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Art Fervour announces the inaugural Kolkata Art Weekender, scheduled from 21–23 November 2025, transforming the city into a lively, multi-venue cultural hub. Over three days, the event will showcase leading galleries, museums, and studios offering artist studio visits, heritage walks, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings, and activities along the riverfront. Highlights include studio visits with Suhasini Kejriwal and Rathin Barman, a block-printing workshop at Alipore Museum, zine-making on a Hooghly barge, and performances by Experimenter, DAG Museums, Kolkata Centre for Creativity, and TRI Art & Culture. With a focus on engaging younger audiences, the Weekender highlights Kolkata’s expanding contemporary arts scene.
This November, Kolkata’s contemporary art landscape will get a major upgrade as Art Fervour launches the first-ever Kolkata Art Weekender, a three-day, city-wide arts & culture festival taking place from 21 to 23 November 2025. Conceptualised as a citywide celebration of creativity, the festival brings together some of Kolkata’s most influential galleries, museums, and cultural institutions for a programme that spans studio visits, exhibitions, heritage walks, workshops, film screenings, and after-hours mixers.
"The Kolkata Art Weekender was an idea that was born from one of our previous events: The AF Weekender. We wanted to continue our mission of making the arts accessible to all and we felt that Kolkata deserved an arts festival of its own. We want to bring art to young urban art enthusiasts as well as champion our art community here."
Nivedita Poddar, Founder, Art Fervour
The event builds on the momentum of Art Fervour’s earlier multi-city weekenders, but this edition is more focused, hyperlocal, and attentive to Kolkata’s distinct cultural continuum. The result is a festival that builds on the city as a historical centre of artistic production, but also as a thriving contemporary arts hub, engaging new audiences, especially younger generations.
Over three days, the Kolkata Art Weekender transforms the city into an open-access cultural hub. Visitors can stroll into the working studios of artists like Suhasini Kejriwal and Rathin Barman, learn printmaking at the Alipore Museum, create zines on a barge on the Hooghly, or participate in heritage walks that explore how Kolkata’s earliest museums and exhibition practices developed. At the same time, some of the city’s most prominent art spaces—including Experimenter, DAG Museums, Kolkata Centre for Creativity, and TRI Art & Culture—are hosting exhibitions, walkthroughs, and screenings covering contemporary photography, historic Bengal art, design, cinema, and new media.
Here are the events you shouldn’t miss:
TRI Art & Culture will open its doors for an evening built around conversation, play, and Kolkata’s street culture. The event begins with a walkthrough of ‘ADDA: The Third Space’, an exhibition curated by St+art India Foundation that explores the city’s social life, visual language, and the role of adda as a public, participatory space. Following the walkthrough, the venue shifts into an informal community game night, inviting visitors to gather, interact, and experience the exhibition’s themes through shared play. Held on 21 November from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, the programme offers a relaxed introduction to Kolkata’s evolving street art ecosystem.
Explore Suhasini Kejriwal’s studio and her contemporary art style on 21 November. Her approach combines painting, drawing, photography, and collage seamlessly. Her vibrant, kaleidoscopic, and slightly psychedelic paintings emphasise fine details, are rich with information, and depict multiple perspectives at once. During this personal event, Kejriwal will share insights into her creative process and influences.
Curated by Soumyadeep Roy, ‘Colours of Calcutta’ offers a heritage walk that traces the city’s development through the perspectives of artists and photographers from the 17th century to the present day. Explore the origins of Calcutta’s first Fort and learn about Tank Square’s role as an administrative and political hub in the 18th and 19th centuries, as seen through the eyes of artists.
For those interested in the craft traditions that shaped Bengal’s visual culture, this hands-on block (stamp) making session at Alipore Museum offers a rare chance to work like a traditional print guild. Led by artist Chaiti Nath, the workshop invites participants to interpret mythic symbols and historical motifs drawn from DAG’s exhibition, ‘The Babu and The Bazaar: Art from 19th and 20th Century Bengal’. The session begins with a walkthrough of the exhibition by curator Sumona Chakravarti, setting the stage for an exploration of how these motifs travelled through time, trade, and community practices.
One of the Weekender’s most atmospheric events takes place on The Bengal Paddle, The Barge Company’s floating venue on the Hooghly, transforming the river into an open-air studio. ‘Art on Deck’ combines hands-on creativity with river views, allowing participants to make zines and upcycled T-shirts while passing Kolkata’s historic ghats. Led by Aditi Jhunjhunwala and zine artist Fatema, attendees learn to create quick publications and transform old garments into wearable art. The event also features snacks, live music, and sunset views.
The session is led by Aditi Jhunjhunwala and in-house zine artist Fatema, who guide participants through the process of building quick, expressive publications and transforming old garments into personalised, wearable pieces. Alongside the workshops, guests can enjoy snacks, live music, and the golden-hour glow of the river at sunset.
Hosted by The Barge Company, this workshop blends craft, community, and the quiet drama of the Ganges—an ideal choice for anyone looking to pair creativity with an unforgettable setting.
For more information, visit artfervour.com or follow @kolkata.artweekender on Instagram.
