Venkatappa Art Gallery

The Venkatappa Art Gallery in Bengaluru is an integral part of the Government Museum.

Established in 1975: The Venkatappa Art Gallery was established in 1975 as a dedicated space for exhibiting the artworks of K. Venkatappa, a prominent artist from Karnataka. It was named in his honor.
Art Collection: The gallery houses a vast collection of artworks by K. Venkatappa, including his paintings, sculptures, and drawings. Venkatappa's works mainly depict landscapes, portraits, and mythological themes.
Expansion: In addition to Venkatappa's works, the art gallery has expanded over the years to showcase a diverse range of contemporary and modern Indian art. It provides a platform for both established and emerging artists to display their creations.
Artistic Events: The Venkatappa Art Gallery hosts various artistic events, including exhibitions, art workshops, and interactive sessions. These events aim to promote local talent, facilitate artistic discussions, and engage with the art-loving community.
Art Conservation: The gallery also plays a vital role in art conservation. It actively works towards preserving and restoring artworks, ensuring their longevity for future generations to appreciate.

A public gallery at the heart of the city. Beautiful space. Great location. A favourite place to get together over art and art activities. Great to visit when an exhibition is on to see various works by artists from all over.

A dismal gallery. Musty rooms, decrepit art - not maintained, with no lables. They have 3 floors which I wouldn't have known unless one of the disconnected security folks, mentioned it. Just a very sad and avoidable experience!

Must visit place for Art Lovers. The place is just beside the national museum and the tickets are also included with the ticket to National Museum.
Its a very calm and soothing place, where you can enjoy very different paintings mostly by Venkatappa.
Some new paintings by new age artists are also on display.

The collection of objects is good but the curation is really bad. Newspaper crumbled up, objects toppled over and wrong signs.

Good place for the art lovers but they could have showcased many more arts as so much vacant space was there to be filled which was not that good.

Best place to discover some exclusive art works of great painters and Artists.
Its a heaven for Art lovers and historians. Suitable to spend time with family and friends. Could be planned for half day visits.
The Karnataka Government Museum built in 1877 in the neoclassical architectural style is located centrally on Kasturba road near Cubbon Park.
The museum is flanked by the Venkatappa Art gallery and the Visvesvaraya Industrial And Technological Museum.
It has a rare collection of archaeological and geological artefacts including old jewellery, sculpture, coins and inscriptions which are on display on the ground and first floors.
There are three galleries in the museum; antiquity, painting and sculpture. The museum is also home to the Halmidi inscription, the earliest Kannada inscription (450 AD).
The museum and the Venkatappa Art gallery are located in the same complex and have a common entry ticket of Rs 20/-
. It is well connected by public transport and has washrooms. It is worth a visit for history buffs.

It was not very Maintaned. The lift was not working. I could not see one security guard.
This should not happen. Bangalore is a high-tech city. Hope it becomes better.

It's a gd place for having a glimpse of our historic era. It has 3 section in 1 part of the building containing antiques, paintings and sculptures. And venkatappa art in an another building.

So me and my friends visited this venkatapoa art gallery which is in Kasturba road, Bangalore. It is 20 minutes away from market. Next to this building is vushveshwaraiah museum. The art gallery is very attractive place of red coloured building. It also has place for resting for tourists just behind it. You also get few food items to eat. It was really good and I loved it

Great collection of arts and sculptures. You will need a good half day to actually look into a couple of collections. Well maintained and you get an app which talks about this place. Must go for art loving people.

It could have been a great place for a dayout, but sadly there are a lot could be done in the area of the display and the visitor experience.

Venkatappa Art Gallery exhibits almost 600 paintings for art lovers coming from all over the world. Divided into two halls, one hall of the art gallery is dedicated to the stone sculptures, belonging to the Mathura and Khajarao School of Art. The other hall displays pottery and clay articles that belong to the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation.

A wonderful arts they displayed.to make a art, the mind has the great imagination power to imagine and to keep those in a chart.ita really a big thing.very nice arts displayed.inspirations arts.for the future artists.

Venkatappa Art Gallery exhibits almost 600 paintings for art lovers coming from all over the world. Divided into two halls, one hall of the art gallery is dedicated to the stone sculptures, belonging to the Mathura and Khajarao School of Art. The other hall displays pottery and clay articles that belong to the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation.

The art gallery also displays 20th century landscape paintings and occasional contemporary art show. The paintings of the renowned artist K. Venkatappa, including the panoramic view of the Ooty Lake, Church Hill, Nilgiri Mountains, Kodaikanal, and Sunrise in Ooty, are exhibited on the ground level.

On the first level of the art gallery, paintings and work of globally renowned M. F. Hussain, Vasudev, Hanumaiah, Hariram, Rekha Rao, Yusuf Arakkal and N. S. Bendre are exhibited. This hall also features a section dedicated to C. P. Rajaram's wood carvings. The second level of the art gallery is solely dedicated to K. K Hebbar. His paintings are titled as Vayu, Jala, Prithivi, Sea Shore, In Space, Nagamandala, Agni, Last Glimpse and Death.

Its a good art gallery. Usually any programs like photography showcase or painting or similar art show will be available on the display.

My office is very near to it. And i often end up visiting this place. Canteen is kind of okay, they serve ice creams, snacks and meals at reasonable price.

You will find very friendly squirrels and alot of pigeons. This place also attracts lot of tourists.

Great place for a true art lover! This place has beautiful art works of Mr. Venkatappa who by his paintings and his sculptures makes you speechless!
The paintings of the Landscapes of Ooty and Kodaikanal which includes the beautiful sunrise and sunsets are ones to watch out for.
Totally satisfied with the tour through the gallery!

Real place of Talent #Great Venakatappa sir. Visited recently, well maintained and decorated. Loveable arts on wall. Reasonable entry fee!

We had an exhibition put up recently in venkatappa art gallery and it went really well with some prospect walk-ins and art lovers dropping in for the exhibition. About the gallery its spacious and rentals are at lower end but no much facility and most of the spot lights for display is not working, no hanging wires in place no ropes or wooden baricades to restrict ppl from touching the art work displayed. Such things are lacking which makes it unorganized

Best location for outsiders to visit in the heart of the city with beautiful cubbon park around and some of the great architectural buildings around.

I am not mich of an art person but this gallery had a lot of levels and different artists on display.
Most karnatika artists. One of the level also had sculptures on display