Akansha Rastogi

Akansha Rastogi is Senior Curator of 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 ingenious and critically engaging in their curatorial thinking, approaches and conceptual rigour. Each of these exhibitions propositioned and imagined contemporary art museum space 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.