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CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART SINCE 2004

Founded in 2004 by Namu Kini and Vivek Radhakrishnan, KYNKYNY is a leading contemporary Indian art gallery based in Bangalore and Mumbai. For over two decades, the gallery has been recognized for its thoughtful curatorial vision and long-term commitment to nurturing significant artistic practices. Its exhibition programme spans painting, sculpture, and mixed media, exploring themes of cultural memory, material experimentation, socio-political discourse, and environmental engagement. KYNKYNY also offers curatorial consultancy, commissioned artworks for private and architectural projects, and personalized art advisory services for collectors.

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EXHIBITIONS

AT THE MUMBAI GALLERY

A SOLO EXHIBITION BY PRIYANKA AELAY

10 SEPT - 01 OCT


The forest occupies a central position in Priyanka Aelay’s new body of work. Her paintings present it not simply as a landscape, but as a complex environment in which different forms of life coexist. Animals appear within dense vegetation—sometimes alone, sometimes in pairs or groups—while distinctions between terrestrial, aquatic and aerial worlds become deliberately fluid. A fox may inhabit the same visual space as a tiger, while foliage can shift into coral and water can assume the qualities of sky. These transformations allow Aelay to consider the forest as both a physical environment and an imaginative space.

Working in fine layers of acrylic on linen, Aelay constructs landscapes that move between observation and invention. Her approach is informed by her academic research in film studies and visual culture, particularly her engagement with folklore, myth and popular storytelling, in which the forest functions as a site of uncertainty, transformation and trial.

Aelay’s landscapes resist clear boundaries. Vegetation, water, sky and animal life intersect and transform into one another, suggesting an interconnected ecology rather than separate habitats. The animals can
be read both literally and symbolically, allowing questions of belonging, solitude, companionship and coexistence to emerge through the landscape itself.

Her treatment of colour and botanical detail reflects her long-standing interest in the miniature painting tradition, particularly its highly constructed environments and sophisticated use of colour. Rather than reproducing that tradition, she draws from its visual strategies, developing a contemporary pictorial language in which scale, transparency, pattern and spatial ambiguity become important structural devices.

It Will Rain Again When We Meet brings together these concerns around landscape, folklore, memory and interconnectedness. Aelay’s forests occupy a space between the observed world and the worlds produced by stories, offering fragments, encounters and visual clues through which viewers can construct their own readings.

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AT THE BANGALORE GALLERY

A SOLO EXHIBITION BY NIDHI MARIAM JACOB

24 JULY - 22 AUGUST

KYNKYNY Art Gallery presents “Shape of My Heart”, a solo exhibition featuring Nidhi Mariam Jacob. Shape of My Heart is a collection of paintings that emerged from the artist's journey through grief, remembrance, and transformation following the passing of her mother, Helen Elizabeth Jacob.

As a child, Nidhi was convinced that her mother possessed a kind of magic when it came to soil and plants. Whether working from seed, cutting, or intuition, Helen seemed to understand the language of flowers and foliage in a way that felt both mysterious and profound. Watching her nurture life from the earth inspired a lasting sense of wonder, and Nidhi often imagined her mother as a nature goddess whose muddy hands carried a quiet power of creation and care.

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ONLINE EXHIBITION

THE URBAN BIOME
A Group Exhibition featuring Krisha Bhuva, Nivedita Shinde, N.Divya, Simran Yagyik, Sunil K, Hemanth Kumar

This exhibition explores the relationships between humans and the environments we inhabit, both indoors and out. The spaces we occupy are not merely arrangements of walls, volumes and surfaces, but living constellations shaped by objects, structures, habits and the many forms of life that coexist within them.

Things rarely exist in isolation. Objects gather around other objects, spaces acquire particular rhythms, and patterns emerge through acts of intention, neglect, efficiency, convenience or chance. A carefully arranged cupboard and the organic growth of a neighbourhood are not entirely different phenomena; both reveal how human behaviour leaves traces and gives form to the world around us. In turn, these environments shape the way we think, move and relate to one another, even as they remain products of our desires, anxieties and routines.

Seen in this way, objects, structures and landscapes become active participants rather than passive settings. They enter into relationships with one another, generating narratives that unfold through proximity, accumulation and use. Humans are only one set of actors within this larger ecology, continuously influencing and being influenced by the worlds they create.

Yet these environments are never exclusively human. They are shared with plants, animals and countless other living beings that respond to changing conditions and reshape them in turn. Together, these interdependent relationships form a kind of urban biome—an intricate ecology shaped by cultural, social and economic forces, and one that is especially complex within contemporary India.

Through these works, the exhibition invites us to observe the subtle exchanges between the sentient and the inanimate, between individuals and systems, and between the spaces we construct and those that ultimately construct us.


- Vivek Radhakrishnan

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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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  • RAKHEE SHENOY

    Rakhee Shenoy’s surreal still life collages transport you to a realm of wonder, comfort and escape. The textile artist’s dreamy works delight in the art of crossovers and flipping how we view reality. Layered and fluid mixed media works merge internal and external worlds as they spill over onto a single frame.

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  • KRISHA BHUVA

    Krisha Bhuva is a promising young visual artist currently based in Gujarat. Her practice is deeply rooted in an admiration for nature’s quiet elegance—the graceful movements of birds, the softness of organic textures, and the timeless beauty of the feminine form.
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  • MEGHANA KISHORE

    Meghana’s artworks draw you into an abstract wilderness of colour, sensation, texture and light. Her abstract acrylics map luminous terrains that are a transportive meditative experience – a deep breath that evokes peace, calm, and solace.
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  • PUVIYARASU KANNADASAN

    Emerging artist Puviyarasu Kannadasan’s pen and ink drawings capture the pristine, pastoral beauty of Tamil Nadu’s countryside. The artworks are set in his hometown Arani in Tiruvallur, where he heads off on his bike early in the mornings to capture landscapes and settings that catch his eye, along with his drawing materials and easel.
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  • PAYAL ROKADE

    Payal Rokade, is an up and coming artist from Umred, a small town in Maharashtra. Her close relationship with nature is the foundation of her work, reflecting the harmony, complexity, and the fragility of this connection.
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  • NIVEDITA SHINDE

    A trained architect and artist, Nivedita’s work expands her empathy across divisions of race, gender, class, caste, nationality and species. Her art studio and practice comes from the material and spatial knowledge she gained on the field as an architect, resulting in shifting, experimental works.

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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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ART ADVISORY

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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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