In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the history of graffiti and its cultural impact along with basic lettering techniques. Participants will also work on personalising their on canvases with graffiti art. Interested and committed participants (18+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Art material and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket.

Dizy (KAJAL) is a pioneering graffiti artist hailing from India. She splits her time between India and Germany, where she continues to leave her mark on the global graffiti community. Originally from Delhi, Dizy faced numerous challenges as a graffiti artist in a city where the art form was relatively unknown and often misunderstood. However, she persevered and carved her own path, overcoming obstacles to establish herself as a prominent figure in the graffiti world through her unique style and creative expression. In 2018, she was honoured by the President of India as the “First Lady” graffiti artist for her international impact.

The workshop will explore the theme of Climate Art through the medium of printmaking led by Shivangi Ladha. Climate Art is a term used for raising awareness for ecological and environmental issues. Ladha hopes to provide insight on this topic, inspire conversation, and — most importantly — platform the voices of young people. It is their futures affected by the environmental failures of humankind, and also their kindness, strength and ambition that offers a future of positive change and hope. We will be exploring this theme through the medium printmaking and by using clay, as clay is a natural material, reusable and once dries out it can be activated by adding water.

Interested and committed participants (10 – 15 years of agre+ are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Art material and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Sake

Shivangi Ladha Delhi – London based artist, employs a self-referential process, channelling engagements with social, political and ecological spaces and movement through the both exterior & interior of human body. By a process of drawing, printing & overlaying, her art transforms into shared stories. Graduated from Royal College of Art London, in 2016 with MA Print. Prior to this she pursued BFA in Painting from College of Art, University of Delhi. Her work have entered prestigious collections such as the British Museum, V&A Museum; East London Printmakers, UK; RISD Museum, Mead Museum, Women’s Studio Workshop, USA; Reliance Foundation, Anant Art Gallery, India; SNAP Studio, Canada & more. Recently she was awarded with the Global Talent Award by the Arts Council England and was nominated for the Queen Sonja Print Award, a major international print prize. She is also receipt of the Summer Exhibition at Royal Academy; TAF Emerging South Asia Award, Arts Family, 2021; New Prints Artist Development Award, International Print Centre New York (IPCNY), USA 2018; Anthony Dawson Young Printmaker Award, (Royal Society of Painters – Printmakers RE) 2017 and Jerwood Drawing Prize 2014, UK.

She has also created a space for other artists to show work by initiating India Printmaker House, a platform to facilitate workshops, prizes & residencies. She has taught worldwide across all ages and in different contexts. She has been recognised for her contribution in the art field and her biography is published by The BenUri Gallery & Museum, UK.

Models of intimacy can be found in objects that are like us, by us, for us, where the foundations of our human spirit can find refuge and sometimes offer themselves to the curious. Do we have enough space in our drawers to bury our secret desires and ills, the better to be revealed later or never?

In this workshop participants will work with the world of secrets, the hidden and the invisible, and experiment with protection, like windows under a curtain with a narrow view of the world. Hats, headgears and costumes that can be worn by individuals and groups together will he made over the course of the four days as participants explore points of view through listening, movement and discourse. The last day of the workshop will culminate into a one day exhibition with the works made by the participant. This will be followed by a performance by Jessy Razafimandimby in the evening.

Interested and committed participants (16+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop (19 – 22 July). Participants are requested to bring recycled fabrics or clothing to be cut along with jewellery or any other items of their choosing. restrictions. Additional art material, lunch and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket.

Jessy Razafimandimby (born in 1995, Madagascar) lives and works in Geneva. His work gives new life to a world inherited from the past, paying particular attention to the history of interior decoration and ornamentation, as well as to social conventions and "good manners" traditionally linked to a conservative lifestyle and promoted by a classist bourgeois system. Figures sometimes seem to melt into the work, moving into new, complex forms that reveal Razafimandimby's interest in the question of becoming. It's not so much what we become, but with whom we become it.

In this workshop Diana Campbell will share case studies and speak about her curatorial process of commissioning artworks for different exhibitionary formats. She will discuss how using co-curating and co-commissioning as a collaborative strategy, and working across multiple platforms and institutions, curators can work together to create opportunities for artists and sustain creative spaces.

Diana Campbell (Los Angeles, 1984) is a Princeton educated American curator who has been working in South and Southeast Asia since 2010, primarily in India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. Since 2013, she has served as the Founding Artistic Director of Dhaka-based Samdani Art Foundation, Bangladesh and Chief Curator of the Dhaka Art Summit, leading the critically acclaimed 2014-2023 editions and currently imagining the 2025 and 2027 chapters as a continuous ongoing curatorial project which builds infrastructure and new models for contemporary art making and public engagement with culture. In addition to her exhibitions making practice, Campbell is responsible for developing the Samdani Art Foundation collection and drives its international collaborations ahead of opening the foundation’s permanent home, Srihatta, the Samdani Art Centre and Sculpture Park in Sylhet. Concurrent to her work in Bangladesh from 2016-2018, she was also the Founding Artistic Director of Bellas Artes Projects in the Philippines, a non-profit international residency and exhibition program with sites in Manila and Bataan, and curated Frieze Projects in London for the 2018 and 2019 editions of the fair. She curated the 2023 edition of Desert X with Neville Wakefield in the Coachella Valley, California, and is on the facilitation group of AFIELD, an international network of socially engaged artistic practices. Her writing has been published by Mousse, Frieze, Art in America, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) among others.

This workshop, in conjunction to the Very Small Feelings (VSF) exhibition, will primarily explore the medium of textile and its versatility. Starting with a walkthrough of the show to activate one’s imagination, the workshop will bring participants together to collectively build a large soft sculpture based on fictional characters – unique and peculiar, containing a multitude of faces, bellies and even several limbs. Bringing to life an imagined character through amplified voices, the workshop will explore an interactive and participatory group dynamic. Interested and committed participants (16+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Prior handling of textiles is not required. Art material and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket.

Using craft techniques in novel ways, Afra Eisma explores and manifests personal stories through immersive and intimate installations made of textiles, sculptures, ceramics, papier-maché and sound. Afra Eisma’s work focuses on emotions as an inner source of strength. What’s important to her is to seek ways in which trauma can be a tool of power and of change. The seemingly bright and colourful installations are a strategy to look at sensitive issues, or to look at darker corners of personal experiences and through seduction and accessibility move the viewer to engage with the subjects at play. Recently Eisma’s focuses on creating immersive installations in which the viewer has an active role. The sanctuary becomes an extension of the body. Generosity as a form of resistance.

After Eisma’s first institutional solo exhibition in 1646 (the Hague, NL) she was invited to make a commissioned installation for Kunstinstuut Melly in Rotterdam. Ever since, Eisma has been invited to international institutes and projects such as Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (PT), Fundació Joan Miró (ES), the Dhaka Art Summit 2023 (BD), Textile Museum Tilburg (NL), Fries Museum (NL) and has upcoming exhibitions at The Tetley Leeds (UK) and Wälnö Aaltosen Museo, Finland.

We are born and formed out of protein strands that spiral together to form the building blocks of our very existence. That life itself is cyclical - just as the formation and destruction of the universe is a continual process of creation, formation, decay, destruction and regeneration. The technique of folding (and unfolding) are fundamental to these cyclical processes. In order to pay homage to this eternal, the workshop will focus on the process of folding circles into helical spirals (helicoids) while combining elements of origami and architecture. The simplest circle shape when folded in different ways creates a multitude of modules that in turn help to create an entire cosmos of geometries, just like the simplest atoms become the building blocks of all the conceivable complexity of the universe.

Interested and committed participants (18+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Participants with a basic understanding of geometric concepts may enjoy the process more. Art material and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket.

Ankon Mitra is a trained architect and practices as a sculptor. He has built an international reputation as a pioneer of the folding technique through his diverse projects. Recipient of the All-India Gold Medal for Sculpture from the Prafulla Dahanukar Foundation in 2018 and the Lexus Design Award for Craft Design in 2020, his work has been exhibited in India, Italy, France, UK, USA, Japan, the Netherlands, Brazil and China. His sculptures and installations are part of public developments and private collections globally. A TEDx speaker and a warrior for 'making connections across disciplines' with his brainchild - ‘Oritecture - Origami + Architecture’, Mitra shares a unique vision of a universe forming and dissolving from acts of folding.

In this workshop participants will learn how to hand cut stencils to create clean lines, precise compositions and play with colour. Interested and committed participants (18+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Art material and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket.

Ashna Malik (b. 1998 New Delhi, India) is a multidisciplinary artist who uses a combination of traditional and digital media to investigate ideas of perception, distortion, immersion and experience. Currently based in New Delhi, India she has exhibited her work and is included in private collections in the United States, France, and India, including her most recent solo show at Method, 'Lines of Inquiry'

Through paintings and interactive projections, Malik aims to have the viewer question their limited perception and understanding of reality through stimulating visuals. Using a combination of digital and traditional media, Malik pushes boundaries and provides the viewer with an encapsulating experience. Dynamic lines and vibrant colours create movement and distortion through optical play challenging the viewer’s perception of what they see and understand.

In this workshop participants will approach the process of marking a surface through a layer of carbon paperThis indirect approach at times helps to reflect and unlock our imagination and curiosity. The process in itself is an amalgamation of direct points, moments, events, and conversations in time. The aim of this workshop is to weave all these non-linear narratives on a surface, which in itself is the ‘one point’ that binds all these narratives together.This workshop is an exercise to understand how this excess of information around us can be absorbed or incorporated into an art practice. It will be drawing based and will involve different processes of mark making, cutting, collaging, making paper cut outs and even writing.

Important: Interested and committed participants (18+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Drawing material and refreshments will be provided. Each participant will be required to bring two small found objects of different textures. The objects can range from thread, pieces of gauze, cloth, leaves, or even a personal item.

The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket.

Swati Kumari is a visual practitioner based in Delhi who loves to experiment with different mediums and techniques. She uses carbon paper, stitching, photobooks, zines, and paintings to create works that invite the viewer to engage in a dialogue with them. Her works reflect her curiosity about life, love, memory, and the everyday interactions with her environment. She holds a BFA in painting from the College of Art, Delhi, and a Master’s in Visual Arts from Ambedkar University, Delhi. She currently works as a research and curatorial associate at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.

During this workshop, participants will explore stop motion animation through charcoal drawings. Animation is a medium that makes it possible to experience a drawing in time. It allows us to see it grow, change and evolve. Each participant will create a short animation clip using charcoal and a paper.

Important: Interested and committed participants (18+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Drawing materials and refreshments will be provided. The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at KNMA Saket. Participants are required to download the following animation application in their mobile phones prior to the workshop - Application: Stop Motion Studio for Android and iMotion for iPhone or iPad.

Anarya is an illustrator, animator and art educator based in Delhi. Mixed media illustrations, watercolour painting and digitally hand drawn stop-motion animation are some of the mediums she is presently exploring. You can find her loitering around the city with her sketchbook, head up at the sky trying to spot birds. 

Presently she is working as Programmes Manager at Artreach India and teaching as a guest faculty in Visual Effects and Animation, Jamia Milia Islamia University, Delhi.

We are constantly exposed to a range of images and text on a daily basis. Often these appear to us in the form of news reports, advertisements, photographs, social media posts and in many other formats. We also sometimes have our personal archives of information in the form of texts and images – things which we might have collected over a span of time or certain things of personal interests.

This workshop is an exercise to understand how this excess of information around us can be absorbed or incorporated into an art practice. How this information goes beyond their visual representation and shapes up our perception of the world around us and how we can act as someone who intervenes and recreates this information as an act of world-viewing and world building.

The intention of this workshop is to have something process oriented which may or may not be conclusive. It will be drawing based and will involve different processes of mark making, cutting, collaging, making paper cut outs and maybe even writing.

Important: Interested and committed participants (18+) are expected to attend the entire duration of the workshop. Basic drawing and writing material will be provided. Every participant will be required to bring 5 – 10 images or/and text excerpts which they feel might relate to the themes of memory, identity, ecology, gender, ruins and control. These can be news reports, social media posts, personal collection of photographs, advertisements, any archival material, maps, excerpts or images from books or anything from print media.

The onsite workshop with limited seats will be held at Vadehra Art Gallery

Shrimanti Saha is an artist, working in the medium of drawing, painting and animation. In her work, Saha draws references from a range of sources like history, literature, mythology, comic books, art history, science fiction, philosophy, miniature painting, movies, architecture, encyclopaedias, news reports as well as memory, conversation and personal experiences. This leads to the formation of layered story structures that can be construed as a personal mythology, alternative history or as an anthology of untold stories; touching upon the themes of identity, gender, violence and exploitation.

Saha completed her BVA and MVA from M.S. University, Vadodara. She has participated in various group shows in India and abroad. She received the Inlaks fine arts award and the Fica Amol Vadehra art grant. She has also been part of international artist residencies like the Bemis Center for Contemporary arts, USA; Vermont Studio Center and Art Omi, New York.