Nitish Jain

Artist and Architect in Prague, Czech Republic

Nitish Jain

Artist and Architect in Prague, Czech Republic

I am an artist working across the mediums of architecture, performance art, storytelling and objects. I was born in India and am currently based in Prague, Czech Republic with my creative agency Studio MoreThanThat. I trained as an architect and as a scenographer.

I make multi-sensory experiences and invite audiences to sense rather than see art by incorporating touch, taste, smell, listening and seeing in different ways. My approach with the senses is driven by the under-representation of queer, south Asian artists in central Europe and that conversations about post-colonial societies are missing.

Drawing from phenomenology and the Indianaesthetics ofrasa (denoting essence, flavour or evocative phenomena), I believe that sensory art is an antidote to the politics of hate, race and gender.