those who have already made their mark on art history and contributed so much to the development of 21st Century Art. It is the strength of the reception to these artists’ works, coupled with a new vision of India within the global context, that continues to drive the gallery forward and inspire its passionate founder - Ashwin Thadani.

Always seeking new opportunities to excite and reward their audience, in 2021 Galerie ISA opened a second space, Galerie ISA 9, adjacent to its location. ‘9’ will offer an expansive private viewing room to clients as well as providing a second exhibition venue so that two shows can run simultaneously. It is the gallery’s intention that this will also function as an exciting project space for younger artists as well as facilitating larger-scale exhibitions. ‘9’ is architecturally similar to Galerie ISA in that it also boasts Corinthian columns and elegant Gothic arches, but its concrete floors provide a contemporary ballast to the Neo Gothic elements, thus differentiating ‘9’ from its sister space.

Current show:

Aunelia

Gabriel Mills

10 Sept to 27 Oct 2026

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Galerie ISA is thrilled to welcome artist Gabriel Mills (b.1992, New Rochelle, New York) for his first solo showcase in Mumbai titled ‘Aunelia.’ The title is a continuation of Mills’ unique naming language tradition that involves both arearrangement of words according to formal properties to invoke both a rhythmic and visualstructure. The titles also set an understanding of Mills’ practice; in fact, they are inextricably aligned. Just as the titles resist linguistic interpretation, Mills’ practice resists categorization, both extending an inquiry into how meaning is created. How does something become? This question unfolds into a large narrative and the tension and contradictions—instinct and intention, structure and impulse, materiality and atmosphere, being and becoming—begin to emerge. Painting for Mills is not a language imposed, nor one that needs to be interpreted or unlocked. In his works and his practice, Mills seeks a state where contradictions are inhabited simultaneously. Through the materiality of diptychs and triptychs, he allows paradoxes to animate the works. Some panels reflect a continuity of thought, their boundaries dissolved, while others unfold into the next, bringing divergent elements into dialogue. As the density and topography of his paintings intensified, Mills moved from canvas to wood panels six years ago, working with a craftsman to develop a cleat system capable of supporting their weight. He prepares each panel himself, “to ensure they can withstand whatever journey each piece might take.”Gabriel Mills received an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT and a BFA in Illustration and Art History from the University of Hartford, Hartford, CT. The artist’s work is held in several important public collections including: The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; New York Historical Society, NY; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; X Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, amongst several others. His work has been included in group presentations at the Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; Museu Inimá De Paula, Minas Gerais, Brazil; the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.-Priyanka R. Khanna

Galerie ISA

Ballard Estate

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