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​​Imagining Narratives A Photography Workshop Key information Course Facilitator: Srinivas Kuruganti Format: Online / RemoteDuration: 3 months (12 weeks)Intake: 12 participantsCommencement date: August 10, 2023Application deadline: July 31, 2023 About An Open Call for photographers who will be mentored and guided on individual projects of their choice. It’s a remote-workshop. Participants will work remotely from their […]

Practicing Public Art Exploring tools for site-specific dialogues – A Collaboration with FICA Photo credit: Annalisa Mansukhani, Golconda fort, 2015 Key information Application Deadline: 19 October 2022 Duration of the workshop: 5 weeks All sessions for the first four weeks will be held online on Zoom. The last week of sessions will take place on-site […]

Mapping the Shifting Terrains Reading Public/Reading Art – A Collaboration with FICA Ankan Datta, details from his installation made as part of ON-SITE: A Workshop exploring process, dialogue and experimentation, organised by FICA and SAF, 2019 Key information Application Deadline: 1st September 2022Dates: September: 17, 24; October: 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 Timings: Every Saturday, […]

B-Side | DJ Mixing Workshop Key information Dates: 12th to 22nd October 2022Venue: Satori Wellness, Arambol, GoaWorkshop Facilitated by : Vridian About B-side is an initiative by Serendipity Arts centred around independent music and cultural currents stemming from contemporary music practices. The programme strives to spark conversations around music production, DJ-ing, research, performances, educational modules, and […]

WOULD I LIE TO YOU? On the Use of Documents in Theatre RED by Living Dance Studio, Picture Credit – Richie Wong Key information Dates: September 1st to October 22nd, 2022Sessions: 3 sessions per week | 4 hours per session | 21 sessions totalTwice a week with facilitators and once a week collaborative/group work at […]

The Time Is Now- A Course on Live Art River Lin, ‘Sleeping in between Tehching Hsieh and On Kawara’. This act, themed as Performance Beyond The Body was part of Out of Turn, a project curated by Meenakshi Thirukode and Asia Art Archive for Serendipity Arts Festival 2018.

Papertrail at C340 by Chennai Photo Biennale Learning Lab & SAF Key information DATE – 28 August – 5 September(Closed on 30th August)TIME – 11 AM – 5PM Venue– Serendipity Arts, New Delhi  About We’re delighted to be hosting books by two outstanding publishers and curators, Yaarbal Books and Offset Projects at the C340 pop-up library […]

Text/Matters: Delhi Arts Week at Serendipity Arts Foundation Key information DATE – April 3-10, 2021 TIME – 11 AM – 5PM  VENUE – C 340, Defence Colony – a basement space in a residential area in Delhi that functions as a platform for artistic programmes. C340 aims to be space that can adapt itself to […]

Goa Glitch: Hanif Kureshi CREDITS Supported by Serendipity Arts Festival and Stir Creativity, in partnership with the Corporation of the City of Panaji. Serendipity Arts Festival, together with Stir Creativity, a campaign of Bombay Sapphire talk Global with local conscience and create bridges that unite and empower people. With strong common belief on creative platforms, […]

Line of Flight was a two-part project, showcased at Serendipity Arts Festival 2018, from 15-22 December 2018.

The layers of reds are stacked upon each other, wrestling until they seem to discover a place to repose. Is it the way they accumulate that lends the impression of a drain or does the familiarity of movement creates an impression of one?

The Indian music press, it seems, does not know whose taste it has borrowed. Taste arrives through osmosis and then solidifies into something like instinct.

In my practice-based research into feminist resistances captured through moving image technologies, I work with lost archival footage of the choreographer/dancer Chandralekha and her radical reframing of the gesture of Namaskar within the repertoires of classical Indian dance.

What happens when criticism evolves from a tool of judgment into a creative practice that extends the life of a work?

Through two case studies of structural injustice in the Indian art world, this essay challenges art criticism that ignores institutional contexts and calls for a writing practice that accounts for labor conditions and systemic power.

We are at a precipice. We’ve been teetering here for some time now—markedly since 2020’s Covid-19 pandemic toppled state infrastructures and delusions of safety nets in the Global South;

In the visual economies of the ongoing climate crisis, the domain of photography is often concerned with documenting evidence of our environmental degradation.

In a time of intensifying ecological collapse—when forests are felled in the name of urban development and the rhetoric of “progress” is weaponised to erode habitats—can art embody resistance? Can art not only mourn loss but also actively halt it?

The sea lives, they say, in rhythms you can almost feel under your skin - a pulse in the breeze, a pattern in the clouds, the subtle pull of tides whispering against your ankles.

Earlier this year, amidst some exceptional practices on view in a group exhibition at the SOAS Gallery in London,1 I came across a familiar artwork — or a close version of it — that I remembered seeing a long time ago in Delhi. Seemingly an aerial view of an open-pit mining site, each iteration was uniquely reproduced in a grid of about 30 copper plates,

It is a matter of some serendipity that you find yourself face to face, or within earshot, of our invitation to, and offering of, silence.

The Royal College of Art (RCA) and Serendipity Arts Foundation (SAF) have forged a collaborative effort to establish a Senior Artist Residency program, offering a unique opportunity to one established Indian artist, jointly nominated by the two institutions, to spend three months immersed in the vibrant atmosphere of RCA's campuses in London.

SAF x ASAP Curatorial Research Fellowship 2023 About Art South Asia Project (ASAP) and Serendipity Arts have come together to support a curatorial fellowship program for a diasporic South Asian curator living in the UK. The primary aim of this program is to establish cross-continental connections between South Asia and the UK, which will facilitate […]

Serendipity Arts Foundation and Les Rencontres d’Arles announced the biggest photography, video and new media grant in India, supported by the Institut français en Inde named the Serendipity Arles Grant, with the shared purpose of promoting cultural practices in South Asia.

We’re inviting applications from emerging and mid-career artists who are interested in interdisciplinary practice and paradigm-shifting collaboration.

Serendipity Arts Foundation is very pleased to have supported 2019–2020 Artist in Residence Nikhil Chopra at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York between September 12-20, 2019.

A series of conversations conceptualized by Critical Collective around the myriad topics pertinent to today’s context resulted in a collaboration between the venue, Bikaner House and the principal sponsor, Serendipity Arts Foundation.

My East is Your West, was presented as a Collateral Event of the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. Commissioned by The Gujral Foundation, this landmark exhibition united for the first time at the Biennale the historically conflicting nations of India and Pakistan in a shared exhibition by artists from both countries.

The British Council, in association with Serendipity Arts Foundation and Festival presented a three-day intensive course in Goa in  March 2019 on the core principles of Festival Management.

This little gift from Kashmir to Goa is a window into the intricate work of these women artists, and a small symbol of their resilience and strength. The ornaments were transported to Goa and put for sale during Serendipity Arts Festival 2017.

Now in its fourth edition, the SAF Arts Journalism Grant seeks to provide support to early- or mid-career journalists/reporters in an effort to develop a body of reportage around creative communities/practices in the subcontinent.

The Performing Arts Grant supports performing arts practitioners in India who are ready to think boldly, take creative risks, and imagine ambitious new possibilities. It is for artists with ideas that feel expansive, unconventional, and experimental, and offers the support needed to help bring those ideas to life.

Serendipity Arts is excited to present the fourth edition of the Independent Music Production Grant for all independent music creators across different genres to support the process of creating, recording, producing and releasing and/or presenting new music.

Food Matters Grant was established by Serendipity Arts to create a knowledge network and support inquiry of food practices across India.

The Serendipity Folk Arts Grant offers financial support to practitioners working within the rich and diverse field of folk traditions in the performing arts.

The SAF Arts Journalism Grant seeks to provide support worth ₹1 lakh to an early- or mid-career journalist/reporter in an effort to develop a body of reportage around creative communities/ practices in the subcontinent.

The Serendipity Folk Arts Grant offers financial support to practitioners in the field of Folk Traditions within the performing arts. Folk traditions in the performing arts refer to the ways in which communities express their culture, stories, and values through music, dance, theater, and other forms of art.

In 2020, the Serendipity Arts Foundation and Les Rencontres d’Arles announced the biggest lens-based media grant, supported by the Institut français en Inde, with the shared purpose of promoting cultural practices in the South Asian region. The winner of the previous two editions of the grant, Sathish Kumar (2022) and Paribartana Mohanty (2024) were awarded the grant to develop and showcase their respective projects Town Boy (2022) and A Fate’s Brief Memoir (2024) at Les Rencontres d’Arles.

The third edition of the Serendipity Arts' Independent Music Production Grant is for all independent music creators across different genres to support the process of creating, recording, producing and releasing and/or presenting new music.

For its third edition, the Enduring Traditions grant continues its mission to document and preserve India’s rapidly vanishing art and craft forms, folk traditions, and festivals. Over the decades, many of these practices have been steadily dwindling, and today, several stand on the brink of disappearance.

B-side is an initiative by Serendipity Arts centred around independent music and cultural currents stemming from contemporary music practices. The programme strives to spark conversations around music production, DJ-ing, research, performances, educational modules, and collaborative sonic explorations focussed on emerging acts across South Asia.

B-side is an initiative by Serendipity Arts centred around independent music and cultural currents stemming from contemporary music practices. The programme strives to spark conversations around music production, DJ-ing, research, performances, educational modules, and collaborative sonic explorations focussed on emerging acts across South Asia.

About Serendipity Arts Residency 2026 is a three-month, immersive residency programme based in New Delhi, designed to support emerging practitioners working across contemporary art forms. The programme welcomes applications from artists across disciplines, including craft, visual arts, installation, sound, and interdisciplinary or experimental practices. Entering its ninth edition, the Residency remains committed to nurturing artistic […]

OPEN STUDIO The Open Studio event marks the culmination of the three-month-long Serendipity Arts Residency programme, during which our talented artists have been hard at work. The event is not just about presenting finished projects; it’s a celebration of creative exploration, with our residents displaying their works-in-progress. RSVP Here KEY INFORMATION Date: 1.08.2025On View:  2 […]

Building on the success of the inaugural edition, the Royal College of Art (RCA) and Serendipity Arts Foundation (SAF) are proud to announce the second edition of the Senior Artist Residency program. This residency offers an established Indian artist the unique opportunity to spend three transformative months at RCA's campuses in London. Jointly nominated by both institutions, the selected artist will immerse themselves in RCA’s dynamic academic environment, surrounded by some of the most innovative minds in contemporary art and curation.

Serendipity Arts Residency 2024 OPEN STUDIO The Open Studio event marks the culmination of the three-month-long Serendipity Arts Residency programme, during which our talented artists have been hard at work. The event is not just about presenting finished projects; it’s a celebration of creative exploration, with our residents displaying their works-in-progress. RSVP SAR Form *You […]

Serendipity Arts Residency 2023 OPEN STUDIO The Open Studio event marks the culmination of a three-month-long Serendipity Arts Residency program, during which our talented artists have been hard at work. The event is not just about presenting finished projects; it’s a celebration of creative exploration, with our artists displaying their works-in-progress, all expertly curated by […]

Serendipity Arts Residency 2022 KEY INFORMATION Residency Duration: 1st July – 16th September 2022 Location: Serendipity Arts Foundation, Defence Colony, New Delhi ABOUT Serendipity Arts Foundation is delighted to announce the OPEN CALL for Serendipity Arts Residency 2022, an annual three-month artists residency based in New Delhi. Applications are invited from emerging artists working across […]

Serendipity Arts Residency 2022 Coming Soon! Stay tuned for the Open Call.

To say this past year has been stressful would be an understatement. Every routine we were familiar with was disrupted, and all our attention was directed to the virtual world – to stay connected with friends and family, for entertainment, and of course, for work.

Curated by: Zubin Balaporia

Curated by: Zubin Balaporia

Curated by: Bickram Ghosh

Curated by: Sananda Mukhopadhyaya

Curated by: Aneesh Pradhan, Shubha Mudgal

Curated by: Bickram Ghosh

Curated by: Bickram Ghosh

Curated by: Zubin Balaporia, Ehsaan Noorani

Curated by: Vidya Shivadas

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The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) organised a session titled The Story Tellers in September 2018. This session engaged with art practices that have histories of working outside the confines of the art gallery or related sanctioned ‘white cube’ spaces, seeking more direct and immediate contact with their audiences.

The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA), in collaboration with Serendipity Arts Foundation (SAF), organized a month long course, titled ‘The Moving Image: A Course Exploring Light, Movement and Narrative’ that ran from September 11 to October 13, 2017, culminating in an Open Display of the resulting artworks on October 14 that continued till October 27, 2017.

Organised by the Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) in 2019, this course was designed to explore site-specific practice and its relation to process, research and experimentation.

A series of informal film screenings to be held annually in March at C340, Defence Colony.

People's Music, an interdisciplinary exhibition exploring the intersections between community, resistance and music, was first showcased at Serendipity Arts Festival 2017. A reconstructed version of it was brought to Space 340 in April 2018.

A book launch and discussion around Photo Peshawar by Lukas Birk & Sean Foley, published by PIX and Mapin.

The five-day workshop at GHS Keri reached out to middle school students from GHS Keri, Morlem and Surla. It was conducted by a classical dancer and a martial artist, combining perspectives from different kinds of traditional practices and ways of relating to daily life and nature.

Camarabhat located in Talegaon, adjoining Panjim, is home to a vibrant third-generation migrant community. The 3-month project brought together children aged between 10 and 13 years into a continuing engagement with theatre, music, and movement.

The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) and Serendipity Arts Foundation (SAF) will came together to collaborate on two exciting art workshops for children, held in Goa – Anatomy of a Dot, conducted by Nilanjana Nandy, and Stories on the Wall, conducted by Ruchin Soni.

In collaboration with Junoon, Arts Encounter was brought to Goa for the first time in November 2017. To conduct this workshop with a school in Goa, Junoon brought on board Keli a Mumbai-based organisation that introduces Kathakali to children, and works to support, sustain and encourage this classical heritage.

Serendipity Arts Foundation, Asia Art Archive and HH Art Spaces collaborated to present three new platforms that stage performance art.

SENSES introduction SENSES has focused on incremental inclusion and access for varied audiences. SENSES is India’s first-ever ‘accessible and inclusive outreach program’ curated for persons with special needs, for a multidisciplinary arts festival. Over the span of four years, Access For ALL has been able to reach out to over 700+ children with special needs […]

Serendipity Arts brings together two projects at India Art Fair 2026, Breathe by Teja Gavankar and The Charpai Project X Goji.

photo-Copy in Kolkata In collaboration with Kolkata Centre for Creativity We have arrived in Kolkata with a sneak peek into South Asia’s largest celebration of the arts across disciplines and genres – Serendipity Arts Festival 2023.   Photo-copy is a commissioned theatre piece that explores themes of grief, loss and reconciliation. A troubled family of four grapples with […]

Presenting Mukhtiyar Ali Live in Pondicherry! We have arrived in Pondicherry with a glimpse of Serendipity Arts Festival – South Asia’s largest celebration of the arts across disciplines and genres. Join us for a mesmerising evening with Mir Mukhtiyar Ali as he dives deep into the Rajasthani folk idiom to sing the poetry of Kabir, Mira, and Bulleh Shah, among others. About Mukhtiyar […]

India Art Fair 2023 Image courtesy – Serendipity Arts Foundation at India Art Fair 2022 Projects FOOD LAB the cases of missing vegetables Project by Akash Muralidharan COOK AND SEE The concept for the ‘Cook and See’ challenge arose from the desire to find out why several vegetables from Samaithu Paar (A Tamil vegetarian cookbook […]

India Art Fair 2022 Image courtesy – Serendipity Arts Foundation at India Art Fair 2020 Information A dial flicks within, clouds move in the sky and there’s a sense of time that has vanished reappearing in small droplets from the sky. For the team at Serendipity, the long and circular arc of the pandemic has […]

Serendipity Arts Foundation participated for the first time ever at India Art Fair in 2019 with an institutional booth focussing on performance and research.

An evening of Rajasthani Sufiana tradition featuring Mir Mukhtiar Ali

Dhamaal, a celebration of drumming traditions from India was first showcased at SAF 2018. As a launch event to SAF 2019 in the heart of Delhi's Central Park, Dhamaaal kickstarted the lead up to the festival in December with an evening of drums and music.

The launch event for SAF 2017 which took place at the beautiful Royal Opera House in Mumbai showcased a unique classical music performance, reinterpreting archival information both in terms of its musical format as well as its visual presentation. The music renditions pay tribute to the manner in which artistes adapted their presentations for emerging formats like recording technology. Living Traditions was first performed at SAF 2016.

A part of The Charpai Project, showcased at Serendipity Arts Festival 2017 was brought to India Design & Home Décor Week 2019.