Let’s Talk series as part of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26 begins
3 days, 9 hours ago

Let’s Talk series as part of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26 begins

The Hindu  

Nikhil Chopra, the curator of the sixth edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, said his approach is to think regionally and draw affinities with global histories. “My curatorial framework thinks through ideas of hospitality and care, as well as the importance of artist solidarity and friendship economies as modes of learning and survival,” he said, while discussing his curatorial approach and methodologies for KMB 2025–26 at the first instalment of the Let’s Talk series held at Kanakakunnu Palace here on Tuesday. Bose Krishnamachari, president of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, delivered the introduction, followed by a presentation on the history of the biennale and its programmes by Mario D’Souza, director of programmes at Kochi Biennale Foundation. The programme marked the beginning of a series of public conversations that will travel across Kerala in the lead-up to the sixth edition of KMB 2025-26.

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Bose Krishnamachari features in ArtReview’s Power 100 list 2024
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Bose Krishnamachari features in ArtReview’s Power 100 list 2024

New Indian Express  

KOCHI: Bose Krishnamachari, the founder and president of Kochi Biennale Foundation, has secured a place in the prestigious ArtReview Power 100 list 2024. The list released by the internationally acclaimed ArtReview magazine features the world’s 100 most influential personalities in the field of art. Bose was named in last year’s Power 100 list as well. Bose has been honoured with …

Sixth edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale from December 2025, Nikhil Chopra to be curator
4 months ago

Sixth edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale from December 2025, Nikhil Chopra to be curator

The Hindu  

The sixth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale will be held from December 12, 2025 to March 31, 2026. Announcing Mr. Chopra’s name, Mr. Vijayan said the Kochi biennale is an event that fosters the spirit of art, community and dialogue. Bose Krishnamachari, president of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale Foundation, said that the curator was chosen following a rigorous process by a …

Artist Nikhil Chopra to curate Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) 2025
4 months ago

Artist Nikhil Chopra to curate Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) 2025

New Indian Express  

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Renowned artist Nikhil Chopra and his team HH Art Spaces will be the curators of the upcoming Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced here on Wednesday. 50-year-old Chopra is an artist whose work blends performance, drawings, paintings, photography, sculpture and installation. "We are thrilled to announce Nikhil Chopra and HH Art Spaces as the curators for …

Installation at Kochi Biennale finds new iteration in solo show in London
1 year, 5 months ago

Installation at Kochi Biennale finds new iteration in solo show in London

The Hindu  

The Hayward Gallery, the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation, and the Kochi Biennale Foundation have announced artist Amol K. Patil as the first recipient of the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation-Kochi-Muziris Biennale Award, a multi-year exhibition and lecture programme spotlighting emerging South Asian artists. He is presenting his first institutional solo exhibition in the U.K. at the Hayward Gallery’s HENI Project Space from October …

India Today Conclave South 2023: Everyone is not an artist but can become one, says Bose Krishnamachari
1 year, 9 months ago

India Today Conclave South 2023: Everyone is not an artist but can become one, says Bose Krishnamachari

India Today  

Eminent painter and curator Bose Krishnamachari took over the stage today at the India Today Conclave South 2023 in Kovalam, Kerala. During a session titled ‘How Kochi-Muziris Biennale democratize art?’, Krishnamachari spoke about how Kochi-Muziris Biennale helped change the perception of abstract art in India. When asked if he believes that everyone can be an artist, Krishnamachari mentioned a quote …

Kochi biennale: An act of coming together, of building community
1 year, 11 months ago

Kochi biennale: An act of coming together, of building community

The Hindu  

Shubigi Rao, curator of the just-concluded edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, spent almost four years preparing for the show that finally opened after two deferments and a pandemic-driven cancellation on December 23, 2022. The issues and ideas remained as urgent because the pandemic laid bare the inequities that had always existed and about which my curating and the artists’ works …

With mounting debts and uncertainty of permanent venue, going gets tougher for Kochi biennale
1 year, 11 months ago

With mounting debts and uncertainty of permanent venue, going gets tougher for Kochi biennale

The Hindu  

The fifth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale curated by the Singapore-based artist Shubigi Rao around the theme In our veins flow ink and fire drew to a close on April 10. He adds that works of artists Jitish Kallat, William Kendrige and art collective MAP Bangalore and the Students’ Biennale were impressive. This edition drew several high-profile individuals, including Jessica …

The fifth edition of Kochi Muzirs Biennale comes to a close with around bounty for local businesses and people
1 year, 11 months ago

The fifth edition of Kochi Muzirs Biennale comes to a close with around bounty for local businesses and people

The Hindu  

Curtains come down on the fifth edition of the Kochi Muziris Biennale on April 10. Domestic travellers “Tourism did not pick up in Fort Kochi till the certainty of the Biennale was established,” says tour guide Ajita Scaria, discussing how business was especially difficult through lockdown. “Thali meals have been a hit,” says Shaji of Kadai Veg Tables adding that …

Kochi-Muziris Biennale: finding a new centre
2 years, 2 months ago

Kochi-Muziris Biennale: finding a new centre

Live Mint  

In retrospect, In The Making, the title of this year’s Students’ Biennale, seemed a much more befitting title for the 2022 Kochi-Muziris Biennale than In Our Veins Flow Ink And Fire. The show includes Zarina’s map drawings, Atlas Of My World, Mona Hatoum’s neon globe, Hot Spot, trunks donated to the Partition Museum by a refugee, Kader Attia’s thought-provoking film, …

'Idam', an exhibition for Malayali artists begins at Kochi-Muziris Biennale
2 years, 3 months ago

'Idam', an exhibition for Malayali artists begins at Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Hindustan Times  

'Idam', an exhibition of contemporary works of art exclusively for Malayali artists began at Ernakulam Durbar Art Gallery on Wednesday as part of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. 'Idam', an exhibition of contemporary works of art exclusively for Malayali artists began at Ernakulam Durbar Art Gallery on Wednesday) The exhibition gives space for installations that use modern possibilities, including multimedia, sculptures of …

After a four-year hiatus, Kochi-Muziris Biennale opens on December 12
2 years, 3 months ago

After a four-year hiatus, Kochi-Muziris Biennale opens on December 12

The Hindu  

The fifth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, called off in 2020 owing to the pandemic, will get under way on Monday. Titled ‘In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire’, the art potpourri featuring about 200 major art projects done by 90 artists from different countries will be on show across 14 venues in Fort Kochi, Mattancherry and Ernakulam, till April …

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-2023 | Will Kochi tell a different story?
2 years, 3 months ago

Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-2023 | Will Kochi tell a different story?

The Hindu  

Away from the cacophonous chorus of heavily corporatised art festivals, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale hopes to return after three pandemic-ridden years to its foundational purpose: to give back to people their real stories, their strengths, their songs. A biennale isn’t just a collection of artworks, it can be sharing of ethos, of ways to make and survive, even flourish, and of …

Let’s talk song and satire | The mood is lighter at the 2022-2023 Kochi-Muziris Biennale
2 years, 3 months ago

Let’s talk song and satire | The mood is lighter at the 2022-2023 Kochi-Muziris Biennale

The Hindu  

One would expect hope to be the cornerstone of a biennale that’s opening after three demanding years of the pandemic. And the pandemic has just added another layer of meaning to this,” shares Mario D’Souza, Director of Programmes, Kochi Biennale Foundation. The idea builds on a Konkani saying that Naik has translated: ‘In order to save a story, you must …

Beyond the installations | Things to do in Fort Kochi while attending the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-23
2 years, 3 months ago

Beyond the installations | Things to do in Fort Kochi while attending the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-23

The Hindu  

The Biennale will be all encompassing in the coming few months. Untaboo — The Shadow Artists Via Kochi, a local magazine, is encouraging an ‘alternative’ discussion — bringing people together to share the stories we hold back. Goya x Thomas Girard “Thomas, a French mixologist who has worked at some of the world’s 50 best bars — from London to …

Out of the blues, emerges Kochi Biennale
2 years, 3 months ago

Out of the blues, emerges Kochi Biennale

The Hindu  

“Mark Your Calendars: December 12, 2022 to April 10, 2023”. Only through the spirit that flows through us: the thoughts and the action; the ink and the fire,” explains Ms. Rao, adding that the title is also about “the transgressive power of ink and the reformative power of action.” Speaking of the challenges of curation, she points out that while …

From Bihar Museum's biennale to 'Lokame Tharavadu' at Kochi, how Indian art world navigated first half of 2021
3 years, 9 months ago

From Bihar Museum's biennale to 'Lokame Tharavadu' at Kochi, how Indian art world navigated first half of 2021

Firstpost  

It’s a deceptively straightforward artwork. Acknowledging the fact that the artwork reflected the collective outrage of Indians amid widespread criticism of the government’s response to the pandemic’s second wave, Shailesh wrote on his Instagram: “I was trying to reflect the political conundrum we are entangled in, and many could connect with the image.” As the artwork captured the imagination of …

A winter without the Kochi Biennale: Despite loss of serendipity, a meaningful engagement with post-COVID era
4 years, 4 months ago

A winter without the Kochi Biennale: Despite loss of serendipity, a meaningful engagement with post-COVID era

Firstpost  

Unlike the predictable compactness of exhibitions at galleries and museums, a biennale is known for its emphasis on the sheer monumentality of exhibiting spaces; its publicness; its site-specificity, and the often blurring of demarcations between the artworks, the physical spaces that the works inhabit, and the viewers. That it is not as easily navigable as the art spaces of bigger …

A decade in Indian art: The 2010s witnessed biennale fever, some commercial gains, and a moral reckoning
5 years, 2 months ago

A decade in Indian art: The 2010s witnessed biennale fever, some commercial gains, and a moral reckoning

Firstpost  

On the surface it may seem like artists have never had it any better as in the last decade, considering there are now more residencies than before, more collectors, institutions, funding agents and curators. At the time Sonal Singh, Christie’s India director and specialist head, Sonal Singh, said the company would continue to hold three annual live auctions of modern …

Kochi-Muziris Fundation issued injunction notice by Ernakulam HC over auction as vendor alleges non-payment of dues
5 years, 10 months ago

Kochi-Muziris Fundation issued injunction notice by Ernakulam HC over auction as vendor alleges non-payment of dues

Firstpost  

Kochi-Muziris Biennale Foundation had put up a notice on their website on 10 April announcing an auction of the new and used air conditioners, television sets, projectors, audio systems and other electronics items used in the festival. KMB Foundation had put up a notice on their website on 10 April announcing the “auction the new and used air conditioners, television …

Pop up' shows light up Kochi-Muziris Biennale
6 years, 1 month ago

Pop up' shows light up Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Deccan Chronicle  

KOCHI: The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is facilitating expression of creativity of visitors through its popular sessions called ‘pop up.’ The interested can present papers, read poetry and conduct lectures and discussions at the pavilion. Curator Anita Dube is keen to welcome the crowd to experience the joy and freedom of self-expression at the ‘people’s biennale.’ “I realised the exhibition model was …

Biennale of possibilities
6 years, 4 months ago

Biennale of possibilities

Deccan Chronicle  

Busy days await Anita Dube, the first female curator of India’s first biennale — Kochi Muziris Biennale — as the event starts from December 12 till March 29. They will showcase their existing works, and will also create a new work here,” says Anita who believes the audience will be able to sense the female sensibility in the arrangement, choice …

Biennale-3 ends, art horizon expands
7 years, 11 months ago

Biennale-3 ends, art horizon expands

Deccan Chronicle  

Three months ago, when the third edition of Kochi Muziris Biennale began, everyone, especially art aficionados, was curious. “It has expanded the discourse on what we think of as art and will have an immense trickledown effect,” she says and adds, “The current edition shows us what can happen when an artist curates. Also, Tata Trusts — the supporters and …

People's biennale
8 years, 1 month ago

People's biennale

The Hindu  

OVER the past two millennia, Fort Kochi, the strip of land between the bustling modern city of Kochi and the Arabian Sea, has become a palimpsest of history. There is also the work of American Tom Burkhardt called “Studio Flood”, a child-like installation in an inverted artist’s studio. The Mumbai-based video artist Kabir Mohanty’s epic and ambitious cinematic experiment “Song …

Rs 3 crore to promote Kochi Biennale nationally
8 years, 1 month ago

Rs 3 crore to promote Kochi Biennale nationally

Deccan Chronicle  

Kochi: The state tourism department has sanctioned a national TV campaign costing Rs 3 crore to showcase Kerala as an art capital of India by promoting Kochi Muziris Biennale. The state government feels that the first two editions of the biennale had placed Kerala on the global cultural map and boosted tourism and economic development of the state. The department …

All set for grand opening of Kochi-Muziris Biennale
10 years, 3 months ago

All set for grand opening of Kochi-Muziris Biennale

India TV News  

Kochi: Come Friday and global art is set to turn a new leaf with the opening of the second edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale with a focus on works that quirkily or straight narrate the region's legends and realities vis-a-vis the rest of the world. 'Whorled Explorations' featuring 100 artworks by 94 artists across India and globe is the central …

Kochi-Muziris Biennale: India’s Leading Art Platform That Brings Artists, Curators, Critics and the Public Together
12 years, 1 month ago

Kochi-Muziris Biennale: India’s Leading Art Platform That Brings Artists, Curators, Critics and the Public Together

The Hindu  

Art has travelled a lot from the times of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne and even from those of the Bauhaus and Fluxus, which questioned the age-old distinction between craft and fine art and brought them together in the idea of design. What happens in the new art—museum installations; spatialised music; contemporary dance, or “movement art”—is a de-specification of …

Kochi becomes Biennale city
12 years, 3 months ago

Kochi becomes Biennale city

The Hindu  

The world over, biennales are known by the cities that host them, a trend set off by Venice when it held the world’s maiden biennale in 1895. On Wednesday, the coastal city of Kochi joined the ivy-league by positioning itself as India’s first true-blue ‘Biennale City’ when the Kochi-Muziris Biennale was kicked off at a high-voltage ceremony at Fort Kochi, …

Kochi biennale venues witness hectic work
12 years, 3 months ago

Kochi biennale venues witness hectic work

The Hindu  

As the Kochi-Muziris Biennale is set to take off, its venues in Fort Kochi present the picture of a work in progress. At Aspinwall House, a key venue of the event in Fort Kochi, artists, supported by labourers, were working at frenetic pace on Tuesday to lay out huge installations and sculptures. At Fort Kochi, a good number of artists …

Kochi Biennale — India’s first — begins today
12 years, 3 months ago

Kochi Biennale — India’s first — begins today

The Hindu  

Biennale, like a portmanteau film, sports several disparate narratives in chaotic harmony. While India boasts a robust history of hosting triennales beginning 1968 when the legendary Mulk Raj Anand leveraged his clout to bring the who’s who of global art to India, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale that opens at the culturally-rich Fort Kochi on Wednesday is the first of its kind …

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