Baroda Unbound: City as Studio

Exhibit320 is delighted to host Baroda Unbound: City as Studio, a group exhibition that opens tonight, Friday, 26 September 2025, from 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM. Join us for the preview of an art show that explores how the city becomes both muse and studio, a site of creative exchange, identity, and tension.

At F-320, Lado Sarai, New Delhi, Baroda Unbound brings together nine artists: Ayantika Sajwal, Bikash Chandra Senapati, Darshini Dalwadi Patel, Geetanjali Bayan, Kajal Chaudhari, Nalinakshya Talukdar, Sanyukta Kudtarkar, Surendra Dewasi, and Suvrdeep Samanta.

The City as Studio

Baroda has long held a special place in the landscape of Indian art. With its rich legacy—through the Faculty of Fine Arts at MSU Baroda, the traditions of print, craft, narrative painting, and experimental modernism—the city has functioned not just as a training ground but as a creative fulcrum. City as Studio looks back at that heritage while offering new perspectives through contemporary practices.

This exhibition is a conversation between differing paths: some of the artists are alumni of Baroda’s Faculty of Fine Arts; others have come via residencies, independent studios, and inter-city dialogues. The works presented engage with ways in which urban experience—space, architecture, memory, migration, materiality—shapes artistic practice. Whether through painting, mixed media, textile, installation, or print, each artist reflects on the multiple layers that make “city life,” and on how the urban also disrupts, bends, and reimagines the personal and the political.

What to Expect

• Multiplicity of methods: From immersive textures to sharp lines; from representational forms to abstraction; from ephemeral materials to more durable media.
• Layers of meaning: The city is not a backdrop—it’s a force. Each artwork invites viewers to see how built environments, public and private spaces, social strata, and intangible memory intersect.
• Intergenerational dialogue: Established and emerging artists show side by side; their works echo each other, clash, complement, or diverge—offering the viewer multiple entry points into what it means to “make art” when the studio might be a workshop, a balcony, an alleyway, or even the mind.

Why This Matters

In recent years, there has been increased interest in how Indian cities are represented—inside art and outside, in media, in memory, in everyday life. Baroda Unbound doesn’t simply depict; it interrogates and re-imagines. It asks:

• How do artists from Baroda carry forward the city’s rich traditions of craft, print, narrative, while also pushing boundaries?
• How does the tension between tradition and innovation manifest in material choices, form, style?
• How does urban life—its pace, noise, order, chaos—refract through artistic voices that span generations?

Tonight’s preview is more than a gallery opening—it is an invitation to enter overlapping worlds: the pulse of the city, the texture of materials, the echo of tradition, and the voice of young artists shaping something new. Whether you live in Delhi, hail from Baroda, or simply believe in the power of art to map out unseen connections, this exhibition is for you. Come witness creative dialogues unfolding in real time.