How galleries and artists grow together: The journey of Gallery Time and Space
In this photo essay, we feature more exhibition highlights from this popular Bengaluru art gallery, and curator insights.
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Bengaluru’s Gallery Time and Space recently featured a group show titled Continuum: Artists across Time and Space. It featured the works of over 50 artists across diverse styles and themes (see our earlier coverage of art exhibitions at this popular cultural hub here.
Featured artists include Jatin Das, Kayalvizhi Sethukaras, Mamata Shinghade, Nilisha Phad, Renuka Sondhi Gulati, and Shipra Bhattacharya. Other artists will be featured at an upcoming exhibition from July 25 to August 8, on printmaking and graphic art.
Jatin Das is a celebrated contemporary artist, known for his expressive paintings, sculptures, drawings, and murals. Over the past five decades, he has exhibited extensively in India and internationally, along with contributions through public art projects and arts advocacy.
The practice of Kayalvizhi Sethukaras is rooted in personal memory, identity, and cultural narratives. She draws inspiration from South Indian traditions, mythology and domestic life, and depicts themes of femininity, childhood, belonging, and everyday experiences.
Mamata Shinghade’s evocative paintings celebrate nature, rural life, and the quiet resilience of women. Working primarily in acrylics, her works explore landscapes, trees, birds, and human figures in ways that blur the boundaries between reality and imagination.
Nilisha Phad examines the relationship between memory, identity and lived experience through figurative and conceptual approaches. Her works encourage contemplation and dialogue about the complexities of contemporary life.
Renuka Sondhi Gulati is known for her vibrant paintings that draw from spirituality, nature and the emotional landscapes of human experience. Her themes of inner peace, cultural heritage, and the transformative power of art resonate with a wide range of audiences.
Shipra Bhattacharya is a distinguished contemporary painter acclaimed for her psychologically rich figurative works that examine femininity, identity and the complexities of domestic and emotional life. Themes include solitude, desire, memory, and selfhood.
“The exhibition shows an exciting range of styles, subtle nuances of subjects, and painstaking techniques honed to a perfection. Justice is done to dynamic narratives in a physical, emotional and spiritual manner,” gallery founder and curator Renu George tells YourStory.
Art has gone through waves of styles such as classicism, impressionism, surrealism, and cubism. “Many of these represent paradigm shifts but were sometimes seen as unacceptable when first exhibited,” she observes.
“Some of the artworks in the exhibition reveal meticulous planning, while others reflect spontaneity and even accidents. Art challenges the preconditioned mind of the viewer, and can provoke a new visual understanding,” George adds.
Even the form and message of the same artwork can vary in emotion. “For example, the form can delight the viewer even while showing a perfectly horrific image,” she explains.
“Gallery Time and Space was never meant to be purely commercial. It has always been a community – alive with exhibitions, cultural conversations, live art performances, drama, and music,” gallery manager Nagma Shaik explains.
Through art, ideas take form and become real. “Across eras, art has evolved alongside humanity, mirroring its rhythms, struggles and hopes. Art exists within a timeframe and occupies space to create an ambience that holds an essence,” she observes.
“The gallery holds past, present and future in a continuum, and transcends boundaries. Gallery Time and Space is not a static place, but a living journey – artists have not merely exhibited here but have grown here,” she adds.
And in turn, the gallery itself has grown with the artists. “It has been shaped by many hands, many minds, and many moments,” Shaik describes.
The exhibitors have showcased diverse styles, pespectives, media, messages, and talents. Their artworks reflect a wide range of influences, particularly from nature.
“They acknowledge the ultimate mastery of nature. Artists express debt to the environment as an eternal source of inspiration,” artist-curator Renu George explains.
“Art reveals a commitment to the world which elevates the level of humanity for artists as well as viewers,” she signs off.
Now what have you done today to pause in your busy schedule and harness your creative side for a better world?
(All photographs taken by Madanmohan Rao on location at Gallery Time and Space.)