OUR STORY
FOUNDED IN 2025 BY PINKY & KABBIER DAGA IN MUMBAI, INDIA, SIKAO GALLERY WAS BORN FROM A MOOD. A MULTIDISCIPLINARY & MULTI-MEDIUM ART CURATION, CHAMPIONING & STEWARDSHIP PROJECT THAT OBSERVES THE HUMAN EMOTIONAL CONDITION & THE FORCES THAT DRIVE IT TO CREATE. EXISTS AT THE INTERSECTION OF ARTIST, OBJECT & COLLECTOR. FORM BECOMES FEELING, TEXTURE SPEAKS IN TONGUE. EVERY WORK IS AN EMOTIONAL REFLECTION OF NOT ONLY THE ARTIST, BUT ALSO OF THOSE DRAWN TO COLLECT, CONNECT & CONFRONT.
DERIVED FROM THE CHINESE WORD FOR “TO CONTEMPLATE”, SIKAO IS AN EXPLORATION OF RAW THOUGHT, MEMORY & EXPRESSION, AN ODE TO IMPERFECTION & PROCESS. NOT MERELY DESIGN, BUT HUMAN DESIGN: THE IMPRINTS OF HUMAN EXPERIENCES, THE SILENT WEIGHT OF TRAUMA OR THE SHAPESHIFTING TENSION BETWEEN CONCEALMENT & SELF REVELATION. IT IS ABOUT BECOMING.
VULNERABILITY IS POWER. EDGES — NOT SMOOTHED, BUT CELEBRATED. SIKAO DOES NOT OFFER POLISHED CONCLUSIONS, BUT ASKS A QUESTION, ALLOWING THE OBSERVER “TO CONTEMPLATE”. IF EMOTION COULD TAKE PHYSICAL FORM, WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE? SIKAO IS NOT A GALLERY. SIKAO IS A CULTURE — A LIVING ARCHIVE OF EMERGING VOICES OF EXPRESSION, UNITED IN THE PURSUIT OF BEAUTY THAT IS HONEST, COMPLEX & MOST IMPORTANTLY, HUMAN.
OUR AIM
TO CURATE & SUPPORT EMERGING ARTISTS, & INCUBATE THEM TO CREATE OBJECTS OF ART, NOT LIMITED BY ANY ONE MEDIUM OF EXPRESSION. FURNITURE, SCULPTURE, LUMINESCENT OBJECTS, CROCKERY, PERFORMANCE, VISUAL, AUDIBLE & EVERY OTHER FORM OF EXPRESSION THAT A HUMAN MIND CAN CONCEIVE. SIKAO AIMS TO HANDHOLD ARTISTS & CREATORS TO GENERATE SOMETHING PERSONAL & HUMAN, & LAUNCH IT ON A GLOBAL SCALE TO A DESIGN DISCERNING AUDIENCE.
OUR TEAM
THE SIKAO TEAM