Khoj is now accepting applications for the second iteration of BODIES-MACHINES-PUBLICS. BODIES-MACHINES-PUBLICS seeks to foreground practices and inquiries that can map the shifting terrain of digital life through critique and the articulation of alternate possibilities. As the digital mediates our perception, memories, and bodies, the boundaries between the organic and the machinic are becoming increasingly porous. BODIES-MACHINES-PUBLICS is an inquiry…

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

📣 We are pleased to announce the artists-in-residence for Peers 2025! Abhay Pratap Singh Maithili Bavkar Pratik Naik Ritwika Ganguly Stuti Bansal This year’s critic-in-residence is Thangkhankhup Hanghal We’d like to extend a special thank you to the jury members — Gigi Scaria, Adwait Singh, Uzma Mohsin, Latika Gupta and Tarana Sawhney for reviewing the long list of applications provided…

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

Khirkee Shop-Makeovers: As part of the larger KHOJ Community Arts Project initiative, 11 artists chose to explore uncharted territory (at least as far as some of their individual practices were concerned) and venture boldly forth into the realm of community art. The site was the Khirkee village; more specifically, the street KHOJ calls home. The project engaged with the shopkeepers…

The Khirkee mural of May 2005 was an unwavering success and Khirkee-ki-Khoj was an extension of this project. KHOJ was approached by the Principal of the Gyan Deep Public School who invited the artists who had painted the mural to teach their students art. A group of artists accepted the offer and worked on refreshing the school art curriculum. Aastha…

KHOJ has initiated a series of projects that aim to take art out of the gallery space and back into the public domain. In our previous interaction with the Khirkee community, we mapped the street, made friends with a few residents and held a show where we photographed friends and tried to unveil the various perspectives of friendship. KHOJ also…

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…

Shadow Explorations is an immersive arts workshop for the children from the Khirkee community, with a focus on offering a rich tapestry of different art forms like shadow puppetry, drama, visual art, reading, & writing for them to play with. The workshop is designed as a structured playful exploration of different mediums to encourage self-expression and enrichment through art. These…

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…

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…

The Observatory: Second Site project, by artists Rohini Devasher and Legion Seven, began with an interrogation of the complicated history of observational astronomy and the ways in which ‘seeing’ is strange and more ambiguous than one might imagine. Since then it has transformed far beyond its original scope. At the core of this new iteration is the question of how perception impacts sight…

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…

Threading the Horizon: Propositions on Worldmaking through Socially Engaged Art Practice 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…

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…

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…