Khoj and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan are inviting applications from early and mid-career curators to apply 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.  The CISA residency offers curators the opportunity to establish contacts with cultural practitioners,…

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…

Inspiration: “The planting of seven thousand oak trees is thus only a symbolic beginning. And such a symbolic beginning requires a marker, ….the intention of such a tree-planting event is to point up the transformation of all of life, of society, and of the whole ecological system…”- Joseph Beuys-7000 Oaks, Documenta 7, Kassel 1982. 7000 Oaks functions not just literally…

The second edition of the Negotiating Routes: Ecologies of the Byways project brought forth a range of creative interventions looking at issues of ecology, society, and community. The selected projects investigated and navigated these topics from the diverse regions of rural Bengal, the mountains of Badrinath, the suburbs of Bengaluru, etc. Negotiating Routes was initiated by Varsha Nair and co-curated by…

The Negotiating Routes project invited artists, artists groups or professionals to propose site-specific projects that have an inter-disciplinary approach that combines research and art creation by artists and local communities, addressing the visible and invisible transformations currently taking place in their immediate environments. The project will encourage archiving of local knowledge and mythologies about various ecologies like the flora, fauna,…

In its fourth year, Negotiating Routes mapped the various project sites across the country to create an alternative road map, where artists and communities discussed the regeneration of the local ecology of their cities or villages together. Using the nomenclature of the National Highway or NH1, each site was ironically named NR1, NR2, and formed the nodal points of an…

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…

In the matter Re: Rights of Nature – A Staged Hearing 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.…

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…

Schizoanalysis, as a concept, found currency with the Postermodernist turn, through the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Posed as a challenge to the violence of psychoanalysis and the Oedipal understanding of the world, schizoanalysis proposed to move away from the clinical underpinnings of psychoanalysis and psychiatry, breaking out of the hierarchies between the doctor and the patient, to…

As an arts space, Khoj is constantly grappling with modes of knowledges across disciplines. Our curatorial approach strongly emphasises learning as praxis, accepting our role as trying to forge together new entry points into the thematics that interest us. Over the course of researching Does the Blue Sky Lie?, we realised the need to relearn what we know about the…

The Aerosol Chronicles Capture Omlojan is a six-part sequential exploration with sound, voice, and moving images. Conceptualized in the wake of auto-generated toxicities that swarm in the air, this artwork attempts to spend some time with the question of being in common with ‘our’ atmosphere. It is also an exploration in not forgetting that there exist radically different ways of…

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…