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CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART SINCE 2004

KYNKYNY Art Gallery, founded in 2004 by Namu Kini and Vivek Radhakrishnan, is a leading contemporary art gallery based in Bangalore. With over 21 years of experience, the gallery is known for its thoughtful curation and long-standing commitment to promoting contemporary Indian artists. KYNKYNY’s exhibition programme spans painting, sculpture, and mixed media, engaging with narratives of cultural memory, material exploration, socio-political inquiry, and environmental concerns. The gallery offers curatorial consultancy and commissioned artworks for private and architectural projects, and provides personalized art advisory services for collectors.

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EXHIBITIONS

AT THE GALLERY

HER STORY

A GROUP EXHIBITION BY PRIYANKA AELAY, VEENITA CHENDVANKAR, BHARTI PRAJAPATI, KOYAL RAHEJA, KRISHA BHUVA, MEGHANA KISHORE, NAINA MAITHANI, RUCHI BAKSHI, ANURADHA BHAUMICK, MEENAL SINGH, DEVIKA SUNDAR, DURGABAI VYAM, MADHURI KATHE, PAYAL ROKADE, RAKHEE SHENOY, SHWETA MANSINGKA, DIMPY MENON, SUJATA ACHREKAR, MAINAZ BANO

23 JANUARY - 20 FEBRUARY 2026

KYNKYNY Art Gallery presents “Her Story” a group exhibition featuring 19 women artists centered on the theme of Memory. This project seeks works that explore how memory shapes who we are - how it is held in the body, embedded in materials, passed down through generations, or even reconstructed through imagination. From personal recollections to shared cultural narratives, we welcome artworks that illuminate memory’s capacity to preserve, disrupt, or transform our understanding of ourselves and our communities.Whether the work uncovers forgotten histories, reinterprets inherited narratives, or questions the nature of memory itself; this exhibition brings together a wide range of artistic voices, embracing the diverse ways women engage with remembrance as both subject and practice.

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ONLINE EXHIBITION

STARDUST, MOONSHINE & I

A SOLO EXHIBITION BY PRIYANKA AELAY
28 NOVEMBER - 27 DECEMBER 2025

The forest in all its richness and diversity takes vital importance in Priyanka Aelay’s paintings. The lush terrain is visible in vast expanses, revealing the presence of fauna amidst the vegetation – a fox here, a tiger there, a jewel-like bird peeping from within the multihued foliage. The delicacy and scale of these creatures emphasises the larger-than-life quality of their surroundings, building on an atmosphere of abundance and growth. Working with fine layers of acrylic pigments on linen canvas, she creates landscapes that bring together the real and imaginary, the tangible and intangible

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REPRESENTED ARTISTS

  • SANDILYA THEUERKAUF

    In the Deccan scrublands, Sandilya Theuerkauf finds his muses and material in thorns, wood, and bark. With these natural materials, he creates complex intricate assemblages— unique tapestries woven thickly with thorns or carefully laden with bark.  
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  • MEENAL SINGH

    Meenal Singh's large oil paintings evoke a sense of fluidity and motion, appearing to ebb and flow across the canvas. Rooted in her fascination with materiality, Meenal's work are abstract and emotional, borrowing extensively from geological events and formations.
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  • NAINA MAITHANI

    Naina Maithani is a self-taught artist who interprets the sights and sounds of the world around her using a visceral, abstract visual language. Alluringly ambiguous, she revels in the freedom and endless possibilities that formlessness offers.
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  • GURUSIDDAPPA G E

    Gurusiddappa’s dreamlike, fantastical paintings offer sharp, witty commentaries on contemporary society, urbanisation, and the costs of development on the world around us. His works provoke viewers to examine their impact on the world around them. 
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  • VEENITA S CHENDAVANKAR

    Nature, fantasy and colour, in all its extraordinary hues, tints and tones, play a significant role in Veenita Chendvankar’s art. A self-confessed dreamer, her acrylics on canvas are magical floating worlds – a free collage of her fantasies, memories, sense-impressions and the outpourings of her inner world.
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  • S RAVI SHANKAR

    S Ravi Shankar is a visual artist whose practice bridges the realms of fine art and digital design. With a solid foundation in traditional arts, he embarked on a self-taught journey into computer graphics in 1989—at a time when formal training in the field was virtually nonexistent.
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  • SIDDHARTH SHINGADE

    Siddharth Shingade recreates Tuljapur, where he grew up, in his artworks as he remembers it – through the prism of his memories, visions and imagination. Imbued with nostalgia, his richly layered acrylics celebrate the resilience of his people.
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  • PRIYANKA AELAY

    Priyanka Aelay’s acrylic works unfold like magic realist tales filled with birds, beasts, animals, trees and flowers in bold, vibrant colours. Her mythical, enchanted forests are filled with intricate motifs, exquisite patterns and striking imagery.
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  • YUVAN BOTHYSATHUVAR

    Yuvan Bothysathuvar creates an optical wonderland with his abstract collages. Spellbinding at first glance, their hypnotic patterns and bright pops of colour soon give way to a luminous, giddy world of strips, blobs, spangles, whorls and waves.
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  • GANAPATI HEGDE

    Ganapati Hegde paints half-real, half-imagined worlds, layered with fantastical and unexpected elements that depict the rapturously green and radiant landscape of North Karnataka’s coast where he grew up. 
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  • BHASKAR RAO BOTCHA

    Bhaskar Rao Botcha’s experimentation with figurative and street art led him to natural landscapes, consequently developing his profound, sensory interest in trees – which were to become the core element of his works. 
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  • MANISH CHAVDA

    Human figures rarely inhabit Manish Chavda’s world, and the animals and birds found in his landscapes are always few in number. He strives in his work to evoke a meditative experience, expressing the inner life of things through his slow and savoured process.
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  • G SUBRAMANIAN

    G Subramanian grew up in a village in coastal Tamil Nadu amidst folk performers and theatre troupes. His father was a stage artist, and this early exposure to make-up, costumes, screens and props shaped his unique, dramatic aesthetic vision. 
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  • AVIJIT DUTTA

    Avijit Dutta’s moody, immersive artworks explore the nebulous nature of imagination and time. Through his interpolation of methodical still-life natural elements, intimate figures, and hazy backgrounds, he conjures questions of memory and nostalgia.
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TESTIMONIALS

  • Nishika R — Denver, USA

    "It was a real treat to check out all the pieces, and the space is very well curated! I actually bought more than I was looking for, it was hard to choose!"

  • Bubli S — India

    "Even if I do not pick up anything, the gallery transports me to another world and I come out feeling at peace. The art and the curator both leave you moved."

  • Shwetha R W — Thane, India

    "I fell in love with a painting at the KYNKYNY booth, and it became the first painting that I bought for my new home!"

  • Saahil P — Mumbai, India

    "I discovered KYNKYNY at the AD Design Show 2023, and immediately liked their collection of contemporary Indian art on display."

  • Farah A M — Bengaluru, India

    "I think Namu and Vivek are trail blazers because they have not just found artists that are unique, but they always connect with these artists at a human level."

  • Vismay S — Singapore

    "We have now bought several pieces from the gallery, and the experience every time has been outstanding."

  • Ravi C – Bengaluru, India

    "Every time we feel the need to buy a new piece, we start browsing the many good galleries in Bangalore, but always end up buying from KYNKYNY because of their excellent curation."

  • Vijaya B – Bangalore, India

    "As architects we work on various typologies; different spaces need art which ties the theme of the space. Art should compliment the material palette that we work with. With these aspects in mind, at KYNKYNY, I always found art which was apt for a particular space."

  • Lakshmi K – Bengaluru, India

    "I've grown up watching dad collect art, and I vividly remember him bringing home the first painting from KYNKYNY back in 2005 - a Ganesha by the eminent Basuki Dasgupta."

  • Indira K  — Bengaluru, India

    "KYNKYNY introduced me to works by
    G Subramanian and Siddharth Shingade, and, despite having purchased works by Ganapati Hegde earlier, completely new stories and ideas came through the gallery."
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