Curators' Hub 2025

Experimenter Curators' Hub from 18 – 19 July, 2025

Announcing the 14th edition of the Experimenter Curators' Hub from 18 – 19 July, 2025 at Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata.

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The 14th edition of Experimenter Curators’ Hub brings together eight leading curators from India and around the world. 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.

"Since its inception, the Experimenter Curators’ Hub has enabled space for multiple voices and new directions in contemporary curatorial thinking. This edition marks the 14th year of the Hub and we are excited about the conversations that will emerge individually and collectively from the gathering. Embedded in each of the curators’ approaches to exhibition-making is the possibility of reimagining how curatorial practices may evolve. Their significant contributions to contemporary art have expanded how exhibitions and artistic practices across a range of cultures, politics, and contexts are presented, understood, and seen today by audiences, both local and global.” – Prateek & Priyanka Raja, Co-founders of Experimenter

The upcoming edition of the Hub marks the beginning of a new chapter with a change in moderator. Rattanamol Singh Johal, previously Assistant Director of the International Program at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York will now take over from curator and writer, Natasha Ginwala, who had led the Hub with unwavering commitment for a decade.

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, every year the Hub invites some of the foremost curators of the world to present their practice with reference to recent exhibitions curated by them.

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 of 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).
Curator Biographies

Akansha Rastogi is Senior Curator, Exhibitions and Programming at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi, India. She has been part of the core instituting team of the museum since 2011. Her writing focuses on exhibition histories of modern and contemporary Indian art and institutional memory. Akansha’s exhibitions ‘Hangar for the Passerby’ (2017), ‘Zones of Contact/Grazing’ (2013), ‘Inhabiting the Museum’ (2011–15) and ‘Archiving the Studio’ (2011) have been critically engaging in their curatorial thinking and conceptual rigour. Each of these exhibitions propositioned and imagined contemporary art museum space and archives in South Asia as an incremental site for the undigested materials and histories. Since 2019, she has been leading a multi-year program at KNMA under the framework of ‘Young Artists of Our Times’ (YAOT), within which she has curated four exhibitions and thought-forms, including ‘Very Small Feelings’ co-curated with Diana Campbell, and presented at Dhaka Art Summit 2023. Her most recent exhibition ‘The Elemental You’ (2024) presented works of Simryn Gill, Hajra Waheed, and Neha Choksi.

Photo credit: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art.
Amal Khalaf is a curator and artist who serves as Director of Programmes at Cubitt (2019–present) and is also co-curator of Sharjah Biennial 16 (2025), UAE and Ghost 2568 (2025) Bangkok, Thailand. Amal served as the Civic Curator at the Serpentine Galleries (2009–2023) and is now Curator at Large and Advisor for Public Practice, where she shaped the Civic programme and commissioned over 50 long term, collaborative projects, films and moving image works. There and in other contexts she has developed residencies, exhibitions and research projects at the intersection of arts and social justice. Projects include the Edgware Road Project and Centre for Possible Studies (2009–2013), Radio Ballads (2019–2022) and Sensing the Planet (2021). She curated the Bahrain Pavilion for the 58th Venice Biennale (2019) and co-directed the Global Art Forum at Art Dubai (2016). She is a trustee of Mophradat, Athens, and not/nowhere, London, and a founding member of the GCC art collective.

Photo credit: Christa Holka.
Anne Barlow is Director of Tate St Ives where she oversees its programme of exhibitions, displays, residencies, commissions, education and research, and has curated exhibitions with artists including Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Outi Pieski, Thao Nguyen Phan, Petrit Halilaj, Otobong Nkanga, and Huguette Caland. Barlow was formerly Director of Art in General, New York, and held curatorial roles at the New Museum, New York and Glasgow Museums, Scotland. Across these roles, she has organized numerous exhibitions, public programmes and international collaborations with museums and nonprofit art spaces. She also initiated award-winning programmes including Museum as Hub (New Museum) and the What Now? symposia (Art in General). Barlow has published and lectured widely and was Curator of 5th Bucharest Biennale, Co-Curator of the Latvian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, and Curator of the Samdani Art Award at the 2023 Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh. She has also acted on numerous selection panels and juries including the kim? Residency Award, Riga; Exposure 8, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon; MAC International 2018, Belfast; the British Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale; and the 2023 Ars Fennica Award, Helsinki.

Photo credit: Kirstin Prisk.
Justine Ludwig is a curator and writer who currently serves as the Executive Director of Creative Time, New York’s vanguard public art organization. Previously held curatorial positions include the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and Dallas Contemporary. She has curated projects with many artists including Shilpa Gupta, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Pedro Reyes, Laercio Redondo, Paola Pivi, and Pia Camil. Her research interests include the intersections of aesthetics and violence, economics, and globalization. Ludwig has an MA in Global Arts from Goldsmiths University of London and a BA in Art with a concentration in Art History from Colby College.

Photo credit: Nicholas Parakas.
Marie Helene Pereira is a curator and cultural practitioner from Dakar, Senegal. She is Senior Curator (Performative practices) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany. Pereira is a member of RAW Material Company, Senegal since its inception in 2011, and its previous Director of Programs (2019-2022). She has organized exhibitions and related discursive programs including the participation of RAW to “We face forward: Art from West Africa Today” Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; ICI Curatorial Hub at TEMP, New York; The 9th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai (2013). She co-curated Scattered Seeds in Cali-Colombia (2015-2017) and curated Battling to normalize freedom at Clark House Initiative in Mumbai, India (2017). Pereira was co-curator of a section of the 13th edition of Dakar Biennale of contemporary African Art (2018), part of the artistic team of Still Present! - the 12th Berlin Biennale (2022), a recipient of the ICI Curatorial Research Fellowship (2021) – a Marian Goodman Gallery initiative conceived by artist Steve McQueen - in honor of the late Okwui Enwezor. Pereira is profoundly interested in the politics of identity as well as histories of migration. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Photo credit: Kerry Etol a Viderot.
Since March 2024, Mohamed Almusibli has been the new Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Basel. Almusibli previously served as co-founder and curator of the independently operated art space Cherish in Geneva. His curatorial work is characterized by a sensitive engagement with contemporary artistic positions. He has demonstrated a close connection to artists of our time, an innovative perspective on the use of new technologies, and a great interest in connecting local and international scenes. For his visionary program design, he focuses on innovative and emerging practices while seeking to engage them in dialogue with historical positions. In 2019, Almusibli co-founded and directed the non-commercial art space Cherish in Geneva, along with James Bantone, Thomas Liu Le Lann, and Ser Serpas. Until 2023, Cherish hosted over twenty exhibitions, providing a platform for emerging local artists while also enabling several international artists to have their first presentation in Switzerland. In 2021, he organized the Almusibli Panorama—an extensive year-long online video program for the Centre d‘Art Contemporain in Geneva, which concluded with the inaugural Swiss Moving Image Award. Most recently, Almusibli served as an advisor for the Hartwig Art Foundation in Amsterdam, and between 2021 and 2023, he was a lecturer in the MFA program at ECAL - Ecole Cantonale d‘Art de Lausanne.

Photo credit: Mathilde Agius.
Puja Vaish is an artist, curator, and educator, currently serving as Director of the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation at CSMVS Museum, Mumbai. She specialises in modern and contemporary art and has developed several significant exhibitions. Her curatorial work includes Nasreen Mohamedi: The Vastness, Again & Again, which offered fresh perspectives on Mohamedi’s artistic legacy; Out of Place/Har Jagah Ajnabi (2023), examined notions of place through 33 Indian artists’ works and The Fragility of Time (2024), the first ever presentation contextualizing Nalini Malani’s early works. For the museum’s centenary, she curated Ancestors: Sahej Rahal (2022), and most recently presented Photo Lies (2025) featuring Dayanita Singh’s works. Previously serving as curator at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum (2013–2019), Vaish worked extensively with colonial-era collections, contributed research to the museum’s publication and co-curated Connecting Threads: Textile in Contemporary Practice (2019).
Sharmini Pereira is Chief Curator of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Sri Lanka. She is the founder and Director of Raking Leaves and co-founder of the Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design. She was Guest Curator at the Aga Khan Museum (2014) and for the Abraaj Capital Art Prize (2010) and co-curated the first Singapore Biennale in 2006. Her writing has appeared in South East of Now, Mousse Magazine, Guggenheim online, Art Asia Pacific, Groundviews and Imprint amongst others. She is on the jury for the forthcoming ILHAM Art Show 2025, and a former jury for ADA Awards, Pakistan (2021), and the Geoffrey Bawa Award for Architecture (2017). Between 2005-2010, she was a Trustee for Book Works, London and is currently part of the Advisory Council for Arts and Culture, Asia Society India and the International Council, Center for Book Arts, NY.
Rattanamol Singh Johal is co-convener of the Experimenter Curators’ Hub 2025. An art historian and curator, he is the inaugural holder of the Shireen and Afzal Ahmad Professorship in South Asian Arts as Assistant Professor in History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Previously, he was Assistant Director of the International Program at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York where he contributed to a number of collection acquisitions, managed the Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP) initiative, and the Primary Documents publication series. At MoMA, he co-curated the ongoing exhibition, Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP, the contemporary collection displays, War Remembers Me and Staging Selves, and was a member of the curatorial team for Signals: How Video Transformed the World. He holds a doctorate from Columbia University where he is curator of the summer 2025 exhibition, Homage: Queer lineages on video, at the University’s Wallach Art Gallery. He is also an alumnus of the Whitney Independent Study Program, was a fellow at the Tate Research Centre: Asia, and curator at Khoj International Artists’ Association.

Curators' Hub 2025

Experimenter Curators' Hub from 18 – 19 July, 2025

Curator Biographies