Dear Friends and Patrons,
As we wrap up another exceptional year at the museum, proud to call our 7th year, 2025 brought with it a whirlwind of fun filled, as well as impact driven initiatives that have touched many lives and more importantly reflected the values we derive from the legacy of Amar Nath Sehgal.
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to manage a museum for an entire year, here’s the truth: it’s a bit like assembling IKEA furniture without a manual while giving a guided tour — and answering frantic WhatsApp messages from the assistant who is at the printer asking if file, draft 4.2 is okay — all at the same time.
This year came with its fair share of last-minute surprises. The porter delivery person who actually disappeared with an artwork for 24 hrs. The lawn lights that worked perfectly until 30 minutes before visitors walked in.
A label that printed itself in a mysterious new font that no one installed. A nail that refused to go into the wall as if it has personal objections to modern art. When the table for a private dinner arrived with no legs at 12am.
Yet somehow, through coordinated chaos, excessive caffeine, and collective courage,we pulled it all together. Our team stepped in like superheroes. While one handled logistics, the other took on the catering emergency. And someone always, always knew where the scissors were.
Despite all of the plot twists, what we built this year was extraordinary.
Thoughtful exhibitions, engaging public programs, spaces that welcomed conversation, curiosity, and most dear to us, community.
While I share our story proudly, its important to remember we did with a common passion for the arts and community.
Highlights
from the Year
A Gift to UNICEF
A Homecoming
The Amar Nath Sehgal Private Collection gifted the bust of James Grant to UNICEF. Presented to the organization by Raman Sehgal, the son of the late artist, this tribute stands as a timeless reminder to the friendship shared between the artist and the celebrated director of UNICEF. The sculpture is currently at the UNICEF Headquarters in New York City’s 44th Street.
Patron’s Night
In Collaboration with the Embassy of Luxembourg
Red roses, sparkling wine and violins. To celebrate the artist’s 103rd Birth Anniversary, we curated a unique experience commemorating the friendship between the countries of India and Luxembourg. Sehgal, who once lived in Luxembourg for 24 years continue to bring the the
two countries together, a bond that we continue to cherish.
Gratitude through Art
The Medanta Project
Inspired from Medanta’s Tree of Life, a group of 24 children of Children’s Hope India, a NGO supporting underserved communities in Delhi, created an inspiring artwork called ‘The Garden of Life’. The project conceptualized and spearheaded by the Sehgal Private Collection was an educational program to foster creativity and confidence in children as well as uplift patients and visitors at the hospital. The large canvas of 9ft 2inches adorns the wall of the main corridor at Medanta Hospital, Gurugram.
Young Artist Program
Artist Residency
Upon two successful years of the Young Artist Program, the Sehgal Private Collection launched an Artist Residency in February 2025 that supports the artist and their creative endeavor for over a month.
Partnering with Top Floor Studio, Noida, grant awardees are provided access to the working space, mentorship and guidance, opportunities tailored to their specific needs along with the exposure that the city of New Delhi offers. Over all, the residency offers the artist a wholistic experience too.
A quick glance
at our programming
Happenings at the Museum
As a continuation from last year, our talk series, The Tree of Love, inspired from Sehgal’s Iconic sculpture brought forth a series of talks hosted at the museum by Sujata Prasad and Oroon Das.
With Rajasthan Water Stories young and dynamic comic creators and architects Anuj Kale and Shreya Khandekar of Leewardists were in conversation with writer- journalist Ritika Kochhar, in collaboration with Jaipur Virasat Foundation about water systems in the desert state. Whispers of Belonging, a heart warming poetry event curated by Alishah, brought 5 poets to recite their work on the sense of belonging through identity, memory and migration.
Monthly workshops for the children of CHI, a promise to encourage creativity and imagination at a young age.
Young Artist Program
The most exciting year so far with our outreach with young talent. We are pleased to announce our most recent, Amar Nath Sehgal Kala Sakshi Awardee for 2025-2026 is Ligang August from Arunachal Pradesh.
We also presented the Amar Nath Sehgal Inception Grant to twin artists Rohan and Roshan Anvekar who took our museum by storm with their talent and exceeding energy. In May, a collaboration with the Consulate of Luxembourg in Mumbai, we launched our first Young Artist Exhibition of 5 women artists along with inaugurating a collection of Amar Nath Sehgal’s sculptures and paintings in the heritage building.
And finally, in September, our most awaited exhibition, Common Ground that opened with 15 artists for two months at a community space, The Laburnum’s Café. We broke the norm of artist to gallery and brought art to homes and spaces of conversation – making it accessible for artists and generating new buyers.
Community and Us
What started as a small heartfelt initiative within the community, the Jangpura Project has successfully grown to bring out the museum into the streets. From food walks and history talks, backed by rigorous research and endless mapping, we published our newest publication on Jangpura – The Portrait of a Community. Collective history and precious storytelling all documented as memoirs of lives that shaped where we shine. We continue our efforts with a digital archive at the Private Collection.
Publication- In March 2025, we released a publication on the project. The book is available in the museum.
Our ongoing Open Call invites artists from all over the country to apply to the opportunity to showcase their talent and promote their work.
As we get ready to step into 2026, we are packed with a calendar that promises to bring more smiles to children through public art projects, a thorough program and residency for young artists that will get them the support and mentorship they need, and philanthropic projects of grants and workshops.
So, here’s to another year of building more at the museum. With humour, resilience, and the best team any curator could wish for, we will be back with more exciting projects and the same vigour focused on making an impact.
At the end of the day, its not the absence of chaos that makes great programming.
It’s a vision to build and an ethos that was left behind through a legacy of a man called Sehgal.
