https://www.emamiart.com/

1. EmamiArt

2. GALLERY
MANDATE
Emami Art, one of India’s most significant art
galleries, is a key space for cultural production.
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Emami Art is
steadfast in advocating for modern, contemporary
and historical material. Focusing on a future-
forward, complex, multi-dimensional approach, the
gallery creates dynamic, wide-ranging and diverse
parallel programming. Our programmes include art
fairs, museum projects, seminars, artists-in-
residency, art awards, collaborations with
institutions, public art projects, and more for
emerging, mid-career, and established artists.

3. PROMOTERS
Totally attuned and complementing each other, Mr. R S
Agarwal and Mr. R S Goenka share the same thoughts in
matters of innovation, ideation, activation, implementation
which led them to create and build, brand Emami – a
diversified leading business entity Company built to last.
Today, Emami Group, under the aegis of the founding
fathers enjoys leadership presence in diverse sectors like
FMCG, newsprint & board manufacturing, hospitals, edible
oil, bio-diesel, realty, writing instrument, retail and
contemporary art, generating employment for more than
20,000 people. Apart from their sharp business acumen and
leadership skills, both the friends-cum-business partners are
great connoisseurs of myriad genres of performing arts, be it
music, art, dance or theatre. Mr. Agarwal and Mr. Goenka’s
exquisite taste and love for arts led them to conceptualize &
establish Emami Art, one of the largest contemporary art
galleries in India and Kolkata Centre of Creativity, a one of its
kind integrated art centre in India to nurture inter-
disciplinary pursuits of art and culture.

4. CEO, EMAMIART
Richa Agarwal CEO Emami Art, is the driving force behind
Emami Art, a prominent private art institution in the
Eastern region of India. She has been involved with giving
form to the institutions core philosophy of making art
and cultural practices accessible to all. Under Richa’s
aegis Emami Art is focused on a future-forward vision
while upholding and honouring established cultural
heritages. As an institution Emami Art not only hosts
temporary exhibitions of modern, contemporary and
cutting-edge art, presents works held in its collection,
commissions artists to create site-specific pieces but also
stages events across the cultural spectrum such as
concerts, performances, symposium, publications,
collaborative projects, film screenings, incubator
programmes and more.

5. DIRECTOR & HEAD
CURATOR, EMAMI ART
Ushmita Sahu, Director and head curator of Emami Art,
Kolkata has a background in fine arts from Kala Bhavana,
Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. Before joining the
institution Ushmita has worked as an artist, independent
curator, art writer, and scholar for several years and has
numerous national and international projects to her
credit.
In her capacity as a scholar, she has been researching
modernist artist-designer Riten Mozumdar for several
years and is the leading authority on Mozumdar’s
practice. She has curated IMPRINT: Riten Mozumdar, a
compact survey retrospective on Riten Mozumdar at
Chatterjee and Lal in 2020. A recipient of the IFA (India
Foundation for the Arts) research grant to continue her
research on Riten Mozumdar, she has previously
authored several pieces on Mozumdar which includes a
monograph in Bengali.

6. Represented Artists
Anjan Modak
Arpita Akhanda
Arunima Choudhury
Bholanath Rudra
Bose Krishnamachari
Dashrath Patel
G. Ravinder Reddy
Ghana Shyam Latua
Jogen Chowdhury
Prasanta Sahu
Soma Das
REPRESENTED
ARTISTS

7. THANKS FOR
READING
Emami Art
Kolkata Centre for Creativity
777, Anandapur EM Bypass, Kolkata – 700 107
West Bengal, India
+91 33 6623 2300
contact@emamiart.com