EXHIBITION NOTE AUGUST 2026
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QUANTUM
CONTENTS ABOUT QUANTUM
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ACADEMIC ADVISORS
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CURATORIAL ADVISOR
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PARTNERS
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EXHIBITS
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TEAM
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EXHIBITION-SEASON PROGRAMMING
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EXPERIMENTOR PROGRAMME
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PAST EXHIBITIONS OVERVIEW
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Sci560
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CARBON
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PSYCHE
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CONTAGION
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PHYTOPIA
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SUBMERGE
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ELEMENTS
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ABOUT SCIENCE GALLERY BENGALURU
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IMAGINE SPLIT CONNECT MEASURE BECOME
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ABOUT QUANTUM A cat, a poisonous gas, a radioactive material, a hammer, and a Geiger counter in a closed box. Is the cat dead or alive? This thought experiment, proposed by Erwin Schrödinger, has become one of the most enduring images of quantum physics—not because it offers an answer, but because it reveals how profoundly quantum mechanics unsettles our intuition. It is not surprising that quantum mechanics remains as much a philosophical challenge as a scientific one. If reality exists as a spectrum of possibilities until it is observed, what does it mean to measure? What is the role of the observer? Where do the unrealised possibilities go? QUANTUM explores this remarkable intersection of science, culture, technology, history, and imagination. Bringing together artists, scientists, designers, and thinkers, the exhibition-season explores quantum physics through multifaceted approaches. Across immersive installations, interactive experiences, historical narratives, speculative artworks, and public programmes, the season traces quantum from the subatomic to the planetary. It considers the overlooked histories of discovery, the ethical and political implications of emerging quantum technologies, and the surprising ways quantum ideas resonate across ecology, computation, communication, biology, philosophy, and the arts. As a second quantum revolution gathers pace—with advances in quantum computing, sensing, cryptography, navigation, and communication promising to reshape our technological future—the season asks what it means to live at the threshold of another transformation. What new ways of seeing, imagining, and building might emerge? How might quantum technologies alter our relationship with each other and the planet? From the microscopic to the cosmic, QUANTUM invites visitors to encounter a world where paradox is ordinary, uncertainty is fundamental, and possibility is ever present.
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ACADEMIC ADVISORS Anil Ananthaswamy Anil Anathaswamy is an award-winning science writer, author, and former news editor at News Scientist. His writing, spanning physics, neuroscience, quantum theory, AI, and cosmology, has appeared in Quanta, Scientific American, Nature, Discover, and other publications. He is the author of four books: The Edge of Physics (2010), The Man Who Wasn’t There (2015), Through Two Doors at Once (2018), and Why Machines Learn (2024). He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT (2019–20) and currently teaches an annual science journalism workshop at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru.
Arindam Ghosh Arindam Ghosh is JRD Tata Chair Professor of Physics and the Convenor of the Quantum Technology Initiative at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is an alumnus of the University of Cambridge and has been a Visiting Research Fellow in Nanotechnology at the T J Watson Research Centre of IBM. He has won several accolades including the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2012), and the Infosys Science Prize for Physical Sciences in 2020. As a co-founder and CEO of Quan2D Tech. Pvt Ltd, his startup is developing commercialisable devices for quantum sensing.
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Shobhana Narasimhan Shobhana Narasimhan is a physicist in the Theoretical Sciences department at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bengaluru, where she heads the Computational Nanoscience group. In her research, she uses the techniques of quantum mechanical density functional theory to understand why materials have the properties they do. This understanding is then leveraged to design novel nanomaterials for targeted applications. Her work is of both fundamental and technological interest. She is an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
CURATORIAL ADVISOR Mónica Bello Mónica Bello is a Spanish curator, art historian, and cultural strategist working at the intersection of contemporary art, science, and technology. She is Director of Platform Dalí at Fundació GalaSalvador Dalí and previously led Arts at CERN for a decade, building a globally recognised programme connecting artists with fundamental science while supporting over 200 artists through residencies, commissions, and exhibitions. Her curatorial projects include the Icelandic Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), Broken Symmetries, Dark Matters (Science Gallery Melbourne, 2023), and Exploring the Unknown, the inaugural exhibition of CERN Science Gateway (2023). QUANTUM 2026 7
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PARTNERS FUNDING PARTNERS Tata Trusts Gates Foundation British Council
CONTENT PARTNERS American Institute of Physics Archives at NCBS German Physical Society (DPG) Indian Institute of Science International Business Machines (IBM) Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) Physical Society of Taiwan Quiet Art Movement Raman Research Institute Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research The University of Chicago University of Nottingham Women in the History of Quantum Physics
PROGRAMME PARTNER Bangalore International Centre
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EXHIBITS A Boy and his Atom Atomic Walkthrough Atomic Time Cat on a Walk Colliding Worlds: A Quantum Leap in Storytelling Fowl Actions at a Distance Inside the Circuit India’s Quantum Story Kaggantu Monad Mr. Tompkins meets Schrödinger Multiverse Maps Observer Effect On Magnetic Wings Pauli’s Ladder Probable Drawings Quantum Foam Quibby: A Quantum Experiment Quantum Through the Decades
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Quantum Jungle Quantum Lens Quantum Parallels Quantum Hearts, Entangled Lives QuanTour Ripples of the Cosmos Small Void Sticking to Light Stardust in Motion Superdecision Syntropy The Brightest Shadow Vapour Cells When Size Becomes Colour Women in Quantum Physics
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A BOY AND HIS ATOM Contributor: International Business Machines (IBM) | Bengaluru, India; New York, United States of America Medium: Video | 00:01:33 Year: 2013
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What happens when you use atoms to make a movie? In 2013, researchers at International Business Machines (IBM) set out on a mission to make the world’s smallest movie. Using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), a device that operates on the quantum tunnelling of electrons, they moved thousands of carbon monoxide molecules—two atoms stacked on top of each other. The final result was a movie so small, it can be seen only when magnified 100 million times. Featured here is the movie and a behind the scenes glimpse into its making. In one video, you see the stop-motion animation of the tiny figure laying with an atom. The other takes you into the lab and IBM’s cutting-edge research in the field of atomic memory and data storage.
About the Contributor IBM (International Business Machines) is a US-based technology company known for hardware, software, and consulting services. It has long been a leader in computing innovation, from mainframes to AI and quantum computing. IBM leads global quantum computing through its Qiskit software platform, a growing fleet of quantum systems and is partnering with 340+ organizations across research, industry, and government.
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ATOMIC WALKTHROUGH Sushant Raut | Chennai, India Medium: Physical models, Virtual Reality Year: 2026
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Atomic Walkthrough is a stroll through time and space, asking the enduring question “What is everything made of?”. The exhibit aims to discuss the evolution of our idea of the atom, and give the viewers an accurate depiction of the electron inside an atom. The viewer is confronted with the ideas of superposition and probabilistic measurements and is immersed within the wavefunction of electrons. The first part of the exhibit is a series of tabletop physical models of the picture of the atom through history: Dalton’s model (atoms as spheres of different masses), Lord Kelvin’s model (atoms as knots), Thomson’s plum-pudding model (atoms as play-doh with spheres embedded), and Bohr’s quantized orbit model (3D printed). The second part is a Virtual Reality simulation of the probability distribution of the electron in a hydrogen atom that the viewer can walk through and explore the shapes and density distributions of the various orbitals (1s to 4f).
About the Artist Sushant Raut is a particle physicist, specialising in the phenomenology of neutrinos. After completing his PhD from IIT Bombay, he has held postdoctoral positions at several institutions internationally. He is involved with the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), one of the proposed mega science projects in the country.
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ATOMIC TIME Contributor: Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) | Bengaluru, India Medium: Caesium vapour cell, Microscope Year: 2026
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How do you build a clock that barely loses time? Under this microscope is a caesium vapour cell—a tiny glass chamber filled with caesium atoms. Caesium is used because its atoms behave with extraordinary consistency, making them ideal for keeping time. When illuminated by laser light, the atoms enter a special quantum state called Coherent Population Trapping (CPT), producing an exceptionally stable signal. Atomic clocks use this signal to keep time by measuring the atoms’ natural rhythm, making them the world’s most precise timekeepers. Researchers at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), in collaboration with Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, RV College of Engineering, have developed India’s first miniaturised CPT-based caesium vapour cell. Small enough for portable devices, it brings laboratory precision into real-world applications. Courtesy of Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
About the Institution Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering (CeNSE) was established in 2010 to pursue interdisciplinary research across several disciplines with a focus on nanoscale systems. Their current research includes, but is not limited to nanoelectronics, MEMS/NEMS, nanomaterials and devices, nano-biotechnology, solar cells, and neurobiology.
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CAT ON A WALK
Ritesh Khowal | Vadodara, India Medium: Acrylic paint, Gesso, Ink, Metal, UV Print, Wood Year: 2026
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This artwork explores the relationship between political reality and quantum uncertainty, questioning how truth is constructed through observation and perception. Drawing on concepts such as the observer effect, superposition, and quantum entanglement, it examines how media and political systems shape selective narratives while concealing alternative realities. The cat serves as both witness and observer, symbolising the transformative act of seeing. As the protagonist questions everyday experiences, certainty dissolves into ambiguity, reflecting the shift from fixed truths to multiple possibilities. By connecting quantum philosophy with social critique, the work invites viewers to reconsider reality as fluid, interconnected, and continuously shaped through observation, participation, and interpretation.
About the Artist Ritesh Khowal is a visual artist and painter based in Vadodara, Gujarat. He has recently completed an MFA in Arts & Humanities from the Royal College of Art, London and holds a gold medal in Master of Visual Arts in Creative Painting from Maharaja Sayajirao University Baroda. Ritesh has exhibited in India, South Korea, and the UK at prestigious venues like the Kochi-Muziris Students’ Biennale, HH Art Space, Hangar Art Space, Art Asia.
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COLLIDING WORLDS: A QUANTUM LEAP IN STORYTELLING Kush Dhebar, Sarthak Parikh | New Delhi, India Medium: Digital Illustrations Year: 2026
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What happens when a theoretical physicist and an archeologist come together to write a graphic novel on quantum mechanics? Colliding Worlds will feature a curated selection of wall-mounted snapshots that chronicle the evolution of this graphic novel. The visual narrative will include initial drafts, conceptual outlines, plot developments, and even discarded content. These insights will be conveyed through a visual medium.
About the Artists Sarthak Parikh is a theoretical physicist and assistant professor of physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. His research interests span topics in quantum theory, including quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and its connections with quantum information theory and quantum computation. Kush Dhebar is an Archaeologist and an Educator, and has been a Teach For India Fellow. He runs a not-for-profit to educate people about Indian Culture through Graphic Novels. Kush is currently a consultant with the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Haryana where he is writing children’s literature and popular literature on Archaeology of Haryana.
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FOWL ACTIONS AT A DISTANCE Lyndsey Walsh | Berlin, Germany Medium: Multi-media installation Year: 2026
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Fowl Actions at a Distance explores how ‘the future is a created concept’. Inspired by Xiaowei Wang’s ‘Blockchain Chicken Farm’, the project traverses cultural perceptions of rural environments as “backwards” landscapes using Quantum Navigation. Scientists believe that chickens, like other birds, perceive magnetic fields through an experience of quantum entanglement occurring in their eyes’ cryptochrome photoreceptor. The exhibit explores these quantum-like effects by manifesting chicken spectres through remote sensing technology and XR techniques monitoring trained magnetic-sensing chickens. The work features a multi-media installation of digital portraiture of uncanny visions of a rural future and a real-time projection performance of the chickens captured through remote sensing; the real chickens in the work exist at a remote, rural location.
About the Artist Lyndsey Walsh is an American artist, writer, and researcher based in Berlin. Their practice fuses speculative narrative and horror with autoethnographic investigations into the ruptures created by technology in the corporality of culture. Lyndsey is the first and only residing artist of the Department of Experimental Biophysics at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
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INSIDE THE CIRCUIT Contributor: International Business Machines (IBM) | Bengaluru, India; New York, United States of America Medium: Video, Virtual reality Year: 2026
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What does it take to build a computer powered by the rules of quantum mechanics? Unlike classical computers, which store information as 0s or 1s, quantum computers use qubits which can exist as 0, 1, or in a state of superposition. Many possibilities can be explored simultaneously, tackling problems classical machines cannot. IBM has been at the forefront of this research for decades—pioneering quantum error correction, scalable qubit architectures, and cloud-based quantum computing systems. Featured here is a glimpse of that journey—from atoms nudged into place to processors chasing problems no classical computer could ever solve.
About the Artist IBM (International Business Machines) is a US-based technology company known for hardware, software, and consulting services. It has long been a leader in computing innovation, from mainframes to AI and quantum computing. IBM leads global quantum computing through its Qiskit software platform, a growing fleet of quantum systems and is partnering with 340+ organizations across research, industry, and government.
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INDIA’S QUANTUM STORY
S.N. Bose Centre for Basic Sciences, Raman Research Institute, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | India Medium: Archival photographs, Correspondence, Manuscripts Year: 2026
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In 1924, Albert Einstein received a letter from Dhaka University which would fundamentally change the way we understand quantum mechanics. Its author, Satyendranath Bose, would become the first Indian to step into the vast global world of quantum. But he was one amongst many to come. Throughout the 20th century, scientists from the subcontinent made their mark in quantum physics by contributing ideas like Raman scattering, Saha ionisation equation, Bhabha’s particle-antiparticle collisions, and through the study of cosmic rays and quantum electrodynamics. India’s Quantum Story is a history of these innovations through the life and legacy of ten physicists. Photographs, letters, and manuscripts featured in this exhibit reveal this long, often collaborative history of advanced scientific research in the country.
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KAGGANTU
Dayananda Nagaraju | Mysuru, India Medium: Archival ink on paper Year: 2025-2026
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In Kaggantu, paper becomes a site of instability where the boundaries between the tangible and the intangible, the known and the unknowable, begin to dissolve. Drawing conceptually from quantum theory, the work reflects a condition in which reality is never entirely fixed, but is continuously shaped through perception and presence. A swirling field of layered color, fragmented marks, and shifting forms occupies the surface, evoking states of uncertainty, simultaneity, and transformation. Language gradually dissolves into abstraction, suggesting the limits of rational systems when confronted with experiences that resist definition. Rather than seeking resolution, Kaggantu inhabits ambiguity. Through delicate lines, translucent accumulations, and subtle spatial tensions, the work proposes uncertainty not as an absence, but as a generative space where multiple possibilities coexist.
About the Artist Dayananda Nagaraju is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the relationship between perception, material, memory, and the unseen forces that shape reality. Working across drawing, installation, and process-based experimentation, he investigates the boundaries between the visible and the invisible through an intuitive engagement with material, nature, and lived experience.
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MR. TOMPKINS MEETS SCHRÖDINGER
The Hashtag# Collective (Parvathi Nayar, Saira Biju, Abin Chaudhuri, Biju Kuriakose) | Chennai, India Medium: Paint, Print, Wood Year: 2026
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Mr. Tompkins meets Schrödinger is an engaging, dynamic work that explores quantum weirdness and the principle of superpositions—a quantum state can be represented as the sum of two or more states, until it is measured. The artwork has two feline images in a closed box—one, created from a collection of dots/points referencing the notion of matter being made of particles; second, created from wavy lines referencing particle-wave duality. Mr Tompkins then will be both dead and alive; particle and wave. This is so until the act of observation, when the box is opened by the observer. The cat is named Mr. Tompkins, a nod to the delightful science books written by George Gamow.
About the Artists The Hashtag# Collective consists of Biju Kuriakose, Parvathi Nayar, Abin Chaudhuri, and Saira Biju who came together to create a platform for exploring multi-disciplinary interventions. The four collaborators are based out of Chennai and Kolkata and have strong creative practices. They have had permanent and temporary art installations at many different venues. Parvathi Nayar will head the Quantum engagement within Hashtag#. She has a deep engagement in her personal work with the scientific realm and has used particle physics as a major conceptual image stream.
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MONAD
Santosh P | Bengaluru, India Year: 2026 Medium: Sculpture, Metal, Mica, Mirror
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The sculpture you see folds together many ways of seeing: the Earth, an iris, the path of a photon. The sculpture reflects cycles of beginnings and endings echoed across nature, science, and philosophy. Created in response to QuanTour, this doughnut shaped sculpture is built from repeating crescents that hold ideas of emergence and disappearance. Half the structure exists physically; half appears only in reflection. From one angle it reads as zero, from another as one: observation shapes what you perceive.
About the Artist Santosh P is a Bangalore-based artist, engineer, and educator whose practice sits at the rare intersection of technical precision and creative freedom. Trained as both an Electronics Engineer and Sculptor from Chitrakala Parishath, he brings over a decade of cybersecurity experience at Norstella into deep dialogue with environmental art, installation, and material inquiry.
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MULTIVERSE MAPS
David Young | New York, United States of America Medium: Data from IBM quantum computers, Custom code, Archival inkjet print Year: 2022–present
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How do you picture the workings of a quantum computer? These drawings emerge from data generated by IBM quantum computers—from entangled qubits and the noise produced as fragile quantum states give way to classical ones. Using custom code, the artist transforms this data into intricate visual landscapes, revealing unexpected patterns within uncertainty. The work imagines a reality where every quantum measurement gives rise to new possibilities, inviting us to inhabit a world of branching futures, where observation does not simply resolve uncertainty—it creates new ways of seeing.
About the Artist David Young is an artist investigating how emerging technologies shape and constrain human perception. Working with AI and quantum computing, he creates images that expose the assumptions embedded in technological innovation. Drawing on decades of experience with advanced computation, Young treats code and algorithms as materials for critical inquiry rather than tools for spectacle.
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OBSERVER EFFECT
Thomas Marcusson | Sydney, Australia Medium: Interactive Installation Year: 2026
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Observer Effect proposes a highly immersive experience of the double-slit experiment—one of the most famous demonstrations in the quantum world. Visitors themselves take on the role of photons as they pass through one of two doorways to enter a room, a setup that resembles an oversized version of the experiment. A large wall displays a mesmerising build-up of dots, graphically mimicking how the impact of photons are captured by the high tech equipment in a real double slit experiment. The dots slowly construct a classic interference pattern. But to further highlight the spookiness of the quantum world, each of the doorways is equipped with a motion detector. Every time a visitor passes through, the interference pattern ‘collapses’ into two single strips, much like it does when a photon is detected to go through a slit in the classic double-slit experiment.
About the Artist Thomas Marcusson is an artist combining new technologies with more traditional mediums, such as sculpture and installation, to explore themes around science and society. Thomas is an artist exploring the nexus between scientific theory and contemporary culture by mixing technology with more traditional art forms such as sculptures, video, and installations. Combining his passion for science, technology and arts, he’s now a practising artist in Australia and Europe.
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ON MAGNETIC WINGS
Vidhyadhiraja N S | Bengaluru, India Medium: YBCO superconductor disc, Neodymium magnets, Liquid Nitrogen, Wood Year: 2026
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Can quantum physics make trains float? Watch as the disc hovers, locks into place, and glides effortlessly along its path. What looks like levitation is the result of a quantum phenomenon made visible. Magnetism, an inherently quantum property, creates a lock that fixes the disc at a stable distance from the track. Cooled by liquid nitrogen, the Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide (YBCO) disc becomes a superconductor. Magnetic field lines are both expelled and delicately threaded through it, where tiny strands of magnetism become pinned in place. Together, they create a stable, invisible bond with the strip of magnets below. The train follows a path shaped not by wheels or friction, but by the choreography of countless electrons. Courtesy of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR).
About the Artist Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) is an autonomous institution under the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. The institute offers a unique interdisciplinary and collaborative research environment for researchers in cutting edge areas of science and engineering. It offers diploma programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate students to provide research-based learning opportunities.
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PAULI’S LADDER
Kate Robinson | Glasgow, Scotland Medium: Print on canvas Year: 2026
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How does a probabilistic quantum world produce a structured universe? In 1925, Wolfgang Pauli proposed that no two identical particles could occupy the same quantum state at the same time. Explaining the idea years later, physicist George Gamow imagined this rule as a ladder with an almost infinite number of rungs. Artist Kate Robinson transforms this idea into a sculptural form. The rungs compress towards the top, echoing the arrangement of quantum energy levels. Everything around us, from atoms to stars, holds form because of this simple quantum rule.
About the Artist Kate Robinson is a Glasgow-based sculptor who creates large-scale works nationally and internationally. She works with a range of materials from bronze and granite to cloth, earth, sand, and ice.
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PROBABLE DRAWINGS
Semiconductor | Brighton, United Kingdom Medium: Computer plotter, Custom programming, Carbon, Square drawings Year: 2025
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Through a series of drawings, Semiconductor explores the fundamental uncertainty of the quantum realm, challenging our perceptions of physical reality. Using a single, continuous line, each drawing maps the probabilistic nature of electron orbitals, where precise location dissolves into fields of potential. The lines oscillate between random generation and scientific mapping, embodying how the observation of quantum systems transforms reality itself. Created through a messy custom process of hand-making carbon paper and then scratching away with a computer plotter, the drawings expose the artefacts of their making, emphasising the inherent “noise” and unpredictability of quantum systems. They do not represent electrons but enact the very impossibility of representing something that exists everywhere and nowhere at once.
About the Artist Semiconductor comprises the UK artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Their multi-disciplinary works foreground the role of human perception within systems of observation, encouraging us to expand our sense of reality and question our place in the universe.
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QUANTUM FOAM
Mark Eaglen | Denbigh, Wales Medium: Time-based media Year: 2026
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Quantum Foam speculates upon a theory proposed by John Wheeler of a constant fizzing of matter and antimatter being created and destroyed at infinitesimal scales of SpaceTime operating at the Planck length. There are three components to the work. The first is a looped video work inviting engagement from the viewer. The second, places the audience as participants, where an interface of three touch sensors linked to an array of parameters are operated in real time, impacting the behaviour of the work as an installation-based wall projection. The third, extends the installation across three walls of a space, wrapping the audience in spatial and temporal distortion towards heightened states of immersion. There is no fixed pattern that can be cracked by dialling in the interface to set values. This is because the work is built around a recursive network and so the behaviour of ‘what happens next’ is directly informed by ‘what has just happened’.
About the Artist Mark Eaglen is a multidisciplinary artist exploring relationships of Art, Science, Technology, and Nature. He is the co-founder of studioMADE and is actively involved in Arts education. An active engagement with experimentation informs his evolving works that often employ traditional processes alongside developments in technology and scientific discovery. This responsive approach has led him into enquiries involving data manipulation, responsive forms, holography, interactive works, and the playful exploration of concepts through open narratives.
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QUIBBY: A QUANTUM EXPERIMENT Srivikashini Krishnaraj | Bengaluru, India Medium: Interactive Game Year: 2026
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Quibby is a mischievous ghost, moving according to the strange rules of the quantum world. Inspired by concepts such as superposition, quantum gates, tunnelling, and measurement, Quibby: A Quantum Experiment transforms quantum phenomena into experimentation and play. A series of containment experiments invite you to alter possible paths and influence where Quibby might appear when measured. The final step will be to block Quibby through a single move in a quantum-style measurement, where many possibilities collapse into one observable outcome. Created as part of QUANTUM Immersive Workshop, supported by British Council.
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QUANTUM THROUGH THE DECADES
Contributors: German Physical Society (DPG) | Germany Medium: Interactive website Year: 2025
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In 2025, the world marked 100 years since the formal emergence of quantum physics. A field marked by constant experimental breakthroughs, theorems, and landmark papers, these advancements fundamentally changed the way we understand energy and matter. But what actually happened along the way? Quantum through the Decades is an interactive website created by the German Physical Society that outlines the complex and multi-layered history of quantum physics. Dive deep into this history with the aid of archival photographs, scientific diagrams, historical documents, and contextual narratives—mapping the milestones, people, and ideas that built the foundations of modern quantum science.
About the Contributors German Physical Society (DPG), founded in 1845, is the world’s oldest and largest organization of physicists, with over 50,000 members. Based in Bad Honnef, Germany, it fosters exchange, supports young talent, and promotes physics through scientific conferences, publications like the Physik Journal, and public outreach.
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QUANTUM JUNGLE
Robin Baumgarten | Berlin, Germany Medium: Acrylic, Circuit Boards, Electronics, Interactive installation with touch-sensitive metal springs, LEDs, Wood Year: 2025
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Quantum Jungle is an interactive art installation that playfully visualizes Quantum Physics concepts on a large wall filled with novel touch-sensitive metal springs and thousands of LEDs. When the audience interacts with the springs, these springs are chosen as starting positions of the quantum particle (called a superposition). Expanding circle effects accompany these touches and each chosen spring stays illuminated. Once the audience is finished choosing springs, Schrödinger’s Equation determines the movement of the quantum particle. The probability distribution of these positions is visualised as a colourful expanding cloud on Quantum Jungle, where the brightness of each ring corresponds to its probability of the particle being in this position. To ‘observe’ the particle, the audience can touch another spring. This collapses the quantum state and the particle becomes a classical particle in a single location, which is displayed on the wall, accompanied by a particle effect. The work is a joint development between the artist with the Turku Quantum Technologies and Centre for Quantum Engineering (Aalto University, Finland).
About the Artist Robin Baumgarten is a Berlin-based award-winning experimental hardware game developer and interactive installation artist. He has exhibited internationally at various museums and film festivals. After researching Artificial Intelligence in Games and working on mobile games, he is now fully focused on creating playful interactive installations that straddle the divide of games and art, such as Line Wobbler and Wobble Garden.
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QUANTUM LENS
Studio Above&Below (Daria Jelonek, Perry-James Sugden) | London, United Kingdom Medium: Immersive mixed-media reality Year: 2025
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Quantum Lens is an immersive Mixed Reality artwork exploring quantum technologies in three chapters: 01. Quantum Entanglement 02. Quantum Probability 03. Quantum Tunnelling These three unusual quantum phenomena cannot be witnessed with the naked eye—by using the Mixed Reality as a symbolic lens, QUANTUM LENS aims to open a window to the unseen.
About the Artist Studio Above & Below is a London based art and technology practice founded by Daria Jelonek (DE) and Perry-James Sugden (UK) after graduating from the Royal College of Art. Their work combines Mixed Realities experiences (XR), digital art and data in order to grow potential connections between humans, machines and the environment—working towards preferred future interactions with our surroundings.
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QUANTUM PARALLELS
Kaushil Madireddy, Pranava Kaveri, Snigdha Deva | Bengaluru, India Medium: Digital Illustrations, Print on paper Year: 2026
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Quantum Parallels explores how we might imagine the unimaginable—quantum, usually coded through mathematics and tested in experiments, is rendered here through metaphors. Through a set of digital illustrations, a process book, and an interactive kit, Quantum Parallels engages with some of the key ideas of the quantum world—including superposition, tunnelling, and wave-particle duality. By transforming quantum through visual and tactile elements, the artists invite you to understand quantum more intuitively. Created as part of QUANTUM Immersive Workshop, swupported by British Council.
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QUANTUM HEARTS, ENTANGLED LIVES Chaitali Kulkarni | Bengaluru, India Medium: Interactive installation Year: 2026
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Quantum Hearts, Entangled Lives is a piece of interactive fiction where the narrative structure is based on the quantum physics ideas of Superposition, Entanglement, and Measurement. It is an artistic enquiry into how the form of a story could evolve based on this fundamental theory of nature, into how human lives would be affected by future developments in quantum computing and into the connections between the lenses of quantum theory.
About the Artist Chaitali Kulkarni is an electronics engineer at Texas Instruments and Mixed Signals Processor Team, transmedia storyteller and an artist. She is an educator working with science and math teachers across the country to make learning deeper and experiential.
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QUANTOUR
Contributors: German Physical Society (DPG), Doris Reiter, Pranoti Kshirsagar, Tobias Heindel | Berlin, Germany Medium: QuanTour briefcase, Glass, Metal, Multimedia files Year: 2025
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QuanTour is an international project that takes a quantum light source beyond the laboratory and into public spaces. Compared to regular light sources, where photons are released randomly, this light source uses single-photon generation, ensuring that only one photon is released at regular intervals. What you see here is the briefcase that contained the light source, presently hosted in a lab at the Indian Institute of Science. The project reveals quantum technology not simply as a scientific pursuit but a journey of curiosity and innovation.
About the Contributors German Physical Society (DPG), founded in 1845, is the world’s oldest and largest organization of physicists, with over 50,000 members. Based in Bad Honnef, Germany, it fosters exchange, supports young talent, and promotes physics through scientific conferences, publications like the Physik Journal, and public outreach. Doris Reiter is a theoretical physicist and works at TU Dortmund University in Germany, where she leads the group “Theory of solid-state nanostructures for quantum technologies“. With her group, she proposes new experiments for quantum control or explains theoretically what is observed in measurements. Doris is active in the German Physical Society (DPG) and its working group AGyouLeaP and organized several lecture formats, including Semiconductors for Breakfast, and now QuanTour. Tobias Heindel is an experimental physicist and leads the research group “Quantum Communication Systems” at TU Berlin, Germany. His research aims to explore the foundations and develop applications of quantum information science exploiting quantum materials. In his group, the quantum light source for QuanTour was developed. He is active in the German Physical Society (DPG) and its working group AGyouLeaP, organizing amongst others the lecture series “Physics and Pizza”. Pranoti Kshirsagar is a materials scientist by training, who spent several years at the intersection of deep-tech science and commercial product strategy at Springer Nature. In 2018, Kshirsagar founded The Science Talk, a science communication platform built around the conviction that researchers deserve better tools for talking about their work.
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RIPPLES OF THE COSMOS Ikbal Ahmed, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) | Bengaluru, India Medium: Water tank, Ripple forming mechanism Year: 2015
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Could a simple tank reveal the mysteries of black hole collisions? This fluid-filled tank, with its motorised centre, simulates the rotation of two black holes and the gravitational waves they produce. The wave patterns you see echo the predictions made by astrophysicist Channapattana Venkata Ramayya Vishveshwara in Bengaluru in the 1970s. His theories were validated when gravitational waves generated by two colliding black holes 1.3 billion light-years away were first detected in 2015. Alongside the tank, you will find a video of the 2015 waveforms and Vishveshwara’s original research paper. This exhibit links early theoretical research with a landmark achievement in modern science, showing how past insights have profoundly influenced our current understanding of the cosmos.
About the Contributor International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, established in 2007, is a multi- and interdisciplinary centre with three main goals: programmes, research, and outreach. ICTS programs bring together physicists, astronomers, cosmologists, mathematicians, biologists, students and researchers from around the world to collaborate to solve the most challenging questions nature poses.
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SMALL VOID
Alice Bucknell | Los Angeles, United States of America Medium: Video game Year: 2025
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Created in dialogue with theoretical physicists at Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN), Small Void is a cooperative two-player “call and response” game. While the game’s mechanics are inspired by the paradoxes of black holes and quantum entanglement, the world within the game is inspired by the alien world of lichens that lie beneath our feet. The artist demonstrates how language fails us—it communicates but also obfuscates—it is difficult to truly understand one another. The exhibit speaks of friction and identity, breakdown of communication, and the ways a world transforms all beings that move through it.
About the Artist Alice Bucknell is a North American artist and writer based in Los Angeles. They are generally interested in the limits of scientific knowledge and systems thinking, the weird possibilities of play, and the ecological dimensions of games that can dissolve binaries like humans vs environment, natural vs synthetic intelligence, and self vs world.
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STICKING TO LIGHT
Contributors: Ajay Rohan H, Katam Nikhil Teja, Kharanshu Sharma, Roman G Pillai | Bengaluru, India Medium: Interactive Installation, Projection Mapping Year: 2026
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Cut out the shape of a cat and view it through the polariser sheet. At first it may appear grey, but shift the angle and the cat appears orange at one, and blue at the other. What colour is it really then? The exhibit is a nod to Schrödinger’s cat, the famous thought experiment where something can exist in multiple states unless it is observed. The polariser sheet aids this demonstration by selectively filtering light waves—its physical properties and behaviour change when observed. Sticking to Light is a playful interpretation of quantum superposition, and the relationship between observation and outcome—something can be true and false simultaneously until observed. Created as part of QUANTUM Immersive Workshop, supported by the British Council.
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STARDUST IN MOTION Neeraj Chauhan, Ranjani Viswanatha | Bengaluru, India Medium: Acrylic chamber, Aluminum cold plate, Peltier cooling modules, Isopropyl alcohol vapor, LED illumination, Camera system Year: 2026
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The air around us is filled with traces of distant events. Particles born in stars, released from rocks beneath our feet, or arriving from beyond our galaxy continuously travel through the world and through our bodies. We rarely notice them, yet they are part of the fabric of everyday existence. Inside this chamber, a thin layer of cooled alcohol vapor captures these passing particles as delicate white lines. For a fraction of a second, the invisible becomes visible. Since the early twentieth century, cloud chambers have allowed scientists to observe evidence of atomic and subatomic processes, inviting us to consider a world where matter, energy, and chance leave only brief traces of their passage. Courtesy of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR).
About the Institution Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) is an autonomous institution under the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. The institute offers a unique interdisciplinary and collaborative research environment for researchers in cutting edge areas of science and engineering. It offers diploma programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate students to provide research-based learning opportunities.
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SUPERDECISION
Matthew Woodham | London, United Kingdom Medium: Interactive Installation Year: 2025
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Do all possible outcomes exist until we make a choice? Sit and reflect on a moment of personal uncertainty. As you do, enter a symbolic state of superposition, where all possibilities coexist. You will first witness a traditional coin toss, followed by a version where the coin hovers in suspension, allowing both sides to be seen simultaneously through the “split view periscope” before your decision is made.
About the Artist Matthew Woodham is an artist and ‘experience’ designer. Through his work, he aims to expose the system dynamics of nature by integrating physical models which describe behaviours of complex systems.
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SYNTROPY
Sumeet Rohilla | Amsterdam, Netherlands Medium: Custom electronics, Light Year: 2026
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Syntropy is a site-specific audio reactive light installation, inspired by principles of emergent behaviour and meta-heuristic synchronization. The installation employs a discrete biometric algorithm to synchronize light flashes in a network of quantum nodes. The installation invites visitors to interact with the stimulation environment through an onsite interactive panel which enables them to change the simulation parameter and inquire about the quantum nature of the algorithm underplay.
About the Artist Sumeet Rohilla is an interdisciplinary media artist and creative coder with an academic background in mathematical physics and applied optical sciences. He derives inspiration from mathematical abstractness and simplicity in nature as well as his diverse cultural background. He intertwines his passion for science, emerging technologies, and art.
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THE BRIGHTEST SHADOW
Researcher: Akash Gugnani, Nishant Dahma, Arindam Ghosh | Bengaluru, India Year: 2026
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A bright spot at the centre of a shadow seems impossible. Yet it is one of the clearest demonstrations that light behaves as a wave. In 1818, physicist Augustin Fresnel predicted that light bending around a small circular object would produce a bright point at the very centre of its shadow. The prediction was meant to challenge his wave theory, but when it was tested by François Arago, the spot appeared exactly where it was expected. Known today as the Poisson Spot or Arago Spot, this phenomenon occurs because light waves diffract around the obstacle and reinforce one another at the shadow’s centre. The same wave-like behaviour lies at the heart of quantum mechanics, where particles such as photons and electrons can also interfere, revealing a world governed by probability, superposition, and possibility. Courtesy of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
About the Contributor Indian Institute of Science (IISc) was established on 27 May 1990 via a visionary partnership between industrialist Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata, the Mysore royal family, and the colonial Government of India. Over the last 115 years, IISc has become India’s premier institute for advanced scientific and technological research and education. The institute strives to foster a balance between the pursuit of basic knowledge and applying its research for industrial and social benefit.
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VAPOUR CELLS
Contributor: Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science | Bengaluru, India Medium: Caesium Vapour cells, Microscope Year: 2026
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Atomic clocks measure the natural frequency of atoms instead of the vibrations of quartz. Here, a tiny caesium vapour cell is illuminated by laser light. Through a quantum effect called Coherent Population Trapping (CPT), the atoms enter a “dark state,” creating an exceptionally stable signal that keeps remarkably precise time. Researchers at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have developed India’s first miniaturised CPT-based caesium vapour cell. Small enough for portable devices, it brings laboratory precision into real-world applications. From navigation and telecommunications to space exploration and quantum technologies, precise timekeeping is the invisible infrastructure of the modern world. Courtesy of Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), Indian Institute of Science.
About the Institution Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering (CeNSE) was established in 2010 to pursue interdisciplinary research across several disciplines with a focus on nanoscale systems. Their current research includes, but is not limited to nanoelectronics, MEMS/NEMS, nanomaterials and devices, nano-biotechnology, solar cells, and neurobiology.
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WHEN SIZE BECOMES COLOUR
Neeraj Chauhan, Ranjani Vishwanatha | Bengaluru, India Medium: Glass bottles, UV Chamber, UV Chamber Year: 2026
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How can changing the size of a material change its colour? Quantum dots are tiny semiconductor crystals, only a few nanometres across. At this scale, electrons become confined, and the rules of quantum mechanics begin to dominate. Simply making a quantum dot smaller or larger changes the colour of light it absorbs and emits. This remarkable property has transformed display technologies, bringing richer colours to televisions and screens, while opening new possibilities for solar energy, biological imaging, lasers, sensors, and emerging quantum technologies. Courtesy of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR).
About the Institution Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) is an autonomous institution under the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. The institute offers a unique interdisciplinary and collaborative research environment for researchers in cutting edge areas of science and engineering. It offers diploma programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate students to provide research-based learning opportunities.
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WOMEN IN QUANTUM PHYSICS
American Institute of Physics, Women in the History of Quantum Physics | United States of America; Netherlands Medium: Photographs, Text Year: 2026
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In the 1920s, quantum physics was often referred to as ‘Knabenphysik’—‘boys physics’. Yet, the field of physics was quietly shaped by the work of several women physicists. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, these figures from around the world were toiling in universities and laboratories and contributing to quantum theory, experimentation, and application. Highlighted are 12 of the many women physicists that conducted pioneering work in the field. Using archival photographs and accounts of their contribution, this display brings into view this often overlooked history, broadening our understanding of who built the foundations of quantum science.
About the Contributors American Institute of Physics (AIP) promotes science and the profession of physics, publishing journals, and producing publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies, headquartered at the American Centre for Physics in College Park, Maryland. Women in the History of Quantum Physics (WiHQP) is a collaboration founded in early 2021, in preparation for the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. The group is an international team of historians, scientists, writers, and philosophers of science working to reconstruct and analyse the lives and contributions of dozens of women, including those who worked during the early days of the old quantum theory and later contributors to quantum field theory.
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TEAM CURATORIAL TEAM Aaiushi Beniwal, Visual Practitioner Antony Poonoly, Exhibition Designer Ashritha Sadu, Educator Danny Jeyaraj, Social Scientist David Verghese, Architect Gayatri Manu, Writer Harsha Jagadeesh, Biologist Jagath V, Biochemist Jahnavi Phalkey, Historian of Science Malavika Sudhir, Educator Manasvi CM, Science Communicator Shelwyn James S, Educator RESEARCH AND EDITORIAL Sarasi Ganguly, Writer Shambhawi Vikram, Social Scientist Vishwas Solagi, Translator DESIGN Marion Dubey, Graphic Designer Shaunaq Madan, Web Developer Shweta Jangir, Designer Srinidhi Sairamakrishnan, Multidisciplinary Designer COMMUNICATION AND DOCUMENTATION Anupama KT, Video Editor Arjun S, Videographer Janvi Baweja, Media and Communications Researcher Jayendra G, Visual Designer Ruchita Sud, PR and Communications Professional Thuvaja Gopalakrishnan, Cultural Practitioner Vishal Raghuram, Visual Artist YOUNG ADULT MENTORS Aditi Rajesh Narayan, Baker Ajai Narendran, Educator Dhavala Suri, Physicist Gokul Prabhu, Public Engagement Practitioner
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EXPERIMENTORS Ajay R H, Artist Anandita Balsavar, Student Anusha YG, Student Ashi Mishra, Freelancer Ashita Yedida, Student Deepak V S, Graphic Designer Hrithika C A, Ecologist Katam Nikhil Teja, Engineer Manasi Narula, Researcher Mulla Aizaz Muzawar, Student Rohit Taeja Kumar, Researcher Srivikashini, New Media Designer MEDIATORS Apoorva Masade, Researcher Chandana S, Finance and Business Analyst Keerthi V Patil, Student Lalithaditya K, Engineer Manasvi J, Student Mithil Gupta, Engineer Nidhi Hegde, Microbiologist Rachana M, Engineer Rajath J, Student Sachin Ghongde, Student Sakshi C Choradia, Student Sparsh Bhatt, Student Sudeep Joshi, Engineer Sushma Shree B, Engineer Vaishnavi Rajesh, Student Vindhya Kumar, Social Entrepreneur Yuktha J G, Student
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EXHIBITIONSEASON PROGRAMMING
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Farah Ahmad and Renjin Cherian conduct Future Bengaluru: Designing a People-Centric Sustainable City at Sci560, 2024.
The echo network conducts WATER560 at Sci560, 2025.
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WORKSHOPS AND MASTERCLASSES Our workshops provide young adults (between the ages of 18-30) the opportunity to participate in hands-on experiments and activities with early-career researchers. These sessions allow participants to ask critical questions, speculate on current and future research, and create tangible outcomes. The masterclasses bring in senior scholars and artists to have engaging discussions with young adults keen to gain insight into their research methods and artistic practises.
PUBLIC LECTURES Our Public Lectures form the cornerstone of exhibition-season programming. This series of talks brings together experts from across disciplines to speak about contemporary cutting-edge research, historical understanding of the theme at hand, and the potential future of their work. The lectures function as a bridge between the public and research that is often contained within journal articles or laboratories.
FILMS AND EVENTS During every exhibition-season, we curate a selection of films that revolve around the chosen theme. The medium of cinema allows us to incorporate a different, but no less important, mode of engagement with our audience. Documentaries and narrative films are able to approach the theme in a way that is atypical for exhibitions. Each film screening is followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and an academic who together explore the film’s key themes. Our events truly span the gamut—we include public engagement programmes ranging from live experiments to quizzes, from tours of museums to visits of laboratories, from panel discussions to behind the scenes of creating exhibitions. Through these events, we ensure that everyone finds something of interest in our programmes.
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EXPERIMENTOR PROGRAMME
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A mediator shows Indian Institute of Astrophysics' Photometer at Sci560, 2024.
A mediator shows Indian Institute of Astrophysics' Altitude and Azimuth Instrument at Sci560, 2024. 88 Science Gallery Bengaluru
EXPERIMENTOR PROGRAMME The Experimentor Programme encompasses Science Gallery Bengaluru’s principles, ethos, and practices within mentorship initiatives for young adults. Experimentors join SGB for a period of 14 months, and go through rigorous training in interdisciplinary thinking and public engagement. Over their tenure, they contribute to the gallery’s mission by creating engagement activities and public programmes, collating exhibition related research, facilitating learning programmes, and driving visitor experience on the gallery floor. Experimentors also have the opportunity to work with SGB and the University of Glasgow, to obtain a Postgraduate Certification in Science Public Engagement.
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This is a programme where you can push yourself out of your comfort zone and make deep connections with like-minded people. Even though it appears to be a public-facing job, you will truly grow as a person through introspection, and learn the way knowledge is shared. - Sanjana Hegde, CARBON Experimentor
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PAST EXHIBITIONS
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PAST EXHIBITIONS OVERVIEW
Exhibition
Duration
Exhibition Visitors
Sci560
24.08.2024–27.07.2025
3,25,600+
CARBON
09.08.2023–15.07.2024
2,66,000+*
PSYCHE
01.04.2022–15.05.2022
1,71,300+
CONTAGION
30.04.2021–31.12.2021
3,67,000+
PHYTOPIA
21.08.2020–30.08.2020
10,400+
SUBMERGE
15.12.2019–30.01.2020
5,700+
ELEMENTS
05.10.2019–11.10.2019
2,200+
*The numbers here include visitors to our touring PSYCHE exhibition at The Wellbeing Summit, Bilbao, Spain and Nlighten, Kochi, India. 92 Science Gallery Bengaluru
Programme Viewers and Participants
Participating Artists and Scholars
Social Media Impressions
Social Media Engagements
27,000+
182
58,80,000+
2,80,000+
9,700+
167
25,00,000+
65,000+
6,500+
116
7,60,800+
43,000+
8,100+
107
26,05,000+
40,844
3,600+
52
5,66,737
24,401
1,400+
49
2,37,000
34,000
500+
9
1,32,996
5,838
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Sci560 24.08.24 – 27.07.25
National Centre for Biological Sciences' Bheja Fry at Sci560, 2024.
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This exhibition really showed me that all branches of science are interconnected, more closely than we consider." - Soumya Shankar, Visitor
The play on the name ‘Sci560’ is particularly apt. As a Bangalorean, I strongly resonate with the exhibition—Bengaluru being a major hub for science and technology. The exhibition meaningfully reflects the city’s scientific spirit and innovation ecosystem, making the experience both relatable and impactful." - Vinay Parameshwarappa, Founder of Gully Tours
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OUR IMPACT
41
EXHIBITS
177
PROGRAMMES
337
DAYS
3,25,000+ VISITORS
27,000+
PROGRAMME PARTICIPANTS
PRESENCE IN MEDIA
58,81,702
IMPRESSIONS
2,81,235
ENGAGEMENTS
91
MEDIA MENTIONS
EXHIBITION EXPERIENCE
72%
70%
100%
Visitors rated the experience 4 and above out of 5
Visitors were exposed to a new way of thinking
Visitors said they would like to visit again
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CARBON 01.08.2023 – 14.07.2024
A mediator shows a visitor Andrea Rassell and Jacob Martin's Carbon Nanoverse at CARBON, 2023.
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Having an exhibition on carbon is extremely timely, it's relevant, it relates to pressing challenges that we face as humanity." - Jonas Brunschwig, Consul General, Swissnex in India
Exceptional, experiential and refreshing to the mind and body - the way that it's set up and and built is astonishing to see in this tech city." - Kit Srinivasan, Senior Manager, Global Engagement at Aalto University
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OUR IMPACT
37
EXHIBITS
64
PROGRAMMES
335 DAYS
2,66,000+ VISITORS
9,700+
PROGRAMME PARTICIPANTS
PRESENCE IN MEDIA
25,00,000+ IMPRESSIONS
65,000+
ENGAGEMENTS
82
MEDIA MENTIONS
EXHIBITION EXPERIENCE
91%
86%
94%
Visitors rated the experience 4 and above out of 5
Visitors were exposed to a new way of thinking
Visitors said they would like to visit again
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PSYCHE 01.04.2022 – 15.05.2022
May Abdalla's Playing with Reality exhibited at PSYCHE, 2022.
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The mind is surely the most complex aspect of our lived experience but also the least understood and, often, misunderstood. The PSYCHE exhibition offers a unique opportunity to generate awareness and conversations which can help us bridge the chasm between science and society on this fascinating subject.” - Vikram Patel, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health, Harvard Medical School
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I had not really thought about how interesting the brain is and I think the exhibition opened so many little doors to explore the brain and how it works.” - Manasa Ramesh, visitor on PSYCHE
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OUR IMPACT
10
EXHIBITS
91
PROGRAMMES
45
DAYS
1,76,000+
EXHIBITION VIEWS
2,300+
LIVE PROGRAMME PARTICIPANTS
PRESENCE IN MEDIA
7,60,800
43,000+
43
33,09,00,000+
IMPRESSIONS
MEDIA MENTIONS
ENGAGEMENTS
MEDIA REACH
EXHIBITION EXPERIENCE
92%
91%
67%
Visitors rated the experience 4 and above out of 5
Visitors were exposed to a new way of thinking
Visitors said they would like to visit again
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CONTAGION 30.04.2021 – 31.12.2021
Sarah Craske's THERIAK | The Disease Map exhibited at CONTAGION, 2021.
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When it took shape, it became an expansive examination of the spread not only of diseases, but also of the transmission of behaviours, ideas, and emotions in culture and society.” - The Lancet on CONTAGION
Whether online or not, I think the quality, the scale, the depth, comprehensiveness, timeliness of this programme, I find it hard to choose another one at any museum or equivalent institution anywhere in the world.” - Mukund Thattai, Biologist
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OUR IMPACT
16
EXHIBITS
91
PROGRAMMES
6
MONTHS
3,67,000+
EXHIBITION VIEWS
8,100+
LIVE PROGRAMME PARTICIPANTS
PRESENCE IN MEDIA
26,05,000+
40,844
60
92,70,00,000+
IMPRESSIONS
MEDIA MENTIONS
ENGAGEMENTS
MEDIA REACH
EXHIBITION EXPERIENCE
92%
93%
96%
Visitors rated the experience 4 and above out of 5
Visitors said they were exposed to a new way of thinking
Visitors said they would like to visit again
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PHYTOPIA 21.08.2020 – 30.08.2020
Lim Kok Yoong and Roopesh Sitharan's Operasi Cassava exhibited at PHYTOPIA, 2020.
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I am so impressed with the programme. It is so rich and diverse and I loved that the organisers wove together a beautifully complicated understanding for viewers to understand the role that plants play in the society.” - Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Historian of Science
The vast diversity in the type of exhibits reflected the diversity in nature and the plant world itself. As an ecologist and an artist, it was an extremely engaging exhibition.” - Sambita Modak, Visitor on PHYTOPIA
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OUR IMPACT
14
EXHIBITS
17
PROGRAMMES
10
DAYS
10,400+
EXHIBITION VIEWS
3600+
PROGRAMME PARTICIPANTS
PRESENCE IN MEDIA
5,66,737
24,401
4
80,00,000
IMPRESSIONS
MEDIA MENTIONS
ENGAGEMENTS
MEDIA REACH
EXHIBITION EXPERIENCE
95%
93%
81%
Visitors rated the experience 4 and above out of 5
Visitors said they were exposed to a new way of thinking
Visitors said they would like to visit again
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SUBMERGE 15.12.2019 – 30.01.2020
Dorota Borowa conducts her workshop “Ice Painting” at SUBMERGE, 2019.
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SUBMERGE explores water and all things water, from glaciers to water currents, or eddies which are depicted on a larger-than-life canvas….one might be forgiven for imagining that this was but a reimagining of Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night”
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- Business Standard on SUBMERGE
Science does not have to be something that you can’t understand and can’t interpret. When you see it as a part of an installation, it’s more interesting, it’s more interactive.” - Poonam V, visitor on SUBMERGE
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OUR IMPACT
15
EXHIBITS
45
PROGRAMMES
45
DAYS
5700+
VISITORS
1400
PROGRAMME PARTICIPANTS
PRESENCE IN MEDIA
2,37,000
34,000
9
10,75,20,000+
IMPRESSIONS
MEDIA MENTIONS
ENGAGEMENTS
MEDIA REACH
EXHIBITION EXPERIENCE
90%
89%
76%
Visitors rated the experience 4 and above out of 5
Visitors felt they were exposed to a new way of thinking
Visitors said they would like to visit again
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ELEMENTS 05.10.2019 – 11.10.2019
Visitors interacting with NS Vidhaydhiraja and Divya Chalapathy's Through the Looking Glass exhibited at Rangoli Metro Art Centre, ELEMENTS, 2019.
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There were so many new elements that I never knew existed. Now I am excited to explore the larger world of chemistry.” - Visitor on ELEMENTS
It was interesting to see how one can approach cooking through a scientific lens. To know how food items pair well with each other based on the elemental composition and its position in the periodic table. Overall it was a great experience and I’m looking forward to more such events.” - Participant at Edible Elements
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OUR IMPACT
08
EXHIBITS
08
PROGRAMMES
07
DAYS
2200+
VISITORS
500
PROGRAMME PARTICIPANTS
PRESENCE IN MEDIA
1,32,996
5,838
8
24,70,500+
IMPRESSIONS
MEDIA MENTIONS
ENGAGEMENTS
MEDIA REACH
EXHIBITION EXPERIENCE
90%
45%
45
Visitors rated the experience 4 and above out of 5
Visitors left the exhibition with a new question to think about
Minutes, the average time spent by visitors
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ABOUT SCIENCE GALLERY BENGALURU
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Science Gallery Bengaluru is a public institution for research-based engagement at the interface between the human, natural, and social sciences, and engineering, art, and design. We do so through exhibitions-led Public Engagement, a Mentorship Initiative, and a pioneering Public Lab Complex. Our founding partner is the Government of Karnataka. We draw on the intellectual capital of three of India’s leading research institutions: the Indian Institute of Science is our lead academic partner, and the National Centre for Biological Sciences, and International Centre for Theoretical Sciences are our collaborating academic partners. Science Gallery Bengaluru is Asia’s first, India’s only, and the world’s largest member of the Global Science Gallery Network with sister galleries in Melbourne, and Monterrey. We are the only free-standing gallery in the network located outside the walls of a university. WHAT WE DO SCIENCE Open Research at our Public Lab Complex that encourages open-ended experiments with young adults and experts, presenting a framework for intergenerational co-inquiry through interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration. CULTURE Shape Culture with our Public Engagement Programmes that contribute to building a society with a critical appreciation for the rigour of science, the ability to ask good questions, and participate in better-informed public discourse. EXPERIMENT Build Capacity through our Mentorship Initiative for young adults (15-30) that encourages non-evaluative, open-ended, and hands-on learning, nurturing a generation of future research pioneers and active citizens.
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