“ADDA: The Third Space - A Living Sensorium Inspired by Kolkata’s Street Cultures”

Kolkata,26th, November,2025:-

TRI Art & Culture presents ADDA: The Third Space, a site-specific exhibition curated by St+art India Foundation, supported by vision partner Asian Paints and CSR partner KCT Group CSR. 

Drawing from the visual and sensory languages of Kolkata’s street cultures, the exhibition blends the six senses—sight, smell, taste, sound, touch, and proprioception—to explore the thresholds between street, home, and embodied experience.

Featuring installations by KHATRA, Howareyoufeeling studio, Anikesa Dhing, Nabi, ZERO, Deep Adhikary, Dr. Ishita Dey, Sethu(ram)an, and Padmanabhan (beatnyk), the exhibition transforms TRI’s heritage spaces into a dynamic map of the city. 

Each installation reinterprets street expression, domestic memory, light and shadow, sensory nostalgia, the politics of smell and touch, and the collective rhythms of Kolkata’s games.

Highlights include KHATRA’s typographic façade, a shared resting space by Howareyoufeeling studio, playful taste-based sculptures by Anikesa Dhing, Nabi’s light–embroidered totem, a graffiti–smell hybrid room by ZERO, Deep Adhikary and Dr. Ishita Dey, and a pawn-inspired audio-visual installation on the terrace by Sethu(ram)an and beatnyk.

Together, these works turn TRI into a “third space” of connection-where art, community, and urban culture intersect to create new forms of belonging. 

Madeleine St. John, Director of TRI Art & Culture, states: “By bringing the street into our galleries and our galleries to the street, we aim to democratise the arts, celebrate Kolkata’s cultural vitality, and nurture community through creativity.”