Anushree Fadnavis, Avani Rai, Darshika Singh, Keerthana Kunnath, Krithika Sriram, Shaheen Peer

Ladies Compartment

24. Juni—20. August 2025

We’re proud to present Ladies Compartment, a cross-cultural collaboration with Method, that foregrounds voices often confined to the margins—geographically, socially, and politically. The works in this exhibition are not only rooted in the particular context of India, but speak universally to questions of gender, space, and resilience.

Ladies Compartment takes its name from the women-only carriages on Mumbai’s local trains—spaces introduced over a century ago as a form of protection in a patriarchal public realm. These compartments still exist today, layered with contradiction: they offer safety and solidarity, yet also reinforce separation. They become a metaphor for how women navigate the world—granted space, but often on conditional terms.

This exhibition uses the idea of the “ladies compartment” as a lens to reflect on visibility, resilience, intimacy, and containment. It considers the compartments we are placed in and the ones we choose; the ones we resist and the ones we make our own. Through gesture, image, form, and breath, Ladies Compartment asks what it means to move freely—within systems built to hold you in place.

A publication designed by Juhi Vishnani will accompany the exhibition.

Press review of the exhibition:

WALLPAPER
THE HINDU
plattform-mag.com

An event as part of India Week Hamburg 2025 with the kind support of the Senate of Hamburg and the Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg.

Öffnungszeiten: During the summer season from 20 July to 30. August 2025, the gallery is open by appointment.