From a one-room studio to India's art house for considered spaces.
"Art isn't just something that fills a space — it's what gives that space a soul."
The Artemist was founded in 2016 by Aradhana Dalmia in Kolkata. What began as a single room — where every piece was personally sourced, framed and delivered — has grown into one of the country's most distinctive art and design houses.
Aradhana studied Fine Art — Painting and History of Art (BA Hons) at Manchester School of Art, after a Foundation in Art and Design at Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. She worked as an art therapist and a photography teacher before founding the studio.
Today, more than seven hundred projects later, our work lives inside hotels, boardrooms, family homes, restaurants and wellness retreats across India and beyond.
To make art an inseparable part of how spaces are imagined — by bridging the distance between artist and audience, between concept and wall, between vision and execution.
To be India's most trusted art and design consultancy — known for narrative-driven, site-specific work that gives every space a soul.
Four principles. Applied throughout.
- CraftWe respect the hand. Every artwork is made by a person with a name, a practice and a point of view.
- NarrativeArt must mean something to the space it lives in. We start with story; aesthetics follow.
- CareWe are guides as much as makers. We hold our clients' decisions with the same patience we hold our materials.
- RigourSite-specific is not a tagline. It is a process — research, mockups, materiality and scale — done properly, every time.
A studio of more than forty people.
Led by Aradhana Dalmia — founder, creative director, sign-off on every proposal. The studio behind her includes senior art consultants, in-house artists, sculptors, designers, project managers and artisans.
Each lane is carried by people whose names you'll see on your replies once a project begins.
Aradhana Dalmia.
Aradhana founded The Artemist in Kolkata in 2016. What began as a single room — where every piece was personally sourced, framed and delivered — has grown, more than seven hundred projects later, into one of the country's most distinctive art and design houses.
She leads the practice across all four sections — Consultancy, the Edit, Bespoke and Studio Artemist — holding creative direction, senior client relationships, and sign-off on every proposal that leaves the studio. On Bespoke commissions she still replies to briefs personally, within two working days.
Her approach is the studio's: art as composition, not decoration — work made for the space it will live in, sized to its architecture and built around its story. It's the through-line from the first moodboard to the finished wall.
"Art that inspires, consulting that elevates."
She is the only member of the studio named publicly. The consultants, artists and project leads behind each commission introduce themselves once your project begins.
The work, where it lives.
Commissions and installations photographed in the spaces they were made for — across hospitality, commercial and residential projects in Kolkata and beyond.
Same address. Different room. Different conversation.
13 Nellie Sengupta Sarani · KAHM Tower · Kolkata 700087
The Studio.
The working space — where art is made. Artists, sculptors and artisans at work, every day.
Visits by appointment. Photography permitted on visits, with release required for artist faces and unfinished commissions.
The Experience Centre.
Our Kolkata gallery and client-meeting space — a working showroom where clients see materials, finishes, completed works and mockups at scale.
Visits by appointment, with time set aside to walk through whatever's on the table for your project.
The studio sits in Kolkata. The practice extends across India.
We work with local artists and artisans in cities across the country — each working from their own studios on commissions placed through us.
Our sculpture and wall-mural teams also work out of partner studios in Bengal, scaled and equipped for the larger pieces our hospitality and commercial commissions require.
Projects ship across India — and on select engagements internationally — with installation carried out by the client's on-site team.
A wide register of mediums and surfaces.
A commission can land in any of them — or move between several. The right medium is matched to the brief at scoping.
- PaintingCanvas, paper and mixed media.
- SculptureBronze, brass, FRP, ceramic, wood, layered material, sculptural relief.
- Wall muralsSite-specific, scaled to architecture.
- TextileHand-loomed, surface and framed.
- EmbroideryFine work, panel-mounted.
- PhotographyOriginal, printed and framed.
- WallpaperMade-to-order, sized to the wall.
One surface, one story, one stroke at a time.
Art carries the identity of a space. We treat it as composition, not decoration.
Architects design the building. Interior designers compose the rooms. We compose the art that lives inside them — in the registers, the materials and the palette the rest of the design has already established.
Eight years of editorial coverage.
Thirty-five features since 2018, across twenty-two publications. Full archive →
The company works across four sections.
- 01 · ConsultancyMulti-piece art programmes for hospitality, commercial and residential projects at scale. Consultancy →
- 02 · BespokeSingle-piece commissions and Bespoke Gifting. Bespoke →
- 03 · The EditA curated commission programme for interior designers, architects and decorators. The Edit →
- 04 · StudioFinished works, ready to ship — the D2C catalogue. Studio →