This major exhibition celebrates the extraordinary creative output and internationalist culture of the Golden Age of the Mughal Court (C. 1560 – 1660) during the reigns of its most famous emperors: Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan. 

Explore one of the UK’s most critical decades, the 1980s. This exhibition traces the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications –creating radical responses to the turbulent Thatcher years. Set against the backdrop of race uprisings, the miner strikes, section 28, the AIDS pandemic and gentrification – be inspired by stories of protest and change.

From the birth of op art to the dawn of the internet age, artists found new ways to engage the senses and play with our perception. Electric Dreams celebrates the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who pioneered a new era of immersive sensory installations and automatically-generated works.

IMMA presents the first retrospective exhibition of the work of ground-breaking artist Hamad Butt (1962-1994). Born in Pakistan, and raised in London, he was British South Asian, Muslim, and queer. A contemporary of the Young British Artists, critics described him as epitomizing the new ‘hazardism’ in art.

Nalini Malani’s ‘video shadow plays’ combine video, shadow and sound to tell multiple stories. In this work, she creates a tribute to women’s lives forgotten throughout history.

The mystical and the everyday in Bharti Kher’s exhibition, at Tate St Ives, showcasing sculptures, paintings, and drawings that blend mythology, spirituality, and cultural symbolism. #BhartiKher #ContemporaryArt

Step into Chila Kumari Singh Burman’s imagination at Chila Welcomes You, a major new art commission for IWM North. 

The exhibition is a personal perspective on the heritage of conflict and stories of Indian migration to Britain after the Second World War.

Bradford is the UK City of Culture for 2025 with a huge range of events taking place across the city.

This landmark exhibition at the Whitworth will feature over 90 women artists and collectives whose ideas helped fuel the women’s liberation movement during a period of significant social, economic and political change.

Arpita Singh's first institutional solo exhibition in London, "Remembering," opens in March at Serpentine North, supported by the Bagri Foundation. Spanning six decades, Singh’s powerful work ranges from large oil paintings to intimate watercolours, exploring themes of gender, motherhood, and political unrest through vivid contemporary reimaginings of Indian myths.

Between the Two Fires is a solo exhibition by artist Sayan Chanda (born 1989, Kolkata, India), bringing together new and recent works in tapestry, clay and charcoal which are grounded materially and culturally, and at the same time seem otherworldly and sacrosanct.

The exhibition will address tradition, co-existence and exploration within South Asia that emphasises the interconnectedness in the region, and the collective memory of being a nation. 

Jai Chuhan: Dancer brings together new and existing works by Indian born, British artist Jai Chuhan for her first solo exhibition in the South West.

This new exhibition from Hayward Gallery Touring, curated by writer and critic Hettie Judah, plunges into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the feminist avant-garde to the present day.

Organised in collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti, this year-long series launches in May with an exhibition of works by Huma Bhabha, followed by Mona Hatoum in September and Lynda Benglis in February 2026.

Tigers and Dragons has both a historical and contemporary element – it examines the past, while forging a future. It spotlights Wales-based practitioners alongside art from South Asia and its diasporas, it will serve as a platform for debates about ‘British’ heritage, imperialism, decolonization – and competing nationalisms.