Shivangi Kalra
Shivangi Kalra (*1998, Delhi) lives and works between Amsterdam and India. Drawing on memory and observation, she constructs intimate painted scenes shaped by Delhi’s rapidly changing social and architectural landscape.
Her works unfold through interiors, façades, and social encounters that hover between familiarity and quiet theatricality, where gestures, gazes, and spatial arrangements suggest narratives without fully revealing them. Figures often appear framed by windows, blinds, or terraces, inhabiting environments marked by expectation, performance, and subtle emotional tension.
Working through fragments rather than fixed storylines, Kalra approaches these spaces with empathy and gentle irony, allowing humour, nostalgia, and vulnerability to surface beneath polished exteriors. Melancholy shifts into lightness, and stillness becomes a quiet form of resistance.
She received the Royal Award for Modern Painting in 2024 and the Galleria Doris Ghetta Prize the same year. Recent and upcoming presentations include Breath of Fresh Air at Galleria Doris Ghetta, Milan (2026), exhibitions at the Drents Museum, Assen, and Art Rotterdam (2026), as well as projects with No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam and Under the Mango Tree, Berlin.
ph credits Tiberio Sorvillo
