When We Return

Opening: Thursday, 12, March 2026, 17:00 to 21:00
On View: Friday, 13 March - Sunday, 22 March 2026: 11:00 to 19:00

Khoj International Artists' Association and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi are pleased to announce the opening of When We Return, six curated exhibitions by CISA 2025 Fellows.

The exhibition presents the final culmination of CISA’s seventh edition, which brought together curators from Bangladesh, India, Iran, Nepal and Sri Lanka for a two weeks-long, fully-funded, in-situ research residency programme at Khoj Studios in New Delhi, India.

When We Return endeavours to murmur the aching gap that always persists, representing the possibility of no return, and considers the methods of returning that never quite arrive in their original form, never as they were once felt. As some of us waited here and some of us waited there, all longing to return.

The exhibitions are curated by
Anna Sireiliu Charenamei
Emdadul Haque Topu
Hengame Hosseini
Narmeen Sajid
Pooja Poudel
Thinal Sajeewa

The exhibitions are on view at Khoj Studios, S-17, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi.

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.