📣 We are pleased to announce the residents of Peers 2026!
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Arieno Kera
Mahima Varma
Namya Chadha
Sahil Kumar
This year’s critic-in-residence is Elizabeth Lalruatdiki
We’d like to extend a special thank you to the jury members Martand Khosla, Mithu Sen and Srinivas Kuruganti for reviewing the shortt-list provided by the Khoj team and selecting the Peers 2026 cohort.
Now in its 22nd year, Peers has been Khoj’s flagship program and we look forward to shaping the Peers 2026 residency into an experience that is unique, robust and generative.
Peers 2026 has been generously supported by Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation.
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KHOJ INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY 2026 OPEN CALL
Khoj invites applications from artists whose practice engages with mental health and distress, critically examining how pain—physical, psychological, or historical—shapes both the self and society. How is suffering unequally distributed across race, caste, class, gender, and geography? How do individuals and communities navigate, resist, or reclaim forms of vitality in the face of war, colonial legacies, and systemic inequalities? Rather than defining mental health and illness solely in medical terms, we are open to a range of knowledge systems, forms of practice, and diverse concepts of vitality and distress.
This is an on-site six-week residency at Khoj Studios, New Delhi. Working in any medium, the artist is encouraged to expand the discourse on mental health, reimagining the self, its vulnerabilities, vitalities, wounds, and remakings.
Khoj is pleased to collaborate with SOAS’s Center for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA) for this residency program.
Applications open for Indian and International artists. One UK artist will be supported by CAMHRA.
Please note: Shortlisted applicants will be contacted via email.
Application Deadline: 7 June 2026.
For more details and to apply click the link in the bio.
For any queries please write to us at [email protected]
Over the past few days, Khoj has been reflecting on Raghu Rai and the extraordinary contribution he made to Indian art and photography.
His practice shaped and inspired generations of photographers. Across a career spanning decades, he approached India with patience, precision, and a profound love. Moving through its streets with quiet attentiveness, he developed a way of seeing that was both deeply intimate and widely resonant.
We are deeply saddened by his passing, and at the same time, grateful for the immense body of work and vision he leaves behind. His images will continue to shape how we look and remember.
Cover image of Raghu Rai from the book ‘Portrait of an Artist’ by Rohit Chawla, published by Mapin and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. All images from ‘Trees’ by Raghu Rai published by PHOTOINK.
Sentience of Small Beings arrives in Khoj International Artists’ Association, marking a significant step in NAU Foundation’s commitment to travel this exhibition for wider outreach, deeper dialogue, and greater ecological impact.
Bringing the show to Delhi is especially meaningful, a city at the frontline of climate change in India, where questions of air, land, biodiversity, food systems, and sustainable futures are urgent and immediate.
The preview evening also featured an inspiring talk and presentation by @rashmikaleka of Farm 8. Rashmi shared her living practice where art, nature, and regenerative farming converge. Nestled in Aya Nagar, Farm 8 has evolved into a thriving ecosystem -part edible forest, part studio, and part community space built with reclaimed materials and sustainable architecture, embodying the idea that artwork itself can be a living form.
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Khoj International Artists’ Association, Samvedna Foundation, and Ankur Scientific for supporting the artists’ collectives at NAU Foundation and helping amplify this important movement for ecology through art.
Sentience of Small Beings opens at Khoj Studios
Presented by NAU Foundation, the exhibition brings together 18 ceramic and printmaking artists from across the world to explore the world of insects and the vital role they play in sustaining life. Emerging from NAU’s art and ecology programme, the works invite a closer look at the beings that shape our ecosystems.
The opening will feature a talk by artist Rashmi Kaleka followed by a panel discussion on Art for Ecology.
Seats are limited and available on first-come, first-serve basis.
The exhibition will be on view from 24 – 30 April 2026 | 11 AM – 6:30 PM at Khoj Studios S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi
Featuring works by @anindasingh , @falguni_bhatt01 , Garima Tripathi, @hinabhatt_artist_vadodara , @kavitaochre , @rachhnehal , @ruddhivichare13 , @shampashah , @shirleybhatnagar , @anil_majmudar , @anita_e_jung , @eunkangkohart , @kategorringesmith , Oli Ghosh, @satyanarayana_gavara , @sabine_delahaut , Sylvia Taylor, and @tanujaarane .
With applications now open for the 22nd edition of Peers, we’re sharing answers to some frequently asked questions about the residency. Whether you’re wondering about eligibility, application requirements, or what to expect from the program, this FAQ post will help guide you through the process.
Swipe through for more details, and if you have any further queries, write to us with the subject line ‘Peers 2026’ at [email protected]
Apply now at #linkinbio.
Application Deadline: 19th April 2026
Glimpses from When We Return, the closing chapter of CISA 2025 at Khoj Studios.
Over the past days, the exhibition welcomed artists, curators, researchers, and visitors into its reflections on return, memory, distance, and belonging. We are grateful to everyone who spent time with the works and conversations, and to all those who engaged with the exhibition so thoughtfully throughout its run.
We also acknowledge Emdadul Haque Topu and Hengame Hosseini, who were unable to join us in Delhi, but whose contributions were central to When We Return and deeply felt across the exhibition.
Thank you to everyone who made this chapter possible and to all who visited, listened, and reflected with us.
Special thanks to CISA mentors Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Latika Gupta.
Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) fellowship programme conceived and initiated by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi in collaboration with Khoj International Artists’ Association. The fellowship is targeted at young curators from South Asia whose practice is situated in the field of the visual arts.
For more information on ‘When We Return’ and the CISA residency, visit the Khoj website.
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Conversations from When We Return
CISA fellows Narmeen Sajid and Thinal Sajeewa speak about their curatorial projects, the research that shaped them, and their experience of working through ideas of return, memory, and place within the Curatorial Intensive South Asia programme at Khoj.
Unfortunately, fellows Emdadul Haque Topu (Bangladesh) and Hengame Hosseini (Iran) were unable to join us in Delhi for Phase Two of the programme. We remain grateful for their contributions to When We Return from afar.
Thank you to everyone who spent time with When We Return and engaged with the exhibition.
Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) fellowship programme conceived and initiated by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi in collaboration with Khoj International Artists’ Association. The fellowship is targeted at young curators from South Asia whose practice is situated in the field of the visual arts.
For more information on ‘When We Return’ and the CISA residency, visit the Khoj website.
@goetheinstitut_newdelhi@visionandvisuality@thinal.sajeewa
Conversations from When We Return
CISA fellows Anna Sireiliu Charenamei and Pooja Poudel reflect on their exhibitions and their experience of the Curatorial Intensive South Asia programme at Khoj — speaking about research, process, and the ideas of return that shape their curatorial approaches.
When We Return is on view at Khoj Studios till 22 March.
Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) fellowship programme conceived and initiated by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi in collaboration with Khoj International Artists’ Association. The fellowship is targeted at young curators from South Asia whose practice is situated in the field of the visual arts.
For more information on ‘When We Return’ and the CISA residency, visit the Khoj website.
@goetheinstitut_newdelhi@sireiliu@pooja02poudel
Revisiting Are You Human?, the works, the questions, and the many conversations that unfolded through the exhibition and Notes from the Digital Underground symposium.
This film brings together moments from the exhibition, the symposium, and the exchanges that shaped the month of February.
Grateful to all the artists and speakers who contributed to this film, and a special thanks to Sukanya Baskar for her thoughtful exhibition design that held it all together.
Full film now live on YouTube — link in bio
Film by @discombobulatedfilms
Webinar Registration | Open for All
The Body as Site: Cruelty, Hunger, and the Politics of Memory
with Agustina Andreoletti & Mukesh Kulriya
📅 19 March
🕒 5:00–7:00 pm
📍 Online (via Zoom)
The Body as Site: Cruelty, Hunger, and the Politics of Memory brings together Agustina Andreoletti and Mukesh Kulriya for a podcast conversation on how the body carries histories of violence, erasure, and resilience. The session frames the body as a living archive, residue, and vibration, and reflects on how social and institutional forces shape embodied experience while recognising the body’s enduring capacity for resistance and renewal.
This webinar is part of the curatorial project Absence as an Artifact.
📝 Register here:
https://forms.gle/PjhE15UqdTcUvymDA
🔗 A Zoom link will be shared with registered participants prior to the session.
#TheBodyAsSite #AbsenceAsAnArtifact #Khoj
Workshop Registration Open
Listening to What Remains
with Prerana Khandelwal
📅 15 March | 🕒 3:00–6:00 pm
📍 Project Room | Khoj Studios
Listening to What Remains is a participatory workshop with neighbours from the KHOJ Studio space that explores presence, memory, and shared agency through sound and image. It begins with guided sensory exercises, introducing participants to selected pre-modern paintings from Prerana’s PhD research about animal-human relationship, and her artwork My Body – An Archive, a Historical Document or a Fiction?. Through listening, drawing, collage, and reflection guided by words like love, care, communication, and agency, participants create personal responses shaped by sound and lived experience.
All materials will be provided, and participants will be able to take home the artworks they create.
📝 Register here:
https://forms.gle/PjhE15UqdTcUvymDA
#ListeningToWhatRemains #Workshop #KhojStudios
