India Art Festival  Bombay,Delhi

         India, a beautiful potpourri of cultures, always remains a fascinating and captivating beauty for travellers of all age groups. But in so much diversity, the one thing that unites the country as a string of pearl is its colourful and interesting festivals.
 
          India Art Festival, a leading modern and contemporary art fair in India, is a new model for dialogue and collaborations between artists, art galleries, art buyers and connoisseurs who come together every year under roof.
 
          India Art Festival in India presents two annual editions in two different cities –Mumbai and New Delhi. IAF provides unique opportunity to the art galleries and artists to create a network with the art dealers, art collectors and art buyers. The general exhibition pavilion in the India Art Festival hosts major and mid-level art galleries with thousands of innovative artworks from the array of their associate artists, whereas Artists’ Pavilion offers emerging, independent artists the opportunity to get discovered and enjoy the attention along with the established artists.

         With a series of panel discussions offering expert perspectives on the subjects ranging from the India Art Festival,  an interactive platform, features curated ‘Conversations’ a two-days educative seminar on contemporary  art and the economy, art collection, exhibitions to art galleries and infrastructure. The IAF Conversations brings together an eminent set of participants from a range of sites, scenes and practices within the domain of contemporary art, including artists, gallerists, museum directors, critics, historians, institution-builders, cultural organizers, editors and publishers. The speakers present and discuss ideas, insights   

and prognostications drawn from their richexperience.

       Since its first edition in 2011, India Art Festival successfully facilitated expansion of the periphery of art patronage by mounting the grand art fairs not only in India but in the overseas countries like South Korea and others. After the six successful editions at Mumbai & New Delhi together, India Art Festival positions itself as a successful and tested new module of art fair with a focus on both - art galleries and independent artists. India Art Festival is an initiative of Kalavishkar, an organization that endeavors to democratize Indian Art through the initiatives such as India Art Festival and Indian Contemporary Art Journal, a quarterly magazine on visual arts. 
 
        India Art Festival is presenting its Sixth edition at Nehru Center, Mumbai, India from 6th  to 9th  October 2016 and its second edition at Thayagraj Stadium, New Delhi, India from 19 to 22 Jan., 2017.  In the last six editions, India Art Festival attracted close two hundred thousand visitors. 
 
         Every year, IAF features close to 50 art galleries from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmadabad, Jaipur and few overseas countries like Canada, UK, UAE, Sri Lanka, Israel and Singapore. The artists' pavilion features more than 300 independent artists from 40 different cities from India and overseas countries. Art galleries and Individual artists participate with wide range of artworks that include paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, digital prints, video art and all other forms of visual art done in various mediums in more than 150 air-conditioned booths.