ART MUMBAI 2025’s Sculpture Park breaks the traditional mold of art exhibitions by leading visitors out of the galleries and into the open spaces of the Mahalaxmi Racecourse. The Park consists of outdoor art installations intertwined through the fair and acts like a map to guide guests around the venue. Visitors are encouraged to engage with the art as they walk between, around and through the installations. By pioneering a new format for the perception of sculptural work, where the installation’s environment, both nature and visitors, may interact with the art, sculpture at ART MUMBAI invites dynamic and interactive interpretations of the pieces on display.

From iconic sculptors to modern voices, this year’s fair celebrates the female perspective through the reclamation of space, as the artists explore themes of labour, migration, identity, memory and resilience. By inviting a curation from veteran artists like Meera Mukherjee and Shanthamani Muddaiah, along with contemporary powerhouses like Tarini Sethi and Poojan Gupta, the Park creates a diaspora of outlooks, contexts and frames of reference, allowing a walk through the Mahalaxmi Racecourse to become a time capsule into the history and evolution of Indian sculptural work. The Sculpture Park presents a rare opportunity to see the works of South Asian women sculptors that span more than half a century and traverse geopolitical boundaries, identities and media.

Using steel, ceramic, bronze, fibreglass, and found objects, these artists reclaim male-dominated materials in a traditionally patriarchal field, where the act of labour itself becomes an intangible archive of personal memory, carrying the weight of displacement, resilience and belonging.

In a city as populous as Mumbai, where space is at a premium, ART MUMBAI gives women the room to reshape the conversation about subjects that are at once intimate while always being globally relevant. In the words of Minal Vazirani, co-founder of ART MUMBAI 2025, “Each work invites us to pause, to listen, and to connect—not just with the material, but with the deeply personal narratives that shape our shared experience of art”.