8th August – 21 November 2026
Vida Heydari Contemporary, Koregoan Park, Pune, India
Curated by Vida Heydari
Vida Heydari Contemporary is pleased to present Where the Body Begins, one exhibition unfolding in three parts from August to November 2026. Opening on 8 August and continuing through 21 November, it brings together 46 artists in three connected exhibitions: Memory, Nature, and Body. Michelle Boyle is included in part 3 ‘Body’ alongside the artists below . On view – 24 Oct – 21 st November 2026.
Body considers the body not as image or physical form alone, but as a lived and continually changing space, one that carries memory, sensation, desire, vulnerability, inheritance, and transformation. The exhibition asks where the body begins and ends, and how it is shaped by what moves through it: time, touch, environment, experience, labour, material, and social structures.
The body appears through anatomy and gesture, but also through surface, repetition, pressure, texture, movement, concealment, and fragmentation. Rather than presenting it as stable or self-contained, the exhibition understands the body as permeable, formed through contact with natural systems, personal histories, social structures, and the physical world.
Artists: Deepti Munot, Dhruti Mahajan, Gauri Gandhi, Gauri Kulkarni, Hansika Mangwani, Harshit Bondre, Ketaki Pimpalkhare, Manasa Priya Dhulipalla, Mandar Kadam, Mohammad Sadikot, Radhesham Dhamal, Rajita Schade, Smruti Joshi, Soham Joshi, yasho, Yogesh Ramkrishna.
The city remains present across all three parts, not always as an image, but as a condition.
PDF Catalogue of Part 1 included to end of post.
To view press release :
https://www.vhc.art/exhibitions
About VHC
Vida Heydari Contemporary is a contemporary art gallery shaped by a recurring inquiry: what becomes visible, and what remains hidden?
The artists the gallery represents approach this question from different positions, through memory and what time has obscured, through landscape and the systems embedded within it, through archives and what they conceal, and through the structures that shape how we perceive ourselves and one another. The question is the same. The practices are not.
Rather than defining itself through geography, medium, or category, Vida Heydari Contemporary is organized around this inquiry and the cultural contexts it has drawn toward it; contexts that are rarely placed in conversation, and that the gallery holds together as a single curatorial position.
The gallery works with artists whose careers it is actively building alongside others with long institutional histories. What connects them is not a region of origin or a material form, but the quality of attention their work demands and the questions it continues to ask.
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