9th Edition of Delhi Contemporary Art Week (DCAW)

9th Edition of Delhi Contemporary Art Week (DCAW) is taking place at Bikaner House, New Delhi, from 31 August to 5 September 2026. This year's edition focuses on spotlighting Delhi's 6 leading women-led galleries, bringing to the forefront key themes that include climate and ecology, place and belonging, memory and identity, materiality and lived experience.

Delhi Contemporary Art Week (DCAW) is a creative alliance forged by six leading Delhi-based galleries, with a shared mission of amplifying contemporary artistic voices and creating a space for dialogue across practices, perspectives and geographies. The 9th edition brings together contemporary practices from India and South Asia, alongside two distinct curatorial exhibitions by Adwait Singh and Annalisa Mansukhani.

• Participating Galleries: Blueprint12 / Exhibit 320 / Gallery Espace / Latitude 28 / Shrine Empire / Vadehra Art Gallery

Highlights of the event across Bikaner House:

CCA – Presentations by all six participating galleries, each bringing together distinct contemporary practices and perspectives across mediums and generations.

LTC – Bye-Bye Monsoon, a curatorial exhibition by Adwait Singh, considers extreme weather, shifting monsoonal patterns and the historical, material and environmental forces behind a changing climate.

Main Building – This Animate Earth, curated by Annalisa Mansukhani, considers the botanical world as a site of memory, knowledge, care and interdependence, tracing its connections to land, caste, empire and extraction.