Sayantan Maitra Boka
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Curated “Kathamo/ Structure”, one of the official collaterals of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025, the public art project bringing Bengal’s Durga Puja Art festival vocabulary into the multicultural landscape of Jew Town, Mattancherry, Kochi, December 2025-March 2026
Curated part of the project Sundarbans Across Borders: The spirit of Cultural Resilience, initiated and presented by EUNIC Dhaka and Kolkata Cluster and supported by European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), Brussels , exploring how communities in Gosaba, Sundarban navigate climate change while sustaining cultural identity with Food Studio Collective, December 2025
Curated and mapped “Preview Show of Durga Puja Art” in association with massArt, to showcase the twenty two of the most innovative and best of Durga Puja art in all of Kolkata, as part of the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage from India. This festival identifies itself more towards a massive public art festival for the masses than a religious festival. An exhibition -- Making of Durga Puja Art -- at Alipur Museum featured live display of the artisans creating their art and audio-visual presentation on the elaborate journey to the final art form along with handicrafts of Bengal. September 2025
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Curated “Material as Metaphor – A Dialogue of Art Forms”, that brings together prints, textiles, photography, painting, sculpture, installation, video and sound art from the Indian subcontinent, weaving a narrative of artistic expression that bridges tradition and contemporary at The National Gallery of Modern Art, Kolkata, housed in the historic Old Currency Building.  Produced by Basu Foundation . May to July 2025
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Curated “Dialogues Across Time”- Indian Contemporary and Folk Art was situated in between/ in conversation with the corridors and galleries of The Indian Museum which is a repository of India's vast cultural, artistic, and natural heritage, celebrating its 210th anniversary. Produced by Basu Foundation, January to March 2025.
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Curated and mapped “Preview Show of Durga Puja Art” in association with massArt, to showcase the twenty two of the most innovative and best of Durga Puja art in all of Kolkata, as part of the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage from India. This festival identifies itself more towards a massive public art festival for the masses than a religious festival. An exhibition -- Making of Durga Puja Art -- at Town Hall featured live display of the artisans creating their art and audio-visual presentation on the elaborate journey to the final art form along with handicrafts of Bengal. 
​October 2024

https://massart.in/


Curated and mapped “ Preview Show of Durga Puja Art 2023”for massArt, to showcase the twenty two of the most innovative and best of Durga Puja art in Kolkata, as part of the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage from India along with the following: collaboration between Durga Puja (Kolkata) and the alumni of HKU school of fine arts (Utrecht, Netherlands), collaboration between German new media artist Thomas Eichhorn and sound artist from Kolkata, Sukanta Majumdar in Town Hall and other spaces. Show based on the process/ making of Durga Puja Art and Architecture in Town Hall with students of art, design and architecture of Techno University. Photography exhibition on process of Durga Puja Art in Town Hall. Talks in collaboration with VASSAR , New York alumni in Town Hall. Bengal Folk art exhibition supported by MSME, West Bengal.  October 2023 
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Jarracharra: Dry Season Wind- Australian Indigenous textile art from Babbarra Women’s Centre, Maningrida, Northern Territory, at Indian Museum, Kolkata presented by Australian Consulate-General, Kolkata. December-January 2022-23 
 
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"Towards a Better Tomorrow" is an initiative led by Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, and is part of the larger ‘Moving Kolkata – Kolkata Moving’ project, Curated the pop-up installation on the ground of Science city included showcasing of moving images, visuals and a virtual reality experience with an aim of making people aware of the concerns and showing them a way to simply contribute towards saving the mangroves and in turn saving the city from some serious effects of climate change. The project is initiated by EUNIC. October 2022. 
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Curated and mapped “Preview Show of Durga Puja Art 2022” in association with massArt, to showcase the twenty two of the most innovative and best of Durga Puja art in all of Kolkata, as part of the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage from India.  An exhibition -- Making of Durga Puja Art -- at Town Hall featured live display of the artisans creating their art and audio-visual presentation on the elaborate journey to the final art form along with handicrafts of Bengal.  September 2022  

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https://massart.in/


Virtual Kolkata Partition Museum (VKPM) : Co-Curated the art presented in the virtual museum in association with AUR and Kolkata Partition Museum Trust, August 2022  
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​https://virtual-kolkata-partition-museum.org/


Chas Bas: A community based public art intervention in the wake of the sudden agricultural bill and the peasant movement in collaboration with Chanderhaat: Kolkata, January 2021 
 
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New Possible World: Artists’ Takeover at Ghare Baire (DAG), Currency Building, January 2021 
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Katha Barta: A series of online talk shows on contemporary art scene in  Bengal, July 2020 
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No Man’s Land Project in Dhaka Art Summit: SeismicMovements, Collective Movements, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 7–15 February 2020 
 

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Counter Enclave: Artistic interventions and archives from Stateless to Nation State: Dashiarchhora, Fulbari-Kurigram, Bangladesh, June 2019
 
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​THERE IS NOTHING "NATURAL" OR INEVITABLE ABOUT MEN'S VIOLENCE TOWARD WOMEN.



​PLAYING WITH FIRE



​LANGUAGE OF SPACE



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​SARSUNA THEKE JANA /   DERIVES FROM THE METROPOLIS




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​NO MAN'S LAND 


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HORNBILL PUBLIC ART FESTIVAL
Kohima and Kisama
​December 2011


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             SPACE/ FORM/ TRANSFORM
                   Apparao Gallery, The Lodhi Hotel, New Delhi
                   January-February 2013

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