Now open at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art: Journey to the Great Below, the first major UK solo exhibition of Chitra Ganesh in a public institution. The exhibition features a new large-scale animation, newly commissioned sculptural works and a site-specific wall drawing, alongside a selection of recent paintings, prints, works on paper and mixed media works.
Ganesh creates richly layered worlds that probe epic myths and historical narratives to offer speculative visions of society. Reorienting traditional forms of storytelling around queer and femme protagonists, Ganesh’s world building explores themes such as psychic transformation, sexuality, power, and loss. Centring figures that have long been marginalised, her shape-shifting characters occupy liminal spaces, inviting us to consider utopian possibilities in moments of precarity and turbulence.
July 27, 2026
