SPLASH
CATALYST
Supporting emerging curatorial and critical practices.
Splash Catalyst is Gallerie Splash’s platform for emerging curators, writers and cultural practitioners. It creates the time, mentorship, resources and public platforms through which research-led ideas can develop into exhibitions, writing and wider cultural dialogue.
The initiative supports independent enquiry across modern and contemporary art, design, architecture, material and living traditions, and interdisciplinary approaches to visual culture. It encourages perspectives that extend existing discourse and bring greater attention to underrepresented histories, communities and forms of knowledge.
For its 2026–27 edition, Splash Catalyst will support four emerging practitioners through two distinct programmes:
FELLOWSHIPS
GRANT
Both programmes combine sustained mentorship with financial support and a defined public outcome, enabling selected practitioners to develop their work with greater depth, rigour and visibility.
The Gallerie Splash Curatorial Fellowship supports two emerging curators in developing distinct, research-led proposals into fully realised exhibitions in Delhi.
Across six months, selected fellows will receive project-specific mentorship from a distinguished panel of curators and cultural practitioners. Each fellowship also includes a ₹50,000 fellowship award, a ₹1,50,000 exhibition production budget, dedicated exhibition space, and travel and accommodation support for installation.
The programme supports the complete development of an exhibition, from research, curatorial writing and engagement with artists to exhibition design, scenography, production and public presentation.
Application deadline: 15 September 2026, 11:59 pm IST
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The Gallerie Splash Writer's Grant supports two emerging writers in developing original, research-led writing on art and visual culture.
Across six months, selected writers will receive editorial mentorship from a panel of writers, critics, editors, scholars and cultural practitioners, alongside a grant of ₹50,000.
Each writer will develop a substantial long-form essay through research, critical discussion, drafting and revision. The completed work will be published digitally by Gallerie Splash and accompanied by a physical presentation that translates the writer’s research, process or findings into a spatial form.
Application deadline: 20 September 2026, 11:59 pm IST
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The Curatorial Fellowship and Writer's Grant recognise exhibitions and writing as connected forms of cultural enquiry.
One programme supports ideas developed through artists, objects, space and public experience. The other supports ideas developed through research, language, argument and publication. Together, they create a platform for emerging practitioners to examine art and visual culture through distinct but interconnected approaches.
Applications are welcomed from varied backgrounds and perspectives, particularly from practitioners whose work expands the subjects, methods and voices represented within contemporary cultural discourse.
A visual record of the exhibitions, installations, walkthroughs, conversations and public programmes developed through the fellowship.
