Open Call: Curator

Job Description

Location: Remote, with on-site weeks at the JSW Vidyanagar Campus, Karnataka

Reporting to: Director

Engagement: Annual appointment, part-time, renewable by mutual agreement

Time commitment: One week per month during each residency, across three residency batches a year: around nine weeks a year delivered on site and

Degree of Travel: Moderate to high, depending on the on-site and remote split

Accommodation: On campus, during on-site mentorship

Additional benefits: Fee to be agreed. Reasonable travel expenses will be offered for on-site

weeks.

About the Role

The Curator will be a key curatorial position at Hampi Art Labs, responsible for supporting artists

throughout their residencies offering artists a generative, critically engaged experience. The role

contribute to making Hampi Art Labs a thriving as a place of experimentation and exchange for

artists, communities and audiences.

Reporting to the Director and Head of Operations and working in close collaboration with the Centre

Manager and Programmes Manager, the Curator will follow each artist through their three-month

residency, providing studio visits, critical advice and relevant connections. Hampi Art Labs runs three

residency batches a year, each with five artists, and the Curator will mentor all three batches,

offering continuity from one batch to the next.

The role requires an individual who can move comfortably between close, studio-based dialogue and

wider critical and conceptual thinking, and who understands the particular conditions of a retreat-

type residency in a remote setting. The Curator will balance the freedom to experiment in a studio

with a more discursive and critical approach, pushing each artist to question their practice, take

creative risks and develop a clear and compelling conceptual framework around their work.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced, perceptive and generous curator, with the confidence to

challenge artists and the sensitivity to support them. They will bring a strong network, an interest in

experimental and material practices, and the ability to work effectively in short, focused periods,

whether on site or remotely.

The role will also contribute to strengthening Hampi Art Labs’ relationships with artists, curators and

partner organisations, enhancing its standing in the national and global art ecosystem