Posted on 16 August 2026:

Connections: Exhibition in New Delhi: Gallery Sree Arts Unveils Six Artists Exploring Art’s Invisible Threads

A group show curated by Jitendra Padam Jain and conceptualised by Annkush B. Sharma opens at the India International Centre Annexe Gallery, 19–28 August 2026

There is a quiet conviction running through the walls of the India International Centre Annexe Gallery this August — that no artist truly works alone. Gallery Sree Arts, one of Delhi’s most active platforms for contemporary art, brings this conviction to life with ‘Connections’, a group exhibition exploring the invisible threads that bind art and artists to one another, across mediums, generations and philosophies.

Curated by Jitendra Padam Jain and conceptualised by Annkush B. Sharma, the exhibition opens with a vernissage on 18th August 2026 at 6 pm, before welcoming the public from 19th to 28th August at the India International Centre Annexe Gallery, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.

Six Voices, One Conversation

At the heart of ‘Connections’ lie six artists — Kanchan Chander, Kavita Nayar, Nanda Dulal Mukherjee, Sabia, Sukhvinder Singh and Siddhant Medhi — each carrying a distinct geography, discipline, and visual instinct into the gallery space. Some works unfold through the graphic density and repetition of printmaking; others move with the immediacy and gesture of paint on canvas. Placed side by side, these differences do not compete — they converse, dissolving into a shared meditation on form, color, memory and identity.

It is this dissolution of boundary that gives the exhibition its title. ‘Connections’ does not merely display six practices in proximity; it argues, gently but persuasively, that art — regardless of its origin or method — is fundamentally interconnected. Training differs, technique differs, personal journeys diverge, and yet, on paper and canvas, every artist here arrives at a common language.

THE CURATOR’S VISION

Jitendra Padam Jain is the Founder and Managing Director of Gallery Sree Arts, as well as a published author whose curatorial philosophy resists confinement in every sense. “Art is not confined to a frame,” he says. “It lives in classrooms, hospitals, institutions, and in the quiet brilliance of an adorned detail.” That belief has shaped a career devoted to reshaping India’s contemporary art narrative — one exhibition, one institution, one unlikely venue at a time.

His academic grounding runs deep: a Master’s in Fine Arts from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, and a certificate in painting from the S.E.C.C., Saint Petersburg, Russia. Over the years, his curatorial hand has shaped presentations at some of the art world’s most respected platforms, including the Japan Biennale, the Lalit Kala Akademi, and the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, alongside international art fairs in Tokyo, Qatar, and Nevada, USA.

For curator Jitendra Padam Jain, the exhibition is as much about people as it is about.

“Some artists have learnt both painting and printmaking, while some have devoted themselves solely to painting,” he observes. “Yet the impulse, the inquiry, and the final expression draw them together.”

In that observation lies the curatorial spine of the show — an invitation to read ‘Connections’ as a study in artistic lineage, technique, and shared sensibility, rather than a simple survey of six unrelated bodies of work.