Visit by Refilwe Nkomo & Akansha Rastogi

Akansha Rastogi

Functie: Senior curator of programming and exhibitions, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi Land: India Bezoekperiode: 02 - 06 maart Bezoekjaar: 2020 Onderdeel van Visit by Refilwe Nkomo & Akansha Rastogi

Akansha Rastogi

 

Akansha Rastogi is Senior Curator of Programming and Exhibitions, at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi. She has served as associate curator of India Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019) and participated in many curatorial residencies. Her research focuses on the history of modern and contemporary Indian art exhibitions, and she is working on a series of essays and a book of interviews. Her recent curatorial projects at KNMA include “Smell Assembly” (2019), “What Place is Kitchen? What Place Community?” (2018); “Hangar for the Passerby” (2017); conversation series “Invitation for a Coup” (2016); “Zones of Contact: Propositions on the Museum” (co-curated with Deeksha Nath and Vidya Shivadas, 2013); and the performance series “Inhabiting the Museum” (2011–2015). She has been an active member of artists-led initiatives, forums, and collectives in Delhi and her additional ‘curatorial-objects’ include “The Souvenir Shop” at Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai (2018); and “Tilting” at School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai (2018).

 

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