From 6. December 2025, the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) will present the first exhibition in India by the celebrated multimedia artist and filmmaker Doug Aitken.
Image above: Doug Aitken, LIGHT FALL / OTHER WORLDS (renderings of shifting color chroma), 2025. © Doug Aitken Workshop.
Spanning three floors of the NMACC Art House, “UNDER THE SUN” explores three distinct narratives—past, present, and future—each occupying its own floor. Together, these chapters take visitors on a journey through time, investigating how we experience and understand time and space, history, and our place within it. Aitken questions the human experience through a prism of diverse media, from locally crafted sculptures and textiles to a video work and a new immersive light installation. The exhibition presents the premiere of several site-specific commissions, many of which are the result of a two-year collaboration between Aitken’s studio and over a dozen talented Indian artisans across the country, employing local materials and advanced craftsmanship.
The exhibition UNDER THE SUN was curated by Roya Sachs & Mafalda Kahane and produced by Elizabeth Edelman, partners of the international creative house TRIADIC. It invites visitors to a multifaceted exploration of time, reflecting on the realities of the past and present while simultaneously pointing to the possibilities of the future.
Doug Aitken is an artist who tirelessly pushes the boundaries of art by exploring the complexities of modern life, hyperconnectivity, and the increasingly permeable relationship between humans and technology. His work—spanning nearly all media, from film, photography, and sculpture to immersive video installations and architectural interventions—places the viewer at the center of experiences that confront both the landscape and their own inner world. Aitken’s art captures shared moments of wonder while simultaneously questioning the isolation inherent in our technology-driven age. Aitken’s visionary oeuvre has been featured in numerous major exhibitions over the past four decades, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, the Serpentine Gallery, and the Centre Pompidou.
TRIADIC is a curatorial house specializing in interdisciplinary, experiential art outside of conventional institutional contexts. Its mission is to democratize art through impactful community experiences, often by merging large-scale installations, live music, design, and performance art. The company is led by curatorial duo Mafalda Kahane and Roya Sachs, along with business strategist and producer Elizabeth Edelman. In 2022, they co-founded FORMAT, the art and music festival in Bentonville, Arkansas, with Live Nation. Their other projects include: “Still Here,” a book of over 100 still lifes and texts by creatives from five continents, created during the global pandemic; curating the 2024 Mondegreen Festival for the legendary jam band Phish; and, since 2022, curating at the Art House of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai. Artistic collaborators include Nick Cave, Guerrilla Girls, Studio Drift, TOILETPAPER, Peter Halley, the Campana Brothers, Adam Pendleton, Raqs Media Collective, Asim Waqif and Katherine Bernhardt.
Opened in 2023, the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC) is a unique, multidisciplinary arts and culture center in the heart of Mumbai, India. With the vision of preserving and promoting India’s rich culture and heritage, and supporting global artistic exchange, the center serves as a platform for emerging and established artists across a wide range of disciplines, including music, dance, theatre, visual arts, comedy, and traditional and contemporary crafts. Featuring state-of-the-art facilities, including technologically advanced performance venues, exhibition galleries, community spaces, gourmet restaurants, and a diverse array of public art installations by leading Indian and international artists, the NMACC aims to make art accessible to all by fostering creativity and dialogue, engaging communities, and supporting talent at all levels. As a pioneer in promoting Indian art and artistic excellence, the center is committed to bringing international art to India and sharing Indian culture with the world.
WHEN?
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 06. December 2025 to Sunday, 22. February 2026
Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday 10:00 – 23:00 Uhr
WHERE?
Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (NMACC)
Jio World Centre, G Block, Bandra Kurla Complex
Mumbai, Maharashtra 400051
India
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