HOMO MOBILIS | Martin Roemers

In Partnership with the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Preview + Artist Talk: 17th April 2026 | 6.30 PM

Continues to 3rd May, 2026

For Homo Mobilis, photographer Martin Roemers travelled the world with a large white backdrop, a camera, and a simple question: “Would you pose with your vehicle for me?”

“Show me your vehicle and I’ll tell you who you are.”

The resulting images offer an eye-opening exploration of how vehicles shape personal identity and society and ultimately, the environment. Focusing on the mass motorisation of the 20th century, Roemers reveals the relationship between people and their vehicles, beyond consumerism, where transport becomes a marker of identity and social structure.

Each portrait presents a driver and their vehicle against a blank background, forming a typology that invites reflection. These vehicles are more than transport; they signal status, culture, and self.

Homo Mobilis ultimately suggests that how we move is inseparable from who we are.

Martin Roemers has worked on exhibitions and photo books, including Kabul, Relics of the Cold War, The Eyes of War and Metropolis. 

His work has been exhibited in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia and is included in the collections of institutes like the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), and the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles). Roemers has won two World Press Photo Awards, alongside a variety of other prizes. 

MAKU • MUMBAI: 19 - 22 March 2026

Santanu Das of MAKU returns to ARTISANS', where he first launched his collection in 2012. He carries forward Bengal’s fabled textile traditions through contemporary clothing. Founded in 2011 at the National Institute of Design (NID), MAKU works closely with artisan communities across Bengal, bringing authenticity, sustainability, and a refined simplicity to the world.

This Spring of 2026, ARTISANS' turns to the quietude of nature with Still... Life: Flower. Fruit. Foliage. Designers-turned-artists, Swati Chandak Sharma and Shefali Upadhyay trained at the National Institute of Design (NID), India. In 2020, during the pandemic, both independently turned to nature, and arrived at painting. Working in watercolour, their practices are grounded in observation, patience, and quiet attention.

Becoming UnBecoming is a contemporary art series by Santosh Kumar Das that explores transformation, identity, and imaginative becoming through inherited Mithila art traditions, ritual symbolism, embodied seeing, and the metaphysical interplay of memory, materiality, and myth.

"I invite you to inhabit these thresholds - not to choose between histories or futures, but to feel their conversation. Duality, in this sense, is not a fracture but a form of continuity - a reminder that multiple layers of experince coexist, shaping who we are and who we are becoming." Fehmida Chipty

Paromita Banerjee's 2025 Festive Collection is not only about celebration: elegant apparel made from woven colour blocked Jamdani, in rich jewel-toned colours... but the Riyaz of skilled craft that transcends expectations to become textile art.

Tharangini, in collaboration with Dhi Earth, transforms vintage block prints into textile and wearable art. With layers of eco-certified natural-resin, they turn a rare print technique, into an earth-conscious medium of art for the future. With nature-first decisions, these textiles from India enable climate conscious conversations, foster connections across the world, and promote a and proudly carbon neutral. way of making and being. 

ARTISANS' presents the art created by Daisuke Kagawa, the Vayeda Brothers, and Yusuke Asai at The Forest Art Festival in Ladakh.