About the Artist
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Martand Khosla is an artist based in New Delhi, India. Qualified as an architect, Khosla’s art practice has engaged with urban transformation. It seeks to redefine the ways in which spatial logics intersect with and complicate the experience of systems at multiple scales. Beginning in the 2010s, Khosla has pushed the limits of sculpture as a discrete public medium. He experiments with the ways in which one encounters his sculptures amidst rapidly changing urban parameters including the physical and visual. For the artist, materials, including wood and metal, are never what they seem, often speaking to broader trajectories through their bending, cutting, and even burning, processes which also speak to our own relations with each other.Form and material thus remain unfixed, boundless. While some of Khosla’s works are at once easily recognizable for their use of domestic elements, they also allude to and build upon complex transits in the world.
Khosla’s works in both sculpture and dimensional drawings challenge us to redefine how structures might be at once gravity-bound and simultaneously liberated from it. His recent works have moved away from centering ideas within larger urban systems to reposition how such impacts affect understandings of the human and (social) bodies. Here they are at once suggestive of molecular even atomic resonances, found inside and out. Khosla’s artworks invoke new spaces, speeds, and materialities through which one can observe potential scenes of emergence. Khosla’s sculptures suggest patterns and flows that are common across time and geographies. Even when composed of “standardized” objects such as a door, window, or chair, the works in this exhibition speak to representation, to fulfilment, rather than symbolism alone.
For Martand Khosla, sculpture lies not in the assembly of materials alone, or even direct derivations of meaning through the visible, but in conceptualizing spaces within which materiality is conceived and projected into worlds that we may occupy, even if briefly. Khosla envisions and constructs accessible forms that, when assembled, make visible in their momentary coalescing, inescapable flows, and energies of which we are all part.
Publication
Engaging the Informal City : A Conversation with Martand Khosla | by Chitra Balasubramaniam
Sculpture magazine | USA 2020
Design anthology | text by Payal Uttam
Design anthology | Hong Kong 2020
The art of Expression | INDIA TODAY ART AWARDS
India Today | 17 February 2020
Exhibition 1:2500 (One is to Twenty-Five Hundred) | by Kaiwan Mehta
Domus | February 2020
How Things Still Matterover a conversation between Martand Khosla’s 1: 2500 and Jessica Stockholder’s Stuff Matters
| by Bhrigupati Singh
Art India | January 2020
Art Illustrated | review by Rahul Kumar
Arts Illustrated | 5 October 2019
Art And Architecture – Urbanism Is Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Spread | by Kaiwan Mehta
Domus | September 2019
Architect and artist Martand Khosla’s latest show is a witness to the possibilities in cities | by Pallavi Chattopadhyay
The Indian Express | September 4 2019
Inside july 2019 | periodicals
Inside | Vol. 02 | Issue 01 | July 2019
Marina Abramovic, Cantor e Martand Khosla veem a comida como arte | by Antonio Gonçalves Filho
Estadão | Brazil | 18 February 2014
Artists Interpret the City | by Sonam Joshi
Time Out Delhi | Vol. 6 | Issue 23 | February 1-14 2013
Every now and then an architect ventures across the obscure boundary that separates Art and Architecture
| by Ashiesh Shah
DNA Sunday | December 2013
Of bricks, dust and the repeating condition | Interview with Jyoti Dhar
Harper’s Bazar Art Arabia| Issue-6 | February-March 2013
Construction on Canvas | by Anindita Ghose
HT Livemint | March 2012
Working Class Heroes | by Sonam Joshi
Time Out Delhi | October-November 2012
Giving Identity to Maximum City’s Hopeful Immigrants | Nidhi Gupta
The Sunday Guardian | November 2012
Books
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The Big Book of Indian Art: An Illustrated History of Indian Art from Its Origins to the Present Day
by Bina Sarkar Ellias
Platform | Jan/Feb 2016
Food | 2014
Ed. A von Furstenberg. J Massarenti . D Zachanopolous . J-L Rastoin Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM), Marseilles.
Food : Reflections on Mother Earth, Agriculture and Nutrition | 2014
Ed. Adelina von Furstenberg
This Side That Side | 2013
Ed. Vishwajyoti Ghosh | Yoda Press
Cyber Mohalla Hub | 2012
Ed. Niklaus Hirsch + Shveta Sarda | Sternberg Press
PAISEA | September 2012
Reclaiming : Twist and Shout | December 2011
Showroom MAMA. Rotterdam, NL
1 dig KX | 1998
Ed. Peter Thomas . Catherine de Toit . Richard Wentworth
Architectural Association Press, London
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Awards:
India Today Art Award | New Media Artist 2019-2020
Winner | Reclaiming the Streets, Rotterdam, NL
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Solo Shows
2025
-Escape Velocity | Nature Morte Gallery, Mumbai
2022
-On the Brink | Nature Morte Gallery, Dhan Mill Complex, New Delhi
2019
-1:2500 | Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi
2016
-MesoDomain | Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi
2012
-City of Hope – I | Seven Art Gallery . New Delhi
-City of Hope – II | SAA JNU . New Delhi
Group Shows
2025
-India Art Fair | Nature Morte, New Delhi
2024
-Objects Between The Lines | curated by Andrea Anastasio + Domitilla Dardi | Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
- ‘Uh homing Fragile Belongings’ | Curated by Deeksha Nath| Exhibit320 New Delhi
-Dtale Archist ll | Bangalore
-Art Mumbai
-Moulding Outlines | Akar Prakar Gallery | New Delhi
-The Armory Show | New York City
-Frieze, London
-Art of India Redux | & Assemblage | Lincoln, Nebraska
-Splinter Puncture Sliver Spall | TRI Kolkata
-India Art Fair | Nature Morte, New Delhi
-Art Dubai | Nature Morte
-Parallel Cities | Italian Delhi Cultural Centre | Curated by Andrea Anastasio
-Parallel Cities 2 | Nature Morte, Bombay | Curated by Andrea Anastasio
2023
-Armory Show | Nature Morte, New York City
-Carter Road | Bandra Bandstand Mumbai Urban Art Festival
-Jaipur Sculpture Park Nahargarh Fort, curated by Peter Nagy
-India Art Fair, New Delhi
2022
-Spaced Out | Art Incept, New Delhi
-AD. design show | Nature Morte, Bombay
-Manicured Techiques | Nature Morte, New Delhi
2021
-Possible Worlds I | viewing room | Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi
-Possible Worlds II | viewing room | Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi
-On\Site – Bikaner House, New Delhi
-Classical Radical : Multitudes & Assemblages | Accademia Albertina do Belle Arti, Torino Italy
-SPATIAL Dialogues | Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi
2020
-The Future is not fixed – viwing room | Nature Morte, New Delhi
-India Art Fair | New Delhi
-Between the Sheaths | STIR
2019
-India Art Fair | New Delhi
-10 Chairs | Gallery Espace
2018
-Art Basel, Basel | Gallery SKE
-50 Years After 50 Years of the Bauhaus 1968 – Württembergischer Kunstverein | Stuttgart, Germany | Curator Kaiwan Mehta
-Connecting Lines – Bikaner House | Curators- STIR and Art Pilgrim . New Delhi
2017
-Delhi Contemporary Art Weekend
2016
-State of Architecture | National Gallery of Modern Art . Mumbai | Curators – Rahul Mehrotra, Kaiwan Mehta, Ranjit Hoskote
-This Night Bitten Dawn | Devi Art Foundation and Gujral Foundation . New Delhi | Curator – Salima Hashmi
-India Art Fair | New Delhi
-Art Dubai | Dubai
-Art Basel | Hong Kong
2015
-In Other Rooms | GallerySKE . Bangalore
2014
-Delineating Memories | Exhibit 320 . New Delhi
-Make/Do | GallerySKE . New Delhi
-Food | SESC . Sao Paolo | curator – Adelina von Furstenberg
-Homing | Art Positive . New Delhi | curator – Deeksha Nath
2013
-Parallel Postulates | Nature Morte. New Delhi | curator – Peter Nagy
-Lateral | KONA . New Delhi | curator – Heidi Fichtner
-KONA. New Delhi | curator – Sonya Fatah
-India Art Fair | New Delhi
2012
-Matter | Blueprint 12 . New Delhi | curator – Deeksha Nath
-India Art Fair | New Delhi
2010
-Reclaiming the streets | Showroom MAMA . Rotterdam
2009
-Building for Bouwkunde | Delft
2005
-Playgrounds and Toys | Hangar Bicocca . Milan | curator – Adelina von Furstenberg
-Playgrounds and Toys | European Parliament . Brussels | curator – Adelina von Furstenberg
1997
-1 dig KX | Cubbitt Gallery . London