Rucha Kulkarni
Treehouse NDSM - studio 57C4
Rucha Kulkarni is a visual artist and social art practitioner working across painting, textile, and installation. Her practice moves fluidly between object and process, exploring the entangled terrains of identity, migration, memory, and community. Through collaborative and process-based methodologies, Kulkarni constructs works that unearth the intimate negotiations of displacement, gendered labour, and the quiet economies of care embedded within global capitalist structures.
Rooted in traditional craft and feminist pedagogy, her participatory projects transform storytelling, embodied knowledge, and collective making into tools for shared authorship. Her work often takes shape as gatherings, textile interventions, ephemeral installations, and dialogical encounters—spaces where the personal becomes a site to question the political.
Kulkarni’s practice interrogates how larger superstructures—capital, borders, policies—shape lived experience. Her works operate as subtle interventions, not as didactic resolutions, but as invitations to inhabit the contradictions of these systems. In her approach, the labour of weaving, stitching, or mark-making mirrors the layered histories of migration, resilience, and survival, while simultaneously resisting the extractive logics of production.
She has exhibited internationally, including at Amsterdam Museum (NL), Wereld Museum (NL), Museum of Modern Art, Salvador (BR), and Asia Culture Centre Gwangju (KR). Her work has been supported by grants from Mondriaan Fonds, Stimuleringsfonds, and ASEF, enabling projects that sustain long-term community engagement.