About Us

IPCA’s vision is to be a catalyst in bringing art into everyday lives, an innovative facilitator providing an interactive platform for Odia artists, and a key contributor in the promotion and conservation of the visual arts of Odisha.

IPCA is striving to reorient the state and its capital - the smart city of Bhubaneshwar as one of the significant art hubs in the country. In pursuit of this goal, IPCA is exploring collaborations towards creating public art spaces and encouraging art-centred activities in communities.

Creating awareness, active advocacy, developing and enhancing our knowledge base through learning initiatives, research, training and documentation are an integral part of IPCA’s mandate. To this end, IPCA has begun developing concepts, collecting and compiling content, and is in the process of bringing out publications.

Going forward, IPCA has set itself a dream to be realized in the coming few years – residency for artists along with other facilities that will be at the heart of IPCA’s work unfolding in the seasons ahead. The Centre continues to add to a growing permanent collection of artworks through generous donations from prominent artists, royal families and art patrons.

IPCA wishes to be a harbinger for change, a change in the mind-set of art practitioners and viewers of art because at the end of the day, our credo is – "it is easy to love art” and we are walking the talk to demonstrate it, and demonstrate it substantially.