Curatorial Intensive South Asia

Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) is a fully-funded fellowship programme conceived and initiated by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi. It is run, administered, and further developed 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. The programme aims to develop a diversity of perspectives on the medium of the exhibition and to provide a structured and an experimental inquiry into the possibilities of curatorial practice today.

Intensive: 15 September to 15 October, 2024
Exhibition: March 2025

Khoj and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan are delighted to announce the fellows for the sixth edition of the Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) programme – reimagined this year as a month-long, fully-funded, in-situ research residency programme at Khoj Studios in New Delhi, India. 

The fellows for CISA 2024 are Adit Dewan (Bangladesh), Erfan Ghiasi (Iran), Gayatri Manu (India), Mariyam Begum (Sri Lanka), and Pavini Kaur Sukarchakia (India).

Intensive: 15 to 29 July 2023
Exhibition: 12 to 19 December 2023

The fifth edition of Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) 2023 returned with tutors Latika Gupta, curator based in Delhi and Shuddhabrata Sengupta from Raqs Media Collective.

The fellows for CISA 2023 were Atefeh Khas (Iran), Bishal Yonjan (Nepal), Bunu Dhungana (Nepal), Jaisingh Nageswaran (India), Jatin Gulati (India), Neda Haffari (Iran), Pramodha Weerasekera (Sri Lanka), Snehal Morey (India), Sukanya Deb (India), and Umair Badheeu (Maldives).