Siddharth Khajuria
I’m an arts producer, curator, and artist - my work stems from an interest in the way humans attempt to organise and resist the natural chaos of the world.
I’m also the director and co-founder of Grand Plan, a charity that supports artists of colour with £1,000 grants to take a leap.
As an artist, I work with a combination of photography, language and other materials.
As a producer and curator, I develop projects that emerge from unlikely communities of people. I was 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