PROJECT 560 FESTIVAL

13.09.2025 - ONGOING

Partner: India Foundation for the Arts

The Project 560 Festival reflected on seven years of artistic and civic engagement with Bengaluru. Over two weekends, 36 curated projects brought alive the city’s neighbourhoods, cultural spaces, and ecosystems through walks, workshops, talks, games, and exhibitions across the city, including Science Gallery Bengaluru.

SOUTH ASIA AND THE INSTITUTE

26.01.2025 - 31.07.2025

Partner: MIT South Asian Alumni Association

South Asia and the Institute: Transformative Connections explores MIT’s 140-year relationship with South Asia. From the first Indian student in 1880 to post-independence collaborations and a growing South Asian diaspora, the exhibition highlights how MIT has shaped and been shaped by South Asian scholars, engineers, and nation-builders.

FROM THE MOON TO MARS

14.11.2024 - 25.01.2025

Partner: Consulate General of Italy in Bengaluru

From the Moon to Mars, celebrated the growing collaboration between Italy and India in space exploration, which began with a 2005 Framework Agreement and recently gained momentum. Highlights included ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 Lunar module, models of LVM3 and PSLV launchers, a Habitat Pod by Aakaa Space simulating extra-terrestrial living, and a Prada-designed spacesuit in partnership with Axiom Space.

WALKING THROUGH A SONGLINE

18.07.2024 - 18.08.2024

Patners:  Australian High Commission, National Museum of Australia

The Australian High Commission in India, presented the immersive multimedia installation Walking Through a Songline (WTAS) in Bengaluru. Based on the National Museum of Australia’s acclaimed exhibition Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, this digital experience highlighted ancient Australian First Nations knowledge through innovative multimedia and immersive displays.

We hosted two screenings of Songlines on Screen, a series of six short films celebrating the historic and cultural knowledge of Indigenous communities from remote western, northern, and central Australia.

COEXISTENCE: THE GREAT ELEPHANT MIGRATION

07.02.2024 - 03.03.2024

Partner: Coexistence Consortium

Coexistence: The Great Elephant Migration was a travelling exhibition by the Coexistence Consortium, with SGB as a programme partner. The exhibition featured life-sized elephants crafted from Lantana reeds, which were displayed across various parts of the city and prominently at the entrance to our gallery. We also hosted a photography exhibition showcasing compelling stories of human-wildlife interactions. Additionally, our portico featured an exhibition curated by the Wildlife Conservation Society, exploring nature-culture relationships. The final element of the Coexistence exhibition was a series of talks that reimagined narratives around ecological conservation.

CRITICAL ZONES

16.02.2024 - 18.03.2024

Partners: Centre for Art and Media (ZKM), Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

Critical Zones, an exhibition conceptualised by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, was accompanied by a series of events, including workshops, film screenings, performances, and public lectures. It included a screening of the academy-award winning film The Elephant Whisperer, which was followed by a conversation between filmmaker Kartiki Gonsalves and wildlife conservation scientist Raman Sukumar. We also hosted a panel discussion waste management in the city featuring policy makers, chefs, waste workers and more. In addition to this, the opening weekend saw a workshop organised by artists Uriel Orlow and Ravi Agarwal and the closing weekend hosted a performance by performance artists Dayita Nereyth and Ainesh Madan.