St+art Kolkata Festival 2025-26 Launches with Ballygunge Art Project

“Kolkata has always been a city that expresses itself through art, colour, and conversation. For Asian Paints, our connection with this city runs deep, shaped by decades of engaging with its artists, craftspeople, and communities. Every project here has strengthened our belief that art doesn’t just transform spaces, it brings people together, encourages dialogue and makes everyday moments more meaningful. With St+art Kolkata and ADDA: The Third Space, we are delighted to bring art directly into the neighbourhoods of Ballygunge, turning familiar public spaces into places of pause, interaction, and shared experience. Our integration, Chromacosm, adds another dimension to this vision by showing how colour can influence emotion, memory and belonging. This festival continues our long-standing journey with St+art India Foundation to make creativity a part of public life, turning colour and imagination into a language that connects people to their city and to each other.”

“Each edition of St+art seeks to reimagine how cities can host art, not as an event or spectacle, but as an everyday encounter that belongs to everyone. Kolkata, with its deep-rooted culture of dialogue and collective spirit, embodies this possibility. St+art Kolkata is an attempt to listen to the city’s pulse — to its adda culture, its thresholds, its lived porosity — and to translate that into spaces where art and life meet seamlessly. Through ADDA: The Third Space and the interventions that unfold across the city, we hope to blur the line between the home and the street, between intimacy and public life. Our heartfelt gratitude to Asian Paints, TRI Art and Culture, and KCT Group, whose support makes this journey possible, and to all the artists who continue to expand the language of what public art can be. Together, they remind us that cities, when seen through art, can become sites of empathy, imagination, and shared belonging.”

“By bringing the street into our galleries, and our galleries to the street, ADDA: The Third Space curated by St+art marks an important moment for TRI Art & Culture in the advancement toward our institutional mission — to democratise the arts, to celebrate Kolkata’s cultural vitality, to cultivate community through creativity, and to develop the self through the senses. The TRI team is thrilled to welcome artists from all over the country to develop site-specific installations across our heritage property. And we are even more excited to share the hybrid futures imagined by these artists with the TRI community.”