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Lakshmi Nivas Collective |
Lakshmi Nivas Collective is an artist collective, comprising of Sunoj D, visual artist and Namrata Neog with a background in history, archaeology and anthropology and are based out of Parudur village in Kerala, India. Formed in 2018, the collective’s practice is rooted in seasonal animal herding as an artistic methodology to explore nonhuman - human entanglements and animistic practices in herding and domestication in a complex landscape. The research and practice merge in the production of moving image, sculpture, installation, text, curation and hosting of informal gatherings of animal herders, land workers, farmers in Parudur as a practice of sustaining in the chthulucene. |
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Midhun Gopi |
Midhun Gopi’s artistic practice intricately weaves personal narratives, historical references, and imagined spaces, creating layered compositions that blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. His work engages with archival materials, colonial-era postal notations, and evolving concepts of home, exploring the ways in which history, memory, and movement shape identity. Midhun holds a Master’s in Museums, Galleries, and Contemporary Culture (MA) from the University of Westminster, London (2023), a Postgraduate Diploma in Modern and Contemporary Art and Curatorial Studies from the Bhau Daji Lad Museum / Victoria & Albert Museum, India (2020), a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Painting from the University of Hyderabad, India (2012), and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Painting from the University of Calicut, India (2010). His work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Copeland Gallery, London (2024), Nehru Centre, London (2024), India Art Fair (2023), Zuzeum Art Centre, Latvia (2021), Galerie De Schans, Amsterdam (2023), and The Full Gallery, Bordeaux (2023). Midhun is the recipient of the Art Cabbage Prize (2024) and the Kerala Lalithakala Academy Award (2010), and his works are held in prominent collections, including the High Commission of India, London, Zuzeum Art Centre, Latvia, and private collections globally. |
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Adwait |
Adwait (b. 1992) is a nomadic independent curator and theorist engaging queer-feminist tropes and formats to probe the intersections of ecology, mysticism, subjectivity formation, contemporary technogenesis, and biopolitics. Theirs is an integrative practice that seeks to promote collectivity, care, and cohesiveness within the arts ecology. Recent curations include the fifth edition of the Mardin Biennial (Mardin, 2022) that sought to revise mainstream perceptions on migration forwarding an economy of renouncement instead, and the fifteenth edition of the Queer Arts Festival (Vancouver, 2022) inviting a mutational politics as a counter to neo-colonial technics of exposure and their monitored replication of the status quo. Other significant projects include 'Mutarerium' (Mumbai, 2019) which questioned the terminology of the Anthropocene by examining a trifecta of more-than-human evolutionary timelines, and 'Caressing History' (New Delhi, 2018) exploring the possibility of a para-textual, embodied historiography.
Their writings have appeared in various publications and periodicals. |
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Parvez |
Parvez is a multidisciplinary, conceptual artist and curator. He was born in India and is currently based in Switzerland. His work focuses on the manifestations of identity politics and economic inequalities across the sociocultural structures around us, questioning and critically reflecting on the cornerstone of his work while responding to the associations between identity, the economic power of currency, and the prejudices embedded therein. His artistic and curatorial practice involves translating these thoughts into artworks within an aesthetic framework while posing the question, ''Whose aesthetic?''
His body of work, even if seemingly disparate in form, is tied together with its focus on the politics of identity and economics. He studied medicine and worked in Psychiatry before moving toward the arts.
He has curated many shows in Switzerland, including the Srinagar Biennale Basel. His works have been shown in many countries, including India and Switzerland. He was also the recipient of the Pro Helvetia Visual Art Residency 2024.
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Murali Cheeroth |
Mr. Murali Cheeroth, a visual artist by profession, possesses BFA and MFA from Shantinikethan, West Bengal, Diploma in Painting from Govt: College of Fine Arts Thrissur and Advanced computer diploma in digital media. He has exhibited in over 100 significant shows across the globe in the last two decades. His collectors include corporate institutions, museums and private art collectors. In the past, he worked extensively with printmaking and theatre, but now he primarily works on painting, video and performance. His visual works refer to a wide variety of sources in the cultural sphere and contain within them a deep conversation with the history of representation in visual media, fine art, cinema, music and architecture. Within the context of the history of visual representation, his current explorations include the architecture of the city, urbanization and urban cultures. He looks closely at the ideas of speed and change, intersections of local and the global, multiple layers of urban identities and so on. Murali situates each work within larger thematic explorations in humanities, social sciences and in visual art media. He has also taught in CEPT, Ahmedabad, Kanoria Centre for Art, Ahmedabad and National Institute of Fashion Technology, Bangalore and Chennai. His engagement with this broad range of institutions is readable from his conceptual and figurative concerns. Some of his major exhibitions include ‘passage to India’ – the New Indian Art from the Frank Cohen collection in UK (2009); Indian Art summit in New Delhi, SH contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, Chicago Art Fair and London Art Fair in 2010, Colombo Beinnale , 2012, Chalo India – A group show of Contemporary Indian Artists at Basel Art Centre, Basel, Switzerland Feb 2014. Participated in 2nd Pula Ketam International Art Festival at Pulaketam, Malyasia. Theertha Art Residency, Colombo. India Australia Artist Retreat, Australia India institute, Melbourne University, Australia .Art Residency and show, Gallerie Christian Hosp, Triol, Austria. |
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Sibdas Sengupta |
Sibdas Sengupta is an artist and curator whose practice traverses multiple mediums, painting, sculpture, video, text-based work, and installation, while critically engaging with the intersections of image, politics, and interiority. His artistic and curatorial interests are shaped by a sustained inquiry into how the self and its inner worlds interact with larger cultural, historical, and social structures. Through his work, Sengupta creates spaces where the poetic and the political encounter each other, allowing for reflection, confrontation, and re-imagination.
As a curator, Sengupta has developed projects that foreground interdisciplinarity, collaboration, and the dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity. He is the curator of Odisha Craft Odyssey, an initiative supported by Beads and the MGM Foundation, which brings Odisha’s craft legacies into conversation with contemporary artistic practices. He also leads projects with Dotwalk Ajitara Art Residency and Gallery Dotwalk, where he has curated both group and solo exhibitions. His curatorial approach emphasizes working closely with artists across generations, contexts, and practices, thereby building bridges between diverse forms of knowledge and expression. His selected curatorial projects include Expanded Disciplinarity: Chapter II-Edges of Encounter (ACS Grant 2025 shortlist exhibition, Art Centrix Space, 2025), Magic Erase (solo exhibition of Hemant Gavankar, Art Centrix Space, 2025), The Will to Live (solo exhibition of Priyaranjan Purkait, Gallery Dotwalk, 2024), and Expanded Disciplinarity: Constructing Painterly Relations (ACS Grant 2024 shortlist exhibition, Art Centrix Space, 2024). He co curated Odisha Craft Odyssey with Premjish Achari and Julius Das at Lalit Kala Academy Regional Centre, Bhubaneswar in 2024. Earlier projects include I, Non-I and The Other (Shiv Nadar University, 2023), Polyphonies in Distance (Gallery Dotwalk, 2023), and his work as Assistant Curator for Things are Vanishing Before Us (curated by Premjish Achari, Gallery Dotwalk at Bikaner House, 2023), the largest survey of contemporary sculpture in India. Alongside curatorial practice, Sengupta maintains an active artistic career. His works have been featured in exhibitions such as Imperial Silhouette (Rizq Art Initiative, Abu Dhabi, 2024), Kaee Kolkata City Lab (Kaee Contemporary, Kolkata, 2024), Luminous Reveries (Travancore Place by Gallery Dotwalk, 2024), and Inscapes: A Search for a Place (Latitude 28 at CCA, Bikaner House, 2023). Earlier exhibitions include Fleeting Identities (MASH Young Artist Exhibition, IIC Annexe, New Delhi, 2022), Yuva Sambhava (Raza Foundation, Bikaner House, 2022), and Cognitive Ignorance (India Art Fair, in collaboration with FICA, 2020). His MFA solo display, Second Wave of Amnesia, was presented at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in 2019, following projects at Khoj International Artists’ Association, Shiv Nadar University, and the Kochi-Muziris Student Biennale. Sengupta has participated in residencies including KKCL: Kaee Kolkata City Lab (2023–24), Kala-Setu (Utsha Foundation with Raza Foundation, 2017), and Chalengae (Video Art Residency, Utsha Foundation, 2016). He is also the co-editor of Kansa: Forging Traditions, Shaping Futures (with Premjish Achari, Odisha Craft Odyssey, 2025), a critical text examining the intersections of Odisha’s craft traditions and contemporary art. Currently, Sibdas lives and works in Gurugram, Haryana. |
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Dotwalk Curatorial and Research Team |
The Dotwalk curatorial and research team regularly engages with art community at national and international level, to find new research and curatorial avenues, update gallery portfolio and showcase curated artworks. |
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Premjish Achari |
Premjish Achari teaches art history and theory at Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida. A Delhi-based writer and curator, he is the initiator of Future Collaborations, a curatorial platform supporting the development of theoretically and politically informed curation as an essential aspect of contemporary arts practice. His curations include the exhibitions All Canaries Bear Watching, part of the Indo-UK collaboration GRID Heritage Project, SAA/JNU, Delhi(2022);A Time for Farewells(Haverford College, Pennsylvania and Prameya Art Foundation, New Delhi,2019);Workers and Farmers: The Panorama of Resistance(Prelude)and A Preview to Desolation(Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New Delhi, 2017).Premjish was editorial supervisor of Lokame Tharavadu(‘The World Is One Family’,2021),a major survey exhibition of contemporary art organised by the Kochi Biennale Foundation. He was co-winner of the Pro Helvetia Art Writers’ Award 2021.In 2018 his work in developing new curatorial paradigms was recognised through the Prameya Art Foundation’s Art Scribes Award that included a residency at Château de La Napoule, France. He was co-curator of the Bhubaneswar Art Trail 2018;a Khoj Fellow for Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) 2017;and received the Inlaks/TAKE on Art Travel Grant for Young Critics in 2016.
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Shruti Ramlingaiah |
Shruti Ramlingaiah is a curator based in Mumbai. She has previously held curatorial positions at museums. Her curatorial approaches reflect on the body, time and memory with a focus on movement and mobility, sense and intuition, and the questions of existence.
She was a participant in a curatorial intensive program organised by the Independent Curators International ICI, New York and the Njabala Foundation in Kampala, Uganda 2022. She has received the Getty Foundation travel grant to participate at the CIMAM conference, Stockholm, 2018 and the EYES Project Fellowship by the Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, 2019. She was a resident curator at the RAi residency hosted by the RIZQ Art Initiative, Abu Dhabi 2024. Her curated exhibitions include Lay in the midst of Local 2016, Again and yet Again 2017, Hinge 2017, Echoes 2022, In the Blink of an Eye 2022 and co-curated Making as Thinking 2018-2019. She did her master’s degree in Museology, Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Vadodara, followed by an MFA Art History and Visual Studies, SN School of Arts and Communication, UOH Hyderabad. |
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Premjish Achari |
Premjish Achari is a curator and art critic based in Delhi. Achari has started an in-depth curatorial platform called Future Collaborations aiming at theoretically and politically informed curation. He is the co-curator of Bhubaneswar Art Trail 2018. Achari currently heads the programme and the editorial for the exhibition ‘Lokame Tharavadu’ organised by Kochi Biennale Foundation and teaches art history and theory at Shiv Nadar University. He is the winner of the Art Writers’ Award 2021 issued by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, along with TAKE on Art. |
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