Christie’s London will host “The Meeting Ground,” a non-selling exhibition of works from the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi, from July 16 to August 21, 2025. The show features Indian modernists such as M.F. Husain, S.H. Raza, K.G. Subramanyan, and F.N. Souza, alongside contemporary South Asian artists, Indigenous art practitioners, and diaspora artists. Admission is free. The exhibition follows a series of record-breaking auction sales for South Asian art, including Husain’s *Untitled (Gram Yatra)* (1954) sold at Christie’s New York for $13.8 million in March 2025 and Raja Ravi Varma’s *Yashoda and Krishna* (ca. 1890s) sold at Saffronart for $17.9 million.
The exhibition signals the growing importance of the South Asian art market globally. Christie’s and Sotheby’s have expanded their South Asian modern and contemporary sales in recent years, and KNMA itself is undergoing a major expansion near Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport. The show is the first time Christie’s London has dedicated its summer exhibition to South Asia and to a single institution, underscoring the auction house’s strategic focus on the region. The event also highlights the role of prominent Indian collectors like Kiran Nadar and Nita Ambani in driving market growth and institutional development.