5th November to 23rd December, 2027

National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai

Theme: At Play

The Indian Ceramics Triennale was established in 2016 to address a critical gap: despite India’s deep ceramic and craft histories, contemporary clay practices historically lacked sustained national visibility and international dialogue. The nomadic format relocates each edition to a new city and venue, allowing local context and community to shape the platform anew each time.

The Indian Ceramics Triennale supports ceramics as a contemporary artistic language — one that moves fluidly across art, craft, design, architecture, ecology, and technology. Through exhibitions, research initiatives, public programming, and education, the Triennale nurtures a growing and diverse ecosystem of artists working with clay across India and beyond.

In this third edition of the Indian Ceramics Triennale, the exhibition is seen as an incubator of possibilities. Artists are invited to hold this undefined and unknown moment filled with potential, to dare to play through inventiveness, provocation, humour, satire, meaning, absurdity, performance and color. To use play as an institution of and for disruption, dreaming into existence the unexpected and unacknowledged. To question, through play, the forces at play.

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