THE STORY BEHIND INTERSPACE
Interspace is where an artist can set their dreams in motion, and where global audiences encounter Indian art not as a category to consume, but as a living, evolving presence capable of enriching spaces, preserving heritage, and opening pathways that endure
Interspace did not begin as an idea with a name; but as a pause, a conversation in late 2023 between Amit Kumar Jain and Kanika Goyal, where the question was not ‘What should we build?’, but ‘What is missing?’ Throughout the past two decades, the Indian art world has been accelerating—expanding outward, multiplying platforms, markets, and moments of visibility. And yet, for many artists, support continues to feel opaque, intimidating, and difficult to navigate. While talent is abundant and urgency unmistakable, thoughtful access remains uneven where artists seek sustained visibility and mentorship. Between practice and opportunity, the artist and viewer, and conversation and continuity, there are too few bridges. What surfaced from this recognition was not a ready made solution, but a need: for a space that could listen before it spoke, move with thought and care through complexity, and connect without flattening difference. Interspace, founded in 2025, grew from this blank—imagined as a bridge between artists and wider worlds, as a gathering point where practitioners, collectors, art enthusiasts and those always curious meet not in transaction alone, but in discovery, dialogue, and shared delight.
At Interspace’s heart lies a commitment to champion artistic practices emerging from the Indian subcontinent by offering the precise conditions to grow with confidence and integrity. Curation and mentorship, here, is an act of attention. We work slowly, building trust through transparency and ethical exchange, so that artists feel seen rather than extracted from, and collectors feel guided rather than persuaded. Our passion is in the details, in learning the contours of an artist’s practice by visiting them wherever they are, in tracing lineage and experiment across mediums, ideas, and themes, and in going beyond the surface to understand what is at stake. From this, emerges a sense of belonging: a community shaped by shared curiosity, mutual respect, and the belief that art thrives through conversation.
A BRIDGE BETWEEN ARTISTS AND WIDER WORLDS
Interspace is for those who arrive with curiosity. It is an intuitive space, designed to guide and open pathways, where moving from the desire to purchase your next work of art feels less like a transaction and more like a quiet unfolding. The platform is visually immersive and content-rich; every encounter is shaped to draw you closer to the work, to the thinking, to the story that brought it into being. Interspace speaks equally to seasoned art enthusiasts who live in sustained conversation with contemporary practice, and to enthusiasts, architects, interior designers, and corporate patrons searching for works that carry presence into their lived spaces. It also holds space for the first-time buyer—those newly open to enjoying art, guided by instinct and emotion. Across these crossings, Interspace remains committed to access without dilution, discovery without intimidation, and the belief that art, when encountered with care, can belong meaningfully in many lives and ways.
OUR COMMUNITY
Interspace’s journey—now, and for the days to come—is shaped most intimately through its work with artists, where curation extends far beyond selection and display. Over the past two years, our curators have moved through hundreds upon hundreds of portfolios, tracing practices emerging from every corner of the subcontinent, allowing this process to lead us outward and on ground: to Jaipur, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune, Kochi, Vadodara, Mumbai, Chandigarh, the Andaman Islands, and many places in between. What matters to us is not merely discovering new voices online, but remaining curatorially present within their practices. Conversations here are never perfunctory; they unfold with care, enthusiasm, and sustained attention, allowing us to understand how best to stand alongside an artist. This deep engagement enables us to nurture trajectories through mentorship, industry insight, and tailored opportunities, while offering collectors access to works grounded in context and authenticity. Recent dialogues have opened pathways to new modes of display and exhibition, as seen at The Quorum Club in Gurugram and Sameksha Gallery in New Delhi. Through such engagements, Interspace seeks not just to highlight practices, but to help artists move closer to the ecosystems they wish to belong to—thoughtfully, sustainably, and on their own terms.
The Team
AMIT KUMAR JAIN
FOUNDER
“Visiting an artist at their studio is always a pilgrimage—one can never learn enough about innovative practices from across the region.”
Amit Kumar Jain (b. 1978) is an arts & culture specialist and museum practitioner, who has actively engaged with art institutions, auction houses, and private collection stewardship.
He has been deeply engaged with contemporary and traditional art communities across the Indian subcontinent and beyond, fostering an inclusive, insightful, and innovative approach to art; an approach that has for the past couple of decades helped him discover new talent, acquire artworks, and create lasting relationships.
He has served in several leadership roles, including Head of Programs at The Devi Art Foundation, Director-Special Initiatives at The Savara Foundation for the Arts, Associate Vice President at Saffronart, and Head of Exhibitions at the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bengaluru. Currently, he serves on the Advisory Board of the International Quilt Museum, Nebraska, USA, and is a jury member for The Arts Family Award, London.
His curatorial vision reflects a nuanced understanding of modern and contemporary art alongside living traditions from South Asia. Jain has helmed several notable projects, including the third edition of the Colombo Art Biennale (2014), Reading Room (2014–2016) and The Artist as Activist (2016) at the Broad Art Museum, Michigan, USA, and the Platform section at India Art Fair (2021), in addition to numerous exhibitions for private galleries. He holds an MA in Museum and Gallery Practice from University College London, along with a BFA from the College of Art, New Delhi, and a B.Com from the University of Delhi.
Kanika Goyal
FOUNDER
“I enjoy dabbling in both headstands and diving in the sea! My brain usually has too many tabs open.”
Kanika Goyal (b. 1982) is a solutions-driven business and sales leader with extensive experience in partnerships, product management, market entry, and customer service strategies across retail ecommerce, banking and fintech. For her, art has always been a medium of personal expression, rummaging through old New Yorker Magazine covers, exploring the liveliness and depth of art galleries in exotic cities such as Panama, Oaxaca and Bogota during travels to enjoying the intricacies of the traditional Indian artworks from pichwai, tanjore, madhubani to gond art across South India, Rajasthan, and UP.
Over the past 15 years, she has collaborated with founders, CEOs, and CXOs in B2B and B2C environments across India, the USA, and the UK, playing a pivotal role in developing co-lending frameworks and international partnerships. She has worked with leading financial institutions including RBL Bank, Citi, and contributed to international partnerships and cross-border e-commerce initiatives during her tenure at Nykaa. She has an avid interest in architecture, interiors and fabrics from her childhood days.
Goyal has also held leadership positions in the social impact sector, serving as Director of Corporate Engagement at The/Nudge Foundation, where she drove fundraising campaigns and established livelihood programs at The/Nudge Gurukuls. A certified life and leadership coach from Coach for Life USA Institute (ICF-approved, PCC level), Goyal is a yoga enthusiast, enjoys strength training, trekking and is a strong proponent of mental fitness. She holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manchester and an MBA from IIM Kozhikode.
Shankar Tripathi
Curator
“I think we should all be able to touch the work of art—and unironically, it’s a really good thing if you believe your five-year-old could make that.”
Shankar Tripathi (b. 1999) is an arts writer and curator based in Delhi. Formally trained in art history, his graduate thesis questioned the various structures of visuality and countervisuality that informed travel posters and advertising narratives for India during the 1940s - 1970s, including those of Air India. With a pronounced cognizance of contemporary artistic practices, he has curatorially engaged with galleries such as Anant Art, Exhibit320, Galerie Mirchandani + Stienruecke, Dhoomimal Art Centre, Art Incept, and others. He regularly contributes to Critical Collective, and has written for publications such as TAKE on Art Magazine, Serendipity Arts, ART India Magazine, The Karachi Collective, ASAP | art, The Punch Magazine, among others. He was one of the recipients of the Second Young Writers Award in Lens Based Practices (2022) presented by Critical Collective and Murthy NAYAK Foundation, and the first recipient of the Inception Grant for Writers awarded by Art Incept (2024).
When he isn’t immersed in an artist’s practice, he can usually be found moving briskly from one book to the next, disappearing down a succession of Wikipedia rabbit holes, or sharpening his competitive edge over a game of Scrabble. He is an enthusiastic explorer of local microbreweries and an unapologetic music omnivore, with playlists that travel easily from Tchaikovsky’s symphonies to the exuberance of pop punk. Tripathi holds an undergraduate degree in History from Hindu College, University of Delhi, and a graduate degree in Art History from Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi.
Noor Gupta
Archivist and Visual Designer
“For me, creativity is about meaning—how stories take shape and cultures are felt on a personal level. Off work, I’m on Spotify, roaming the city with no destination."
Noor Gupta (b. 2000) is an artist, researcher and archiving maverick at Interspace. Academically trained in painting and design, curiosity and experimentation, and an interest in how narratives are formed, communicated and lived inspires her work. Her graduate thesis, “Creative Practices in Everyday Life – A Sociocultural Enquiry”, involved interviews with eleven individuals from varied disciplines and professional backgrounds, examining how routine activities and lived experiences function as sites of agency and personal cognition. Noor has worked across research, writing, and design-led environments, such as Blacksheep Consultancy, Gurbers, and Amaryn; at Interspace, Noor supports artistic practices through visual design across online and offline events, narrative documentation, archival research, and exhibition-making.
Noor’s artistic language is anchored in watercolour—drawn to the medium’s transparency and temperament, which demand attentiveness, internalisation, and openness—values she seeks to carry into both her creative and professional life. She earned her BFA from Amity University, Noida, and her MFA from Government College of Art, Chandigarh.