Spanning over three months, featuring the works of diverse artists, delving into a wide range of themes and celebrating fifty years of the Foundation, INTERSECTIONS: Sites of Becoming drew to a close at Arthshila Delhi on April 30^th, 2026. The exhibition, curated by Artistic Director Priya Pall, was attended by many from the art community and beyond, including established and emerging artists, curators, critics, and school and college student groups. Along with the art on display, the exhibition’s public programme, designed by Zoya Kathawala, featured panel discussions, performances, an exhibition pop-up, a film festival, a children’s workshop and more, transforming the space into a site of thought-provoking, nuanced dialogue.

Panelists of the day

At a full-day symposium held on the 25^th of April, some of Inlaks' oldest and most recent recipients including scholars, fine art awardees, overseas residency grantees, writing grant recipients and more, came together to grapple with some of the most pressing questions facing the art world today through a series of panel discussions. How do artists sustain their practice through uncertain, conflict-ridden times? Can artists build genuine intergenerational support systems for one another? Is there a viable economy for community-led practice? How is curatorial work evolving, and what questions must young visual artists be asking themselves right now?

These were not questions with easy answers, but the symposium attempted to create a space of honest, generative conversation between members of the art community at different stages of their careers, united by a shared relationship with the Foundation.

Clockwise - Mortimer Chatterjee, Shuddhabrata Sengupta , Gayatri Sinha, Zoya Kathawala, Priyanka Varma, Shaina Anand

In doing so, the symposium, and the public programme overall, became a gathering of diverse ideas and dialogues, beyond just a series of events. It reflected the breadth of the Inlaks community across five decades while remaining firmly attuned to the urgencies of the present moment, mapping new ways of navigating uncertainty and imagining new economies of practice.

The last event of the symposium saw Inlaks Chair Azad Shivdasani in conversation with Mortimer Chatterjee about the Foundation’s journey in the arts over the last five decades, where they spoke about the idea behind supporting art and artists so consistently and in diverse ways, as well as its impact over time.
See a montage with glimpses from the symposium here.

Read a news piece about the exhibition in the Indian Express here.