KOLKATA.- The 14th edition of Experimenter Curators’ Hub, brings together eight leading curators from India and around the world and will take place on July 18–19, 2025 in Kolkata, India. Each curator has worked across diverse geographies, disciplines, and institutional frameworks that have been pivotal to their curatorial practices. Together, they will contribute to the long-standing objective of knowledge-making that the Hub has cultivated over the years.
Prateek and Priyanka Raja, co-founders of Experimenter said, ”Since its inception, the Experimenter Curators’ Hub has enabled a safe space for plural voices and in-depth conversations on contemporary curatorial thinking. It has attempted to seek out collective approaches and alternative forms of resistance through exhibition-making in these fractured times. The participating curators have built sustainable systems of knowledge building, have resisted and questioned power structures and defined lexicons of change through their work. This edition marks the 14th year of the Hub and we look forward to the unbound, shared learning that will emerge from the gathering.”
Experimenter Curators’ Hub is a platform for developing and sustaining discourse on curatorial practice and exhibition-making through critical discussion and debate. Structured as a deeply intensive program, the Hub invites some of the foremost curators of the world to present their practice with reference to recent exhibitions curated by them and is attended by a diverse local and global audience every year.
The upcoming edition of the Hub is marked by a change in co-convener and moderator. Rattanamol Singh Johal is taking over from Natasha Ginwala who led the Hub with unwavering commitment for a decade. Johal said, “Building on the legacy of rigorous discourse and transnational exchange around notions of the curatorial at the Hub, we continue to invite participants to reflect on the trajectories and stakes of their work, encouraging them to articulate the animating impulses and urgencies of their practices across different formats and contexts.”
The participating curators at ECH 2025 are: Akansha Rastogi, Senior Curator, Exhibitions and Programming, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi; Amal Khalaf, Co-curator, Sharjah Biennial 16 & Director of Programmes, Cubitt, London; Anne Barlow, Director, Tate St Ives; Justine Ludwig, Executive Director, Creative Time, New York; Marie Helene Pereira, Senior Curator (Performative Practices), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Mohamed Almusibli, Director and Chief Curator, Kunsthalle Basel; Puja Vaish, Director, Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, Mumbai; Sharmini Pereira, Chief Curator, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka; Moderated by Rattanamol Singh Johal, curator, art historian, Assistant Professor in History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and previously Assistant Director, International Program at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Experimenter Curators’ Hub 2025 is organised by Experimenter Learning Program Foundation and is supported by British Council, The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, India Art Fair, and TAKE Magazine (Media Partner).
The Hub will be held at Experimenter—Hindustan Road, Kolkata and live streamed on Experimenter’s website and YouTube channel, making it accesible to audiences around the world. The online audience has the opportunity to question and interact with the curators in real time. Since 2011, the Hub has hosted over 120 leading curators.
The Experimenter Curators’ Hub is free to attend with prior registration only, on a first come, first served basis. Please email admin [at] experimenter.in to register or to request for further information.
