Meera Menezes is an art writer and curator.  She was the Delhi correspondent for the arts magazine, Art India, and has written extensively on modern and contemporary Indian art over the past three decades. She has done her Masters in German Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and has worked as a TV-journalist and producer at the South Asia Bureau of ARD, Germany’s largest public service broadcaster.

What drew me to supporting the foundation was the opportunity to create a space for discourse and dialogue within the art community. As a curator and writer, I felt it was important to provide a fillip to both curatorial practice and art writing, besides encouraging young artistic talent. AFA is, in many ways, an attempt to do so at an institutional scale.

We are a young organisation. But I think it allows us the freedom to build carefully, to stay close to what matters, and to remain genuinely open to the needs of the art community. I hope we can support a new generation of artists, writers, thinkers and curators with our programming.