July 18–19, 2025
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.
About Experimenter
Experimenter was co-founded by Prateek & Priyanka Raja in 2009 in Kolkata, India. With a multidisciplinary approach, the gallery is an incubator for an ambitious and challenging contemporary practice. The program represents some of the most critical contemporary artists worldwide. The program, rooted in dialogue and dissent, is considered to be a pace-setter for its region, and extends from exhibition-making to knowledge creation, through regular talks, performances, workshops and through its much acclaimed, annual curatorial intensive—Experimenter Curators’ Hub. A second, more ambitious space was added in 2018, marking a deeper inquisition into the gallery’s realm of interest. Its third space Experimenter—Colaba, established in 2022, extends the commitment of its discursive programming to Mumbai, a city that in turn represents the diverse pluralities of the region.
The gallery attempts to expand the scope of contemporary practice beyond the ambit of its expected role. In 2016, its artist-book publishing wing was launched followed by the Experimenter Learning Program in 2018 which enables learning in fields of contemporary and performing arts, curatorship, film, writing, language and social culture. In 2019, Experimenter Outpost, an iterative exhibitions program outside the physical gallery temporarily inhabiting disused, characterful spaces was formed. 2020 marked the beginning of Experimenter Labs, an inclusive, experimental and multi-dimensional vertical in addition to the onsite gallery programming.
About Experimenter Learning Program Foundation
The Experimenter Learning Program Foundation (ELPF), initiated in 2018, is envisioned as a long-term, sustainable and multifaceted learning and education program that keeps visual culture at its root to build discourse. ELPF is the kernel on which Experimenter expounds its continued interest in enabling dialogue, discussion and debate in fields of contemporary and performing arts, curatorship, film, writing, language and social culture. The program has a year-long schedule that includes the annual Experimenter Curators’ Hub, salon-style classrooms, symposia, lecture-performances and the Experimenter Juniors Program.
For further information on Experimenter and Experimenter Curators’ Hub 2025, please visit experimenter.in.
