'What Still Holds’, her exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, explores speaking out when silence is imposed.

From barbed wire to whispering walls, Shilpa Gupta turns borders, censorship and identity into must-see, brain-twisting art – and the market is finally waking up.

From barbed wire to whispering walls, Shilpa Gupta turns borders, censorship and identity into must-see, brain-twisting art – and the market is finally waking up.

The term she gives her practice is ‘everyday art’ and to know more about this extremely engaging and moving ideology, I connected with one of the most important names in contemporary art, Shilpa Gupta.

Poetry, politics, and glowing light installations: why Shilpa Gupta’s radical sound pieces are turning quiet whispers into loud art hype – and why collectors are watching closely.

A symphony of 100 forbidden, censored voices: in For, in your tongue, I cannot fit, Shilpa Gupta gives voice to poets who have been imprisoned throughout history for their writings or their beliefs.

The awarding of the Possehl-Prize for International Art 2025 to Shilpa Gupta is not merely an accolade, but the celebration of one of the most urgent and conceptually penetrating voices in the contemporary art scene. The Indian artist, born in 1976 and based in Mumbai, inaugurates her first significant solo museum exhibition in Germany on this occasion: “we last met in the mirror”, hosted at the Kunsthalle St. Annen in Lübeck.

What happens when art crosses real borders — and people get punished for it ?
In How Shilpa Gupta Reinterprets Lines of Control, Mark Rappolt explores the artist’s haunting soundscapes, smuggled textiles, and bottled poems that speak to censorship, exile, and resistance.
This isn’t just art about borders — it’s art that challenges their very existence.
Visually striking and politically urgent, Gupta’s work asks: can belief survive repression ?

Galleria Continua welcomes contemporary Indian artist Shilpa Gupta back to its San Gimignano space with a new solo exhibition. Recognised as one of the leading international voices of her generation, Gupta presents works centred on her continued exploration of 'mobility, control and acts of resilience' at the show running from May 3 – August 31, 2025. It also includes a newly commissioned art installation created specifically for the auditorium of the former cinema-theatre in Italy.

Her art pieces are not the typical visual format of expression, rather Gupta’s installations often center around the act of listening as a basic gesture. From Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poems to farmers’ songs, here moving sound acts as a form of defiance, turning it into an immersive process for the audience.

"Some Suns Fell Off" at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery reframes nationalism through poetic fragments and disrupted forms that lay bare the inherent arbitrariness of our ideological constructions. Nationalism, religious fundamentalism, social identity and political polarization are themes Gupta has frequently addressed in her work. They manifest here with renewed resonance as the exhibition opened in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. election.