UK Exhibitions 21


A STORY OF SOUTH ASIAN ART


Tese avant-garde artists have shaped the trajectory of Indian Modernism through to contemporary art and at the core of this exhibition is the radical work of Mrinalini Mukherjee. Spanning more than 100 years of South Asian art, from the 1920s to the present day, the show explores the life of Mukherjee through the people and places that influenced Indian sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949-2015). Her artworks fuse abstraction with the human form – drawing on nature, regional traditions of architecture and craft, and international Modernist art and design. Alongside Mukherjee, the exhibition features seminal work by her parents, Leela Mukherjee and Benode Behari Mukherjee, who taught at Kala Bhavana in Santiniketan, the pioneering art school founded by poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore. It also celebrates key figures of the Indian cultural scene, including


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Lady with Fruit (1957) by Benode Behari Mukherjee, paper and graphite on paper, 25.7 x 28 cm, Tate, purchased with funds provided by the South Asia Acquisitions Committee 2015, courtesy of Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation. Photo: © Tate


KG Subramanyan, Jagdish Swaminathan, Nilima Sheikh, and Gulammohammed Sheikh. Te works on view range from monumental woven sculptures to intricate


paintings, ceramics, collages, and drawings.


• From 31 October to 24 February 2026, Royal Academy of Arts, London, royalacademy.org


KARL SINGPOREWALA Cosmos, Memory, Scale


Karl Singporewala (b 1983) was the 2025 Artist-in- Residence of the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies, and this exhibition represents a vibrant dialogue between contemporary artistic practice, architectural monuments/follies, and Zoroastrian heritage, investigating themes of identity, memory, and historical continuity. Featuring a selection of visually striking mixed- media works and


Dial M for Monument (2012) by Karl Singporewala


installations by Singporewala from the past 15 years, whose artwork is conveyed through architecture and sculptural forms. By weaving intricate layers of personal, communal


DO HO SUH Walk the House


Tate Modern has a landmark exhibition of Do Ho Suh’s (b 1962) practice, marking the first major solo showing of his work in London for a generation. Te artist invites visitors to explore his large-scale installations, sculptures, videos, and drawings, asking questions about home, memory, identity, and how we move through and inhabit the world around us. Te exhibition surveys the breadth and


depth of Suh’s practice over the last three decades, spanning locations including Seoul, New York, and London – the three cities he has called home, and featuring new site- specific works on display for the first time. Te exhibition’s title Walk the House is


drawn from a Korean expression Suh heard during the construction of his childhood home in Seoul, referring to the hanok – a traditional Korean house that could be disassembled, transported, and reassembled at a new site, a process imagined as ‘walking the house’. Reflecting this idea of a transportable home, Suh’s immersive works examine the relationship between architecture, the body, and memory, as well as how we carry multiple places with us across space and time. Te artist has stated: ‘Te space I’m interested in is not only a physical one, but an intangible, metaphorical,


From The Genesis Exhibition by Do Ho Suh at Tate Modern. Photo: Jai Monaghan © Tate


• Until 26 October, Tate Modern, London, tate.org


and psychological one. For me, “space” is that which encompasses everything.’ Alongside these expansive installations, the exhibition brings together works on paper created between 1999 and 2025, which allow Suh to create portable versions of built environments.


• From 9 October to 13 December, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London, soas.ac.uk


and cultural memory, the artist invites viewers to reflect deeply on the ways we perceive and measure our place in the universe. Te exhibition also features loaned objects from private collectors and leading cultural institutions, including the British Museum, adding depth and historical context to the artist’s contemporary interpretations.


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