Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi and Khoj International Artists’ Association invite early and mid-career curators from South Asia to apply for the seventh edition of the Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) programme. This opportunity is open for curators from South Asia—India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Afghanistan, and Iran. Five curators will be selected by an external jury to be a part…

We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for our flagship residency Peers! We welcome submissions from young and emerging creative practitioners, final-year MFA students (as well as those who graduated within the past two years), and self-taught artists with a minimum of two years of experience in the field. The Peers residency offers selected artists a unique…

Khoj and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) are now accepting applications from mid-career Western Australia based artists for a six-week studio exchange program at Khoj between August-September 2025. Building on Khoj’s long-standing engagement with the intersections of art and urbanism, the 2025 residency program will explore responses to the complexities of high-density built and natural environments. We invite…

This iteration of the Khoj International Residency, in collaboration with the Misk Art Institute, invites two artists from Saudi Arabia and one artist from India to delve into the intersection of expanded craft, design, and the popular. The residency aims to foster the artistic growth and practices of creatives, encouraging a meaningful exchange amongst them; as well as with the…

The Khoj International Residency will welcome artists in an international residency to explore and expand discourse in the field of craft, design, and technology through innovative artistic inquiry. Craft or crafting refers to the ways in which an object comes to form. Materiality, skill, repetition, tradition, and historicity are core considerations in the process of crafting an object. Sharing histories…

In this edition of the International Residency at KHOJ, the participating artists explored image-making, autobiography, material practice, gender and the gaze. _ Mithu Sen refers to her image-making as a process that has evolved through being opposed to the inorganic. The choice of medium and the process of making the image has often bordered on being autobiographical when placed in…

2002 marked the year the KHOJ Studios building came into being in the anomalous urban/rural environment that is the Khirkee village. The physical structure anchored an erstwhile, tentative, fluid entity into brick and mortar. KHOJ sits on the edge of Khirkee Gaon – an ‘urban village’ very close to Malviya Nagar, situated in the south of Delhi. The Khirkee Village…

The fifth edition of the KHOJ International Residency, in which artists from India, Spain, Slovakia, and Puerto Rico participated, addressed the dialectics of place, the city and its multiple layers, and the visuality of a transforming environment and critiqued urban inspirations that brought into focus the risks and challenges that face the common man in the modern world.

The second KHOJ International Residency explored the sculptural and plastic arts, playing host to eight artists from France, Nepal, Denmark, Mexico and India. During the six weeks, most of the artists developed an interest in each other’s work and techniques. The different languages and scripts of India inspired the works created by Barbara Wiebel and Patrice Rouby, that were transferred…

2007 marked the 10th anniversary of KHOJ. During the 10th year celebrations, KHOJ proposed to curate an exhibition drawing upon works created by peers 2003-2007 (participants of Peers, the KHOJ residency program for students). Envisioned as a pilot curatorial project, the 2-week long exhibition was hosted at the Vadehra Art Gallery. KHOJ invited Latika Gupta, a young Delhi based curator to curate and put the exhibition together. This exhibition was…

In 2003, Khoj started the Peers residency to nurture a vibrant ecosystem for young artists and emerging practices. We aimed to expand the arts community, provide a platform for burgeoning talent, and cultivate a space for experimentation and engagement with the broader artistic community. Over the years, the Peers residency has been a springboard for a diverse array of artists,…

Khoj and PICA are delighted to announce Ayesha Singh as the artist-in-residence in Perth as part of the Cross Hatching International Studio Exchange program. ⁠ ⁠With a focus on architecture, Ayesha will consider the histories of communities that have been hidden, displaced and removed, responding to this research through the development of site-specific installations, conversations and community gatherings. ⁠

Khoj is delighted to announce the artists-in-residence for BODIES-MACHINES-PUBLICS, an 8 week long residency at Khoj, as a part of a two-year collaborative initiative between NAVE (Chile), Khoj International Artists’ Association (India), and Immersive Arts Space/ZHdK and Kornhausforum (Switzerland), supported by the Pro Helvetia Synergies Program: Daniela Brugger Gaurav Singh Nijjer and Manjari Kaul Puneet Jain and Yesica Duarte BODIES-MACHINES-PUBLICS…

Khoj and PICA will host a mid-career artist for six weeks, responding to the particular thematic of the residency and with a preferred interest in community-responsive modalities. This partnership enables artists to develop their work in new cultural contexts, building global networks and sharing their projects with new audiences. In this program, artists living in New Delhi are invited to…

Khoj and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan are delighted to announce the fellows for the sixth edition of the Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) program – reimagined this year as a month-long, fully-funded, in-situ research residency program at Khoj Studios in New Delhi, India.  Adit Dewan (BGD) Erfan Ghiasi (IRN) Gayatri Manu (IND) Mariyam Begum (LKA) Pavini Kaur Sukarchakia (IND)…