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 Paris, Cyprus, Singapore — is also a dear friend. So, when we heard he’s visiting India, we couldn’t not do something with him,” says Anisha Rachel Oommen, founder of Goya Journal, the online food and culture publication. “Thomas loves its distinctive and unique flavour, and he infuses that into a negroni.” This will be the Goya Journal’s first outing at the Biennale, an event that Oommen says has always been reflective of India’s political, social landscape, and “is reflective of our storytelling at Goya” too.

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Let’s Talk series as part of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26 begins
1 week, 5 days 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 …

2025: What Kochi wants
2 months, 4 weeks ago

2025: What Kochi wants

The Hindu  

As we grow, our city grows with us. Jeemol Koruth Verghese Entrepreneur, good food activist Kochi is not just a city, it is a feeling — a place that has given me so much joy and inspiration. For 2025, we want to host collaborations across genres and offer the space to promote lesser-known art forms and those that don’t often …

New York-based architect Malavika Madhuraj’s debut art show in India is on at Kochi
3 months ago

New York-based architect Malavika Madhuraj’s debut art show in India is on at Kochi

The Hindu  

New York-based architect Malavika Madhuraj is gearing up for her first show in India, Liminal Lines, Eternal Spaces, an architectural exhibition, at Prussian Blue art gallery in Kochi. The show, she says, “is a multidisciplinary journey through architectural illustration, art and digital media that explores the interplay between memory, spatial boundaries and artistic transcendence.” The architect, who works with Studio …

Sixth edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale from December 2025, Nikhil Chopra to be curator
4 months, 1 week 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 …

Shapes and allure of a faraway hometown
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Shapes and allure of a faraway hometown

New Indian Express  

KOCHI: Sutra Art Gallery in Mattancherry is resplendent with a myriad of artworks from the eastern state of Chandigarh. The exhibition showcases the collaborative efforts of women artists from Chandigarh and conveys the artists’ connection with their hometown in distinct ways. I focus on building forms where familiar elements undergo infinite variations, akin to the panoramic view from a towering …

Looking like a wow
1 year, 1 month ago

Looking like a wow

New Indian Express  

KOCHI: In the heart of Kochi, where the rhythms of tradition intertwine with the modern pulse of progress, the Tripunithura Terminal of Kochi Metro emerges as a canvas that narrates the vibrant tale of Kerala’s rich culture. As the final jewel in the crown of Kochi Metro’s Phase 1 stations, the Tripunithura Terminal, which is nearing completion, unveils a thematic …

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 …

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: A highly subjective walkthrough
2 years, 2 months ago

Kochi-Muziris Biennale: A highly subjective walkthrough

Live Mint  

You walk into a darkened room not knowing what to expect—and suddenly, in front of you, is a cascading waterfall of mist, or it could be smoke. At first, the three paintings, Brothers, Fathers And Uncles by Devi Seetharam, an artist of Malayali heritage currently based in Bengaluru, are simply beautiful and hyper-realistic depictions of a clearly local milieu—men in …

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, …

Kochi Design Week to feature 22 installations
2 years, 3 months ago

Kochi Design Week to feature 22 installations

The Hindu  

As many as 22 installations will feature at the upcoming Kochi Design Week to be held at Bolgatty for two days from Friday. KDW-3 is to be hosted by the Kerala Startup Mission to promote the spirit of environmental sustainability while providing a platform to present and practise global ideas in the field of design. Mr. Ahmed said the installations …

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 …

Why Fort Kochi and Mattancherry became the venue of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale
2 years, 3 months ago

Why Fort Kochi and Mattancherry became the venue of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale

The Hindu  

The Chinese fishing nets, centuries-old spice warehouses, ancient centres of worship and colonial bungalows lining the cobbled streets of Fort Kochi and Mattancherry, all speak of a bygone era. As a space for art Co-founder of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Bose Krishnamachari says Kochi was the obvious choice of venue when the idea for India’s first biennale was mooted more than a …

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 …

Kochi’s first NFT art show is a showcase of some of India’s renowned NFT artists’ works
2 years, 8 months ago

Kochi’s first NFT art show is a showcase of some of India’s renowned NFT artists’ works

The Hindu  

A row of vertically positioned televisions, some with attached headphones, serve as digital frames that ‘play’ artworks in a loop at Cafe Papaya. Themed ‘Myths and Memes’, the show curated by artist Vimal Chandran, is Kochi’s first NFT art showcase. For instance, there is Ajay Menon, a photographer, actor Rima Kallingal, Satish Acharya, an editorial cartoonist, and graphic artist Prasad …

‘Outside the Window’, an art show by six artists in Thiruvananthapuram, celebrates myriad themes and perspectives
2 years, 10 months ago

‘Outside the Window’, an art show by six artists in Thiruvananthapuram, celebrates myriad themes and perspectives

The Hindu  

Group art exhibitions have a different vibe to them. ‘Outside the Window’, an ongoing art exhibition at Museum Auditorium in Thiruvananthapuram, has nearly 100 works of six artists, part of an art collective, Colourbees. We named the exhibition ‘Outside the Window’ as it captures our different perspectives,” says Suma, design lead with Capgemini in Bengaluru. It finally happened after I …

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 Kashi in Kochi: Remembering Anoop Skaria, and his contributions to the world of art
6 years, 5 months ago

A Kashi in Kochi: Remembering Anoop Skaria, and his contributions to the world of art

Firstpost  

Here is a brief telling of the story of Kashi Art Café in Kochi, from its inception as a dreamer’s den for bohemians to a chic designer art café. Begun by Dorrie Younger and Anoop Skaria in 1997, Kashi was initially an art cafe — a space that could bring together risk-taking artworks with the financial stability of a conventional …

Biennale-3 ends, art horizon expands
8 years 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 …

The Fort' of Art
8 years, 3 months ago

The Fort' of Art

Deccan Chronicle  

A lazy Sunday evening for everyone, but things are quite different in Fort Kochi, where the third edition of Kochi Muziris Biennale is happening. Titled as ‘Forming in the pupil of an eye’, this year’s biennale space is shared by writers, dancers, poets, musicians, and theatre professionals along with the visual artists. Chilean poet Raul Zurita near his installation “This …

Fort of Art
8 years, 3 months ago

Fort of Art

Deccan Chronicle  

It was a lazy Sunday evening for everyone, but things were quite different in Fort Kochi, where the third edition of Kochi Muziris Biennale was happening. Titled ‘Forming in the Pupil of an eye’, this year’s biennale space is shared by writers, dancers, poets, musicians, and theatre professionals along with the visual artists. “This performance installation uses texts by Dalit …

Auto-rickshaws in Kochi turn 'vehicles of art' - IndiaTV News
10 years, 1 month ago

Auto-rickshaws in Kochi turn 'vehicles of art' - IndiaTV News

India TV News  

Kochi: Bitten by the art extravaganza, over 100 auto-rickshaws in Fort Kochi will exhibit Biennale messages on their vehicles. From this week, these messages from the second Kochi-Muziris Biennale will don exteriors of auto-rickshaws in Fort Kochi, the main venue of the 108-day festival. “A lot of tourists from within India and abroad are coming to Kochi to see the …

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 …

Backpacking artists chance on Biennale
12 years, 3 months ago

Backpacking artists chance on Biennale

The Hindu  

Swiss couple Maya Hottarek and Louis Werder didn’t know there was street art in India when they arrived in Fort Kochi. Werder, who started painting 14 years ago as a graffiti artist, and Hottarek, a poly design specialist who did wall paintings, were on holiday in Fort Kochi when they stumbled upon the Biennale. “It was an interesting request from …

Kochi gets ready for a Dutch treat
12 years, 3 months ago

Kochi gets ready for a Dutch treat

The Hindu  

Dutch artist Joseph Semah was on a visit to Kochi in September this year when he came across a story about a Chera king’s 9 century copper plates. Semah’s work will introduce visitors to the 72 privileges granted to the Jewish and Christian communities here by the last king of the Chera dynasty who ruled from Muziris. “The accompanying 72 …

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