Prameya Art Foundation [PRAF] is a nomadic institutional framework for the arts working out of New Delhi which maintains as its primary focus the city and the extended South Asia region. Our projects and programmes are conceptualized with curatorial agility to be responsive to creative conversations and infrastructures locally, and by building strategic partnerships and collaborations with global contexts as one way to situate practices from South Asia within extended constellations of shared concerns that may be forged across geographies. Prameya, which means knowledge in Sanskrit, informs the not-for-profit’s experiments with alternative pedagogical encounters for creative practitioners, approach to the arts as a discursive space and dialogue as its future. So far this has manifested in ethically considered support structures for artists and cultural workers through residency partnerships, production grants for experimental forms of artmaking, incidents, exhibitions, workshops, screenings, transdisciplinary encounters, conversations and symposia. Through these initiatives we seek meaningful engagement with artistic communities and alternative publics that exceed the limits of the established arts context in Delhi.
PRAF was founded by Anahita Taneja and Shefali Somani after a decade of experience working in the Indian arts context to address the limited presence of institutional spaces in the region. For their work they were conferred with the insignia of Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the government of France. PRAF is a member of the World Art Foundation.
Founder & Chairperson
Founder & Vice-Chairperson
Curator
Cultural Theorist and Curator
Artist, Photographer, Environmental Campaigner, Writer, Curator
Dean, Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practice, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Art Historian and Curator