Artist
Residency
India

Sadaf Padder

Independent Curator

A Brooklyn-based independent curator whose work spans exhibitions nationwide, exploring migration, ecology, material histories and cultural memory — with a lasting emphasis on education, community engagement and sustained support of artists.

Boards: Vera List Center & 12 Gates Arts · Visiting critic, Columbia · 2026 Curator-in-Residence, Art Omi

Divya Pande

Head of Sales, Victoria Miro

Head of Sales at Victoria Miro, Divya has spent over a decade at the centre of the international art market — building collections, placing works with private and institutional collectors, and guiding artists’ careers across London, Venice and the global fair circuit.

Previously at Bonhams · BA History of Art, Manchester

Dr. Ghadah W. Alharthi

Associate Professor, Central Saint Martins · UAL

A cultural adviser and Associate Professor in Culture and Innovation at Central Saint Martins. Dr Ghadah specialises in cultural ecosystems and creative economy development — advising governments, museums, foundations and art world institutions across Europe and the Middle East.

Patron: V&A Museum & Royal Academy of Arts · Stanford Social Innovation Review

International Artist

Mary Pye

London, UK · BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art 2025

Mary’s practice is meditative and deeply considered — building layered surfaces through a slow rhythm of deposition and erosion. Her canvases explore themes of longing, belonging and spiritual attention.

Rather than documenting a place directly, Mary is interested in how a place enters the imagination naturally and unconsciously — becoming part of an inner landscape.

Exhibited at Soho House Mumbai, Bvlgari x MeSo Ventures, Mayfair. Work held in the AdP Museum of Contemporary Art, Ahmedabad.

Indian Artist

Parnika Mittal

Delhi / London · MA Painting, Central Saint Martins, UAL

Parnika’s paintings emerge from sketches, fragments and emotional notations made in the margins of her journals. Her work reflects the residue of movement — fleeting intimacies, emotional dislocation and the instability of shifting identity.

Her faceless figures are vessels for uncertainty, longing, grief and the search for belonging. For Parnika, home is not a fixed place but a fluid, emotional landscape.

High Houseworking residency with Antony Gormley (2018). Exhibited at Tate Modern, Somerset House, and Soho House Mumbai.

Weeks 1–3

Abode Bombay

21 August – 14 September 2026 · Colaba, Mumbai

A heritage building in the heart of Colaba — Mumbai’s cultural nerve centre. Artists settle into the country, find the city’s rhythm, and begin their practice.

Weeks 4–5

Abode Jaipur

14 September – 27 September 2026 · Kishanpole Bazaar, Walled City

Two weeks inside the Walled City. Jaipur is not a backdrop — it is the material.

Mumbai · Embroidery

JADE by Monica & Karishma

Live demonstrations by master artisans:

Mumbai · Jewellery

Karan Kothari

Kothari Fine Jewels has been a private family house since the 1940s, when the family established itself as diamantaires in Bombay. Karan is the fourth generation, and is opening a space of his own on Altamount Road — the same access to rare stones, approached through a more contemporary lens.

A session on gemstones: how a stone is judged and sourced, why a particular cut works, and the decisions that turn a remarkable material into a finished jewel.

Jaipur · Carpet Making

Tissage

Founded in Jaipur in 1974 as Kapoor Carpets, Tissage makes hand-knotted rugs in wool, silk, mohair and cashmere, collaborating with contemporary artists while holding to traditional weaving methods.

Artists follow a rug through each stage of its making — weaving and the intricacies of hand-knotting, then dyeing and finishing techniques such as embossing.

Abode Boutique Hotels

All Accommodation & Studio Space

Sethu Vaidyanathan · Board Member, FAACII INC

International & Domestic Flights

Eirini Meze · Chairwoman, FAACII INC

Artist Stipend · Art Materials · Visa Support

Sana Bhatia · Maschiaccio

Short Film Production