Headlining YSP’s 2024 programme, this exhibition presents one of the world’s leading contemporary artists, Bharti Kher, who was born in the UK and now lives and works between London and India.

In these poetic, abstract paintings Balraj Khanna explores ideas of nature, community, imagination and the unconscious.

Inspired by the collections of the British Library and Leeds Art Gallery, Furnace Fruit, by Leeds-based artist Karanjit Panesar, is a mixed media exhibition centred around new moving image work.

Featuring more than 100 works including drawings, paintings and video, it explores the legacies of British colonial rule of India and the experiences of people of Indian heritage living in Britain.

This major exhibition celebrates the extraordinary creative output and internationalist culture of the Golden Age of the Mughal Court (C. 1560 – 1660) during the reigns of its most famous emperors: Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan. 

Explore one of the UK’s most critical decades, the 1980s. This exhibition traces the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications –creating radical responses to the turbulent Thatcher years. Set against the backdrop of race uprisings, the miner strikes, section 28, the AIDS pandemic and gentrification – be inspired by stories of protest and change.

From the birth of op art to the dawn of the internet age, artists found new ways to engage the senses and play with our perception. Electric Dreams celebrates the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art, who pioneered a new era of immersive sensory installations and automatically-generated works.

IMMA presents the first retrospective exhibition of the work of ground-breaking artist Hamad Butt (1962-1994). Born in Pakistan, and raised in London, he was British South Asian, Muslim, and queer. A contemporary of the Young British Artists, critics described him as epitomizing the new ‘hazardism’ in art.

Nalini Malani’s ‘video shadow plays’ combine video, shadow and sound to tell multiple stories. In this work, she creates a tribute to women’s lives forgotten throughout history.

The mystical and the everyday in Bharti Kher’s exhibition, at Tate St Ives, showcasing sculptures, paintings, and drawings that blend mythology, spirituality, and cultural symbolism. #BhartiKher #ContemporaryArt

Boxing and calligraphy connect in an exhibition featuring rare items from the Arabic and Urdu collections of the British Library.

Step into Chila Kumari Singh Burman’s imagination at Chila Welcomes You, a major new art commission for IWM North. 

The exhibition is a personal perspective on the heritage of conflict and stories of Indian migration to Britain after the Second World War.

Bradford is the UK City of Culture for 2025 with a huge range of events taking place across the city.

Hardeep Pandhal: Inner World will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in a London public gallery.

Ramadan Tent Project and Bradford 2025 are pleased to reveal the second edition of Ramadan Pavilion, titled Infinite Light, will be in situ in Bradford city centre from 14 April.

Come As You Really Are - Swansea Open 2025 features thousands of objects created, modified or collected by hobbyists across the UK shown alongside a new artist film.

An ambitious multi-dimensional project by Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser) exploring the complex weave of histories and myths around Britain’s imperial salt monopoly in India, featuring a striking open-air installation paired with a poignant indoor exhibition occupying spaces formerly used to administer Britain’s colonial-era salt tax.

The Lovers sees internationally renowned artist Sunil Gupta present his critically acclaimed photographic series, Lovers: Ten Years On (1984/85), alongside a new body of work produced with artist and husband Charan Singh, titled Lovers, Revisited (2023/2024). Created 40 years apart, both collections depict LGBTQIA+ couples, as directed by the sitters, photographed in their homes.

Debjani Banerjee’s exhibition Jalsaghar is an intricate exploration of identity, culture, and heritage. The title, which translates from Bengali as “The Music Room”, hints at a space of collaboration and cultural expression.

This landmark exhibition at the Whitworth will feature over 90 women artists and collectives whose ideas helped fuel the women’s liberation movement during a period of significant social, economic and political change.

Arpita Singh's first institutional solo exhibition in London, "Remembering," opens in March at Serpentine North, supported by the Bagri Foundation. Spanning six decades, Singh’s powerful work ranges from large oil paintings to intimate watercolours, exploring themes of gender, motherhood, and political unrest through vivid contemporary reimaginings of Indian myths.

This new exhibition from Hayward Gallery Touring, curated by writer and critic Hettie Judah, plunges into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the feminist avant-garde to the present day.

Organised in collaboration with the Fondation Giacometti, this year-long series launches in May with an exhibition of works by Huma Bhabha, followed by Mona Hatoum in September and Lynda Benglis in February 2026.

Tigers and Dragons has both a historical and contemporary element – it examines the past, while forging a future. It spotlights Wales-based practitioners alongside art from South Asia and its diasporas, it will serve as a platform for debates about ‘British’ heritage, imperialism, decolonization – and competing nationalisms.