About

HH Art Spaces, an artist-run movement and collective, has worked with live and performance, visual, sonic and installation artists locally, regionally and internationally, over the last 10 years. It was set in motion in October, 2014 by Romain Loustau, Madhavi Gore and Nikhil Chopra as a physical space based in North Goa, which facilitated and curated residencies and workshops with a focus on contemporary live art and performance. Over time, HH has added newer members to the team - Shivani Gupta and Shaira Sequeira Shetty as Partners and Mario D’Souza as Co-Artistic Director and Resident Curator. 

HH has built a long standing position of credibility in the contemporary and experimental art scene in South Asia and abroad. Our events draw audiences from cultural hubs across India and international networks. As well as creative audiences from musicians, artists, restaurateurs, writers and critics, to our homegrown community in Goa. Given its ambiguous position between the conventional and dominant art industry and the independent and upcoming art movements celebrated by younger artists, HH’s audience is both distinct and diverse.

Furthermore, we are deeply invested in the documentation and recording of live artwork and its residual effects, to create and nurture an archive, and build an active resource pool.

Some of HH’s collaborators over the years, include The Tetley Museum, Leeds; Tate Modern, London, Fondazione Elpis, Milan; Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Dhaka Art Summit; Chatterjee & Lal, KHOJ International Artists’ Association, Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, India Art Fair, Theertha International Artists’ Collective, Sri Lanka, Serendipity Arts Trust, Magnetic Fields Festival, Sunaparanta Centre for the Arts, and Japan Foundation, Alliance Française, Canada Council for the Arts, British Council, Pro Helvetia and the Ontario Arts Council.

With support from institutional as well as non-profit funding through grants and commissions, HH wears several hats that uplifts and cultivates different voices from South Asia and beyond. Because of HH’s enigmatic position, its mentorship programme continues in an imperceptible way. It has had an influence on developing contemporary practices in live and performance art in a pedagogical and historical way in India. HH’s extended community continues to grow over time, space and the ever expanding domain of live art.