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As South India’s first major private art museum, the Museum of Art & Photography in Bengaluru aims to take art and culture to the heart of the community, making it accessible to diverse audiences! We curate non-stop art experiences for audiences of all ages, from art exhibitions, events and workshops to a range of articles and essays, collaborations with museums around the world, engaging talks by

leading industry figures, and educational resources for kids and adults. Set to be the most inclusive museum in the country, MAP takes a 360-degree approach to accessibility with a special focus on people with disabilities. The museum includes art galleries, an auditorium, an art and research library, an education centre, a specialised research and conservation facility, a cafe, member’s lounge and fine-dining restaurant. Visit our website: https://map-india.org/
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India’s story has been drawn, illustrated and sequenced for over a century. Visual storytelling has long been a nuanced ...
11/08/2026

India’s story has been drawn, illustrated and sequenced for over a century.

Visual storytelling has long been a nuanced site for nation building and where humour, satire, documentation and resistance have all found a home on the same page.

Unearth these stories and more at ‘A Moving Line: 1500 Years of Indian Visual Storytelling’, on view till November 15, 2026.

📜Curated by Amruta Patil in collaboration with The Museum of Art and Photography and The International Cité of Comics and Images of Angoulême.

Long before cats took over the internet, they had matchboxes covered 🐈‍⬛And International Cat Day seems like a good excu...
08/08/2026

Long before cats took over the internet, they had matchboxes covered 🐈‍⬛

And International Cat Day seems like a good excuse to revisit our online exhibition on the ‘Many Lives of the Cat’.

🔗 Head to the exhibition page linked in our bio.

📜 Matchbox labels, Courtesy: Museum of Art and Photography.

Bodies sculpted by discipline, grappling on the red soil of an akhara – this is a familiar image associated with wrestli...
07/08/2026

Bodies sculpted by discipline, grappling on the red soil of an akhara – this is a familiar image associated with wrestling in India. 🤼

Stories of wrestling, visual or otherwise, have long shaped public imagination through tropes of strength, power and spectacle. But wrestling has always extended beyond the boundaries of the akhara. Beyond the familiar, also lie threads less often explored: access, caste, gender and politics.

Our upcoming exhibition ‘Grip, Hold, Pin’ traces wrestling in visual culture, pairing historical objects with modern and contemporary photographic responses. Through works by celebrated photographers like the late Raghu Rai, T.S. Satyan, and modernist and contemporary photographers Jyoti Bhatt, Indrajit Khambe and Prarthna Singh, it explores the layered histories and narratives that make wrestling a complex cultural site.

‘Grip, Hold, Pin’ opens on August 15, 2026. Plan your visit through the link in our bio!

📜 This exhibition has been made possible with the support of Wipro Foundation.

This is an invitation to gather and ask together: what does it mean to read the world again?Over two days and multiple c...
06/08/2026

This is an invitation to gather and ask together: what does it mean to read the world again?

Over two days and multiple conversations, ‘Field Notes’ will turn to indigenous, folk, and traditional ecological knowledge systems across South Asia, Adivasi land relationships, seasonal cosmologies, river cultures, and the kinships between human and non-human worlds. It will ask how artists listen to landscapes, what they record that scientists often cannot, and how the very materials artists work with carry their own ecological histories.

If these are questions you carry too, join us at ‘Field Notes: Towards Ecological Knowing’, MAP’s annual conference developed alongside ‘Beneath the Turning Sky’.

🔗Reserve your spot through the link in our bio!

This Week at MAP, join in for a workshop on comics with Bakarmax and a guided walkthrough of ‘A Moving Line’, tracing th...
05/08/2026

This Week at MAP, join in for a workshop on comics with Bakarmax and a guided walkthrough of ‘A Moving Line’, tracing the stories this country tells through comics. We’re also marking National Handloom Day with a collection viewing exploring the history and mechanics of handlooms.

🔗Plan your visit through the link in bio!

01/08/2026

I will fight you for it 🤼

This is not a new sentiment, and can be traced back to an age old instinct to take by might what we cannot otherwise easily take. In India, one of the ways in which this instinct found form was through wrestling.

Wrestling, also known as pehelwani, kusti, etc. is combat, tradition, sport and art all at once. But what are the things that shape and surround it? Do class, community, religion and other threads, as well as the artist’s gaze, ask us to reconsider the form?

‘Grip, Hold, Pin’ opens at MAP on August 15, 2026. Come and explore ways of seeing wrestling in a new light.

🔗 Head to the link in our bio for further details.

📸 Video of wrestlers-in-practice shot by Indrajit Khambe (Indrajit Khambe )

📜 This exhibition is supported by the Wipro Foundation.

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01/08/2026

I will fight you for it 🤼

This is not a new sentiment, and can be traced back to an age old instinct to take by might what we cannot otherwise easily take. In India, one of the ways in which this instinct found form was through wrestling.

Wrestling, also known as pehelwani, kusti, etc. is combat, tradition, sport and art all at once. But what are the things that shape and surround it? Do class, community, religion and other threads, as well as the artist’s gaze, ask us to reconsider the form?

‘Grip, Hold, Pin’ opens at MAP on August 15, 2026. Come and explore ways of seeing wrestling in a new light.

🔗 Head to the link in our bio for further details.

📸 Video of wrestlers-in-practice shot by Indrajit Khambe (Indrajit Khambe )

📜 This exhibition is supported by the Wipro Foundation.

Spend a final weekend with warrior garments 🧵Before the exhibition closes, join us for Deaf-led conversations and worksh...
29/07/2026

Spend a final weekend with warrior garments 🧵

Before the exhibition closes, join us for Deaf-led conversations and workshops, a walkthrough on women’s labour, and a screening of Auto Queens. As the exhibition comes to a close, these final programmes bring together conversations on identity, care, access, and resistance.

🔗Head to the link in bio for details and registrations.

📜The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in India, HSBC India and the Mondriaan Fund.

The line may be written or drawn, but is always moving, reshaped by every generation ✍️‘A Moving Line: 1500 Years of Ind...
24/07/2026

The line may be written or drawn, but is always moving, reshaped by every generation ✍️

‘A Moving Line: 1500 Years of Indian Visual Storytelling’ opens tomorrow. See you there!

🔗 Plan your visit through the link in bio.

📜Curated by Amruta Patil in collaboration with The Museum of Art and Photography and The International Cité of Comics and Images of Angoulême.

This weekend at MAP, walk the exhibition with the curator Amruta Patil, hear Arun Prasad bring comic books alive through...
23/07/2026

This weekend at MAP, walk the exhibition with the curator Amruta Patil, hear Arun Prasad bring comic books alive through vintage vinyl, and watch David Prudhomme draw live to music. Also meet the artists behind the works and get your books signed, or catch a 2000-year-old Kerala shadow puppetry tradition. Entry to all exhibitions is free this weekend!

🔗 Head to the link in bio for details and registrations.

📜Curated by Amruta Patil in collaboration with The Museum of Art and Photography and The International Cité of Comics and Images of Angoulême.

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