Ravi Agarwal

Ravi Agarwal has an interdisciplinary practice as an artist, photographer, environmental campaigner, writer, curator.

Historia Denaturalis — installation view Historia Denaturalis

Works

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Rising not Falling 2009-2026 Solidarity 2017-2026 Nature of Nature

Exhibitions

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Interitors of Earth September 9, 2026 – December 22, 2026 · KNMA, New Delhi Historia Denaturalis February 1, 2026 – March 7, 2026 · Gallery Espace, New Delhi Material Flows: The Hidden Afterlives of Plastic Waste 2025

Curation

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Murmurations — 10th Edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival Urban Reimagined — 10th Edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival Bergen Assembly 2025: across, with, nearby 2025

Projects

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Bergen Assembly 2025 2025 Samtal Jameer, Samtal Jameen (Equal Terrains, Equal Selves) Anthropocene India

Publications

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Practices of Hope: A Reader for the Future The Power Plant: Fragments in Time — by Ravi Agarwal Evocations of Multispecies Justice (Cultural Politics, Duke University Press, 2023) 2023

Writings

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Politics of a Planetary Future: An Interview with Ravi Agarwal How Do We Tell Planetary Stories?: Creating New Scripts of Interconnectedness STATE OF NATURE IN INDIA: AN ESSAY

Talks

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Premjish Achari in conversation with Ravi Agarwal | Gallery Espace Art, Science, And Method — In Practice: A Conversation led by Jahnavi Phalkey, Damian Christinger and Ravi Agarwal at the Serendipity Arts Festival 2023 December 16, 2023 The Soil Assembly: Living Ecologies, Circularities and Pedagogies

Events

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Book Launch: The Power Plant – Fragments in Time by Ravi Agarwal (Serendipity Arts Festival) December 19, 2023 Webinar — The Crisis of Climate Change: Release of the Winter 2019 & Spring 2020 Special issue of the IIC Quarterly — Nov. 11, 2020 2020 Book Launch: "Embrace Our Rivers: Public Art and Ecology in India"

Art World

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From Tamil to Torrin, comparative natural histories John Muir Trust Dive Across Asia: Artistic investigations, sea People and ecology (French and English) Art Press It’s in their nature: Artists hold event for environment DNA

Media Articles

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Artist Ravi Agarwal on water ecologies and reimagining natural history February 25, 2026 · The Indian Express World Environment Day: India produced 45,308 tonnes of Covid-19 biomedical waste in previous one year June 5, 2021 · Hindustan Times Freedom is not free: Artists and photographers on how they interpret freedom August 15, 2020 · The Indian Express