Programme 5.0
DAY 1 | 27th JANUARY
11:00 - 11:45 AM | Central Park Artist Walkthrough
This guided walkthrough brings together three site-responsive installations at Central Park. Gigi Scaria presents Ascend Towards the Unknown, a bronze and white metal sculpture reflecting on civilisational progress and the ethical tensions of technological ambition. Poojan Gupta introduces A Sacred Walk, a corridor formed from stitched pharmaceutical blister packs that reimagines pill-taking as a contemporary ritual shaped by care, belief, and environmental awareness. Mohd. Intiyaz, supported by Method, shares Dar-Badar 2.0, a public installation exploring material, labour, and memory through processes of repetition and making, where personal narratives intersect with collective experience.
Venue: Gate No. 3, Central Park
12:00 - 12:30 PM | Artist & Curator Walkthrough
This walkthrough brings together a focused engagement with digital and material practices. Aditi Aggarwal introduces As We Rise: The Pillar and the Falling Sky, part of the Digital Exhibition Here and Now, a sculptural–digital installation examining climate, memory, and temporal collapse through layered acrylic panels, unfired terracotta, moving projections, and a water mechanism that slowly erodes clay to reveal vulnerability and renewal. The session continues with a curatorial walkthrough of Material in Motion, a group exhibition featuring Aditi Patwari, Aman Bavariya, Dhruv Poddar, Parth Itwala, Roshan and Rohan Anvekar, Sumit Naik, and Yash Choudhary, where abstraction emerges through process-driven practices across painting, sculpture, mixed media, and installation, foregrounding material transformation, labour, and ongoing dialogue between form and meaning.
Venue: Public Arts Trust of India, HQ
12:30 PM – Patrons & Friends’ Luncheon
The Public Arts Trust of India cordially invites Friends & Patrons to join us for a luncheon, as we commence the week’s celebrations in a setting designed for reflection, engagement, thoughtful conversation and shared purpose.
By Invitation Only
2:00 PM | Walkthrough with Maya Kumari Suthar
The Desert Land examines the transformation of Rajasthan’s Thar Desert through the entanglement of personal memory and colonial archives. Drawing on ethnographic photography, cartography, and census records from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the work reflects on how desert communities were classified and governed, leading to cultural and spatial displacement. By placing familial histories alongside state-produced records, silences within the archive are revealed, while the colonial gaze is inverted through self-recording and the centring of the artist’s body, reclaiming subjecthood and agency.
Venue: Amrapali Museum
3:00 PM | Studio Sukriti Visit, Facilitated by: Bindu M. Thomas and Gigi Scaria
This visit offers an introduction to Studio Sukriti as a space for research-driven artistic practice and dialogue. Participants are invited to engage with ongoing works, methodologies, and conversations shaping the studio’s programme, gaining insight into how contemporary artistic thinking unfolds through process, collaboration, and experimentation within the studio environment.
Venue: Studio Sukriti
4:00 PM | Walkthrough with Curator, Anita Dube, in conversation with Tariq Allana, Associate Director, Art Heritage
The exhibit,‘Andha Yug’ is inspired from Dharamvir Bharti's play by the same name. Brought to life by 50 artists from Kaladham, it explores democracy, war, and moral choice. The artists draw connections between the epic’s enduring questions of blindness, power, and violence and the present moment, engaging with contemporary anxieties shaped by lived experience, labour, and collective thought.
With special thanks to Art Heritage, New Delhi for sharing research material and for commissioning the parent project ‘The Complexity of Democracy Part 1 & 2 (January & August 2025).
Venue: Alankar Gallery, Jawahar Kala Kendra
This walkthrough offers a consolidated engagement with contemporary digital and new media practices across multiple installations at JKK. Ankit Dey introduces The Moment Before Infinity, an immersive environment of shadow, disrupted motion, and shifting light that unsettles perception and invites reflection on the active void and residual memory. Āyāhi (Vinay and Mritunjay) present Machine Am I?, part of the Digital Exhibition Here and Now, where a deconstructed computational body exposes cognition as material logic, questioning identity and intelligence through AI-driven observation.
It also includes World Builder, a group exhibition by World Builder, within Here and Now featuring Trisha C, Yash Chandak, Alap Parikh, Elsewhere in India (Avinash Kumar & Srirama Murthy), Bhargav Padhiyar, Antariksha Studio, Anirudh Kanisetti, and Abhinav Mishra, foregrounding viewer agency and critical engagement with data-driven realities. The walkthrough concludes with Zoya Choudhary’s Seeing Twice: Lived and Mediated Realities, which examines perception through architectural references and contemporary image-making to question how reality and truth are constructed in an image-saturated world.
5:00 PM — 6:00 PM | Artist & Curator Walkthrough
Venue: Parijat & Sukriti, Sudarshan Gallery, Jawahar Kala Kendra
7:00 PM onwards | Vernissage
The evening opens with a curated panel moderated by Kabir Jhala, Art Market Editor at The Art Newspaper, on the subject of ‘Public-private partnerships in contemporary Indian culture’. The panel is led by Dr. Amin Jaffer, Director of the Al Thani Collection and Artistic Director of the 2nd edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale, whose work has combined private collecting with state-led cultural projects across continents. The panel includes perspectives shaped by long-term engagement with path-breaking platforms such as the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, with Mariam Ram reflecting on Kochi’s evolving institutional model and approaches to public engagement. Anita Dube will offer insights grounded in her enduring contributions to artistic practice, curatorial discourse, and mentorship within the Indian art ecosystem.
The panel is followed by an exclusive dînatoire celebrating the exhibiting artists of Jaipur Art Week: Edition 5.0, along with our Friends, Patrons, and Collaborators.
By Invitation Only
DAY 2 | 28th JANUARY
9:45 AM – 11:00 AM | Performance: A Soulful Fusion of Indian Classical Music
Set against the historic backdrop of Amer Fort, this live performance blends the resonant sounds of sitar and tabla in a unique fusion. The session offers an immersive musical experience that intertwines traditional Indian classical forms with contemporary interpretations, creating a meditative and soulful auditory journey for the audience.
Faciliated by: Jaipur Virasat Foundation
Venue: Jagat Shiromani Temple, Amer Fort
11:00 AM | Artists in Conversation: Pascal Ungerer and Riyaz Uddin
A miniature painting installation, Silent Plains, by Pascal Ungerer, alongside celebrated local artist Riyaz Uddin, a seventh-generation Indian miniature painter. The exhibition explores spatial culture, speculative landscapes, and peripheral topographies, highlighting liminal environments where urban and rural conditions overlap. Through intimate scale, the artists uncover hidden layers of meaning in everyday infrastructure, creating terrains that function as allegories for time, change, and human presence. Silent Plains offers quiet witnesses to transformation, erosion, and endurance, uniting differing visual languages into a shared exploration of history, memory, and the periphery.
Venue: Pink City Studio
12:00 PM | Brunch & Shayari
This afternoon situates Sufi poetry within a contemporary interdisciplinary framework. The recital by Wamiq Saifi, accompanied by a musical jugalbandi, explores the oral, performative, and philosophical traditions of shayari as a mode of cultural transmission. Through the convergence of poetry, music, and embodied listening, the session foregrounds reflection, dialogue, and continuity within living artistic practices. The programme is followed by a walking brunch.
By Invitation Only
1:00 PM | Visit ‘Jaipur Galore, After Sawai Jai Singh’, by James Johnson-Perkins
This large-scale digital installation reimagines Jaipur as a living cosmology. Drawing inspiration from the city’s founder, Sawai Jai Singh II, James Johnson-Perkins weaves Hindu astrological symbols, AI-generated zodiac figures, Rajasthani miniature characters, and contemporary imagery of Jaipur into a densely layered visual field. The work merges kites, gods, robots, warriors, buskers, royalty, and digital avatars under a single sky, with the city’s iconic terracotta-hued architecture appearing alongside drones and satellites. The installation transforms Jaipur into a dynamic mandala where history, myth, and technology intersect, inviting viewers to experience the city as an evolving constellation of ideas, people, and futures.
Venue: Badi Chaupad
1:15 PM | Visit ‘जड़ (Jad)’, with Edgar Massegu and Vagaram Choudhary
Don’t miss a site-specific floating installation, जड़ (Jad), which combines recycled and found materials with branches wrapped in fabrics inspired by Jaipur’s traditional textiles, forming an organic structure that emerges from water or land. The work symbolises vitality, resilience, and the deep connection between communities and their environment. Adapting to its surroundings, the installation interacts with the landscape and captures public engagement, creating a parallel artwork, and fosters cultural exchange and collaboration between the Catalonian artist and Jaipur’s artistic community.
Venue: Choti Chaupad
2:00 PM | Panel Curated by Ranjit Hoskote
The panel brings together artists, thinkers, and practitioners to reflect on contemporary artistic practices, critical questions, and evolving cultural contexts. The discussion opens into an exchange with the audience, encouraging dialogue and the sharing of perspectives across disciplines.
Followed by a High Tea, this informal interlude offers a moment to pause and recharge, and creates space for conversation and connection amid the day’s programme.
By Invitation Only
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Artist & Curator Walkthrough
This artist walkthrough brings together four practices reflecting on landscape, memory, ecology, and material sensitivity. Arushee Suri introduces In Jaipur, Felt Slowly, a series of felt-based works shaped by travel, touch, and embroidery, where landscapes emerge as sites of belonging and lived memory. Boris Colin Alphonse’s Circumference of a Submerged Memory translates ecological erosion along South India’s coastlines into a tactile, walkable system, reframing measurement as an embodied act of remembrance and care.
Fractured Orbit by Natasa Galecic unfolds a a site-specific installation of discarded technological and natural materials that reflects on planetary fragility and fractured cosmologies, followed by an open audience discussion. The walkthrough concludes with Botanical Whispers by Kaanchi Chopra, a delicate, responsive installation using pressed flowers, fabric, and natural light to reflect on craft, impermanence, and attentive ecological relationships.
Venue: Gyan Museum
3:15 PM | Walkthrough with Gurjeet Singh
Delve into Gurjeet Singh’s residency with Jaipur Rugs, where traditional weaving meets contemporary design. This tour highlights the intricate process of creating handcrafted rugs, exploring the inspirations, techniques, and stories embedded in each piece. Gain insight into how Singh collaborates with artisans to transform wool and dye it into vibrant, narrative-rich textiles that celebrate craft, culture, and artistic expression.
Venue: Jaipur Rugs, First floor, Narain Niwas
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Artist & Curator Walkthrough
This walkthrough brings together three exhibitions engaging with memory, materiality, and photographic mediation. Navya Shah and Shreeya K Agarwal introduce Decade of Decembers, a long-term, multi-sensory project using photography, film, and sound to trace ageing, emotional states, and women’s bodies across familiar landscapes, framing the body as both archive and site of belonging. Surface Tension, featuring nineteen emerging MFA artists from the Parsons School of Photography, marks the school’s first collaboration with Jaipur Art Week and explores photography beyond documentation, probing the thresholds between surface and depth, visibility and concealment.
This includes a curatorial walkthrough of Material in Motion, a group exhibition by Aynatika Sajwal, Ridam Kumar, Riya Bhagat, and Yashika Goel, where abstraction unfolds through process-driven practices foregrounding transformation, labour, and material dialogue.
Venue: Rajasthan International Center, Exhibition Hall 3
7:30 PM | Night at the Museum
Conclude the second day with an elegant cocktail reception set amid the museum’s collection and surrounding contemporary artworks. This evening invites guests to unwind and spend quality time with fellow artists, curators, and collaborators, fostering relaxed conversations and shared reflection, offering a fitting close to the day while celebrating the creative spirit of Jaipur Art Week: Edition 5.0.
By Invitation Only
7:00 PM | Gyan Museum Curated Walkthrough
Experience the Gyan Museum’s distinguished collection, guided by the museum’s curators. Explore a carefully curated array of contemporary and traditional works, gaining insights into the stories, techniques, and philosophies that define each piece, and uncover the rich narratives that shape the museum’s unique vision.
Venue: Gyan Museum
DAY 3 | 29th JANUARY
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Jaipur Genesis: Dhoondhar 2.0
This curated heritage walk follows an approximately 1.5 km route through Chowkri Sarhad, beginning at the Govind Devji Temple, the seat of Jaipur’s aaradhya and patron deity, and moving through Jaleb Chowk towards Sireh Deohri ka Darwaza and the painted portal of Dhundubi Pol. Along the way, the walk encounters the elevated Kalki Mandir and the Sawai Man Singh Town Hall, highlighting the dialogue between vernacular architecture and European influence, before arriving at Badi Chaupad with views of the Hawa Mahal, Isar Lat, and the Samrat Yantra rising against the city’s bustle.
Facilitated by: Dr Chandni Chowdhary
Venue: Govind Devji Temple
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Gilded Walls: Encountering Araish
This immersive session offers a guided visit to the studio and shop of Araish Jaipur, introducing participants to Araish, Jaipur’s traditional fresco technique distinguished by lime-based surfaces, natural pigments, and polished finishes. Through close observation and interaction with artisans, participants gain insight into the materials, tools, and layered processes that define this historic craft, while tracing its architectural and cultural significance within the city’s built heritage. The visit foregrounds Araish as a living tradition, shaped by skill, tactility, and continuity across generations.
Facilitated by: Khanoom and Araish Jaipur, With Special Thanks to the Golcha Family
Venue: Golcha Gardens, Agra Road, Transport Nagar
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM | Generative Zine Jam : A hands-on workshop blending code, print, city, and zine-making
This hands-on workshop introduces participants to the creation of digital zines using coding and interactive media. Exploring the intersection of design, technology, and storytelling, the session guides participants through generating, curating, and presenting content in a dynamic digital format. Attendees will gain practical skills in digital publishing while experimenting with code as a creative tool to shape narrative, visual, and interactive experiences.
For Participants: Bring your laptop and charger, Chrome browser (preferred). If you have made zines before, please bring them and show them off to the group. You are also welcome to bring any materials that you use,and like markers, stickers, other stationery!
Facilitated by: Code.drift collective
Venue: Public Arts Trust of India, HQ
Manthan emerges from an early exchange with Richard Avedon on portraiture, questioning why people rather than animals, and why large-format cameras over smaller SLRs. The response lay in presence and permanence, people are everywhere, while animals are vanishing, and in the discipline of the medium itself.
Shot in the early 2000s using a 120mm Hasselblad on Tri-X 400 film, the work values detail, tonal depth, and scale, allowing prints up to 150 cm square. The Carl Zeiss lens lends a distinct poetry to the images, where light, texture, and time are carefully translated onto film. Together, the installation reflects on portraiture as a sustained process of looking, memory, and human continuity.
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Manthan : A Photography Exhibition walkthrough
Facilitated by: Oliver Sinclair
Venue: Alsisar Haveli
DROP-IN ACTIVITY | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Chhote Jeev, Badi Kalpanayein (Imaginary Insects) with PATI x LAND Teaching Fellows
This drop-in workshop invites participants to enter the whimsical world of insects through drawing, storytelling, and imagination. Drawing from native ecology and local folklore, the session encourages “ecological imagination,” where participants invent their own insect species, imagining unique forms, sounds, habitats, and roles within fragile ecosystems. Through playful making and speculative thinking, the workshop foregrounds resilience, interdependence, and care for often-overlooked micro-worlds.
The programme acknowledges the contributions of Ankita Parihar, Chhavi Goliaa, and Shubham Gehlot. An Initiative by Public Arts Trust of India (PATI) & Learning Through Arts Narrative and Discourse (LAND).
Open to all skill levels, with all materials provided.
Facilitated by: Fellows of the Creative Arts Education Program
Venue: Rajasthan International Center, Exhibition Hall 3
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Panel: What Worlds Shall We Build? Followed by Book Launch: Worldbuilding for Heritage, Vol. 01
The session opens with What Worlds Shall We Build?, a panel conversation reflecting on speculative worldbuilding as a tool for rethinking heritage beyond preservation. Drawing from two in-depth roundtables held in Delhi and Ahmedabad with over 35 practitioners, the discussion brings together perspectives across heritage, design, and future-facing practices.
This is followed by the launch of Worldbuilding for Heritage, Vol. 01, a visual publication conceptualised and curated by Antariksha Studio and Avinash Kumar, and powered by Unreal Engine and Epic Games. Developed in collaboration with faculty and student talent from CEPT University and the National Institute of Design, the publication features contributions by Prof. Tanishka (NID), Ayaz Basrai (Busride Labs), Charuvi Agrawal, Mrinalini Ghadiok, Avinash Kumar, and Prof. Bhargav (CEPT). The launch is accompanied by an immersive media arts space curated by Worldbuilder, translating ideas from the publication into speculative design and fiction, and inviting audiences to imagine futures of heritage beyond preservation alone.
Facilitated by: Worldbuilder
Venue: Rajasthan International Center, Auditorium
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM | HYPERREAL, An Audiovisual Performance
HYPERREAL unfolds as a live audiovisual performance that merges experimental electronic music, generative audio-reactive visuals, and AI-driven processes to trace the movement of “intelligence” from material substrates, earth, silicon, metal, and circuitry, into abstraction, data, and machine thinking. Collapsing distinctions between matter and computation, the work positions sentience as layered and unstable, inviting audiences to engage as critical observers within social, philosophical, and technological frameworks, and offering an urgent reflection on the accelerating realities of computational life today.
Facilitated by: Ayahi
Venue: Rajasthan International Center, Auditorium 1
DAY 4 | 30th JANUARY
7:30 AM – 11:00 AM | The Street as Studio: Photowalk through UNESCO World Heritage Site
This workshop transforms the street into a temporary studio, inviting participants to collaboratively create public portrait setups within busy urban spaces. Using locally sourced and found materials, the session explores portrait-making as a performative and relational practice. Participants engage passersby in real time, navigating consent, curiosity, and attention while learning strategies for working within unpredictable public environments. Conducted primarily in black and white, the workshop emphasises form, expression, collaboration, and the photographer’s role in public space.
Participants should bring a camera or a camera-enabled device.
Facilitated by: Jérôme De Perlinghi (Artistic Director of Eyes on Main Street, an outdoor photography festival in NC, USA)
Venue: Meet at Golcha Cinema
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Miniature Painting: Practice, Process, and Dialogue
This joint workshop takes the form of an informal, hands-on session combined with an interactive artist talk. Drawing from their individual practices and shared exhibition context, the artists will discuss their backgrounds, methodologies, and approaches to developing miniature painting today. The session may include practical demonstrations and material-based examples, offering participants insight into how ideas are translated into process and form. Where possible, the workshop will extend into an interactive walkthrough of the exhibition, creating space for discussion around artworks in situ and encouraging open dialogue and questions.
Open to all skill levels, with all materials provided.
Facilitated by: Riyaz Uddin × Pascal Ungerer
Venue: Pink City Studio
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Studio Visit
This studio visit offers an intimate opportunity to engage with Rohini Singh’s practice within the space where her works take shape. Participants are invited to explore her ongoing projects, material processes, and conceptual frameworks, while gaining insight into how research, memory, and lived experience inform her work. The visit encourages open dialogue around artistic methodology, experimentation, and the evolving concerns that shape contemporary practice.
Facilitated by: Rohini Singh
Venue: Meet at 5-Ghanerao House
This two hour workshop guides emerging and mid-career artists in strengthening their professional presence. Participants explore portfolio building, writing clear artist statements, and preparing strategically for grants, residencies, and international opportunities. The session emphasises articulating work with clarity, consistency, and narrative-building. Participants leave with practical tools and strategies to confidently position their practice across different professional contexts.
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Portfolio Building : Foundations of a Professional Art Practice
Facilitated by: Jim Ramer, HOD, Parsons School of Photography and Radha Datta, Alumni, Parsons School of Photography
Venue: Rajasthan International Center, Exhibition Hall 3
4:00 PM – 07:30 PM | Analog Interaction with Light Art
In this hands-on workshop, interactive artist Ansh Kumar introduces projection mapping as a tool for artistic expression through analog DIY methods. Participants explore how they can use light transforming static spaces into responsive environments via guerilla art. The session offers an accessible introduction to projection mapping, where the expression proceeds technology as a creative thought via spatial imagination.
Facilitated by: Ansh Kumar
Venue: Alankar Gallery, Jawahar Kala Kendra
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Photo Criticism and Analysis in the Age of AI
This panel explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping photography, critique, and visual analysis. The discussion examines opportunities and challenges for photographers, critics, and audiences alike, considering how AI tools influence image-making, interpretation, and the critical frameworks through which photography is understood. Participants will gain insights into navigating contemporary photographic practice in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
Panellists: Jérôme De Perlinghi (Artistic Director of Eyes on Main Street, an outdoor photography festival in NC, USA); Jim Ramer (Head of Department, Parsons School of Photography); Elizabeth Heskin (Professor, Parsons School of Photography); Oh Soon-Hwa (Associate Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore).
Venue: Rajasthan International Center, Exhibition Hall 3, Auditorium
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Macramé Mini Lamp Craft
This hands-on workshop introduces participants to the art of macramé, guiding them through knot-based craft traditions and pattern building through repetition. Attendees will create a functional mini lamp using cotton cords, assembling it on a small lamp frame. The session emphasises both creativity and problem-solving, offering a tactile exploration of universal craft techniques while producing a finished, functional piece to take home.
Open to all skill levels, with all materials provided.
Facilitated by: Ayudhi Foundation
Venue: Gyan Museum
DROP-IN SESSION | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Craft as a Language of Culture
This drop-in session explores craft as a powerful language through which cultural narratives, values, and identities are communicated across generations. Rooted in community knowledge and rich symbolism, artisanal practices are examined beyond their functional roles, revealing how they embody collective memory, social relationships, and ways of understanding the world. The session invites participants to reflect on craft as a living system of heritage and cultural continuity.
An Initiative by Public Arts Trust of India (PATI) & Learning Through Arts Narrative and Discourse (LAND).
Open to all skill levels, with all materials provided.
Facilitated by: Chhavi Golia, Graduate Cohort, LAND X PATI
Venue: Rajasthan International Center, Exhibition Hall 3
DAY 5 | 31st JANUARY
This guided heritage walk through Kishan Bagh focuses on exploring the site’s unique floral landscape and ecological character. Participants will engage with native plant species, desert ecologies, and how flora shapes both the environment and everyday life in the region. Designed as a slow, observational walk, the programme encourages attentiveness to natural systems and local knowledge embedded within the landscape.
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM | Kishan Bagh Walk: Exploring the Flora of the Desert Landscape
Facilitated by: Monal Singh
Venue: Kishan Bagh
DROP-IN ACTIVITY | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | साँठ गाँठ – Saanth Gaanth
This hands-on session explores knots as both functional techniques and cultural connectors rooted in everyday life. Working with natural materials such as khajur, khejri, and moonj grass, participants learn traditional knotting practices commonly found in charpais, camel harnesses, and other regional forms of making. Through this tactile engagement, the workshop reflects on sustainable living, local ecology, and inherited knowledge systems, where each knot carries lessons of adaptation, interdependence, and care.
The programme acknowledges the contributions of Pragya Soni, Praveen Singh Bhat, Swadha Joshi, Shubham Gehlot, and Yashvardhan Dave.- An Initiative by Public Arts Trust of India (PATI) & Learning Through Arts Narrative and Discourse (LAND).
Kid-Friendly, Open to all skill levels, with all materials provided.
Facilitated by: Fellows of the Creative Arts Education Program
Venue: Rajasthan International Center, Exhibition Hall 3
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM | Sound is a Place Too: Mapping space, story, and presence through sound & code
This listening-led programme explores sound as a spatial, social, and cultural experience. Drawing attention to everyday soundscapes, the session invites participants to reflect on how sound shapes memory, place-making, and perception. Through guided listening, discussion, and sonic exercises, the programme encourages a deeper awareness of how environments are constructed not only visually, but acoustically—opening up new ways of engaging with space, movement, and presence.
Tools required by participants - Laptop & Charger, Headphone/Earphones (wired, not bluetooth, Download Sonic Pi on Computer and Download “Dolby On” recording app on mobile.
Facilitated By: Nanditi Khilnani, Co-founder - Ajaibghar
Venue: Public Arts Trust of India HQ, Gopal Bari, Lane No. 3
This immersive workshop explores scent as an invisible image, one that forms not on paper, but in the mind. Engaging with ideas of memory, grief, and the unphotographable, participants are invited to translate a personal memory into a bespoke fragrance. Drawing on artistic practices that use multisensory approaches, and guided by the expertise of Parnami Essentials Pvt. Ltd., whose work with essential oils in Jaipur spans decades, the session examines how smell acts as an emotional trigger that unlocks vivid internal imagery. Through reflection, writing or sketching, and hands-on scent blending, participants create a personal “memory-image” in olfactory form, expanding how stories and experiences can be held beyond the visual.
Open to all skill levels, with all materials provided.
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM | Scent & Memory: A Perfume-Based Image-Making Experience
Facilitated by: Vriddhi (Grey Space) × Parnami Essentials Pvt. Ltd.
Venue: Grey Space, Azad Marg, C-Scheme
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Introduction to Natural Building
This hands-on workshop introduces participants to the fundamentals of natural building practices, with a focus on why earthen construction matters in contemporary ecological and social contexts. Participants will learn the basics of cob construction and work collaboratively in teams to build a small-scale earthen structure. Emphasising learning through making, the session offers an accessible entry point into sustainable building methods, with each team taking their completed model home at the end of the workshop.
Open to all skill levels, with all materials provided.
Facilitated by: Raghav Kumar and Ansh Kumar from Tiny Farm Lab
Venue: Gate No. 3, Central Park
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Curator Walkthrough
Experience the Museum of Meenakari Heritage (MOMH), a permanent gallery by The House of Sunita Shekhawat, dedicated to the timeless art of enameling.Avisionary project, the museum offers a discerning insight into Jaipur’s celebrated enamel traditions, tracing the evolution of technique, craftsmanship, and aesthetic expression from their courtly origins to contemporary practice. Explore a space where artistry and legacy converge, celebrating the vibrant culture of Rajasthan’s enamel craftsmanship. This guided interpretive tour invites visitors to engage closely with the city’s artistic lineage, reaffirming the enduring relevance of traditional craft in today’s cultural landscape.
Facilitated by: Supriya (Jaipur Virasat Foundation)
Venue: Alankar Gallery, Jawahar Kala Kendra (JKK)
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | ReThread: Self-Portrait Kathputlis with Bhatt Women Artists
This hands-on workshop invites participants to engage with the living tradition of kathputli through practices of reuse, storytelling, and self-reflection. Guided by women artists from the Bhatt community, participants create self-portrait puppets using discarded materials from their own lives, old clothes, fabric scraps, broken jewellery, plastic, and other everyday waste. Rooted in a craft that has long transformed scraps into expressive forms, the session unfolds as a shared space of learning, making, and exchange, where personal narratives meet collective memory, and ecological awareness is woven into cultural continuity.
Open to all skill levels, with all materials provided.
Facilitated by: Supriya (Jaipur Virasat Foundation)
Venue: Alankar Gallery, Jawahar Kala Kendra (JKK)
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Curator-Led Walkthrough
This curator-led walkthrough offers an introduction to the four exhibitions situated across Central Park, unfolding the site as an open, public arena for contemporary artistic interventions. Moving through the park, audiences are guided through distinct yet interconnected works that respond to landscape, movement, and collective encounter, foregrounding how art operates beyond conventional gallery settings. Together, the exhibitions invite reflection on public space as a living context—where material, environment, and audience engagement intersect to shape new modes of seeing and experience.
Facilitated by: PATI Team
Venue: Gate No.3, Central Park
DAY 6 | 1st FEBRUARY
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Tracing Layers of the Old City: A Heritage Walk
This guided heritage walk through Jaipur’s Old City explores the layered histories, everyday practices, and evolving urban fabric of the walled city. Moving through key streets and inner lanes, the walk reflects on how architecture, community life, and memory intersect within the historic core. Designed for both first-time visitors and residents, the programme offers a grounded, observational engagement with the Old City’s lived heritage.
Facilitated by: Neeraj Chauhan (Jaipur Virasat Foundation)
Venue: Meet at Gem Cinema
Led by The Kindness Meal, this guided food walk explores Jaipur’s vibrant taste streets through its vegan food stories. Moving through bustling lanes and local eateries, participants sample time-honoured flavours while learning about ingredients, rituals, and everyday food cultures. The walk offers a sensory journey into Jaipur’s kitchens and streets, where taste becomes a way of understanding the city and its people.
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Jaipur Vegetarian Street Food & Heritage Walk
Facilitated by: The Kindness Meal
Venue: Meet opposite Hawa Mahal
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Sketching workshop
Urban Sketchers, a global non-profit community of artists, invites participants to engage in on-location sketching amidst Jaipur’s vibrant architectural heritage. This workshop welcomes all skill levels to explore and capture the intricate details of landmarks such as the Hawa Mahal, drawing inspiration from its ornate facades and lively surroundings. Participants will connect with fellow creatives, refine their craft, and experience the city’s rich cultural heritage through immersive, collaborative outdoor sketching.
Open to all skill levels, with all materials provided.
Facilitated by: Urban Sketchers
Venue: Meet opposite of Sukriti Gallery, Jawahar Kala Kendra
DROP-IN ACTIVITY | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Bol Ri Maati
This session examines language as a vessel of identity and culture, focusing on the fading lexicons of Marwadi and the resilience of oral traditions. Through interactive games and symbolic acts of inscription and erasure, participants explore how words are remembered, lost, and transformed across generations. Bridging past and present, the experience concludes with a Marwadi rap performance that reanimates disappearing vocabularies into contemporary rhythm.
The programme acknowledges the contributions of Ankita Parihar, Chhavi Goliaa, Gaurav Bagdi, Poorna Kalla, Pragya Soni, Pranati Kackar, Praveen Singh Bhati, Shiwankshi Bohra, Shubham Gehlot, Surbhi Gehlot, Swadha Joshi, Yash Chopra, Yashwardhan Dave, and Yukti Gahlot. An Initiative by Public Arts Trust of India (PATI) & Learning Through Arts Narrative and Discourse (LAND).
Kid-Friendly, Open to all skill levels, with all materials provided.
Facilitated by: Fellows of the Creative Arts Education Program
Venue: Rajasthan International Center, Exhibition Hall 3
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Drawing as Meditation: A Contemplative Drawing Session
This intimate, reflective workshop invites participants to explore drawing as a meditative and embodied practice. Through guided exercises centred on slow observation, mark-making, and sensory awareness, the session encourages participants to slow down, tune into their surroundings, and use drawing as a tool for focus, reflection, and creative release. Open to all skill levels, the workshop emphasises process over outcome, creating space for mindfulness through making.
Open to all skill levels, with all materials provided.
Facilitated by: Neha Luthra
Venue: 28 Kothi, Civil Lines
This hands-on workshop introduces participants to the art of appliqué across Indian craft traditions, guiding them through cutting, layering, and arranging motifs, followed by hand-stitching details to create texture. Participants will mount their finished work on a display board, learning how traditional techniques can be adapted into contemporary artistic practice. The session encourages mindful creativity and offers an accessible entry point into appliqué as a modern art form.
Open to all skill levels, with all materials provided.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Contemporary Appliqué Art Workshop
Facilitated by: Ayudhi Foundation
Venue: Alankar Gallery, Jawhar Kala Kendra
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Curator-Led Walkthrough
This curator-led walkthrough offers an introduction to the three exhibitions situated across Central Park, unfolding the site as an open, public arena for contemporary artistic interventions. Moving through the park, audiences are guided through distinct yet interconnected works that respond to landscape, movement, and collective encounter, foregrounding how art operates beyond conventional gallery settings. Together, the exhibitions invite reflection on public space as a living context—where material, environment, and audience engagement intersect to shape new modes of seeing and experience.
Facilitated by: PATI Team
Venue: Gate No.3, Central Park
Spend an evening exploring Jaipur’s vibrant taste streets with The Kindness Meal through its non-vegetarian food stories. Moving through bustling lanes and local eateries, participants sample time-honoured flavours while learning about ingredients, rituals, and everyday food cultures. The walk offers a sensory journey into Jaipur’s kitchens and streets, where taste becomes a way of understanding the city and its people.
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Jaipur Non-Veg Food Tour: Flavours of Ramganj
Facilitated by: Wamiq Safi & Kindness Meal
Venue: Meet opposite Hawa Mahal
DAY 7| 2nd FEBRUARY
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Paint Your Own Mojaris
This creative workshop celebrates the timeless art of mojaris, inviting participants to design and paint their own custom-sized vegan mojaris using DIY kits. Through this hands-on process, attendees engage with heritage craft ethically and sustainably, exploring colour, pattern, and personal expression. By the end of the session, each participant will have a pair of handcrafted, wearable vegan mojaris, a unique keepsake that carries a piece of Rajasthan’s cultural identity home.
Facilitated by: Kind Soul
Venue: Public Arts Trust of India HQ, Gopal Bari, Lane No. 3
DROP-IN ACTIVITY | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Navi Purani Hathai
This session reimagines the traditional hathai as a space for shared memory and collective listening. Participants are invited to exchange stories of rituals, everyday life, and urban change through guided dialogue, reflecting on how personal narratives shape a city’s collective identity. The experience concludes with a symbolic act of tying threads onto a shared tapestry map, weaving individual memories into an evolving vision of the city’s future.
The programme acknowledges the contributions of Surbhi Gehlot and Shiwankshi Bohra. An Initiative by Public Arts Trust of India (PATI) & Learning Through Arts Narrative and Discourse (LAND)
Kid-Friendly, Open to all skill levels, with all materials provided.
Facilitated by: Fellows of the Creative Arts Education Program
Venue: Rajasthan International Center, Exhibition Hall 3
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM - Bilateral Drawing: Rhythmic Self-Portraiture in Flux
Artist and Psychologist Shagun Agarwal will conduct a workshop that integrates contemporary art practice with art therapy to explore identity through movement, rhythm, and gesture. Using large-scale bilateral drawing, participants engage both sides of the body to bypass conscious control and access subconscious expression. The process positions drawing as an embodied, rhythmic act, allowing participants to witness and negotiate inner dualities—such as control and surrender, stability and change—through an abstract self-portrait that emerges from action rather than representation.
Open to all skill levels, with all materials provided.
Facilitated by: Shagun Agarwal
Venue: Sukriti Gallery, Jawahar Kala Kendra
DAILY ACTIVITIES
DAILY ACTIVITIES | 11:00 AM – 06:00 PM | Drop-In: Get Your Book from the MARG Stall - - Mapping South Asia’s Cultural Histories
Drop in to explore the legacy of MARG Foundation, India’s pioneering journal on art and culture founded in 1946. This open-access showcase traces how architects, artists, historians, dancers, and thinkers used the platform to shape an emerging cultural identity post-Independence. Through archival material, publications, and curated displays, visitors engage with nearly eight decades of scholarship spanning art history, archaeology, architecture, and performance studies. The space highlights MARG’s commitment to materiality, design, and rigorous research—offering a reflective encounter with South Asia’s layered cultural past and evolving present. Visitors can also browse and shop from the dedicated book stall, taking home selected publications from MARG’s rich catalogue.
Drop in anytime, no advance booking required.
Facilitated by: Marg Foundation
Venue: Rajasthan International Center, Exhibition Hall 3
DAILY ACTIVITIES | 11:00 AM – 06:00 PM | Drop-In: On Repetitive Mark-Making and Memory through Block Printing
Drop in to explore printmaking as a poetic dialogue between memory, material, and the human hand. Through pressure, repetition, and time, participants encounter how marks are carved, inked, and reactivated, much like memories revisited and reshaped with each return. Drawing from the centuries-old craft of block printing, Joshua India, a contemporary atelier based in Sanganer, Jaipur, guides visitors through the beauty of imperfection, ghost images, and uneven impressions that speak to lived experience. This immersive space reflects on remembering not as retrieval, but as an act of making again, revealing why handcraft remains one of Jaipur’s most enduring gifts to the world.
Drop in anytime, no advance booking required.
Facilitated by: Joshua India
Venue: Rajasthan International Center, Exhibition Hall 3
Day 8 | 3rd February 2026
Join us for the final day of our exhibition programmes across Jaipur’s iconic venues: Alsisar Haveli, Amrapali Museum, Badi Chaupad, Central Park, Choti Chaupad, Gyan Museum, Jawahar Kala Kendra (Alankar, Parijat, Sukriti & Sudarshan Gallery), Narain Niwas, Pink City Studio, Public Arts Trust of India HQ, and Rajasthan International Center.
Experience art, conversations, and creative exchanges across the city as we close Jaipur Art Week on a vibrant note.
Mark your calendars for the Public Arts Trust of India’s upcoming events.