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…

Khoj is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications from young emerging creative practitioners, final year MFA students (including those who graduated 2 years ago), and self-taught artists with a minimum of 2 years of experience in the field, for the 20th edition of the Peers artist residency. Peers is a six-week residency programme at Khoj Studios, New…

Architecture is often limited by the necessity of function and dictated by the economic forces of real estate; the INTERSECTIONS: Art and Architecture residency at KHOJ challenged traditional modes of architectural practice and representation through collaborations with the arts and beyond. These collaborations revealed the performative characteristics and possibilities of space.

The After School programme at Khoj stems from a desire to activate the Khoj space with a series of engagements scheduled to happen during late afternoon – early evenings. The book reading club in friendship with Parag is one such activation that engages with the children of Khirkee to foster a sense of belonging and community. Childhood, in most cases,…

Beyond the Blueprint: Reimagining the City is a socially engaged art project that seeks to rethink and renegotiate public spaces and cities as infrastructures of care, as well as expressions of inclusivity. The project is a collective reimagining of urbanscapes for women and gender minorities. As a continuation of Khoj’s work in its neighborhood Khirki, and more recently the long-term socially engaged art…

Conceived by Khoj International Artists’ Association and Zuleikha Chaudhari, in collaboration with lawyer Harish Mehla; ‘In the matter Re: Rights of Nature’ is a staged hearing which foregrounds the Rights of Nature as an expansion of the Right to Life as enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. Following on from an earlier project, Landscape As Evidence: Artist As Witness which was…

Formed in response to the climate emergency, the World Weather Network is a constellation of weather stations set up by 28 arts agencies around the world and an invitation to look, listen, learn, and act. For Khoj’s Weather Station, artists and researchers Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani, Atul Bhalla, Mithu Sen and Raqs Media Collective are undertaking walks and treks…

For the Delhi leg of the Live Arts Workshop, Khoj wishes to locate the body as central to the making of live arts, and thus simultaneously locate the quality of liveness that emanates from the body. In this framework, the body emerges as an ever-sensing tool, interacting with atmospheres, architectures, materials, technologies, interfaces and communities, mediating affect. The body becomes…

From the first International Workshop in 1997, to Khoj Live 2008 (a six-day Live Art festival) and most recently through a series of international residencies devoted to performance and time-based practices, Khoj has consistently engaged with the genre of Live Art. In an attempt to further explore the possibilities of the genre, specifically within the context of contemporary cultural production in India, Khoj…

As part of our 10-year celebrations, KHOJ curated the first ever International Performance Art Festival in New Delhi, celebrating KHOJ’s consistent engagement with the genre of live art practices. Live Art is an umbrella term encompassing a range of performance, performative and time-based practices that are unrestricted by art form boundaries. The Festival ran a dynamic six-day programme of events,…

The Does the Blue Sky Lie? exhibition 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 of technocratic solutions…

Come BREATHE with us Come LIVE with us Come ADOPT a piece of the sky with us Come PLAY with us Come IMAGINE a future with us Masks. Air Purifiers. Anti-Smog Guns. Smog Towers. Wearable Ion Generating Purifiers. Techno-scientific innovations are seen as the most desirable solutions for toxic airs by a neoliberal society. The first episode of Does the…