Events 2025

Dates : 18-19 July, 2025
City : Kolkata

The most-anticipated Curators’ Hub returns with the monsoon season, and this year, India Art Fair comes on board as Associate Partner. A two-day programme convening leading curators from across the globe, the Hub creates space for deep thinking, dialogue, and exchange around curatorial practice and exhibition-making today.

Learn more about the Curators’ Hub and find ways to get involved here

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Dates : 20 July, 2025
City : Delhi

An Act of Repair
Hosting, Healing and the Future

Concepts of care, repair and hosting have emerged from the margins of institutional curatorial practice to reclaim a fundamental imperative, the ethical responsibility of/for the “other.” In these attempts, the curatorial care is reconfigured as the care for the marginalised subjects, repair moves beyond the physical repair to reflect on the conditions of crisis and hosting becomes an act of inclusiveness.

This presentation by Sharmini Pereira, Chief Curator of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Sri Lanka, and Mohamed Almusibli, Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Basel, and moderated discussion led by Premjish Achari, Curator at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), Delhi, reflects on the transition of abstract theoretical frameworks into the tangible, often complex, realities of curatorial practice. Together they will think through the negotiations, adaptations and struggles to navigate the constraints and hierarchies of the art world. We invite you to be part of Sharmini Pereira and Mohamed Almusibli’s specific cultural, geographical, and intellectual contexts, to engage in a dialogue to understand the practical resonance of their interventions.

Both Sharmini Pereira & Mohamed Almusibli are here on the invitation of Experimenter’s Curators’ Hub and we are delighted to have them and Premjish Achari with us for this conversation.

The conversation will take place at Method Gallery, New Delhi, on 20 July 2025, starting 5:30 PM.

Register at www.tinyurl.com/actofrepair

Dates: August 1, 2025 (Opening)
City: Delhi
Venue: Innovation Gallery, Textile Gallery-2, National Crafts Museum and Hastkala Academy, New Delhi

Re-imagining A Way Back To Us: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion and Textiles in India | Curated by Sreyansi Singh

Featuring:
2112 Saldon, Ladakh
7Weaves, Assam
Boito, Odisha
Bun.Kar Bihar
Erode, Tamil Nadu
Johargram, Jharkhand
Kiniho, Meghalaya
Tega Collective by Niharika Elety in collaboration with Sandur Kushala Kala Kendra, Karnataka

India Art Fair and Fashion Design Council of India in collaboration with National Crafts Museum and Hastkala Academy is pleased to present the exhibition ‘Re-imagining A Way Back To Us: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion and Textiles in India’ curated by Sreyansi Singh for Young Collectors’ Programme. The exhibition centres fashion and textile practices that are grounded in indigenous knowledge and shaped by contemporary forms, all emerging from communities and geographies that have remained on the margins. 

Over centuries India has clothed the world, with textile traditions originating in every part of the country. Yet there’s so much that remains overlooked, either cocooned in regions forgotten, or obscured by the marginalization of communities they belong to. But their custodians are protecting and inventing ways of taking it to the future. Today, bold voices are emerging from these regions, reclaiming and reframing their narratives through contemporary interpretations. This exhibition brings these voices forward—as fashion and textile installations.”

The exhibition is realised as a part of ‘Know Your Weave’ project by the Ministry of Textiles, Government of India.