About the Event

Part of the Methods Series Workshop

A self-portrait exploration workshop.

This workshop invites participants into a quiet, focused inquiry:

What does it mean to witness yourself, fully, without judgment, through the act of drawing?

Through four carefully structured exercises, this workshop offers a space to explore the self from multiple perspectives. Participants will move through different exercises of seeing and interpreting their image, using drawing as both a mirror and a means of introspection. These exercises are not about artistic skill or technical accuracy. They are about witnessing yourself, and embracing the full range of your self-perception with gentleness, curiosity, and respect.

Who is this for?

• Anyone interested in themselves or wanting to develop an interest in themselves through selfreflection and embodiment.
• Artists and non-artists alike.
• People exploring identity, change, or healing through drawing

Artist Bio -

Aditi Mali is a cartoonist, visual artist and cat mother from Pune. She likes to explore life’s nuances through her comics and art.

About the Event

A Pop-up and Paper Engineering Workshop
Facilitated by Pritish Bali
Methods Series

Discover how simple sheets of paper can be turned into dynamic, three-dimensional cityscapes. This hands-on workshop explores the art of pop-up and paper engineering, where folds, cuts, and creative techniques bring urban cityscapes to life.

Participants will learn the basics of working with paper – how to fold, cut, and sculpt it in different ways. Using these skills, they will build their own pop-up models of buildings, streets, parks, and other parts of a city or combine the elements to tell a story.

This workshop is ideal for anyone interested in art, design, or engineering. Whether you're trying something like this for the first time or simply enjoy creating things, you're welcome to join!

Artist Bio:

Pritish Bali is a visual practitioner working across multiple media. He pursued his bachelor’s in Applied Arts and master’s in Painting from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Pritish works with recontextualising images, text, and sound (both found and created) in his works, where his formal exploration into artmaking has been informed by questions of identity, reinterpretation of childhood memories, and familial relationships. He was awarded the Nasreen Mohamedi Scholarship in 2022.

About the Event

A hands-on animation workshop that invites participants to look at discarded materials in a new light. Old magazines, newspapers, notebooks, and more become sources of inspiration and material for cutout animation. Participants will learn to create characters and scenes by composing layered images from these scraps, and then animate them using simple stop-motion techniques.

We will:

• Scavenge through printed materials to find textures, colours, and elements.
• Compose images by combining cutouts into collaged figures, environments, and abstract forms.
• Mount their compositions onto ivory sheets for stability.
• Create movable joints using rivets or pins to allow for articulation and character movement.
• Animate short loops or sequences using basic stop-motion photography techniques.

This workshop works on the principles of reuse. It focuses on an intuitive approach to animation - one that doesn’t rely on drawing skills or digital tools, but on your ability to find rhythm, personality, and gesture in everyday scraps. It’s a scissors and glue animation. Participants will be asked to bring all kinds of paper scraps that they’re willing to cut - old magazines, books, newspapers, etc.

Note: It is a beginner-friendly workshop.

Short Bio:

Adheep Das is a mixed-media artist, filmmaker, and occasional puppet-maker. His work interrogates the boundary between the inanimate and the animate, focusing on the moment an object appears to gain agency - when a lifeless form is imbued with presence. Increasingly, he finds himself drawn to the idea of "breath" - the ephemeral force that animates otherwise inert matter. Initially trained in Chemical Engineering, he became immersed in theatre and performance, which led him to study film direction in Pune. In film school, he gravitated toward mixed-media techniques, seeing film as a porous, elastic space that could be stretched and reconfigured to reveal new ways of seeing.

Concept-

This workshop will explore how memory shapes artistic expression in today’s digital era. Participants will paint an object or scene purely from memory, using natural pigments and no digital references, encouraging introspection and material sensitivity. A guided discussion will examine the challenges of translating memory into visuals and how the overuse of technology and images alters perception. Through tactile engagement, participants reconnect with traditional methods, embracing imperfections and subjective distortions. The workshop deepens awareness of how memory, sensory experience, and artistic creation intertwine, offering a personal approach to storytelling and visual expression beyond the influence of screens and instant imagery.

What to Expect?

A hands-on painting session using natural pigments, relying solely on memory, with no digital references.

A guided discussion on how memory influences artistic expression in the digital era.

Exploration of imperfections, distortions, and subjective storytelling through painting.

Do You Need to Bring Anything?

No prior experience is needed, natural pigments and brushes will be provided.

You just need to carry a pencil eraser and palette for mixing colours.

Just bring an open mind and a memory of an object or scene you'd like to paint.

Artist Bio

Soham Raha is an art practitioner whose work bridges the visual and sonic elements of contemporary life. Exploring intersections between the human, non-human, and digital realms, Soham critically examines existence in the digital age. His art reflects the pervasive influence of technology, popular culture, and social interfaces, creating narratives rich in symbolism, irony, and humor. By merging indigenous culture with digital symbols, Soham invites viewers to rethink time and existence through his artworks.

Soham’s notable exhibitions include Call & Response at Glasgow Project Room (2023), An Introspective Perception in France (2023), Our Line in Sand at Art Centrix Space during India Art Fair Parallel (2022), and the 57th National Art Exhibition by Lalit Kala Akademi (2016). Solo shows like Bauler Mormokotha at Gaganendra Pradarshanshala Kolkata (2011) and exhibitions at Alliance Française, Dhaka, and Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, underscore his dynamic presence in the art world.

His accolades include a 3-month residency by Euroculture in France (2023), an award in drawing from Birla Academy of Art & Culture (2018), and a Merit Award from Sir J.J. School of Art (2019). Soham also participated in NGMA’s Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Workshop (2021) and more.

This workshop will delve deeper into the pedagogical legacy of KG Subramanyan, taking inspiration from his anthropomorphic sculptures and narrative paintings. Participants will trace Subramanyan’s aesthetic choices, thinking how forms are influenced by image histories and contexts that are invoked within his artworks. The attendees will draw/paint creatures of their own, deeply rooted in their personal experiences and inspired from their everyday aesthetics, reflecting on the contexts they find urgent within their worlds.

All materials will be provided by the Museum.

Artist Bio

Rahul Juneja is an artist and educator based in Karnal, Haryana. His artistic practice focuses on shifting arenas of image, language, and techno-mythical intersections. His work has been shown at Goethe Institut, FICA, Anant Art Gallery, India Art Fair, UAAD amongst many other spaces. Rahul recently edited Call #1, a book published by Hekh that traces pedagogical legacies within Indian art institutions, socio-cultural navigations performed by artists, and resonance based models of knowledge production.

This workshop will delve deeper into the works of KP Krishnakumar, taking inspiration from his intriguing drawings. Participants will learn of the contexts in which he produced works, his choice of material and iconography. The workshop will culminate with the participants creating narrative drawings inspired from Krishnakumar’s stylistic tendencies, prompting to dive deep into their pysche and think of incident and dreams which shape their personalities and world view.

What you need to carry

All materials will be provided by the Museum. Carry at least one dream with you.

Artist Bio

Rahul Juneja is an artist and educator based in Karnal, Haryana. His artistic practice focuses on shifting arenas of image, language, and techno-mythical intersections. His work has been shown at Goethe Institut, FICA, Anant Art Gallery, India Art Fair, UAAD amongst many other spaces. Rahul recently edited Call #1, a book published by Hekh that traces pedagogical legacies within Indian art institutions, socio-cultural navigations performed by artists, and resonance based models of knowledge production.

This workshop will delve deeper into the pedagogic legacy of Benodebehari Mukherjee, taking inspiration from his landscape works displayed within the exhibition. Participants will trace how Mukherjee's initial style had influences from chinese and japanese style of scroll painting, and think of the historical and contemporary importance of drawing and outdoor exploration. The workshop will culminate in an outdoor drawing/painting session, where the participants will try to make their own landscapes inspired by Mukherjee’s stylistic tendencies, and reflect on the differences of time, context and aesthetics.

All materials will be provided by the Museum.

Bio

Rahul Juneja is an artist and educator based in Karnal, Haryana. His artistic practice focuses on shifting arenas of image, language, and techno-mythical intersections. His work has been shown at Goethe Institut, FICA, Anant Art Gallery, India Art Fair, UAAD amongst many other spaces. Rahul recently edited Call #1, a book published by Hekh that traces pedagogical legacies within Indian art institutions, socio-cultural navigations performed by artists, and resonance based models of knowledge production.

What to Expect

"I Can Feel It in My Eyes," a roundtable program of ‘The Elemental You’ exhibition, is an exploration of the city’s enduring desire for green spaces, vibrant flower beds and nature experiences. The project delves into a short multifaceted study by the artist through field visits to gardens and nurseries, interviews with local residents and gardeners, along with collecting plant samples to make anthotypes (camera-less photographs). This will culminate into an ephemeral album by the artist capturing the various troubled hues of the capital’s winter landscape.

Participants are invited to have a conversation around greening practices and co-create the album with the artist on January 7th. On a visit to the Lodhi Gardens, one of Delhi's most iconic green spaces, participants will engage in a creative process, when it is engulfed in greys. Participants will collectively thread together these narratives, observations and reflections, along with the anthotypes and field documentation carried out over the duration of the project.

Note: Participants are requested to first gather at KNMA Saket, from where the group will proceed together to Lodhi Garden.

What you need to carry

Just carry your creative energy.

Bio

Anuja Dasgupta is a visual artist, educator and agri-preneur based in Ladakh, India. In an image-driven world, she situates her practice in the elementary aspects of making images. Her work takes shape from the vantage point of Ladakh in the remote roof of the Indian Himalayas, which underpins her camera-less and analog photography, bookmaking, mixed-media installations, and pedagogical practice. Anuja is the recipient of the Generator Co-Operative Art Production Fund - Experimenter (2024), Verzasca Foto Residency - Pro Helvetia New Delhi (2024), TOTO Award for Photography (2023), Prince Claus Seed Award (2021), the Indian Photography Festival Portrait Prize (2017). Her work has been showcased at platforms such as the Swiss Photo Month (2024), Critical Zones, Goethe-Institut New Delhi (2024), LoosenArt, Italy (2022), Ladakh Literature Festival (2019), Kochi-Muziris Students' Biennale (2018), Head On Photo Festival, Australia (2018), among others.

What to Expect

What was the last thing you remember smelling or tasting? Grounded is a movement-based workshop that draws on prompts from nature and the environment to deepen our awareness of our bodies and their surroundings. In this workshop, participants work with movement, memory and sensorial perception as they explore the exhibition, The Elemental You. Participants playfully explore the uneven terrain that is at the heart of the installation 5.4-3-2-1, rediscovering forgotten relationships to gravity, stability and balance.

What you need to carry

Wear comfortable clothing that you can move in. No previous movement experience is required.

Bio

Ranjana Dave (she/her) is an artist and writer. Her practice, emerging from her movement training, and research and writing, unfolds at the intersection of text and movement. She likes to explore how people build relationships with other people, ideas, objects and ecologies – what makes us social beings.

Ranjana’s writing has appeared in Firstpost, The Hindu, Scroll, Time Out, NCPA Onstage, Asian Age, Indian Express, and Tanz, among other publications. She curated and annotated an online archive of dance video at Pad.ma (Public Access Digital Media Archive). She was the co-founder of Dance Dialogues, a Mumbai-based initiative that connected the local dance community to provocative and diverse ideas, individuals and institutions. She has curated conferences for the IGNITE! Dance Festival (2015 and 2016), and Indent (2018 and 2019), and was the dance curator at Serendipity Arts Festival (2018).

Ranjana is the winner of the Art Writers’ Award 2022, presented by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia in collaboration with TAKE on Art. She is one of eight artists in the PICA Interdisciplinary Lab (2021-23). She was an ArThink South Asia Fellow in 2013.

What to Expect

Karan Shrestha, one of the roundtable artists of the “The Elemental You” exhibition, invites participants to connect with rocks. In reverence, through descriptions, from stories, the rocks open up to wonder on being held, and heard. And what do rocks tell? Considering this question, participants will attempt making objects from organic matter and human-made things that hold (remnants of) worlds beyond humankind.

Bio

Karan Shrestha’s practice includes drawings, sculpture, photographs, films and texts that speak to the complex, entangled relations of Nepal’s recent history. Shrestha presents works that are an archive of the terrain, political histories, transient memories and a speculative world that suspends reality, to question notions of progress, while drawing connections to the ecological, cultural and socio-economical dimensions of Nepali life.

Shrestha has participated in numerous group exhibitions around the globe and has shown works in many institutions including Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong); Jameel Arts Centre, UAE (2022); Kathmandu Triennale, Nepal (2017 & 2022); Museo Madre, Italy (2021); 10th Asia Pacific Triennial, QAGOMA, Australia (2021); Asian Art Biennale, Taiwan (2021); Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2020); Yinchuan Biennale, China (2018); and Serendipity Arts Festival (2017 & 2022), among others.