India’s National Pavilion at the La Biennale di Venezia (Venice, 9 May–22 November 2026) will present Geographies of Distance: Remembering Home, a group exhibition exploring the idea of “home” in a rapidly changing, globally connected India.

Organized by the Ministry of Culture in partnership with the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre and Serendipity Arts Foundation, and curated by Amin Jaffer, the pavilion marks India’s return to the Biennale after 2019.

The exhibition features five contemporary Indian artists—Alwar Balasubramaniam, Sumakshi Singh, Ranjani Shettar, Asim Waqif, and Skarma Sonam Tashi—whose works use traditional and organic materials to reflect on memory, identity, and belonging. It presents “home” not as a fixed place, but as an emotional and evolving concept shaped by migration, urban transformation, and India’s global diaspora.

Alongside visual art, the pavilion will include performances, music, and conversations, creating an immersive cultural experience that highlights India’s diversity, creativity, and growing global cultural presence.

India seeps into Venice not as a spectacle, but as a whisper with confidence. Through music, movement and murmurs, the India Pavilion creates ephemeral interventions that dissolve into the city’s daily rhythm – appearing at dawn on a bridge, resonating at dusk, materialising during afternoon light. A key highlight of the India Pavilion will be a curated programme of music, performance, poetry and conversation over the course of the Biennale.