Raqs Media Collective

Raqs Media Collective (1992, Delhi, India) follows its self-declared imperative of ‘kinetic contemplation’ to produce a trajectory that is restless in its forms and exacting in its procedures. Raqs articulates an intimately lived relationship with time in all its tenses through anticipation, conjecture, entanglement and excavation. Conjuring figures of cognitive and sensory acuteness, Raqs’ work reconfigures perceptional fields, alters the terms of somatic co-presence, and demands that everyone looks at what they take for granted, anew.

Raqs have shown at various international exhibitions including Documenta and the Venice, Istanbul, Sao Paolo, Sydney, Taipei and Liverpool Biennales.

Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include “Still More World,” Mathaf Museum, Doha, Qatar (2019); “Twilight Language,” Manchester Art Gallery (2017–2018); “Everything Else is Ordinary,” K21 Museum for 21st Century Art, Düsseldorf (2018); “If It’s Possible, It’s Possible,” MUAC, Mexico City (2015), and “Untimely Calendar,” National Gallery of Modern Art, Delhi (2014–2015). Exhibitions curated by Raqs include “In the Open or in Stealth,” MACBA, Barcelona, (2018–2019); “Why Not Ask Again,” Shanghai Biennale (2016–2017); “INSERT2014,” New Delhi (2014); and “The Rest of Now & Scenarios,” Manifesta 7, Bolzano (2008). Raqs are the artistic directors of the forthcoming Yokohama Triennale, 2020.