Kolkata doesn’t usually do things halfway, especially when it comes to culture. So it feels about time the city gets a full-blown, city-spanning art festival. Enter Kolkata Art Weekender, a three-day takeover hosted by Art Fervour from 21 to 23 November 2025, bringing together the city’s biggest galleries, museums, artist studios, and cultural spaces.
What This Weekend Actually Looks Like
The festival pulls together a lineup that reads like a roll call of Kolkata’s art scene: Experimenter, TRI Art & Culture, Kolkata Centre for Creativity, DAG Museums, Alipore Museum, plus independent studios, institutions, and a few pleasantly unexpected partners.
Across the city, you’ll find: Exhibitions, Art walkthroughs, Heritage walks. Also, film screenings, vinyl listening sessions, workshops, game nights. And some out of the box stuff too: zine-making on a barge and mixers.
Why This Weekend Exists at All
Art Fervour has been experimenting with “art weekenders” in different cities, but this is their first hyperlocal Kolkata edition, meant to spotlight the ecosystem that already exists. While making it accessible to a much younger audience.
Where the Art Is Happening?
Artist studios: Private studio visits with – Suhasini Kejriwal and Rathin Barman.
Workshops & River Adventures: Zine-making + paint party on the Hooghly with The Barge Company. Also, Printmaking with DAG Museums at Alipore Museum
Heritage Walks: With Heritage and Art Walks Kolkata, tracing the city from the Asiatic Society to its earliest museums.
Exhibitions Across the City
Alipore Museum
- A Winter Summer (Sohrab Hura by Experimenter)
- The Babu and The Bazaar (19th–20th century Bengal, DAG Museums)
Experimenter
- The Line is Time (Radhika Khimji, Hindustan Road)
- The Forest (Sohrab Hura, Ballygunge Place) + a vinyl listening session with Tushar Bagla
Kolkata Centre for Creativity
- The Lens of Revolution: a retrospective on Shyam Benegal
Indian Museum
- Breathing with History: rural heritage with KCC
TRI Art & Culture
- ADDA: The Third Space: an exhibition walkthrough + board game night curated by St+art India Foundation
Events range from free to ticketed, and everything runs through Urbanaut.
Who’s Involved (The Short Version)
Artists & participants include:
DAG Museums, Experimenter, Heritage Art Walks Kolkata, Kolkata Centre for Creativity, Rathin Barman, Suhasini Kejriwal, TRI Art & Culture, The Barge Company, Tushar Bagla, and many more.
Why This Weekend Matters
Kolkata already has the cultural DNA. The Kolkata Art Weekender just gives it a new container. A little more casual, a little more social, and designed for the version of the city that wants to engage with art without needing a degree in it.
It’s art, but also: a mixer, a walk, a river ride, a party, a film night, a workshop, a conversation.
A full weekend that’s basically saying: go outside, Kolkata! There’s art everywhere.
All images: Art Fervour/ Kolkata Art Weekender