Siddharth Khajuria
I’m an arts producer, curator, and artist. My work stems from an interest in the way we attempt to organise and resist the natural chaos of the world.
I’m a co-founder and the director of Grand Plan, a charity awarding £1,000 grants to artists of colour.
I develop arts projects that emerge from unlikely communities of people, exploring a question they share an interest in.
As an artist, I work with a combination of photography, language and other materials.
I used to be a Senior Producer at the Barbican, where I developed a new programme for the arts centre’s public spaces, and co-led a hybrid strategy and public programming team. More recently, I was the Director of Science Gallery London, part of an international network of university-based galleries.
Selected projects and work
📚 An annual, ethnographic book project comprising fragments of dialogue from home, work and in between
✍️ An essay about building a public programme for the Barbican’s public foyer spaces, written with Razia Jordan, part of a larger series we commissioned
🧱 An exhibition and events programme that brought peer-led artistic practice to life, as part of the Photoworks Weekender.
📸 An online home for my photographic work.
🌱 A Science Gallery London programme shaped by collaborations between artists, academics, young people, activists, local organisations and the wider public
📹 A short film I directed - with music by Lonelady and animation by Daniela Sherer - exploring the Crossrail tunnels being built beneath London
📹 A portrait of London I directed, from atop a Barbican tower block, weaving together my photography, Paul Haworth’s poetry and Tom Rosenthal’s music
📢 An programme of events about the power of power curated by Suzanne Alleyne, Banff and the Barbican’s public programming team
🏡 A project exploring who our buildings and spaces are designed for, curated by Jon Astbury and Jos Boys, designed by EDIT Collective and part of the public progamme at the Barbican
⛰ A multi-disciplinary residency and expedition focusing on alternative infrastructures for cultural production
📢 A talk about how unlikely communities of people from different disciplines shape the public programme at the Barbican
👨💻 A season about the ways AI is woven into our lives, curated by the Science Gallery London and Future Everything teams
⚙️ An experimental year-long venue at the Barbican, hosting events exploring what it means to be human in the face of technological change
⚙️ A cross-disciplinary exploration of what it means to grow old in Britain today, led by Liminal Space and part of the public programme at the Barbican
📢 A talk about the impacts of digital culture on cultural programming
🎧 A temporary ‘cinema for listening’ in the Barbican’s public foyers, curated by Nina Garthwaite and Eleanor McDowall
📹 A music video featuring beautiful signs and Welsh hills, made with Tom Rosenthal