galleries like gallery espace consolidate their programming and take on just one or two new artists every year shalini sawhney of guild art another veteran gallery owner in mumbai who has supported young artists like prajakta potnis ponmany and balaji ponna foresees that the rapidly growing pool of talented emerging artists being created will far exceed the number of galleries in india during the boom art was seen as a real career prospect so more young people went to art school they are generally more informed about the world they are well travelled and theyre making work that is more relevant and intelligent she says but we dont have enough galleries to support them or indias size we need many many more galleries each with their own program and with their own artists while sawhney is astute in her observations new galleries have in fact opened in the major cities of mumbai delhi and kolkata in 2009 these new spaces offer a fresh new perspective that aligns with the changing needs of the art marketplace mumbai art galleries chatterjee lal and gallery maskara have been pioneers in that space nikhil chopra indias most significant contemporary performance artist was a find of tara lal and mortimer chatterjee the husbandandwife team behind the gallery that bears their monikers they opened their current space in august 2007 abhay maskara a collector turned gallery owner in mumbai has put on some of the citys most conceptually challenging exhibitions since gallery maskara opened in march 2008 i am looking for artists that are going to make a difference in the next decade he asserts there are some excellent artists who have not been shown or are under represented i want to create a context for those artists maskara has exhibited canadian brazilian and belgian artists and opts to show young indian artists like t venkanna and shine shivan who question existing cultural social and political strictures gallery bmb and volte are two mumbai art galleries both which house a library and caf that opened in october 2009 bose krishnamachari an artist and curator crystallised his curatorial vision and practice with gallery bmb the current exhibition her work is never done brings together women artists photographers and designers with diverse practices and backgrounds and overlaps them krishnamachari who has long been a major catalyst in the development of young artists brings to the fore new talents like charmi gada shah who constructs architectural fictions through 3d models and photographic documentation as well as nivedita deshpande and sonia jose the way you present a show and provide a context to the artist makes a big difference to the way the artist is viewed comments krishnamachari but he laments we dont have enough writers on visual art and enough young curators voltes tushar jiwarajka is another mumbaibased collector turned gallery owner jiwarajka who is from a prominent industrialist family took up the gallery reins because he couldnt find things that he wanted to buy young collectors dont