Artist Nidhi Sharma/Himalayan Stillness/Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai

Title: Where Silence Becomes Form

Artist: Nidhi Sharma
Venue: Jehangir Art Gallery, Hall 1
Kala Ghoda, Mumbai
Dates: 9–15 June 2026
Timings: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM

A show at Mumbai’s Jehangir Art Gallery, ‘Where Silence Becomes Form’, arrives at a moment when, in this heat in Mumbai, it becomes a quiet pause. Starting from 9th June till 15th June, the exhibition brings together a new body of work that reflects an ongoing engagement with stillness as both subject and process. Through layered surfaces, softened horizons, and restrained palettes, the paintings create immersive environments that invite quiet reflection.

Featuring works by contemporary Indian artist – Nidhi Sharma, the exhibition explores landscape not as depiction, but as an internal and contemplative experience. Drawing from memories of the Himalayan terrain, the works move between atmosphere, disappearance, stillness, and emergence. Through layered acrylic surfaces, mist-like transitions, and restrained forms, the paintings invite viewers into spaces that feel remembered rather than observed. It focuses on silence as presence, where landscape becomes emotional, psychological, and meditative rather than geographical. Rooted in an intuitive response to Himalayan landscapes, the works move beyond representation, offering instead a sense of presence, where memory, light, and space converge.

The body of work includes large-scale paintings alongside intimate studies, all connected through a quiet visual language rooted in stillness, memory, and perception.

Artist Profile

Nidhi Sharma is a contemporary Indian artist whose practice explores stillness, memory, and landscape as emotional experience. Working primarily with acrylics, her paintings draw inspiration from the Himalayan terrain, forgotten temple spaces, and the shifting relationship between presence and absence. Over the years, she has exhibited across India and internationally, including solo presentations and participation in art fairs in Tokyo, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Mumbai. Her work is rooted in layered intuitive processes that create atmospheric surfaces balancing abstraction with spatial memory.