The moments that made the artist

CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS

“Every creative life has an origin—and a moment that made them.”

Bose Krishnamachari

Bose Krishnamachari (born 1963) is a leading Indian contemporary artist and curator with an international exhibition profile. He is widely recognized for his vivid abstract work and as a co-founder of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, one of South Asia’s largest contemporary art festivals. He has also been listed in ArtReview’s Power 100, which recognizes influential figures in global contemporary art. His solo exhibitions have been presented at major institutions in India, including the National Gallery of Modern Art, and his work has appeared in international group exhibitions, including at the Serpentine Gallery, the Astrup Fearnley Museet, and MAXXI. In 2009, he founded Gallery BMB to support and showcase contemporary art. Krishnamachari continues to bridge traditional and digital art realms through collaborations involving AI and blockchain, aligning with global trends in tokenized art assets. His curatorial vision has fostered cross-cultural dialogue and mentored emerging South Asian artists through biennale editions and international residencies.

Vinod Bhardwaj

Born in Lucknow in 1948, Vinod Bhardwaj is a distinguished psychologist, journalist, and filmmaker whose career spans over five decades of cultural leadership. After co-editing the literary journal Aarambh and serving as the features editor for Navbharat Times, he established himself as a versatile independent curator and critic. A prolific author, Bhardwaj has published acclaimed poetry collections, short stories, and novels, including Seppuku and Sachcha Jhooth, both of which were published in English by HarperCollins. His scholarly contributions include the seminal art encyclopedia Brihad Adhunik Kala Kosh and extensive monographs on masters like F.N. Souza and A. Ramachandran. As a filmmaker, he has distributed his experimental works internationally, and his documentaries—covering iconic figures such as Jogen Chowdhury and Krishen Khanna—are highly regarded for their archival depth. Most recently, he edited a definitive centenary volume on F.N. Souza (2025) for India’s historic Dhoomimal Gallery, continuing his lifelong dedication to South Asian contemporary art.

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Marine Tanguy

Marine Tanguy is a British–French art entrepreneur and author, best known as the founder and CEO of MTArt Agency, a talent agency that helps exceptional contemporary artists build sustainable, global careers. She works at the intersection of art, culture, and business—connecting artists with museums, brands, collectors, and institutions while protecting the integrity of their work. Tanguy is also the author of The Visual Detox, a practical, culture-driven guide to reclaiming attention and building a healthier relationship with the images and media that shape our minds every day. Her public work often centers on making art more accessible to wider audiences, championing emerging voices, and reframing creativity as a public good—not a luxury. Through curatorial projects, partnerships, and talks, she advocates for artists as vital cultural forces and for art as a tool that can spark empathy, reflection, and real-world change.

Laxmi Narayan Tallur, professionally known as Tallur L.N. (born 1971), is a prominent Indian conceptual artist. He creates large-scale sculptures and site-specific installations that blend traditional Indian iconography with industrial materials, including concrete, bronze, and machinery. Origins: Born in Koteswara (near Tallur), Karnataka, he divides his time between India and South Korea and produces work that critiques consumerism, ecology, and spirituality. Education: He studied sculpture at M.S. University, Baroda, and is known for fusing ancient mythologies with modern machine parts to question the concept of permanence. Exhibitions: His work has been shown at the Venice Biennale (2007), the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), and OCA (Singapore). He is also known for works such as Highway Nirvana.

Daniele Galliano

Daniele Galliano (born 1961 in Pinerolo) is an acclaimed, self-taught Italian painter based in Turin, widely associated with the “new Italian painting” scene and known for a form of “photographic realism” that often uses amateur photography as a blueprint to examine modern social interaction, mass identity, and the individual’s relationship to contemporary society. His career highlights include participation in the Venice Biennale, the Havana Biennial, and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Over time, his work has expanded from intimate, tightly framed scenes to broader social and political subjects, including migration, conflict, and religious radicalism. His paintings are held in major public and private collections, including GAM - Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.

G.R. Iranna

G.R. Iranna (b. 1970) is a distinguished contemporary Indian artist known for his quasi-abstract and philosophical works that explore human vulnerability and the transience of life. Born in Karnataka, he received his early education at a traditional Gurukul, which deeply influenced his spiritual and meditative style. He earned his MFA from the College of Art, New Delhi, and later served as an artist-in-residence at Wimbledon School of Art, London. Iranna frequently employs unconventional materials like ash, charcoal, and brick dust on tarpaulin, creating textured layers that symbolize the cycle of life and death. A major career milestone was representing India at the 2019 Venice Biennale with his installation Naavu. Recipient of the National Award (1997) and the ABPF Signature Art Prize (2008), he has works held in prestigious collections, including the National Gallery of Modern Art and the Singapore Art Museum.

Ismet Jonuzi

Ismet Jonuzi (born 1961) is an acclaimed Albanian sculptor and multimedia artist from Kosovo. He creates provocative sculptures from weapons associated with the Kosovo War, transforming instruments of destruction into anthropomorphic forms that explore trauma, memory, and his homeland’s “wounded soul.” Education and style: Largely self-taught in Pristina and shaped through residencies, he reworks rifles and spent casings into human figures that symbolize post-war resilience. Key exhibitions: His work has been featured at the Venice Biennale, Manifesta, and Kosovo’s National Gallery. In works such as Weapons of Peace, he fuses war relics with a poetic humanism. Recent focus: Working from bases in Kosovo and across Europe, he increasingly integrates video and sound to build narratives of reconciliation that connect the Balkans to global contemporary art..

Laura Gowen

Laura Gowen is the founder and director of Gowen, a contemporary art gallery based in Geneva, Switzerland. She co-founded the gallery in 2009 with Faye Fleming and became its sole owner in 2010, guiding its evolution into Gowen Contemporary. Under her leadership, GOWEN has developed a strong international program, presenting exhibitions across its Geneva spaces and participating in major art fairs. The gallery champions pioneering artists with experimental and critically engaged practices, while also presenting select historical works from private collections. GOWEN emphasizes inclusion, diversity, and openness to all media. Recently, Gowen participated in India Art Fair, presenting compelling works by Giuliano Macca, and is set to participate in Art Paris from April 9–12, 2026.

Maja Ćirić

Maja Ćirić, PhD, is a distinguished independent curator and art critic whose practice interrogates the intersection of global power, technology, and contemporary culture. With a focus on the "geopolitics of curating," Ćirić explores how infrastructural and planetary-scale computation shapes modern visibility. Since 2020, her research has focused on multipolar geopolitics and "phygital" exhibition formats, examining artists' agency within combined physical and digital spaces.

Her international standing is marked by significant leadership roles, including serving as the curator of the Serbian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007) and its commissioner in 2013. Beyond Venice, she has developed numerous biennials and discursive platforms across Europe, earning prestigious curatorial awards for her critical engagement with emerging art scenes. A frequent contributor to international art publications, Ćirić remains a vital voice in defining the role of curatorial practice within rapidly shifting technological and geopolitical paradigms.

Paula Klien

Paula Klien (born 1968, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and writing. Her work is grounded in a close observation of time, moving between past and future, ruin and beauty, presence and absence. She explores fragility, impermanence, and the threshold between control and rupture, quietly investigating memory and the possibilities of destiny.
From an early age, Klien developed a heightened sensitivity to gestures, atmospheres, and non-verbal language, which became the foundation of her artistic practice. Her career gained prominence in photography between 2004 and 2014, and later expanded into the visual arts, painting with Chinese ink and water, and pioneering crypto art in Brazil. In recent years, she has also entered the literary world with her debut novel Todas as Minhas Mortes (2024).

Vinod Daroz

Vinod Daroz (born 1972 in Kalwakurthy, Telangana) is a prominent Indian contemporary ceramic artist known for transforming clay from a utilitarian medium into a sophisticated language of artistic expression. Style and innovation: His works fuse traditional Indian pottery techniques with modern abstraction—organic forms, textured surfaces, and earthy glazes—that evoke nature's cycles, memory, and cultural roots. Process and themes: Hand-building large-scale vessels and installations, Daroz experiments with fire, smoke, and natural pigments to create cracked, weathered patinas symbolizing time's impermanence and resilience. Exhibitions and acclaim: Featured in Delhi's Triveni Kala Sangam and in Mumbai galleries, and in national ceramics biennales; his pieces grace private collections and highlight Telangana's artisanal heritage on the global stage.

Allison Watkins

Allison was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is an MFA graduate of San Francisco State University and a BFA graduate of San Jose State University. Her works have been shown in exhibitions at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Camerawork, The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA), Adobe Books Gallery (SF), Chandra Cerrito Contemporary (Oakland, CA), The Textile Arts Center (NYC), and the Napa Valley Museum, among others. Allison's work was selected by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator Janet Bishop for inclusion in New American Paintings issue 109, and she has been an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito.

Andrea Pinchia

Andrea Pinchi (Italian, born 1967) is known for his unique "Pincbau" technique, which involves creating mixed-media artworks using salvaged materials from his family’s long-standing tradition of pipe organ building. Style and process: He assembles wooden pipes, metal components, and organ fragments into textured, sculptural reliefs that evoke sound, resonance, and mechanical harmony—transforming liturgical relics into abstract, sonic landscapes. Themes: Pinchi's works explore memory, craftsmanship, and the intersection of sacred music with contemporary abstraction, layering patinaed elements to suggest echoes of time and ritual. Exhibitions: Featured in Italian galleries, Vatican collections, and European art fairs; his innovative reuse of organ parts has drawn acclaim for bridging musical heritage with visual art.

Karel Stoop

Karel Stoop (born 1951) is a contemporary Dutch abstract painter. Known for large-scale, emotionally intuitive works exploring the universe, life's mystery, and the "state of being" via meditative, performative processes. Early influences: Netherlands-raised, he honed his post-1970s intuitive style from cosmic/existential themes, painting en plein air for fleeting emotions. Technique: Bold, layered gestural marks in vivid hues—blues for infinity, reds for turmoil—blend spontaneity and depth in extended sessions.Exhibitions: Featured in Amsterdam galleries and Art Rotterdam; immersive pieces attract transcendence-seeking collectors in Dutch abstraction.

Elena P. V. Sanseverino (widely known as EPVS) is a versatile contemporary artist born in Germany and primarily active in Rome. Her work is characterized by experimentalism across various media and a deep engagement with concepts of memory, form, and storytelling. Artistic Career & Notable Exhibits EPVS has a significant presence in the Italian contemporary art scene, frequently participating in institutional exhibitions. Highlights of her career include solo exhibitions at prominent venues, including the Museo Bilotti and Museo MACRO in Rome, Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto, and Palazzo della Penna in Perugia.

Elena P. V. Sanseverino

Viraj Naik

Viraj Naik (b. 1975) is a contemporary Indian artist based in Goa, best known for his whimsical and surreal figurative works that blend human and animal forms. Style and themes: His vibrant paintings fuse mythology, folklore, and dreamlike narratives—hybrids like bird-headed figures or beastly humans—exploring identity, desire, and the primal subconscious with playful yet uncanny energy. Key series: Works like "Animal Kingdom" and "The Lovers" feature bold colors, intricate patterns, and fluid morphing shapes, drawing on Goan culture and global surrealism, as well as the complexities of the human psyche.

Jagmohan Bangani

Jagmohan Bangani, an acclaimed visual artist from Uttarakhand, blends contemplation, spirituality, positivity, and sacred themes in his work. Style: Draws on Himalayan mysticism and Vedic philosophy, with luminous palettes, mandalas, deities, and ethereal landscapes that evoke peace. Process: Uses oils, acrylics, mixed media; meditative layering with glazing and gold leaf for divine depth. Impact: Shown in Delhi galleries and art fairs; inspires wellness spaces and collectors of uplifting mountain art.

S.D. Hari Prasad

S.D. Hari Prasad is a renowned Indian sculptor based in Hyderabad, known for blending traditional stone carving with modern, machine-assisted techniques. His work explores themes of continuity, nature, and mythology, often featuring abstract, geometric forms. He has received the National Award from the Lalit Kala Akademi. the complexities of the human psyche

Anjaneyulu G

Anjaneyulu G (born 1976) is an acclaimed Indian contemporary artist known for his hyper-realistic oil paintings of mundane, everyday objects. Based in Hyderabad, his work transforms simple household items—like steel vessels, lanterns, and tea kettles—into iconic symbols of memory and nostalgiastalgia