Thapar Contemporary has opened The Engineering of Rubble, a group exhibition featuring 18 artworks by 11 contemporary European artists. Curated by Jasone Miranda-Bilbao and Vaibhav Raj Shah, the show is currently on view in New Delhi until 4 April 2026.
Exhibition Reflects on Fragmentation and Endurance
The exhibition explores fragmentation, imperfection, and endurance as active conditions of making. It considers how meaning can emerge from what is broken, provisional, and unresolved, inviting viewers to engage with incompleteness as a productive state rather than a failure.
Artists Whose Works Embrace Rupture and Process
At the gallery, The Engineering of Rubble features works by Ali Glover, Ana Genovés, Charo Garaigorta, Damien Meade, Ian Dawson, Ian Gouldstone, Katrin Hanusch, Mike Marshall, Oona Grimes, Robin Megannity, and Sarah Staton. Instead of treating rupture as something to be resolved, these works allow disorder to remain open, where form is continuously becoming rather than arriving at closure.
An Architecture Built Through Attention, Not Walls
The exhibition proposes an architecture built not of walls, frames, plinths, or screens, but of attention. The fractured and incomplete speak of matter’s quiet will to endure even after its original purpose has dissolved, suggesting that presence can emerge from loss and incompleteness.
Ashish Thapar on Creating Space for Open Meaning
Speaking about the exhibition, Ashish Thapar, Founder, Thapar Contemporary, said, “The Engineering of Rubble brings together contemporary practices emerging from Europe that resist certainty and closure. By creating a context for these artists in India, the exhibition reflects an interest in attentiveness—allowing ideas and materials to remain open, and meaning to emerge gradually through process, material, and time rather than through resolution.”
Event Details
| Aspects | Details |
|---|---|
| Exhibition | The Engineering of Rubble |
| Venue | Thapar Contemporary, Kapashera, New Delhi |
| Artists Featured | 11 Contemporary European Artists |
| Curators | Jasone Miranda-Bilbao and Vaibhav Raj Shah |
| On View Till | 04 April 2026 |
| Gallery Timings | 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM | Monday to Saturday |
Takeaway
Curator Jasone Miranda-Bilbao added, “The Engineering of Rubble brings together practices that work with fracture, pause, and repetition as ways of thinking. The exhibition is not concerned with resolving what is broken, but with staying with it—allowing form and meaning to unfold through time, attention, and material presence.”
