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 2026. This year, Khoj invites applications from artists whose practice engages with mental health and trauma, critically examining how pain—physical, psychological or historical—shapes both the self and society. How is suffering…

Khoj and Arthshila are pleased to invite applications from creative practitioners for the fourth edition of the Arthshila X Khoj Artist Residency—a fully-funded, on-site residency at Parivartan in Siwan, Bihar. This residency supports 6 exceptionally talented artists with a strong material-based practice, including but not limited to ceramics, sculpture, and printmaking. Set in Siwan, Bihar, Parivartan is an initiative of…

Khoj is excited to announce the artists-in-residence of the Bodies-Machines-Publics Residency 2025! Cyanne van den Houten (The Netherlands) Felipe González Badilla (Chile) K Moss (India) Kiraṇ Kumār (India) Rafa Roeder (UK) Rahee Punyashloka (India) Bodies-Machines-Publics brings together a “glocal” (global and local) network of cultural and research partners in Switzerland, India and Chile that seeks to provide artists with a platform to…

Building on Khoj’s long-standing engagement with the intersections of art and urbanism, the Khoj International Residency August – September 2025 seeks to explore responses to the complexities of  high-density built and natural environments. This iteration of the residency invites artists from Australia, France, Russia, and India whose practices critically engage with the nuances of urban  density—whether in terms of spatial…

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…

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

In the fourth edition of the KHOJ International Residency, Khirkee Village served as the site and source for the participating artists to develop ideas and generate discourse. What this space enabled was the re-reading and rediscovery of India and the diversity of Delhi, by way of an exploration of the mini cosmos that is Khirkee. Over the course of six…

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

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

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

What is a feminist way of looking at the world? What opens up? What becomes visible? Who can you hear? What utterances become possible? For two hours every month, we are opening up a room to discuss assumptions and presumptions, power and pleasures. It’s a room of teaching and learning, a room for collective thinking, a room for finding new ways…

Northeast India, an ever changing socio-political space, looking at it as a series of interconnected micro-events.Transforming the content into digital bytes, and making it accessible so that the initiatiation of interactivity in public domain. Time is measured out in ways analogous to the coming and going of the everyday, exposing the passing of time to a (continuous) present. Politics of…

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

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…

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…