A guided heritage walk through the Old City for Jaipur Arts Week

LUX reports on the much-anticipated Jaipur Arts Week, which continues to grow after its inauguration in 2022

The Pink City enjoyed colours of every hue earlier this year, as Jaipur Art Week (Jaw) took to its palaces, museums, parks and even coffee shops. This fifth edition furthered Jaw’s emerging-to-established local-to-global model, with a presentation by Parsons New York and a new-gen India exhibition, alongside solo and group shows and multimedia events. Its famed Open Call saw 100 artists selected by an eminent judging panel including Anita Dube and Aindrea Emelife. Jaw is at the heart of Public Arts Trust of India (Pati) and Founding Chair Sana Rezwan’s mission to bridge creative heritage and contemporary practice, revealing Jaipur as a beacon of cultural innovation.

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Sana Rezwan, Founding Chair of Public Arts Trust of India, at Jaipur Art Week

The Portraits of Boogli and Her Mother by Gurjeet Singh x Jaipur Rugs

A Sacred Walk, 2025-26, by Poojan Gupta

Ascend Towards the Unknown, 2024-25, by Gigi Scaria

Joshua India block-printing studio, set for daily drop-in activities

Manthan installation, 2024, by Oliver Saurabh Sinclair at Alsisar Haveli

As We Rise: The Last Pillar of the Fort, 2025-26, by Aditi Aggarwal

Fractured Orbit (Waste Mandala), 2026, by Nataša Galečić

A walkthrough at the Amrapali Museum

The Earth Laughs in Flowers, 2025-26, by Kaanchi Chopra

What We Carry When We Cross, 2025-26, by Boris Colin Alphonse

An installation by Natasa Galecic at the Gyan Museum for this year’s Jaipur Art Week

The Public Arts Trust of India has announced its 5th edition of the Jaipur Art Week, which takes place every year in the UNESCO World Heritage City. As PATI’s Founding Chairwoman, Sana Rezwan’s mission is to bridge the city’s timeless heritage with its ever-evolving contemporary art scene

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Edition 5.0 of Jaipur Arts Week will feature more than one hundred participating artists across multiple venues in Jaipur, in a city-wide programme that takes place within and throughout its historic landmarks and public spaces.

Poojan Gupta’s installation A Sacred Walk transforms one of the most overlooked materials of contemporary life: discarded pharmaceutical blister packs

17 emerging artists will be featured in a solo exhibition, selected from art schools across India. The final selection of artists, many of whom have come from art schools across India, was made by a jury of global art leaders: Anita Dube, Renu Modi, Wood & Harrison, and Aindrea Emelife.

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Selected artists were offered mentorship in creating their solo exhibitions by leading practitioners, including Vibha Galhotra, Gigi Scaria, Thukral & Tagra, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta.

Gigi Scaria’s Ascend Towards the Unknown in bronze and white metal, created over a year in Jaipur

Other highlights of the week will include a group show, Andha Yug, curated by Anita Dube; a new digital exhibition titled ‘Here and Now,’ curated by Sayan Sanyal; and a collaboration with New York’s Parsons School of Design.

Edition 5.0 of Jaipur Arts Week will be taking place from 27 January to 3 February, 2026

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Boris Colin Alphonse’s What We Carry When We Cross, remembering the sea voyage of Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh II of Jaipur to London