Founded in New York's East Village in 1982 and closed in 1988, Peter Nagy revived Nature Morte in New Delhi in 1997 as a commercial gallery and a curatorial experiment. In the early years, Nature Morte became synonymous in India with challenging and experimental forms of art; championing conceptual, lens-based, and installation genres and representing a generation of Indian artists who went on to international exposure. Today, Nature Morte is the leader in its field in India with increasing visibility around the world, representing many of the most accomplished contemporary artists working in India today, fostering the most promising new talents, and introducing the works of international artists to the country.
Nature Morte was the first gallery from India to be included in the most important international art fairs (starting with The Armory Show in New York in 2005) and has participated in Art Basel, Fiac Paris, Art Basel Miami Beach, Paris Photo, Art Dubai, Tokyo Art Fair, Art Basel Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi Art Fair, and Frieze London and New York, among others. Nature Morte has also organised projects and exhibitions with international artists coming to India and combining their works with those of Indian artists to foster cross-cultural communications.
Our projects include:
Frieze London and Frieze Sculpture (2023)
Parallel Cities II (2024)
Bharti Kher: Alchemies at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Thukral & Tagra: Arboretum at SCAD Museum of Art
Armory Show (2024)
Frieze London (2024)
