Khoj and Arthshila are pleased to announce that we are now inviting applications from creative practitioners for a fully-funded, on-site art residency at Parivartan in Siwan, Bihar. The Arthshila X Khoj Artist Residency Open Call 2024 seeks 6 exceptionally talented artists specialising in Ceramics, Sculpture, and Printmaking. We are looking for practitioners with a distinct voice and a compelling message.…

BODIES-MACHINES-PUBLICS brings together a “glocal” (global and local) network of cultural and research partners in Switzerland, India and Chile that seek to provide time and space for artists and creators to develop prototypes and works exploring the sensitive body and technical mediation in relation to public space. The project is a two-year collaborative initiative between NAVE (Chile), Khoj International Artists’ Association (India), and Immersive Arts Space/ZHdK and Kornhausforum (Switzerland)…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

Now in it’s 20th year, Peers has been one of the pioneering on-site residency programmes at Khoj International Artists’ Association that provides emerging artists from India with an opportunity for exchange and dialogue. It aims to provide young artists a forum for experimentation and interaction with the larger creative community as well as attempts to create a network of diverse…

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,…

In 2004, Khoj, was instrumental in setting up a network for the arts within South Asia, to connect artists involved in experimental and dynamic art within the region. An intrinsic part of the global Triangle Arts Trust, the organisations which comprise South Asian Network for Arts (SANA) are Vasl in Karachi, Theertha in Colombo, Britto in Dhaka and Khoj in…

We’re delighted to announce the selected participants for the Arthshila X Khoj Artist Residency 2023; Abhijit Sarmah Deena Pindoria Jit Natta Moumita Basak Purvi Sharma Saroj Kumar Badatya Special thanks to the jury Anita Dube, Arunkumar HG, Martand Khosla and Shailesh BR, and Abeer Gupta, who represented Arthshila, for reviewing the long list of applications provided by the Khoj curatorial team, and selecting the Arthshila X Khoj  Artist Residency 2023 artists-in-residence.…

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…