about me
Promona Sengupta (b. 1990) is a multidisciplinary artist and curator from Kolkata, India. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She has a PhD. in Theater Studies from Freie Universitaet, Berlin. Her art practice focuses on science fiction, worldbuilding, collectivity and liberatory imagination. She loves cats.
Group Exhibitions
2025: Specters of Sultana: A Speculative History, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin (Upcoming)
2024: Shape of a Pocket, The Institute for Endotic Research (TIER) Berlin with Republic of Chicken, with Jorinde Schulz
2023: House of Kal at nGbK Berlin with Unidentified Sonic Objects Radio Show
2022: Tidal ko-Habitat, House of Kal at District Berlin with Spaceship Beben Sonic Shrines
Sound and Radio Practice
2025: The Big Hen’s Call, with Jorinde Schulz, Radio Alhara, Bethlehem
2025: The Big Hen’s Call, with Jorinde Schulz, Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
2024: The Big Hen’s Call: The Republic of Chicken Audio Guide, with Jorinde Schulz, for Shape of a Pocket, TIER Berlin
2023: Unidentified Sonic Objects Radio Show for House of Kal, nGbK Berlin
2023: Sunday Shows at OneLove Radio, 88.4 MHz Berlin, 90.7 MHz Potsdam
2022: The Battle of Sylt, live sound performance for Towards a Shimmer on The Horizon, ZK/U Berlin
2021: Knotweed Frequencies Radio Show for radio kal
Curatorial Projects
2022 onwards: Sweetmeet Queer Artists Network, Berlin, Germany/Dhaka, Bangladesh, with Tanvir Alim, supported by Goethe Institut and Schwules Museum Berlin
2022 onwards: House of Kal Berlin, a part of the international platform “a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same word. kal”
2024: Electioneering: Pictures in Power, for Sinema Transtopia, Berlin
2014 – 2016: Curator and Programs Manager at Khoj International Artists’ Association, New Delhi, India
Founded Collectives
2021 onwards: Spaceship Beben, feminist science fiction collective
2018-2020: Mo’Halla, South Asian antifascist art and politics collective, with Jyothidas KV and Prabhash Tripathy
Grants, Fellowships, Residencies
2025: Group Residency “Keeping Collective in Fragmented Times”, Tanzfabrik, with Urgent Bodies Collective
2024: Künstlerkontakte Grant, Institut Für Auslandsbeziehungen, for Queer Unschool South Asia
2024: Flash Residency, Ausland Berlin, for Terraform (group residency)
2023: Risktakers Fellowship, Superrr Lab and Allianz Foundation, for Spaceship Beben
2022, 2023: Artist-in-Residence, Mutating Kinship Lab, for Mo’Halla
2021: Studiostipendium, District School Without Center Berlin, for Speaking Barnacular
2019: Young Curator’s Academy at the Gorki Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater
2016-2022: PhD. Fellowship at International Research Center: Interweaving Performance Cultures, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Lectures and Workshops (selection)
2025: Lecture Demonstration World-making, Terraforming – Weissensee Expedition with Dr. Aouefa Amoussouvi as a part of SOFAR Symphony, Neun Kelche (Upcoming)
2025: Guest Lecture for Architectures of Ommission, Spatial Strategies Kunsthochschule Weissensee
2022-2024: Biannual Workshop Rooting/Routing at Asian Perfoming Artists Lab (APAL)
2022 onwards: Worldbuiding Workshop Holodeck of Heavenly Bodies at Goethe Institut Dhaka, Bangladesh, The Institute for Endotic Research Berlin, Forum der Kulturen Stuttgart, BIWOC Rising Berlin
2024: Guest Lecture, Representing Student Movements: Some Key Lessons from Cultural Histories of University Campuses, Bauhaus University Weimar
2022-2023: Guests Lectures on Comradeship as Decolonial Love and Activism, Institute of Global Studies, Humboldt Universitaet Berlin
2022: Workshop Comradeship as Praxis, Oyoun Curator’s Lab Berlin
2021: Keynote Lecture, Time Travel for All: How to Leave No One Behind, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin
2021: Lecture, Captain Pro and the Hekim of Discostan, Gesellschaft fuer Anglophone Poskoloniale Studien, University of Potsdam
Theater and Performance (selection)
2025: Theater Performance Republic of Chicken with Jorinde Schulz at OHM Berlin as a part of SHIFT LAB
2023: Lecture Performance Alien Solidarities, Gruentaler 9 Berlin
2023: Matters of Taste (dir. meLê yamomo), Museum fur Kommunikation Berlin
2021-2022: Time Travel Expert at Market for Useful Knowledge and Non-knowledge (produced by Hannah Hurtzig), Berliner Festspiele, Literaturhaus Berlin
2021: Milktooth at Expo Festival, English Theater Berlin
2021: Losing Balance at Ovel Eibel Festival, Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen
Education
2022: PhD. from Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin
2015: M.Phil in Theatre and Performance Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
2012: MA in Arts and Aesthetics from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
2010: BA (Honours) in History from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University
Full CV on request.