Exhibition poster for Krishen Khanna at 100: The Last Progressive
Krishen Khanna at 100: The Last Progressive — exhibition poster

Mumbai · –

Krishen Khanna at 100: The Last Progressive

Venue
National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
Dates
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Curators
Dr Zehra Jumabhoy and Kajoli Khanna

The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) Mumbai held a landmark exhibition, Krishen Khanna at 100: The Last Progressive, co-curated by Dr Zehra Jumabhoy (Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Art) and Kajoli Khanna. This major retrospective marked Khanna’s centenary and his first-ever museum retrospective, featuring rarely exhibited works from private and public collections.

I unfortunately could not visit Mumbai to see it myself. Seeing images and videos, it was strange, almost like looking at someone else’s life. You don’t experience your own work as a whole, you experience it one painting at a time. The retrospective showed me continuity, but also change.

Krishen Khanna in conversation with Karan Khanna · The Real Progressive, 2026
A white wall of Bandwalla paintings, two small bronzes on a plinth
A long painting on a red wall under the word 'Celebration!', and framed paintings beside a curved balcony rail
A free-standing wall titled 'Abstraction and Conflict' before a curved red wall of paintings
A grey corner with four paintings beneath a quotation on the wall
A curved white gallery with a bench, and a large black-and-white painting on a red wall
A white wall of Bandwalla paintings, bronzes on plinths behind a rope
A white corner with three paintings and a small bronze on a plinth
The round gallery seen from the balcony, with a blue wall titled 'Crucifixion and Resurrection'