Art Engagements

Nobina Gupta's practice confronts what is overlooked, the silent transformations within microorganisms, the fractures in ecosystems, the shifting behaviours of societies navigating a climate in crisis. Her work refuses to observe from a distance; it intervenes, provokes, and opens space for the conversations that environmental urgency demands.

Rooted in creative ecology, where art, science, and environmental thought converge, her interdisciplinary installations and public engagements have grown through cross-cultural encounters across borders, each one adding a new layer to an ever-evolving artistic inquiry. This accumulation of exchange and experiences became the ground from which Disappearing Dialogues emerged: an initiative reshaping how communities engage with ecology, sustainability, and collective responsibility.

Artist: Nobina Gupta

Nobina Gupta is a social arts practitioner, researcher, and educator with 31 years of experience at the intersection of art, ecology, and community engagement. She is the founder of the Disappearing Dialogues Collective, working with communities—especially youth—to co-create participatory art that preserves cultural memory and highlights ecological challenges. An alumna of Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, and a UGC-NET scholar, her multidisciplinary practice fosters dialogue and behavioral change in fragile socio-ecological landscapes, including her long-term engagement with the East Kolkata Wetlands, a Ramsar site.

Nobina has exhibited at major international platforms including the India Art Fair, Art Fair Cologne, Art Dubai, Art Stages Singapore, and Art Asia Miami. She has held solo exhibitions- ‘Beneath the Surface’ at Gallery Sanskriti (Kolkata), ‘Prana the Life within’ at Kashya Hildebrand Gallery (Zurich), and JanKossen Contemporary Gallery (Basel), and participated in group shows across the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, Singapore, and India. She has curated research based interactive exhibitions at Bikaner House, DAG, KCC, Goethe Institute, and has been awarded Global Green and Prakriti Research Fellowship for building environmental stewardship.

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Kalpataru: The Wishing Tree

Installed in the Delhi Airport Terminal 1, it is a living artwork that blurs the line between the physical and the philosophical. It invites travellers, seekers and storytellers into a quiet dialogue—between self and collective, past and future.