Events

Shrine Empire is excited to present Rites Adrift, Omer Wasim’s first solo exhibition in India, curated by Anushka Rajendran that explores, perhaps for the first time, the artist’s familial experiences of displacement and movement through various parts of the subcontinent, across three generations. The exhibition emerges from a unique institutional partnership between Shrine Empire and Khoj […]

Felling inspired to learn a new skill? Come out for this fun workshop on DNA trans-coding and audio-visual transformation experiments with artists Georg Tremmel & Ekaterina Kormilitsyna from BioClub Tokyo (BCL) In this interactive workshop participants will learn how to extract actual DNA from fruits, vegetables, bacteria and humans using household materials! Participants will further […]

Georg Tremmel and Ekaterina Kormilitsyna’s artistic research and practice lies at the intersection of Art & Biology. Tremmel founded BioClub Tokyo — an internationally recognised community lab for people interested in the intersections of biology, art and design. In this artist presentation and lecture demonstration, the artists will present their work at BioClub and demonstrate the […]

Did the Pope really wear an oversized white puffer coat? Just because we saw it online, does that mean it’s true? What happens when seeing doesn’t necessarily mean believing? But how do we know if a picture or a tweet is authentic & true? What information do we see, and what do we miss? And […]

Deep Listening is a practice that helps us to break out of primarily visual ways of perceiving the world. It begins with the premise that vision as we know it, in most cases, sustains the polarisation between the subject and the object, the watcher and the watched.  Listening opens a ‘portal’ that offers the possibility […]

Join us for an overnight listening-dreaming session from 10 pm to 6 am. Through the 8 hours, Khoj Studios will transform into a gentle space cradling our collective listenings, dreamings, and sound-making, lulling you into sleep with sounds curated and live-improvised by Nithin Shams.  In the morning, we will collectively discuss our visions and dreams, […]

“listener becoming listening becoming sound” Allow yourself to immerse into deeply resonant sonic spaces curated by Nithin Shams. Each session will last for 90 minutes, consisting of collective listening meditations, extended-duration listening, and open discussions. In each session, Shams will present works of experimental composers who attempted to create sonic spaces that could act as […]

Envisioned to be a seminar-like program and for the artists who qualify for the final round of the Peers residency, the Peers share critic session serves as a great learning opportunity. The artists showcase their practice and get beneficial feedback from their peers, senior art practitioners, critics, and the Khoj curatorial team. Peers Share 2023 […]

Khoj is delighted to announce the Peers Open Day on Thursday, 22nd June, 6:30pm onwards at Khoj Studios – S17, Khirkee Extension. The Open Day included works by the Peers artists-in-residence:  Celin JacobFileona Endoxa Dkhar Gopa Roy Mothe Mahesh and Shiv Shankar You can access conversations between the critic-in-residence Riya Talitha Samuel and the artists here Riya also made a […]

Khoj is delighted to announce the launch of The Observatory: Second Site, by artist-curators Rohini Devasher and Legion Seven on 14th April 2023 | 6:30pm at Khoj Studios. The project began as a live lecture performance at Kaserne Basel in Switzerland, and is now a web-hosted digital art project and physical exhibition commissioned and produced […]

This two and a half day short course on the Fundamentals of Arts Management was held at Thinkering, Takshila Centre in Goa and was attended by arts and cultural professionals from Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Udaipur, Jaipur, Chennai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai & Thane. The course covered several topics including Strategic Planning, Marketing, Financial Budgeting and Management among others. […]

In the matter Re: Rights of Nature took the form of a fictional National Green Tribunal (NGT) hearing exploring the relationship between the air pollution of Delhi / National Capital Region (NCR) and the stubble burning phenomena which occurs annually in the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana. The project foregrounded Rights Of Nature as […]

Khoj invited ruangrupa curator Mirwan Andan and Jeebesh Bagchi from Raqs Media Collective to explore strategies and frameworks around exhibiting community engagement as an artistic methodology, in tandem with our ongoing exhibition ‘Threading the Horizon : Propositions on Worldmaking through socially engaged art practice’. Mirwan and Jeebesh’s talk unpacked a few of the following;

Threading the Horizon: Propositions on Worldmaking through Socially Engaged Art Practice foregrounds the quotidian experience of violence experienced by women and gendered others explicated through acts of invisibility, exclusion, inequality and discrimination. In this entanglement of fourteen community-based projects across India, acts of resilience emerge through artistic strategies of placemaking, building voice, bearing witness, negotiating […]

Khoj is delighted to announce the #BodyasBarometer #LiveArtsWorkshop2022 Open Day on 13th October | 5pm onwards at Khoj Studios Eight Artists. Eight Live Actsby Aseng Borang @asengbJoão Simões @temporal__temporal (with Cláudio Bueno @buenozdiazbrazyl ) Johanna Huesser @johannasofiaheusserKaldi Moss @kaldi_mossKhursheed Ahmad @bhand_artistNashilongweshipwe Mushaandja @tschukutschukuRiver Lin @riverlin1984Sharanya Ramprakash @sharanya.ramprakash The Live Art Workshop project was initiated and conceptualised by Jay Pather, Director at the Institute for Creative […]

Khoj’s Director Pooja Sood was in Tbilisi for the Prince Claus Fund Partnership Network annual meeting that gathers representatives of Art and Culture institutions from all the world. This year the countries represented included the Netherlands, Brazil, Argentina, Suriname, Uganda, South Africa, India, Morocco, Mozambique, Ecuador, North Macedonia, and Jordan.  We would like to thank Prince […]

Khoj x IAF are delighted to announce the start of a new series of Masterclasses on Object Making, Mark Making & Image Making which will be led by contemporary artists, along with valuable insights into collecting art, exclusively for the Young Collectors Program.  The series will commence on the 24th of September from 5:30pm -7:30pm […]

Envisioned to be a seminar-like program and for the artists who qualify for the final round of the Peers residency, the Peers share critic session serves as a great learning opportunity. The artists showcase their practice and get beneficial feedback from their peers, senior art practitioners, critics, and the Khoj curatorial team. Peers Share 2022 […]

Khoj organized the Peers Open Day from the 1st of July to the 4th of July. At its core, the Peers program acts as a stepping-stone for young artists, aiding them through a transitional moment in their lives. The program offers them the resources necessary to push the experimental limits of their work, and also […]

Offset is coming to Khoj with a special curation of photobooks from the Offset Pitara along with photobooks from the Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council library. Join us for a day of reading and sharing thoughts emerging from artist books from the region.  Later, program manager and curator Indranjan Banerjee will be in conversation with […]

How to care for air? – Situating atmosphere through bodies, technologies and imaginaries How to care for air, which is intangible and largely imperceptible by human senses, yet crucial for our existence? This event will bring together practitioners from across the fields of art and academia with the aim to — through interdisciplinary inquiry — […]

The Khoj booth at the India Art Fair is an opportunity to showcase Khoj’s rich archive through the new website. It also offers a glimpse of our ongoing project Does the Blue Sky Lie?: Testimonies of Air’s Toxicities – an art project in three episodes opening with the air expo 22 as a public art […]

Does the Blue Sky Lie? brings together works by Abhishek Hazra, Architecture for Dialogue + Salil Parekh, Hanna Husberg, Thukral and Tagra, Pradip Saha, Saraab (Shahana Rajani, Omer Wasim), and Sharbendu De. Engaging with questions of being in “common” with our atmosphere, the works delve into the effects of extractive infrastructures on landscapes, the hubris […]

Khoj and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, in collaboration with India International Centre are pleased to announce the opening of ‘this 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 keep you warm’ – 12 curated exhibitions by the Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) 2021 Fellows. The exhibitions open at 6:30pm, on the 15th of March, 2022 at the Kamaladevi Art […]

As Khoj enters its 25th year in 2022, we look back at the history of how Khoj began with the purpose of enabling young practitioners to create art in an open-ended and experimental manner. And as we look to the future while Khoj embeds itself into an ever-shifting hybrid landscape, our role remains to provide […]

Un{stacked} started off as a remote residency in which Khoj supported five artistic practices online, followed by a residency at Khoj Studios for two weeks in November-December. The short residency, focused on the production and showcasing process of their ongoing practices and culminated in an Open Studio. This year’s participants are; Padmini Ray Murray Manuel […]

‘On Air’ is a Speaker Series initiated as a part of ‘Does The Blue Sky Lie? Testimonies of Air’s Toxicities’, KHOJ’s three-year-long project that explores the troubled ecologies of the air in Delhi. For the second edition of ‘On Air’, Disha Shetty, an independent science journalist, explored the public health impacts of air pollution, the climate […]

Khoj is delighted to announce the Peers Open Day from 25th September to 3rd October. (Studio Timings 11am – 6pm) After a pandemic-induced hiatus, Peers 2021 marks the 17th edition of Peers, the first-ever Hybrid Peers Residency, unfolding online, followed by a physical immersion by the residents at Khoj Studios, and a Peers 2021 open […]

Envisioned to be a seminar-like program and for the artists who qualify for the final round of the residency, the session serves as a great learning opportunity. The artists showcase their practice and get beneficial feedback from their peers, senior art practitioners, critics, and the Khoj Curatorial team. This year Khoj held the programme online […]

A key focus for Khoj has been to continue its sustained and consistent engagement with the Khirkee community through its programs. Khirkee’s central location has always attracted a variety of residents – migrant workers, refugees, students and artists. More recently, political instability in Afghanistan has added a large number of Afghans to Khirkee’s ever changing […]

we are opposite like that is a series of interdisciplinary works that comprise mythologies from the poles, told from the non-human perspective of an elder that has witnessed deep time: the ice. It beckons the ghosts hidden in landscapes and turns them into echoes, listening in on the resonances of potential futures.The book is an almanac, a […]

‘On Air’ is a Speaker Series initiated as a part of ‘Does The Blue Sky Lie? Testimonies of Air’s Toxicities’, KHOJ’s three-year-long project that explores the troubled ecologies of the air in Delhi. From early Orientalist conceptions that saw dust as a marker of the backwardness of colonies to drawings by British architect Gordon Sanderson […]

The health crisis brought on by the novel coronavirus had been unprecedented in its impact on lives, livelihoods, and our socio-economic-cultural situation. To offer support and agency during the initial months of the pandemic, Khoj helped formulate ResiliArt-India, a series of webinars by UNESCO New Delhi, jointly organised by the India Foundation for the Arts […]

This even was an evening of discussion and interventions by poet, writer, researcher and queer activist Vqueeram Aditya Sahai, artist Aryakrishnan, and writer and scholar Navaneetha Mokkil. The discussion was accompanied by a pop-up of Aryakrishnan’s Sweet Maria Monument, an ode to Maria, a trans person who was murdered for being an activist.

This event was a lecture by Bezwada Wilson, founder of Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA), with interventions by photographer Sudharak Olwe, artist Rajyashri Goody, and actor, anti-caste activist, feminist, and writer Jyotsna Siddharth. The discussion was moderated by Dalit rights activist Beena Pallical.

Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi is pleased to announce the opening of ‘Times, Lines, 1989s’ – an exhibition by the Russian art collective Chto Delat. The exhibition opens at 6:30pm, on the 29th of January, 2020 at Khoj Studios. The need for telling alternate histories has never been more urgent than today. It is […]

From the Curators, dated 2020: If you could choose one thing to add to a historical timeline of India, what would it be? As part of their exhibition at KHOJ, Russian art collective Chto Delat is building an alternative India timeline in the KHOJ exhibition spaces. They are inviting responses from anyone who feels they […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association has been committed to build networks across South Asia for two decades. Given this engagement, KHOJ presented South Asian Visual Art Centre’s MONITOR 13: Dance on My Head and Scratch My Heart, co-curated by Canadian artist and filmmaker Sharlene Bamboat and Delhi-based filmmaker Priya Sen. MONITOR is SAVAC’s longstanding experimental film […]

Over the course of a talk, a conversation, and a screening, this event enabled its participants to talk through how publics are imagined, visualised, simulated and targeted as data, while reflecting on the shifting grounds of politics and propaganda in networked society. It was discussed how different models of networks – and the place of […]

Urvi Vora is a performing artist based in Delhi. Her production SKUM (Society against the Kama Sutra and Uncouth Men) was part of the programming for the Curatorial Intensive South Asia Fellowship 2019, organised by KHOJ. SKUM was a powerful performance piece that held a feminist lens over the parochial sexual mores and directives delineated […]

‘Human in Una’, a performance by Prabhakar Kamble, took place as part of the larger exhibition ‘The earth is still going around the sun’ : CISA 2019 Exhibitions, a culmination of the third edition of Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA), a flagship programme by KHOJ International Artists’ Association in partnership with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller […]

This special screening of KP Jayasankar and Anjali Monteiro’s documentary ‘SAACHA: The Loom’ took place as a constituent of the public programming for ‘Rooee’, an exhibition by Guncotton. Organized as a part of the Curatorial Intensive South Asia Fellowship 2019, supported by KHOJ International Artists Association and the Goethe Institut, ‘Rooee’ addressed the ’empire of cotton’ […]

Organized as a part of the Curatorial Intensive South Asia Fellowship 2019, supported by KHOJ International Artists Association and the Goethe Institut, ‘Rooee’ addressed the ’empire of cotton’ in two of its most prominent sites: the South Carolina Lowcountry region and the textile mills of Bombay. Guncotton holistically explored how the industrial revolution and the […]

Two short pieces by Iranian-Dutch video artist Sara Rajaei were screened as part of KHOJ‘s Curatorial Intensive South Asia Fellowship 2019. These were: 1978 the 231st Day (2012) and A Composition in Blue, Red & Other Colours (2018). In 1978 the 231st Day, the narrator’s words unfold the facts and mythology around the forgotten incident […]

After a while, shadows begin to rouse: A Performance by Anupam Saikia An extended program of Dis-placecurated by Pranamita Borgohain Dis-place is a part of the larger exhibition ‘The earth Is Still Going Around the Sun’ : CISA 2019 Exhibitions, a culmination of the third edition of Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA), a flagship programme […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association in partnership with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi organised ‘The Earth Is Still Going Around the Sun’ – 13 curated exhibitions, in collaboration with India International Centre. These exhibitions were a culmination of the third edition of the Curatorial Intensive South Asia 2019 (CISA), a key program by KHOJ […]

Artist Talk: Larval / Mycelial Futures    Anuj Vaidya’s practice – what he calls, a forestation – is deeply invested in questions of process and collaboration, and resides in the sphere of multi-species thinking. His collaborative project Larval Rock Stars (with artist/scholar Praba Pilar) sits at the intersection of the bio-techno-critical and the absurd, aiming to […]

Conversations & Crossovers : Art As Social Practice at KHOJ Studios was a two-day convention with artists and CSOs to collectively think through art practice being socially-engaged and relational at the same time. As the space for discourse and expression is shrinking, there is a need for conversations that can help us understand the role […]

This 3-day course titled ‘Fundamentals of Arts Management: Strategic Planning, Marketing, & Financial Planning’ was conducted by tutors with significant experience in their respective areas and who are leading well-known arts and social enterprise organisations in India. The course was aimed arts and culture professionals seeking to strengthen their skills for managerial roles in an […]

A Solo Dance Competition led by Ashif Khan was programmed at KHOJ Studios in association with the Delhi Breaking Culture. Ashif is the Assistant Production and Media Coordinator at KHOJ and has himself been a dancer since the age of 14. Heavily influenced by B-boying artists like Hong 10 (South Korean B-Boy ) and Lilou (Algerian-French […]

Khoj and Digital Earth organised a 3-day session exploring the notion of Aesthetic Warfare and questioning the power of visuals: from A.I. distributing visual propaganda to deep fakes invading our timelines, from new aesthetic strategies of internet activism to art in post truth age. Everyday we see more than five thousand images, around us or […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association presented Another Life is Possible, a solo exhibition by Jithinlal NR. KHOJ‘s first Artist for Artist Grant was generously supported by Bharti Kher and Subodh Gupta. Jithinlal NR was the recipient and this exhibition was a culmination of the project supported by the grant. Jithinlal NR’s notes on the exhibition: Though […]

This 3-day course titled ‘Fundamentals of Arts Management: Strategic Planning, Marketing, & Financial Planning’ was conducted by tutors with significant experience in their respective areas and who are leading well-known arts and social enterprise organisations in India. This programme was organised by ARThinkSouthAsia in collaboration with Bengal Arts Foundation. The course was aimed arts and […]

MKM’s music incorporates analog synthesizer bridges, percussion-based samples, and high frequency interference. From harsh rhythmic noise to rich sonorities, Günter Müller (iPods, electronics), Jason Kahn (modular synthesizer) and Norbert Möslang (cracked everyday – electronics) formed the Swiss electronic music group MKM in 2006, giving their first concert at Tokyo University while on tour in Japan. […]

Curated by: Mario D’Souza, Mila Samdub and Radha Mahendru Participants: Ala Younis, Bani Abidi , Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Pallavi Paul, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sahil Naik, Superflex, Susan Schuppli, Zuleikha Chaudhari + KHOJ. Concept: In 2017, KHOJ staged a hearing titled ‘Landscape As Evidence: Artist As Witness’, developed in collaboration with artist Zuleikha Chaudhari. Hoping to provide […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association in partnership with Goethe Institut organised 13 curated exhibitions which were the culmination of the Curatorial Intensive South Asia 2018 that brought together Fellows from Iran, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Unparalleled as one of the only programs of its kind, CISA aims to develop the next generation of […]

KHOJ hosted a talk by French artist Cécile Beau, who spoke on her recent project at the Bhubaneswar Art Trail. The talk was followed by a conversation with Mila Samdub. Cécile Beau uses nature as her focal point, which she then turns into a subject of contemplation and research. She combines plants and minerals with […]

Film screenings: Daaravtha & Nawa Artist-talk and Discussions Discussants and presenters: Aryakrishnan Ramakrishnan, Nishant Roy Bombarde, Saptarshi Mandal, and Santa Khurai from India along with Swiss photographer Laurence Rasti. Beyond the din of the mainstream narrative around the repeal of Section 377 and other NGO-initiated concerns, the question of larger support systems for people with […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association organised a talk by artist-in-residence Ifie Sin, followed by an open day. The talk was introduced by curator Akansha Rastogi. Echolocation was a culmination of Ifie Sin’s four-week residency at KHOJ in New Delhi. Taking as a central motif Delhi’s Museum of Natural History, which was destroyed in a fire in […]

Rangoato Hlasane also known as DJ Mma Tseleng played a set comprising his sonic research, which is concerned with ‘songs as texts’, rerouting Kwaito’s roots in what he calls an expanded family tree in order to make visible the political and historical significance of the genre. DJ Mma Tseleng played South African indigenous music/s and […]

Working with sound composition, poetry, and moving image, Body in Transit by Surabhi Saraf (featuring movement by Shinichi Iova-Koga and text by Dorothy Santos), explored the ways in which the human body travels through physical and imagined spaces. Confronting the political and cultural climate within the United States in 2018, as countless individuals grappled with the […]

Dr. Nishant Shah says: One of the most visible emphases in the social acceleration of Artificial Intelligence is what I call “extinction impulses”. This manifests itself in multiple ways – in how we design-think problems, how we conceptualize our users, how we buy into the promise of AI and how we imagine it. Digital capital and […]

In collaboration with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, the first edition of Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA), a new fellowship for young curators from South Asia was held at KHOJ in July 2017. The programme aims to develop a diversity of perspectives on the medium of the exhibition in South Asia and to provide both […]

From his early films, Ali Cherri has explored the contemporary history of his native Lebanon. Marked by the violence of years of civil war, the artist seeks to reconstruct stories by giving voice to places, traces and objects. More recently, he has been preoccupied with the study of archaeological and ethnographic materials and geological data, […]

Presented by KHOJ International Artists’ Association and Mithila Review, as part of the Art+Science III residency at KHOJ. If both science and art engage in worldmaking, in proposing structures for making sense of the real, science-fiction is a critical faultline in tracing the different sorts of worldmaking at play. The artwork, the book, the film, […]

Artist Vijai Patchineelam presented the photo book Samba Shiva: The Photographs of Sambasiva Rao Patchineelam (text by Hemant Sareen and Beatriz Lemos). This was followed by a Q&A. Samba Shiva, the result of the 2017 photography grant from Zum/ Instituto Moreira Salles, is a son’s reading of the photographic archive of his father. Brazilian artist Vijai Patchineelam commemoratively reimagines […]

The video programme Monitor 12 was presented by SAVAC and co-curated by Oliver Husain (Toronto), Otty Widasari and Yuki Aditya (Jakarta). The works that made up Figures Pointing Outside the Frame considered the peripheries of the image to be as significant as the content within. Whether film, video, or a still image, the technology dictates the […]

For over twenty years now, KHOJ has pushed artistic practice by building synergies across the region and fostering dialogues and debates that were seeded from practice. As an alternative for practices that had long existed within institutional, gallery, auction or fair-based markets, KHOJ has continued to create diverse spaces for artists to try, fail and […]

Please see the event schedule in English and in Hindi. Khirkee Festival was a four-day festival of the arts taking place, organised by KHOJ International Artists’ Association. The festival was a celebration of the cultural multiplicity of Khirkee, bringing to the foreground a variety of narratives about and from the neighbourhood through exhibitions, interventions, music, […]

Asia Assemble was a three-day gathering of artists, curators, academics and arts institutions from around Asia in New Delhi. Structured as a series of conversations, screenings and artist presentations, Asia Assemble sought to understand the possibilities, modalities, and urgencies of arts and cultural work around Asia in 2017. In our individual, collective and organisational capacities […]

Studio interfaces with Sarover Zaidi Part of the Coriolis Effect Edition III residency The shrine of Pedro Shah sits quietly between Victoria Terminus Station and the Bombay docks. Pedro Shah, an 18th century Portuguese pettiwala (wicker-basket load carrier) at the docks, was possibly the first labour organiser in Bombay. The story goes, when his Parsee […]

The Khirkee Talk Show was a collaboration between the Khirkee Storytelling Project and Khirkee Voice, to create a space for open and honest dialogue between the Khirkee locals and the Africans living in Khirkee, who might cross each other often on the street but don’t get to talk to each other. The first day began […]

The Illegitimate Archivist or how to do things with words, or words with things, and with books and anarchists, and grandmothers and shells with video games of encyclopaedias in Styrofoam glasses  and archaeologists, with no memories, but nostalgia with taxonomies and fading ink or with all of the above. A presentation by Shubigi Rao Introduced […]

A conversation between Anil Nauriya and Dilip Simeon Introduced and moderated by Sarover Zaidi Earlier in 2017, Ai Weiwei launched his installation Law of the Journey, featuring a huge inflatable boat holding human figures. This installation was his interjection to demonstrate ‘the waiting refugees’ on the coasts of the cold Mediterranean seas for their arrivals […]

Crossings and Moorings was an immersive multi-media curatorial project exploring the movement of people, goods, and ideas across the Indian Ocean. Taking the East African coast as a starting point, this project traced the origins of those crossing the western Indian Ocean, emphasising the everyday ways in which life across the littoral is shaped by […]

The Bombay Zine Fest: Delhi Edition was organised by Bombay Underground in collaboration with KHOJ International Artists’ Association. The zine fest featured more than 200 zines from more than 75 zine makers around the world. Zines were available for browsing and for sale. In addition to showcasing the zines, all-ages zine-making workshops took place, using […]

Goethe- Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and KHOJ International Artists’ Association organised a reading by Christopher Kloeble. Christopher Kloeble read from Almost Everything Very Fast (originally published in 2012) and again from Home Made in India. He was in conversation with Indian author Chandrahas Choudhury (Arzee the Dwarf) about cultural perceptions and misunderstandings. In his […]

Feminism in India in collaboration with KHOJ organised a day-long Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on ‘Women in Contemporary Indian Art’. In this Edit-a-thon, articles were created and edited on Indian women artists who either had no representation on Wikipedia or on whom very little information was available. The articles were written/edited, in English and any other languages […]

KHOJ with Sakshi Gallery organised the New Delhi preview of Sumedh Rajendran’s Water Without Memory. Concept: Distance stood as an innocent reality, with dust and fog creating human forms in the grimy landscape. Sun filtered its past through shrivelled branches and pale, fluttering leaves. Daylight wants to narrate its sorrow. There were men and women […]

KHOJ organised the Open Day of its associate residency programme with artists David Brazier from Australia and Vanessa Lovell from the UK, along with the launch of the community newspaper Khirkee Voice (खिड़की आवाज़). David Brazier’s practice uses a variety of social forms to narrate specific moments of social and economic power in the context […]

Phone Recharge Ki Dukaan hosted an open studio on 15th August, the Indian Independence Day, to talk about what ‘azaadi’ means to each one of us and what we still need ‘azaadi’ from. Through the day, it began to dawn on the participants how united the Indians were with the diverse African communities at Khirkee […]

KHOJ organised an evening of film screenings from the Creative Documentary Course (CDC), Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication (SACAC). Chaaya (From the Shadows), Dir. Nundrisha Wakhloo, Dur.24 min, CDC Diploma Film-2015 The filmmaker finds, in some places and people in Mehrauli, a canvas of internal and external spaces. She explores various elements of […]

The third issue of Khirkee Voice focussed on Khirkee as an Urban Habitat, the lived experiences of its past, present and possible futures. To encourage kids and adults alike to imagine their own future visions for Khirkee, two illustrators present at the launch, Ita Mehrotra and Anarya Dodes, guided those interested in an informal drawing […]

A Staged Hearing Before the Commission of Inquiry under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952. Landscape as Evidence: Artist as Witness staged a hearing before a Commission of Inquiry requesting that it consider the recently cleared River Linking Project under the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952. The matter had been referred to it by a […]

Jonathan Shaughnessy, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, and Catherine Crowston, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Alberta, discussed institutional perspectives, collaborations, and past and upcoming projects aimed at situating contemporary art in Canada within broader national and international contexts. Placing works of art front and […]

REProduce Indie Art Week | Official Opening Event Delhi-based music collective REProduce Artists collaborated with the first edition of Indie Art Week, opening a week-long series of events around the capital with an event inspired by the REProduce Listening Room series. The series aims to fill a gap in the ever-iterating and increasingly varied community […]

Stiched Landscapes was a two-day Darning Workshop led by artist Priya Ravish Mehra and internationally renowned textile artist, curator and researcher Yoshiko Iwada, along with Rafoogar Shariq. The workshop was an extension of Priya Ravish Mehra’s project Making the Invisible Visible that brought to focus the lesser known Rafoogari tradition of Najibabad in Uttar Pradesh […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association presented Gharelu Nuskhe Aur Muft Ki Salah, a day-long intervention led by artists Aastha Chauhan and Ita Mehrotra, and brought into conversation their Uttarakhand-based projects as part of the Evidence Room exhibition. Evidence Room staged a selection of projects from Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways, a major public art initiative […]

Evidence Room staged a selection of projects from Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways, a major public art initiative supported by KHOJ, which invited practitioners to investigate shifting local ecologies at sites across India over a period of five years. Using a curatorial framework which re-framed documentary materials and in-situ interventions in the context of […]

Khoj invites you to the launch of ‘The Horizon is an Imaginary Line: A Refugee Story’ on Thursday, 12th January 2017 from 6:00 PM onward 6:30 PM Reading by Himali Singh Soin 7:00 PM In-conversation: Authors Radha Mahendru and Bani Gill with contributors Koofe, Fatima, Hafez; moderated by Arpita Das  (Publisher, Yoda Press) The Horizon […]

A common dynamic amongst individuals in large cities is the possibility of anonymity, the luxury and burden of engaging with the city’s other inhabitants. If we accept the city to be a site in constant flux, then the construction and destruction of its built environment signals a prevailing circumstance in which the city is subject […]

Five Unfinished Pieces about dreaming, sleeping, anonymity, the sky and everything in between. DopoLavoro Teatrale organised Unfinished, a series of interactive multidisciplinary performances in which the audience engaged as an actor and an artistic collaborator. The actors performed alongside the audiences, embodying new roles every night. The audience could participate in person at KHOJ Studios, […]

Disquiet are a series of random live events in New Delhi featuring experimental acoustics exploring Glitch, Drone, Dub, Harsh Noise, Ambient, Signal-test, Word & various other obscure Avant Garde audio performance styles. With a casual lineup at each instance – this series of happenings allow performers to self indulge and produce performances that explore the […]

ARThinkSouthAsia and the Art X Company organised a one-day workshop conducted by Alok Chitre, aimed at equipping managers from the arts and culture space with the right set of tools to better manage their digital marketing. Numerous digital marketing questions were answered during this workshop, including: What channels are right for my business? How do […]

ARThinkSouthAsia and the Art X Company organised a one-day workshop conducted by Alok Chitre, aimed at equipping managers from the arts and culture space with the right set of tools to better manage their digital marketing. Numerous digital marketing questions were answered during this workshop, including: What channels are right for my business? How do […]

Gaza 51 brought to India art works (pencil sketches, photographs, paintings, digital art), short stories, poems, films and music produced by young Palestinians from Gaza, aged between 14 and 25 years. The festival that has travelled to multiple cities opened at KHOJ Studios. The artists’ works emerged from their experiences and memories of their lives being […]

This one-day workshop conducted by Alok Chitre, aimed at equipping managers from the arts and culture space with the right set of tools to better manage their digital marketing. Numerous digital marketing questions were answered during this workshop, including: What channels are right for my business? How do I know what’s working and what’s not? […]

ARThinkSouthAsia and Sandbox Collective organised a one-day workshop conducted by Alok Chitre, aimed at equipping managers from the arts and culture space with the right set of tools to better manage their digital marketing. Numerous digital marketing questions were answered during this workshop, including: What channels are right for my business? How do I know […]

As a response to section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalises homosexuality in India, Queen-Size was a choreographic exploration that took the form of a detailed study of the intimacy between two men. Played out on a charpoy, the duet examined the nuts and bolts – carnal, mechanical, and emotional – of a […]

Works in Progress | Artists Talks as a part of Coriolis Effect: Migration & Memory Residency Organising this event within the frames of its project Coriolis Effect: Migration and Memory, KHOJ invited three visual practitioners Nikhil Roshan, Wency Mendes and Anoushka Matthews, to present methodologies and frameworks, as employed in their ongoing documentary practices. These […]

An Interactive Talk by Exhibition Designer Martin Sollberger and Graphic Designer Mirijam Ziegler. Alice Boner was a sculptor and painter from Switzerland who settled in Varanasi, India in 1936 and went on to become one of the most outstanding scholars on Indian sculpture, dance and temple architecture. The journey of her life, art, and travels […]

It is likely the house will be dismantled piece by piece with a large crane and a scaffold to support the remaining structure was the culmination of a 10-day intensive body workshop and residency hosted at HH Art Spaces Goa and supported by Japan Foundation with 6 artists coming from different practices in performance and […]

Revue Artists – Sreejata Roy and Mrityunjay Chatterjee – worked on a yearlong community art project Networks and Neighbourhoods with the support of KHOJ. In May 2016, the project concluded with a three-day exhibition, a round table discussion, and neighbourhood walks. Through a sustained series of interventions, workshops and cartography sessions over the course of […]

Delhi based music collective REProduce Artists brought back a series called Listening Room to KHOJ. The aim was to fill a gap in the ever-iterating and increasingly varied community of live music in India by showcasing talent that might not get heard in venues oriented towards more mainstream music. A Listening Room event focusses purely […]

KHOJ, Navayana, and Juggernaut organised the launch of the book Finding My Way by Venkat Raman Singh Shyam and S. Anand. By a small green hill called Patangarh flows the Narmada, the oldest river in the Indian subcontinent, once called Gondwana. Here, the Pardhan Gonds make extraordinary murals on their adobe homes, play the bana and […]

As a part of The Undivided Mind residency program, KHOJ presented Hence (Un)Proven, a series of conversations which attempted to explore the world as defined (and possibly divided) by science, and other disciplines. The Undivided Mind art-science residency aspired to bridge one of the deepest divides in thought and culture in our time. When we […]

Delhi based music collective REProduce began a series called Listening Room at KHOJ. The aim was to fill a gap in the ever-iterating and increasingly varied community of live music in India by showcasing talent that might not get heard in venues oriented towards more mainstream music. A Listening Room event would focus purely on the music […]

Volte Gallery and Tulika Books in association with KHOJ organised the launch of the book Arc Silt Dive: The Works of Sheba Chhachhi, edited by Kumkum Sangari. The book comprises essays by Kumkum Sangari, Gayatri Sinha, and Nancy Adajania. It has been designed by Sherna Dastur. Kumkum Sangari, Gayatri Sinha, and KHOJ Director Pooja Sood […]

Delhi based music collective REProduce began a series called Listening Room at KHOJ. The aim was to fill a gap in the ever-iterating and increasingly varied community of live music in India by showcasing talent that might not get heard in venues oriented towards more mainstream music. A Listening Room event would focus purely on the music […]

BOOK LAUNCH and DISCUSSION The Guild Art Gallery in association with KHOJ organised the Delhi launch of a major book-length study of Navjot Altaf’s practice:The Thirteenth Place: Positionality as Critique in the Art of Navjot Altaf, authored by cultural theorist and curator, Nancy Adajania.    Navjot Altaf and the author Nancy Adajania were in conversation with Ravi Agarwal. On The […]

Our pilot match from the football series, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, was a great success! The weather threatened to create havoc but all went smoothly. Devil Macry won by a huge margin of 15-1. FC Diamond have to work on their game a lot! These matches would be taking place once every three weeks, culminating […]

KHOJ presented Level 01, an exhibition of Art Games made by resident artists of the Of Games residencies between 2013 and 2015. The first exhibition of experimental Art Games in the country, Level 01 showcased games made by Indian artists from diverse backgrounds — architecture, visual arts, literature, film-making and game development — taking part in […]

Presented as a part of Burning Against the Dying of the Light exhibition at KHOJ Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam engaged in a conversation with Ananya Vajpeyi, Venerable Kabir Saxena and Matthew Akester about the political and moral ramifications of the self-immolation protests in Tibet. The idea of self-immolations as a weapon of political protest, […]

Veteran Indian-Tibetan filmmaking couple, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s first solo exhibition, Burning Against the Dying of the Light, opened at KHOJ Studios in New Delhi. Burning Against the Dying of the Light was the first time a range of the artists’ video installations and films were being presented in one venue and under a […]

Vadehra Art Gallery in collaboration with KHOJ International Artists’ Association organised Mapping the Show: Chronicles of Silence (Khamoshi Ki Daastan). The talk by artists BV Suresh presented the developments in his practice: across painting, video & installation. He discussed the varying dimensions that emerged in his work through the multi-media approach: technical explorations, critical negotiations […]

Mulakaton Ki Galiyan (Lanes of Encounters), a monthly local magazine, was launched at the KHOJ terrace. The magazine was initiated by Revue artists along with some young women of the locality and interns from the Department of Social Geography, JNU. The team consisted of Sreejata Roy, Mrityunjay Chatterjee, Chetana Naskar, Nian Paul, writer & researcher […]

Students of the Swarn Public school were recently treated to a historical walk through Khirkee with Delhi historian and heritage keeper, Sohail Hashmi. The group, along with members of the KHOJ team, visited the Khirkee Masjid and the Satpula dam learning about the historical and geographic significance of these sites to the city. During the […]

ARThinkSouthAsia and Piramal Art Foundation presented a one-day workshop on “Museum Management”. The workshop included an overview of both Indian and international museums, museum management and object documentation, museum marketing and visitor management, and basics of exhibition planning and project management. This workshop, which was a mix of theory and practice was open to museum […]

Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) commissioned ARThinkSouthAsia to deliver a 5-day short course in Arts Management for people working at the Archaeological Survey of India. The course covered fundamental aspects of Arts Management: Fundamentals of Tangible and Intangible Heritage/ Best Practices Developing Community Stakeholder Management Plans Marketing and Outreach Building Visitor Management Plan […]

The Tehran Art and Cultural Management Development Programme was designed as an intensive ten-day programme. Taking a practical approach, it focussed on developing essential professional competencies needed in order to manage art and cultural projects. This course was designed to include a balance of theory and professional training and consisted of modules on project management […]

After receiving a Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways grant for their project ‘Reconciling Ecologies in the Millennium City’ in 2013, collaborators Alex White Mazzarella, Namrata Mehta and Soaib Grewal released an associated publication Zameendari Zimmedari: From Land Ownership to Responsibility. This publication was launched at KHOJ, during an evening event to celebrate 5 Years […]

The planting of seven thousand oak trees is thus only a symbolic beginning. And such a symbolic beginning requires a marker; the intention of such a tree-planting event is to point up the transformation of all of life, of society, and of the whole ecological system… Joseph Beuys-7000 Oaks, Documenta 7, Kassel 1982 7000 Oaks […]

KHOJ as an organisation facilitates diverse learning experiences and engagement strategies with contemporary, experimental art practices. As part of a new stream of audience building and alternative educational methodologies, KHOJ began implementing a series of workshops facilitated by Lleah Smith, the international Fellow in 2015. These workshops existed alongside the ongoing programmes at KHOJ and […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association presented the exhibition Activating Space : A Sculptural Enquiry. Exhibition Overview: Activating Space at the core was interested in the awakening of KHOJ as a physical architectural site, stimulating a multi-sensory experience between the artwork and the structural form it occupies. Play, light, colour, shape, size and unusual materialities became interesting […]

Choreography Workshop for Youth As Part of the KHOJ Hip-Hop Community Centre Programme Dance Style: Hip Hop, B-Boying, FreestyleAge Group: 10 – 20 Svea Schneider was born and raised in Landau, Germany. She has been dancing and moving all her life! After attending the Iwanson School for Contemporary Dance, she moved to New York City […]

KHOJ as an organisation facilitates diverse learning experiences and engagement strategies with contemporary, experimental art practices. As part of a new stream of audience building and alternative educational methodologies, KHOJ began implementing a series of community outreach workshops facilitated by Lleah Smith, the 2015 international Fellow. These workshops existed alongside the current programmes at KHOJ […]

As a part of The Undivided Mind, Art and Science Residency, KHOJ presented The Way of Light, Part II a talk by experimental filmmaker Shumona Goel. Shumona showcased films from the ISRO / SITE archive, as a part of her talk. The discussion was followed by a screening of Perfumed Nightmare (1979), an experimental film […]

This was a unique event at KHOJ – an exploration of the more left field side of the rapidly iterating form of electronic music production in India. Four artists – Ravana, Jamblu, and Hemant Sreekumar from Delhi, and HVAD from Denmark – performed over the course of four hours. The event showcased the remarkable electronic […]

KHOJ organised the Open Day of The Undivided Mind : Art and Science Residency, Part I. The CAAS crew re-imagined KHOJ, Khirkee and the surrounding areas of Delhi as a spaceship. After visitors entered the airlock, they entered a visual metaphor of a spaceship. They were invited to shift their perspectives, through collages that collided […]

A series of films and videos on the ideas of displaced geographies, soundscape  narratives and images without cameras Foveal Experiments showcased experimental films and videos from India and the archive of Collectif Jeune Cinéma, an organisation based in Paris. A collaboration between Charu Maithani and Julia Gouin, the project was shown in Delhi and Paris as […]

KHOJ, supported by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi and The Royal Norwegian Embassy, presented On Mourning. To refuse to mourn is to condemn a trauma to repeat itself ad infinitum. But can repeated mourning ever take the form of a productive practice? How can we (un)learn through exposure to absence? Despite the intensely […]

Schizoanalysis is a concept and practice invented by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari as a critique of and methodology beyond, psychoanalysis. Deleuze and Guattari argued that traditional psychoanalysis more often served to constrain and limit, rather than to liberate and affirm life. One of the problems with psychoanalysis was its enclosure of the patient and […]

KHOJ, supported by Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, in collaboration with Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, presented the exhibition Nameless Here For Evermore. Nameless Here for Evermore brought together artistic practices that ask us to reflect on our implicit involvement in collective suffering, whether in the violence of Kashmir over the last decade, the Punjab and Delhi […]

In Indian mega cities such as Delhi and Mumbai, more than 50% of the population live in informal settlements. 3×4 meters is the plot size provided in some resettlement colonies, the result of a government initiative which relocates people within informal inner-city settlements to vacant land on the periphery. 3×4 looked at informal settlements differently, […]

We were honoured to be supported by 10 leading contemporary artists who generously donated works in support of KHOJ. The 10 works were auctioned as part of Christie’s – The India Sale, which took place at the Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai. The donations by artists Anish Kapoor, Anita Dube, Atul Dodiya, Bharti Kher, Dayanita Singh, […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association and Priya Paul presented The Other WomanExhibition of Film Memorabilia from the Priya Paul Collection The exhibition was an homage to vamps, anti-heroines, seductresses and dancers of Bombay cinema. The women who have been a foil to the innocent-as-lamb image of the leading lady, because of their courage, their boldness and […]

Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) commissioned ARThinkSouthAsia to deliver a 5-day short course in Arts Management for people working in arts and cultural organizations, run and/or funded by the government. The course covered fundamental aspects of Arts Management: Strategic Planning (2 Days) conducted by Manisha Gupta Marketing and Fundraising (1 Day) conducted by […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association, in collaboration with the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, hosted an evening of discussions and screening of selections of video works by young contemporary artists shown at the Edinburgh Art Festival. The selection was co-curated by Gayatri Uppal for KHOJ. The evening contained short presentations by curator Vidya Shivadas and artist […]

KHOJ launched the comic book Jaba by Anpu Varkey and hosted an extended evening with DJ sets by Ntone Edjabe (Live) and Stig Inge. In Varkey’s words: “This comic is about Jaba, my companion, seen juggling various heavy-duty activities in a day. A dreamscape netted around its numerous resting hours, touching on its static eye […]

Ravi Agarwal and KHOJ International Artist Workshop organised an artists’ collaborative event Disappearance as Work in Progress- Approaches to Ecological Romanticism. The event was a contribution to the Maldives Pavillion in Venice Bienniale 2013. Ecology has been presented as an homogeneous term with the image of our fragile planet portrayed as a uniform sphere of […]

This 3-day course titled ‘Fundamentals of Arts Management: Strategic Planning, Marketing, & Financial Planning’ was conducted by tutors with significant experience in their respective areas and who are leading well-known arts and social enterprise organisations in India. The course was aimed arts and culture professionals seeking to strengthen their skills for managerial roles in an […]

As a part of the Of Games – II Residency, KHOJ presented a day-long seminar featuring interactive presentations by leading thinkers and practitioners from the fields of art and gaming. This was a public event with limited seating.

Jewelry as a form of body adornment is one of the most intimate of art forms. Like textiles it has a direct relationship to the physical body;  its weight, texture and size is a constant reminder of its presence. The motion of jewelry on the moving body creates a subtle tactile experience. The human figure […]

In collaboration with the Goethe Institut-Max Mueller Bhavan, KHOJ International Artists’ Association presented Sample Cities/Imaginary Spaces. The theme of the exhibition was personal urban perceptions, which are known as “the city”. The city, as a living organism reflects social processes and interactions, economic relations, political conditions and private matters. In the city, human memories, desires […]

Cry Out Loud was a collaboratively produced feature length film that explored the lives of several men and women from the diverse African community residing in Khirkee Extension, Delhi. The film, a project conceived by visual anthropologist Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, put the camera back in the hands of a crew of young men from Somalia, […]

Ryan Bromley in conversation with Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Raqs Media Collective) Khoj is currently running the third edition of its Food Residency – a six-week residency that will focus on generating conversations around ‘food’. Apart from the discussions between the artists-in-residence, the residency aims to develop additional conversations around other food-related issues, such as the politics […]

KHOJ organised the release of the third Sound Reasons album, a compilation called Epiphany, featuring artists from the Sound Reasons label and several artists from the Sound Reasons Festival. The compilation drew upon the vast array of practices that Sound Reasons has been involved with, such as sound art and music concrete, experimental electronic music […]

We are Ours: A Collection of Manifestos for The Instant was an exhibition of 27 manifestos created by contemporary Indian artists. The number 27 is significant due to a host of associations—man is the Latin root of hand, which is comprised of 27 bones; 27 is the number of letters in the Latin lexicon (in […]

Residual was Anpu Varkey’s solo show on portraits. The portraiture format in her work was used like a portal into a hyper-real realm of being. Contrasting hues of red, green, and yellow moulded the face and torso, displacing the ‘model’ from any recognisable place or culture. These hues were fantastical, coded within a literary text […]

“Once a certain idea of landscape, a myth, a vision, establishes itself in an actual place, it has a peculiar way of muddling categories, of making metaphors more real than their referents; of becoming in fact, part of the scenery.” – Simon Schama Deep Time was Rohini Devasher’s third solo show and the first to […]

The exhibition, Of Games: Frameworks in Question, juxtaposed art with games and gaming technologies including the old board games of India like Ganjifas, Parallel by Harun Farocki, and video games like Osmos and Otomata. The selected works captured image-making processes explored in both games and art, and highlighted the centrality of audience-engagement in gaming. An […]

Graphically realistic and often provoking us to explore deeper questions, video games have changed from simplistic beat-em-ups to more thought-provoking media through which stories can be shaped and retold. Although both traditional Humanities and Information Technology struggle with this notion, video games are a storytelling medium. Recent trends in Humanities criticism and in Computing recognise […]

This 3-day course titled ‘Fundamentals of Arts Management: Strategic Planning, Marketing, & Financial Planning’ was conducted by tutors with significant experience in their respective areas and who are leading well-known arts and social enterprise organisations in India. The course was aimed arts and culture professionals seeking to strengthen their skills for managerial roles in an […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association in collaboration with Sharjah Art Foundation presented the Indian premiere of The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni, a film by Rania Stephan. The film was awarded a Sharjah Biennial prize in 2011. The film was open for public view on 2 August, 2013 at 5:45 pm, followed by a conversation between […]

Conceptualised as a curatorial collaboration between the Tate Modern and KHOJ, Word. Sound. Power. opened at Project Space Gallery at Tate Modern, London from July 12, 2013 till November 3, 2013 and travelled to KHOj Studios from January 2014 till February 2014. The exhibition, jointly curated by KHOJ’s resident curator Andi-Asmita Rangari and Tate’s Loren […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association and Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan organised Mario Pfeifer’s first solo exhibition at an Indian institution, presenting his acclaimed and widely exhibited installation project A Formal Film in Nine Episodes, Prologue & Epilogue (2010). The multiple-channel high-definition video installation, originally shot on 35 mm colour negative, was preceded by extensive on-location research for […]

This work explored auditory geometry – by spatialising sound and sonifying space. The sound sculpture immersed listeners in the middle of a three-dimensional sound field. Attuning the ‘mind’s ear’ and the auditory imagination, the listeners heard a continuous travelling sound ‘drawing’ shapes around them, as a sparkler might do in light. Listeners experienced the sensory […]

LAHORE > DELHI > MUMBAI > KARACHI > DUBAI 230 MB / EWO linked Lahore and Delhi as well as the cities’ inhabitants through the exhibition platform. EWO aggregated as it travelled, growing in each instance to include artists from the cities it visited along a path towards its terminus. This route traced a line […]

Listen, my heart, to the whispers of the world was a compilation of sound compositions reflecting on the sound scape of the Indian subcontinent. The works were presented in a dark cinema hall as a soundtrack with no pictures. The title of the piece comes from Stray Birds, a collection of poetic fragments by Rabindranath […]

The KHOJ Contemporary Art Intensive was a focused, rigorous, hands-on learning programme designed in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Sweden. The nine-day course was held in New Delhi, India. The modules covered key developments in contemporary art theory and criticism that are currently under-represented or overlooked in the curriculum of Fine […]

KHOJ has been based in Khirkee Extension since 2002, emphasising the processes of engagement and exchange all the while. KHOJ’s community interaction has emerged out of an extended dialogical and personal synergy of artists and cultural practitioners with the community of Khirkee. Over the years, KHOJ’s engagement with Khirkee – the location, its (often changing) […]

This one-day workshop, organised in collaboration with 1 Shanthiroad, was conducted by Nelson Fernandez, on the following aspects of an arts festival – developing a strategy in alignment with the vision and mission; strategy for engagement with stakeholders, artistic and corporate partners; and engaging and working with a variety of audiences.  Workshop Facilitator: Nelson Fernandez Nelson Fernandez […]

This five-day course, conducted by ARThinkSouthAsia in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, Kabul, was designed to include a balance of theory and professional training consisting of three modules which included latest thinking in cultural management in areas such as strategic and business planning; financial planning and fundraising; and marketing and communication. These modules were led by three […]

Khirkee Masjid is a 14th century dilapidated mosque in the middle of Khirkee Village, a small rural pocket abutting Saket Mall in New Delhi. KHOJ Vigyapan, a three-day workshop, addressed the clash of consumerism within a culturally insulated village. The objective of this workshop was to encourage young minds to critically engage with media through the […]

From its modest beginnings in 1997, KHOJ has nurtured vibrant imaginations and created unconventional synapses between disciplines. To carry forth its uncompromising commitment towards creative thinking, KHOJ built an institutional infrastructure in India for making, exhibiting, and researching contemporary art. We renovated our premises to create multi-purpose project spaces, artists’ studios and residences, an open […]

With abstract juxtaposing of sounds correlating to individual experience, the soundscapes exhibited in this event were based on improvisation. From DIY to analog synths, the participating artists presented an evening of experimental sound and electro-acoustic music. Participating Artists ::VTOL::::VTOL:: is a electronic music project from Moscow, founded by musician and artist Dmitry Morozov in 2007. […]

An initiative of The Gati Dance Forum, The Yellow Line Project (YLP) invited collaborations between choreographers and media artists to explore the intersections between dance, film, and public spaces in Delhi. Each project was created around a specific urban site in Delhi, whether it be a heritage site, a foot bridge, the pavement, or a […]

Certificates of authenticity are a critical aspect of art work sales today. They often even embody the artwork itself, while referring to it, serving as its deed, legal statement and fiscal invoice. Certificates by artists validate the authorship and originality of the work and they allow the work of art to be positioned in the […]

This symposium consisted of a series of 30-minute presentations by psychoanalysts and cultural theorists on topics of contemporary relevance to both psychoanalysis and artistic and cultural production and reception, together with presentations of works from artists. The presentations were followed by a panel discussion between the symposium participants and the audience. The objective of the […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association organised A Gift for KHOJ: A Fundraising Event. KHOJ is a unique alternative space that has facilitated some of the most adventurous and cutting edge art practices across India and south Asia. 40 leading contemporary artists from India and South Asia have donated artworks to KHOJ which were on sale at […]

Social gaming offers people separated by thousands of kilometres an insight into different cultures, languages and cities. Using social interaction through game playing, these games add creativity, fun, and excitement to an otherwise solitary experience. PlexUs was a part of SELF[n], presented by the Cornell Department of Art, Cornell University. SELF[n] was a 2-week project […]

Following from KHOJ’s commitment to community-based art projects, Hip Hop has established itself as an art form that the youth are excited to engage with. This has led to the formation of KHOJ’s youth-based initiative called the Khirkee Hip-Hop Community Centre. Since October 2010, classes have been underway in collaboration with Hip Hop artist HeRa […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association and Tiny Drops presented the Khirkee Park Jam, an evening of Hip Hop, Graffiti Art, and Live DJ performances at the Khirkee Village Park. This event was supported by SlumGods (Artists’ Collective) and Sabotoz Paints.

Put together by Eline Jongsma and Kel O’Neill, Empire was a project that examined the architectural, cultural and spiritual traces left behind by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) traders and colonists in five former VOC trading posts and colonies: Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Ghana, and South Africa. The five multi-channel, non-fiction video works that made up […]

A Multimedia Music Performance As a composer in acoustic and electronic music, Eryck Ebecassis, Laureat du programme (Hors Les Murs 2011) De l’ Institut Francais, received a grant for an opera project in India. Noisindia was based on the ShipBreakers Opera Project– an Indian sonic print of his musicial residency in India. For this performance, […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association and CMYK Bookstore presented an evening with Virginia Whiles, author of Art and Polemic in Pakistan: Cultural Politics and Tradition in Contemporary Miniature Painting. This talk traced a fascinating journey exploring the tradition of miniature painting, and the efforts of contemporary artists in Pakistan in the recent decades to revive and […]

Discussions about sound in the city frequently return us to the question of noise, without giving us space to explore the ways in which this term is difficult to define. Sound is intimately connected to personal experience and our relationship to our surroundings. Beyond the technocratic definition of noise, according to the measurement of decibels […]

Through public interviews of twenty-six artists, social philosophers and political analysts, the KHOJ Marathon by Hans Ulrich Obrist, captivated more than 600 people throughout the day. The exuberance of the lush setting of the Lodi Restaurant was further enhanced by the use of fresh colours and reflective panels around the place. Hans Ulrich Obrist is […]

The longing to be part of a story resembles a blind statue in an arboretum and a floating chair wrapped in plastic. Somebody speaks of measured cadences during music lessons, a revolver is gifted ‘out of natural love and affection’ and is meant to be nothing more than a blessing. A clown in a zoetrope […]

This was an interactive installation which offered the viewer an experience of herself/ himself as constituted and transformed by what she/he consumes – food, goods, words. The installation explored the continuum between consumption- production-homogenization, with particular reference to transgenic foods, through a series of real time transformations of the body and the self of the […]

From artist Zuleikha Chaudhari (dt. 2010): My production Some Stage Directions was commissioned for the Delhi Ibsen Festival of 2009 for Henrik Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman. I used the basis of the Ibsen text as a device to develop a response to history, to everything that we hear around us in relation to mining, extraction […]

Following the hugely successful cricket matches of the Satpula Super Series, KHOJ facilitated football matches for the youth in Khirkee and the neighbouring communities. In July 2010, the Khirkee Football Series was organised in collaboration with the youth from the community. This time around we saw a much higher involvement of the youth, than earlier […]

As part of the summer activities within Khirkee and KHOJ, the Art Workshop was facilitated from mid-May to mid June 2010, where young children, mostly from 8-13, got a free hand at expressing their creativity and imagination by drawing anything they wished and having riotous fun with colors. The students gathered everyday to play and […]

KHOJ International Artists’ Association and Harper Collins Publishers India in association with The British Council hosted the launch of THE KHOJ BOOK. The book was released by Robert Loder, founder of the Triangle Arts Trust, UK Program. The launch was accompanied by a new performance by Nikhil Chopra & music by Dualist Inquiry A landmark publication, […]

Sonic Session @ The Khoj Studios 13th March 2010 Maxine is an agent, developed with Max/MSP, designed to do her own thing as an improviser. I seek to make her musical experience a free engagement with other improvisers. While I have dedicated a great deal of time to developing Maxine’s instincts as an improviser, her performances here are […]

A Site-Specific Performative Intervention Chinese artist Han Bing has long been preoccupied with the human costs and consequences of the contemporary obsession with consumption, as a dominant standard of value in a so-called ‘modern society.’ His performative interventions in public space and multimedia performance installations, as well as photography, video, painting and sculpture works, frequently […]

SEZ Who? was a collaborative project by Justin Ponmany, Prajakta Potnis, Sharmila Samant, Tushar Joag, and Uday Shanbhag. The exhibition was on view at KHOJ. It was also accompanied by a walk-through of the exhibition by the artists and a lucky dip of the artworks in the exhibition. Other programmes included: Seminar (In Context: Public. […]

A Mocha ArtHouse and KHOJ Partnership TECHNODROME Urban Arts Festival 2010 was a new festival of emerging electronic music, visual arts and performances. Conceived by Mocha ArtHouse and Qilla Records, the first segment of this festival took place at the end of February in New Delhi. As part of the festival, acclaimed Russian digital artist […]

KHOJ celebrated publication of Mahmud Rahman’s first book of short stories, Killing the Water (Penguin India, 2010), with readings from emerging authors from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, most of whom had been published by Westland-Tranquebar. Mahmud Rahman was born in Dhaka and came of age during the upsurge of the late sixties that led to […]

Thomas Eichhorn led a two-day intensive workshop on Interaction Design using the VVVV programming environment and interfacing it with audio, video and micro-controllers. Participants learned how to create media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio, and video that could interact with many users simultaneously. Thomas Eichhorn is a designer currently based in Halle, […]

Cyborg | Body | Japan | Cultures | Critical Design | Design for Debate | Scenario | Narrative | Body Politics |Biotechnology | Technology | Pop Culture | Bollywood How can you extend your body to solve your own issues, from tragic heartbreaks to global warming? How might Indian pop culture evolve with the development […]

This workshop explored the possibilities of creating interactive installations and new media environments using DIY electronics, Open Source Software and Ubiquitous Technology. It was led by artist and new-media practitioner Matthew Kenyon. Workshop Concept: Creating Agency through Telepresence In this project, user-movement about the city controlled the illumination of lightboxes at a remote location. These […]

Pecha Kucha at KHOJ had the theme Public Works Department: Art on Infrastructure + Art As Infrastructure + Infrastructure As Art On Pecha Kucha Night, each presenter was allowed 20 images, shown for 20 seconds each – giving every presenter 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter was called upon; this kept presentations concise, […]

Periferry co-organised this seminar in association with n.e.w.s and KHOJ. Note from the Organisers: We maintain that art’s condition is post-spatial, yet it is often frustrating to try and describe that condition with existing concepts and vocabularies. The deeper we got in our conversations – which included or even precluded the internet – the more […]

KHOJ collaboratively organised a four-day workshop titled Imagine Peace! with Design2context, (Institute for Design Research at the Zurich University of the Arts), which works internationally to foster the idea of a new iconography of peace or non-conflict. The workshop organized by KHOJ and Design2context was the fifth in a series of workshops. By January 2009, […]

Minds to Lose was a multi-media performed monologue, alternating between a reflection on Nietzsche’s pronouncement of animals as living unhistorically and the experience of time lost during anesthesia. Including footage from Petting Zoo—a performance Neha Choksi did at KHOJ Live ’08, for which she anesthetized herself and four farm animals—Minds to Lose considered how anesthesia […]

In April 2007, Mithu Sen advertised a ‘summer dhamaka’ online called the Free Mithu project, in which she invited friends, colleagues, and acquaintances to send her a ‘letter with love’ in exchange for a free artwork by her, in a medium of their choice. For almost two years, Mithu has collected various forms of ‘letters’ […]

“Mai bachha tha tab ye banaya tha, jab mai second class mei tha”– Faridi (5th standard student, Gyandeep School) Khirkee ki Kahani (the KHOJ Community Art Project) has come a long way since its initiation in 2004, when it was facilitated with a small project (in collaboration with Vandana Ram) that explored friendships and stories […]

48 Degrees Celsius Public. Art. Ecology was a nine-day festival of public experiments and interventions situated around Delhi, India, involving Indian and international artists. Each public artwork focused on the theme of ecology and interrogated the complex environment of Delhi as one of India’s largest cities. Eight key sites of cultural and/or historical significance were […]

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, […]

On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning By Haruki MurakamiWith: Manish Chaudhari, designed and directed by Zuleikha Chaudhari Excerpt from Murakami’s text: One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl. Tell you the truth, she’s not that good-looking. She […]

Celebrating 10 Years of KHOJ (dated 2008): KHOJ in collaboration with the Anant Art Gallery invite you to the preview of Six Degrees of Separation: Chaos, Congruence & Collaboration in South Asia. The title Six Degrees of Separation refers to the notion that every person on the planet is separated from everyone else by a […]

Known to its legions of fans simply as P-Funk, Parliament Funkadelic ( director Yvonne Smith; running time 53 minutes) has had a profound impact on the development of contemporary music, aesthetics and culture. Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove chronicles the unique alchemy of the musical influences that fed into the band’s singular approach […]

KHOJ organised the screening of Asian Vibes: Bombay (2004; Director: Vishal Rawlley; Runtime: 60 min), a video documentary on electronic music in Bombay, from the early disco era to the new DJ culture. Tracking the burst of electronica in contemporary Bombay from club DJs and remix gurus, to the fringe artists and cutting edge groups, […]

The course explored and explained the basic elements of design, from the simple materials (paper, pen, scissors, staplers) to design methodology (sequential timing, spatial reasoning) in simple, hands-on lessons. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Purpose: Flipbooks are basic animations that can be constructed from limited materials and expenditures. Students will gain the tools to make their own flipbooks […]

KHOJ screened the film Riding Solo to the Top of the World directed by Gaurav Jani. Riding Solo is a film about filmmaker Gaurav Jani’s solo motorcycle journey from Mumbai to one of the remotest places in the world, the Changthang Plateau in Ladakh. As a one-man film unit, he astonishes the audience with what […]

An Exploration of verbal photography by Jose Abad Lorente , following up from his associate residency in May 2007 at KHOJ Studios. Open from the 18th till the 30th of January 2008  11:30 hrs till 18:00 hrs . Body/Text was the first exhibition held at Khoj which explored the collaboration between disabled/deaf persons and artist […]

KHOJ was invited to put up a stall in the not-for-profit section of the prestigious Frieze Art Fair (a first for Indian Art) that takes place every October in Regent’s Park, London. The fair features over 150 of the most exciting contemporary art galleries in the world; while also including various specially commissioned artists’ projects, […]

This photography-based workshop was a collaborative project between Aastha Chauhan, Hannah Matthew and students of the Gyandeep School. This was one in a series of workshops conducted with the students of the Gyandeep School, in the Khirkee neighborhood.

Zariyein II & Zariyein III Frame Works Research and Media Collective adopted interdisciplinary practices to explore development issues and social processes. They used varied research techniques and media forms in their work – from ethnography and documentary film to public art and community media. Frame Works comprises Amit Mahanti, Ruchika Negi and Subhashim Goswami. Amit […]

The Light Workshop was organised for the members of the KHOJ Advisory Group of Artists. This was an in-house week-long workshop where each artist worked on individual compositions using different lighting devices. Light installations, in India, in 2006 were still an incredibly new concept and addition to contemporary art production. This workshop was seen as […]

The international Sonic Art Residency (Nov-Dec) kick-started with Noise @ KHOJ (Workshop). Three electro man-machine units delivered everything ‘sonic’ from abstract, synthetic, ambient, digital to noise, percussive elements, and beats: constituting a complete spectrum of frequency and beat exploration. Experiments were drawn from the jam sessions. Previous projects on this theme: Hybrid Sonicscapes 2006 and […]

Arabian Night was an experimental play directed and designed by Zuleikha Chaudhari based on Arabian Night by Roland Schimmelpfenig (trans. Rajesh Tailang). Arabian Night succeeds in evoking the muggy and heavy heat of the Orient that turns each movement into a titanic effort and drives the unleashed spirit back into the abyss of the unconscious. […]

Dilli Dur Ast was an attempt to interrogate/ intervene/ understand the walled city of Old Delhi. Artists Atul Bhalla, Gigi Scaria and Himanshu Desai lived and worked within the walled city for a month developing individual projects in response to and, in some cases, in collaboration with the local community of Old Delhi.This project was […]

Facilitated by Saba Qizilbash, this project focussed on the current process of peace and creative exchange between the artist communities of India and Pakistan inclusive of Kashmiri artists. Colouring outside the Lines was positioned as a visual arts workshop series. The series was created to pedagogically intervene and introduce inter-cultural conflict management strategies between demographics […]

In an attempt to explore how the creative use of sound complicates the contained categories of sound /art /visual art /music /science /engineering, KHOJ organised a one-week intensive sound workshop. At a time when mainstream engagement was moving increasingly towards the visual, the pilot workshop explored the nexus between technology, soundscapes and creativity. KHOJ played […]

This project was organised in collaboration with Zuni Icosahedron, Hong Kong and India Foundation for the Arts (IFA). The Black Box Exercise arts education model was created and developed by Hong Kong based artist Yuewai Wong and his associates in 1995. The Black Box Exercise is an exciting model for arts education, with students, teachers, […]

In an effort to support and push the nascent form of performance art in India, KHOJ programmed an evening of performances with young Delhi-based artists Shantanu Lodh and Mrs Manmeet. Hammam mein hum sab nangay hain, pur ye hammam hain kahaan? Representation of the body has always been threatened by the super sophistication of the […]

Shit of the Other was a 20 minute performance by Inder Salim alias Inder Tikkoo. The performance was an attempt to ‘exist in the realm of the Other’, an encounter replete with opacity but at the same time highlighting an urgent need to re-examine the Self that generates dialogue.

Home was a global project Andreas Kaiser began in 2002. He collected over 300 drawings of German houses. With these drawings, in 2003 he traveled to South Africa. In workshops throughout South Africa he collected drawings from children aged 8-12. After that he handed out the German drawings together with a piece of clay, to […]

This exhibition was planned as part of an initiative to bring creative practitioners from diverse disciplines together at KHOJ studios, in the hopes of creating a stimulating environment for critical discourse and dialogue. Keywords and Baans (Bamboo) brought together contemporary artist Anita Dube with young architect Asim Waqif. Anita Dube:Letters were cut and  words were […]

Desire Machine is a multimedia collective based in North East India working with the politics of representation and the conflicting contexts of the region. In this event, through various creative processes, they explored the everyday experience of violence that is created out of imposed imagined geographies and pushed into the periphery of the imagination of […]

An exhibition of interactive works that attempted to portray dyslexia from the perspective of a dyslexic. “This exhibition has been a journey in exploring the different aspects of my life where dyslexia comes into play. It has been a journey of self-discovery, both emotionally and artistically. I have found that dyslexia is not a disability […]

KHOJ‘s second introduction with the children in Khirkee, after the collage-making workshop, happened over a kite-making workshop. We invited skilled kite makers from Old Delhi and 20 children from the street to learn the skill. Children poured in by the dozen; the enthusiasm of making and flying their own kites over two weekends was infectious, as […]

KHOJ Studios previewed recent works by Delhi based artist Atul Bhalla.

KHOJ Studios previewed recent works by Sumedh Rajendran, collectively entitled Pseudo Homelands. “In landscapes marginalised by the hierarchy of power structures, negotiation is a mere theatre. In this maze of divisions and subjugations, that which we tend to perceive as social harmony are only unexplained tragedies.” — Sumedh Rajendran.

KHOJ International Artists’ Association had the pleasure to present 2 diverse projects exploring the notion of community based art practices at the KHOJ Studios. Kaho Na Pyar Hai: “The question “what is common among us?” encouraged me to do a project involving people from different occupations across borders such as cobblers, tailors, carpenters etc to […]

Money and postage stamps are official documents. Money signifies a system of smooth administration and an in-built system for achieving intra- and intergenerational rational equity. Postage stamps are essential identifying documents required for the post to reach its destination. The images on stamps (money/ postage) are idealised signs/ symbols and images of national icons. The […]

Once KHOJ established itself in a Khirkee building, as an organisation we felt we needed to develop a relationship with the community in whose environs we were based. However the community is a disparate one, with low-income earners on the one hand and a large middle-class (primarily artists) on the other. There is a drama […]

KHOJ International Artists Association in collaboration with Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai hosted the first group show by artists based in South India at the KHOJ Studios. Generally speaking artworks are created outside of the gallery confines and are then installed in a gallery space. The Khoj workshops offer an alternative way of working where they explore […]

Manoeuvering Miniatures was a highly coded and deeply provocative exhibition held in 2001. Alternatively satirical, political, witty, and subversive, this small but tightly curated exhibition simultaneously delighted and provoked. This exhibition was the first of its kind, bringing contemporary Pakistani miniatures into India. Manoeuvering Miniatures was conceived as an important opportunity to begin bridging the […]