Zasha Colah is co-artistic director of Ar/Ge Kunst (with Francesca Verga, Bozen-Bolzano, since 2023) and a lecturer in Curatorial Studies at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (Milano, since 2018).

She has been a research fellow at 221A (Vancouver, 2021–22) for a project segueing indigenous geographies, titled The Scorched Earthly. Her doctorate (La Sapienza, 2020) revolved around illegality and meta-exhibition practices from 1982 to 2016 in Indo-Myanmar. She co-founded the curatorial collaborative and artist union Clark House Initiative (Mumbai, 2010–22), co-curating actions and exhibitions both in that venue and public space, as well as at the invitation of ISCP New York, Ink Yangon, Kadist Paris, and SMBA Amsterdam, among others (2010–15). Prior to this, she was curator of Indian Modern Art at the JNAF/CSMVS Museum and curator of public programs at the National Gallery of Modern Art, both in Mumbai.

She curated I love you Sugar Kane (Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean, Port Louis, 2016), a monographic exhibition of Prabhakar Pachpute (with Luca Cerizza, NGMA Mumbai, 2016), steirischer herbst, body luggage (Graz, 2016), 3rd Pune Biennale (with Luca Cerizza, 2017), 2nd Yinchuan Biennale (curatorial team led by Marco Scotini, 2018), solo exhibitions by Muna Mussie, Anawana Haloba (with Chiara Figone, Archive Milano, 2021), Extraneous (with Valentina Viviani, Exile, Vienna), and the 13th Berlin Biennale (2025).

Zasha Colah’s research fellowship at Städelschule is generously made possible by Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Kunst und Kultur through the QuiS funding program.