Ravi Agarwal has an interdisciplinary practice as an artist, photographer, environmental campaigner, writer, curator.
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Practices of Hope: A Reader for the Future
The ecological crisis confronts all of us today, wherever we live on this planet. And no single discipline possesses the sovereign expertise to address it. Recognising this, Practices of Hope: A Reader for the Future brings together a constellation of some of the finest minds who have engaged with the challenges this crisis poses, both at a local as well as a global scale. The contributors to this international and interdisciplinary anthology belong to diverse fields, including environmental activism, literature, public health, anthropology, science journalism, architecture, and the visual arts.
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Historia Denaturalis
February 1, 2026 — March 7, 2026
Gallery Espace, Delhi
From riverbanks to global watersheds, from the archives of natural history to the lived entanglements of species, from Delhi’s local ecologies to planetary instabilities. Marking Agarwal’s first solo exhibition at Gallery Espace in a decade, the exhibition reframes his longstanding environmental practice within a new conceptual lens: the idea of a denaturalised history, a counter-archive to the long tradition of historia naturalis.
Premjish Achari in conversation with Ravi Agarwal | Gallery Espace
February 28, 2026
Gallery Espace, Delhi
Last weekend at Gallery Espace, artist Ravi Agarwal joined curator and art writer Premjish Achari for an in-depth conversation on the ideas shaping his ongoing solo exhibition, Historia Denaturalis.
The wide-ranging discussion explored the exhibition’s title, a conceptual play on Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder, and Agarwal’s long-standing interest in how natural history museums have historically constructed our understanding of ‘nature.’
Artist Ravi Agarwal on water ecologies and reimagining natural history
Vandana Kalra, The Indian Express | February 25, 2026
In his solo exhibition at Gallery Espace in Delhi, artist and environmental activist Ravi Agarwal explores water, natural history museums and what it means to be seen by the more-than-human world
Bergen Assembly 2025
across, with, nearby
11 September — 9 November 2025
Carried in the aforementioned questions is the diversity of practices that interweave in this edition of the Bergen Assembly, convened by Ravi Agarwal, Adania Shibli, and the Bergen School of Architecture (BAS). These inquiries—some of which emerged through encounters in the Cross Course programmes already initiated by the convenors—invite you to join, expand upon, and carry them forward as you engage with the triennial’s upcoming programme. This edition will be experiential: a communal, living, and evolving process of artistic and knowledge formations through practices of sharing rather than showing.