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We’re delighted to announce that The Art Institute of Chicago has acquired Waswo X. Waswo’s ‘Towards Eternity’, a suite ...
03/06/2026

We’re delighted to announce that The Art Institute of Chicago has acquired Waswo X. Waswo’s ‘Towards Eternity’, a suite of five paintings from his December 2025 solo at Bikaner House, ‘The Darkness and the Star’. Conceived in memory of his late partner Tommy Livieri, the exhibition was a celebration of life and love, the joy of companionship, leading inevitably to the grief of separation. This profound narrative arc unfolds beautifully across the acquired works, imagining the lovers amidst idyllic garden landscapes rendered with the vibrant colour, meticulous detail and distinct stylization of the Indian miniature painting tradition.

Our sincere thanks to Dr. Madhuvanti Ghose, Alsdorf Associate Curator of Indian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan Art, Arts of Asia at the museum, for championing this acquisition, and the museum board for approving it.

As these works enter as the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, they deepen global conversations around contemporary miniature practice and reaffirm the international engagement with South Asian contemporary art.

Veer Munshi’s paintings currently on display in the exhibition, “On Paper”, at Gallery Espace reflects on memory, violen...
01/06/2026

Veer Munshi’s paintings currently on display in the exhibition, “On Paper”, at Gallery Espace reflects on memory, violence, and displacement. Through drawing, Munshi traces the lingering impact of conflict, where personal histories intersect with recurring cycles of collective grief.

“A midpool of blood returns, and the world trembles in shared grief. From Iran–America to Palestine–Israel, violence redraws the fragile borders of humanity. My drawings emerge from residues of blasts, echoing shrapnel memories of Kashmir, lastly in Baisaran, Pahalgam, where fragments of lives, silence, and dust persist as witnesses to histories that repeat, unlearned and painfully unresolved.”

- Veer Munshi

Veer Munshi is a visual artist and curator born in Srinagar, Kashmir, and based in Delhi since 1990. A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda, his practice has long engaged with exile, memory, and belonging—subjects that remain central to his work over a career spanning more than three decades.

Title of Work: Echoes of Rupture

Exhibition: On Paper: A Group Show (on view till 15th June | Monday–Saturday, 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM)

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Sonia Khurana’s works currently on display in the exhibition, “On Paper”, at Gallery Espace frame the body in gestures o...
26/05/2026

Sonia Khurana’s works currently on display in the exhibition, “On Paper”, at Gallery Espace frame the body in gestures of movement. Through watercolour, ink, and gouache, her works move between suspension, repetition, and grounded persistence — where the body becomes both image and inquiry.

“In images from Bird/‘if I can’t dance..’ the body negotiates gravity through repeated attempts at lift yet never quite leaves the ground. What unfolds over time in video is here held in a single frame, compressing effort into a moment suspended between attempt and inevitability. The inscription: ‘If I Can’t Dance..’ stages the pull between participation and refusal.”

– Sonia Khurana

In If I Can’t Dance – Post Facto, the body appears caught between lift and collapse — suspended in gestures that repeat, resist, and return to gravity. In Hen Protocol: A Tableau Vivant for an Axial Routine, movement unfolds through grounded rhythms and axial gestures, observing birds in states of persistence rather than flight.

Sonia Khurana is a New Delhi-based visual artist whose composite practice encompasses moving image, performance, drawing, text, sound, and installation. Her work delves into themes of interiority and embodiment, exploring the self in relation to the world while critically engaging with cultural and gendered identities. Through a lens of poetic intimacy, Khurana redefines the political space, challenging conventional narratives and power dynamics.

1) Artist Name: Sonia Khurana
Title of Work: If I Can’t Dance – Post Facto VI, V, IV & III
Year: 2025
Medium: Watercolour, ink & gouache on paper
Dimensions: 16.5 × 11.5 inches

2) Title of Work: Hen Protocol: A Tableau Vivant for an Axial Routine III, II & I
Year: 1997
Medium: Watercolour, ink & gouache on paper
Dimensions: 10.5 × 7 inches (each)

Exhibition/Show Details: On Paper: A Group Show (on view till 15th June | Monday–Saturday, 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM)

Harking back nearly two decades to 108 small stories, Manjunath Kamath’s first solo exhibition at Gallery Espace featur...
21/05/2026



Harking back nearly two decades to 108 small stories, Manjunath Kamath’s first solo exhibition at Gallery Espace featuring small scale paintings. The exhibition was dedicated to his daughter Manya
“Once upon a time…..an artist reached home tired after a long day’s work. The artist had a daughter and her name was Manya.
Manya was a two year old lovely little thing. She liked her father making pictures at home. She used to sit with him and ask a lot of questions.
On that particular day, though tired he was, the artist decided to paint the picture of a dog. Manya came around and sat next to the artist.
He took the brush and started painting a white dog with black patches on his body. The dog in the picture looked leftwards.
Then the artist painted a gramophone. It was looking just the opposite direction.
Manya asked her father, “Papa, are they crossed? Why do they look away?”
The artist smiled and said: “Manya, my daughter….Once upon a time…they used to look at each other. Then some people started going around the town saying that the dog was only listening to His Master’s Voice. The dog was a fiercely independent being. He got really irritated and then on whenever he saw the gramophone he started looking away from it….”

-Extract from catalogue text

Manjunath Kamath (b. 1972) is an Indian contemporary artist whose versatile practice spans painting, terracotta sculpture, digital collage, and video. Drawing from a rich tapestry of classical, popular, religious, and secular visualities, his playful and intriguing work offers speculative imaginaries about the past and how history is constructed. Educated at the Chamarajendra Academy of Visual Arts in Mysore and the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, Kamath is represented by Gallery Espace and has exhibited extensively worldwide. His work is held in prestigious global collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the National Gallery of Modern Art, and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, among others.

Viswanath Kuttum’s works emerge from memory and the landscape genre, transforming observations of the Andaman Islands in...
20/05/2026

Viswanath Kuttum’s works emerge from memory and the landscape genre, transforming observations of the Andaman Islands into deep, tactile visual narratives. His surfaces carry traces of earth, ritual, and environment — where material itself becomes language. Wax, resin, oil, and natural powders come together, holding within them a fragile sense of balance.

“My work is inspired by the simple life and customs of the Andamans. While the subjects often comes from tribal cultures, the language of expression remains contemporary.”

– Viswanath Kuttum

In Power-1, clusters of hands rise and dissolve into one another — gesturing, pointing, witnessing. At the centre, a singular darkened hand bearing an eye becomes both symbol and interruption: a presence that watches, resists, and unsettles. The work moves between collective memory and individual agency, evoking questions of power, surveillance, identity, and coexistence.
Born in 1988 Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Kuttum studied painting at the Government Institute of Fine Art, Gwalior, followed by a Master’s degree from the College of Art, New Delhi. He was awarded the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2020 and received the Khoj Support Grant in the same year.

Artist Name: Viswanath Kuttum
Title of Work: Power-1
Year: 2026
Medium: Paraffin & bee wax, resin, double boiled linseed oil, pigment on paper board
Dimensions: 30 × 42 inches | 42 × 30 inches
Exhibition/Show Details: On Paper: A Group Show (on view till 15th June | Monday–Saturday, 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM)

Reminiscing a landmark moment as Gallery Espace celebrated G.R. Iranna’s participation at the India Pavilion of the 58th...
14/05/2026

Reminiscing a landmark moment as Gallery Espace celebrated G.R. Iranna’s participation at the India Pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale, Our Time for a Future Caring, supported by Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

Iranna’s monumental installation Naavu (We Together)-composed of hundreds of handcrafted padukas-reflected on shared humanity, movement, memory, and the enduring relevance of Gandhian thought. Presented as part of the Gandhi 150 commemorations, the work stood as a powerful meditation on coexistence, resilience, and collective care.

A proud moment for contemporary Indian art on the global stage, and a memory we continue to cherish.

G R Iranna
NAAVU (We are together)
2012

Installation with about 2500 padukas (an age old footwear) inching their way across the wall and the ground, has been inspired by the historical Dandi March led by Mahatma Gandhi. This was an event and a time when no one thought about caste, creed or religion and stood together for a common cause.

The artist refers to the Dandi March as a deeply spiritual act, one imbued with activism.

Deadline Extended: Open Call for Submissions for ArteSpace edition on the theme of friendship We are thrilled by the ent...
09/05/2026

Deadline Extended: Open Call for Submissions for ArteSpace edition on the theme of friendship

We are thrilled by the enthusiastic response to our Open Call, and the wealth of compelling pitches we’ve received. We’re extending the deadline by a week, and you have until May 18th to frame your thoughts and send us a 250-500 word pitch. We continue to be open to submissions that negotiate the shifting boundaries of essay, paper, article, creative fiction and non-fiction.

New Deadline: May 18th, 2026
Apply via the link in our bio.

Debnath Basu’s artworks bring text, language into the visual field not as explanation, but as atmosphere being layered, ...
08/05/2026

Debnath Basu’s artworks bring text, language into the visual field not as explanation, but as atmosphere being layered, whispered, and slowly dissolving into image. What begins as text becomes texture, and eventually, a visual language that resists clarity and leans into the absurd fragility of existence. Text doesn’t just sit still but breathes, shifts, and unsettles.

“My images often stem from specific literary sources and begin to take shape visually circumventing the literalness of the idea and emphasizing more on a quirky idiosyncratic visual expression often bordering on absurdity and precariousness of human existence.”

- Debnath Basu

Drawing from Saadat Hasan Manto’s haunting story, Basu’s “Barbed Toba Tek Singh” reimagines the tragic figure of Toba Tek Singh suspended in ‘no man’s land’- a body caught between borders, identities, and histories. Not quite belonging, not quite leaving.
It stays with you-quietly, insistently.

Artist Name: Debnath Basu
Birth Date: 1961
Title of Work: Barbed Toba Tek Singh
Exhibition/Show Details: On Paper: A Group Show (on view till 15th June | Monday–Saturday, 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM)

Harking back to ‘Bronze’ (2006)Exactly 20 years ago, Gallery Espace mounted a landmark exhibition across two floors of t...
07/05/2026

Harking back to ‘Bronze’ (2006)
Exactly 20 years ago, Gallery Espace mounted a landmark exhibition across two floors of the Lalit Kala Akademi to celebrate the centenary of Ram Kinker Baij. Curated by Madan Lal, the ambitious show traced a century of Indian sculpture, bringing together 34 artists across generations — from pioneers like Somnath H**e and Meera Mukherjee to younger artists such as Arunkumar H.G. and Vibha Galhotra.

Aku, Anita Dube, Arunkumar H.G., Dattatraya Apte, Debasish Bhattacharyya, Dhananjay Singh, Himmat Shah, Jaidev Baghel, K. Laxma Goud, K.S. Radhakrishnan, Karl Antao, Krishna Yadav, Latika Katt, Madan Lal, Meera Mukherjee, Nagji Patel, Navjot Altaf, Prodosh Dasgupta, Raghav Kaneria, Rajendar Tiku, Ram Kinker Baij, Ravinder G. Reddy, Riyas Komu, S. Nandagopal, S. Paramasivam, Sankho Chaudhuri, Sarbari Roy Chowdhury, Saroj Kumar Singh, Satish Gujral, Somnath H**e, Subodh Gupta, Sunil Gawde, Trupti Patel, Vibha Galhotra.

In the exhibition catalogue, Sankho Chaudhuri recalled how his teacher revolutionized sculptural practice in India:

“…A pioneer in modern Indian sculpture, he [Baij] showed the way in more than one direction for the younger generation. At that time even plaster of Paris had to be brought from Calcutta. It was imported and very costly. Ram Kinker found an alternative in cement casting. Taking a cue from the idol makers, he made a skeleton of ordinary bamboo and plastered it with mud and cow dung, to be finally coated with tar…

He took to the use of iron rods and a mixture of cement bonded with pebbles from the local ‘Khoai’. He built large figures out of it.

Technically, it opened a new door.”

#2006

Moments from the Opening Reception of the India Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Vene...
07/05/2026



Moments from the Opening Reception of the India Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia featuring “Geographies of Distance: Remembering Home”. Set within the historic halls of Palazzo Pisani, the exhibition is envisioned as a “space for collective reflection on the evolving nature of belonging in today’s world”

Pictured here are Renu Modi and Rasika Kajaria with artist Sumakshi Singh in front of her installation ‘Permanent Address’; curator Amin Jaffer alongside Alwar Balasubramaniam’s ‘Drift’ in earth and resin; Ranjani Shettar’s delicate botanical installation ‘Under the same sky’; and the monumental bamboo intervention ‘Chaal’ by Asim Waqif weaving itself through the architecture of the pavilion.

The exhibition remains on view from May 9 to November 22 at the India Pavilion, Venice.

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