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CURATOR(S) Wribhu Borphukon

The India Art Fair Young Collectors’ Programme is a rapidly growing platform designed to celebrate innovative creative practices and engage a new generation of collectors from the region. The mission is to foster a diverse range of ultra-contemporary practices, ideas, and experiments, while expanding its reach to a dynamic community of young audiences aged 21-45. 
 
It operates as a curator-led, year-round calendar of exhibitions, presentations, experiences, guided activities, and more. This season introduces exciting new initiatives, including the first-ever architecture pavilion and film programme, new artist commissions, hands-on workshops, and more.
 
THE PANORAMA BEYOND THE COLOR LINE
Passionately spotlighting the young and emerging in art, Young Collectors’ Programme invites Mumbai-based Strangers House to present an exhibition that brings together an exciting set of artists and radical practitioners of alternate materialism. Contextualising processes beyond the mainstream, the exhibition platforms experimental practices that both thematically and aesthetically push all boundaries. This exhibition is curated by Prabhakar Kamble, Shamooda Amrelia and George Varley. 
 
The inaugural architecture pavilion by Saurabh Suryan at Young Collectors’ Programme explores the elemental format of existence—as a portal to ponder, think, and introspect the notions of self and projected self. Saurabh Suryan is an artist and architect based between Delhi and Mumbai, and explores the tools of photography, film, creative direction, book and exhibition. 
 
Indigenous Fashion Futures: A Living Archive
Curated by Sreyansi Singh, the exhibition tells the story of resistance with what the body wears—peoples’ memories, histories of forgotten gods, myths of the land. It maps indigenous fashion identities in India as record-keepers of their ancestors, as living, unyielding archives for the future—breathing, singing, resisting. This contemporary indigenous clothes-making issues a new political power and social collectivism, that is harnessing legacies of generational knowledge and resilience, to create new systems of revivalism and innovation. 
 
Electric Feels
Curated by Wribhu Borphukon, this exhibition draws on the grammar of light — colours, luminosity, materiality—exploring new systems of myths, emotions and politics. Electric light has had an enduring presence in its conceptual, aesthetic, and literal affectations, and this exhibition expands possibilities with new perceptions, substance, and mechanics. 
 
In Motion: The Film Salon
For the first time ever, India Art Fair Young Collectors’ Programme, in close collaboration with MUBI, presents a new curated initiative that reimagines the cinematic experience—from the experimental to the celebrated, from influential to entertaining—it aims to engage an audiences with the art of filmmaking. 
 
Artist Commissions
BLOOMING IN THE WIND by Ansh Kumar
EVOCATIVE WAVES by Mini Tamang, in collaboration with Danfe Art 
The installations are on view at Young Collectors Hub at STIR Gallery
 
Sonic Presentation
Listening Room by Tarun Balani is an immersive sound installation that conveys stories and messages about the artist’s experience with climate change through a blend of improvised acoustic and electronic sounds. Visitors are invited to share their own stories and messages on postcards, linking sound and touch to create a sensory dialogue. The installation serves as a reminder that every voice and every story matters, highlighting the potential of individual narratives to spark conversations about climate equity, justice, and the collective responsibility to reimagine the future of our world.
 
To register or RSVP, visit the India Art Fair Young Collectors' Programme Website.

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Curators
  • Wribhu Borphukon