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…

Khoj and PICA are delighted to announce Ayesha Singh as the artist-in-residence in Perth as part of the Cross Hatching International Studio Exchange program. ⁠ ⁠With a focus on architecture, Ayesha will consider the histories of communities that have been hidden, displaced and removed, responding to this research through the development of site-specific installations, conversations and community gatherings. ⁠

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

we are opposite like that is a series of interdisciplinary works that comprises 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 messy collection of…

Drifting with the Summer Tides draws from allegories of tidal and wave movements to invite you to discover how filmmakers and artists imagine, narrate, represent and re-articulate our being in the world within a living environment with relationships to placemaking, subjectivity, agency, our being as carriers of memory and of a counter-memory of resistance, our being as carriers of ideology and…

Infestations of algorithms are put under the microscope in laboratory-like environments. Each act of unveiling manifests as reimaginations of technological architectures, their histories and futures, and thus, social paradigms. Worldbuilding and mythology come handy as speculative strategies and simulated solutions to capture the shifting categories of truth.  The online residency was followed by a short residency at Khoj Studios for…

Students of Swarna Public School re-visited the Khirkee Masjid for a drawing session organized by KHOJ.  Radha and Ishita from the KHOJ team helped the students break down elements of the 14th century monument through the lenses of perspective, the play of light and shadow, texture and scale. Most of them were using charcoal for the first time and were…

Aapki Sadak was a consultative project of urban design founded by architects, designers, artists and the local community. This initiative explored multiple participatory pathways that would enable the use of pedestrianism as a creative methodology to develop a sense of common ground and equality within the economically diverse localities positioned between Malviya Nagar Metro and BRT in South Delhi. __…