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Chennai Photo Biennale Edition 4 celebrates work of women artists

Phase 1 of the Chennai Photo Biennale Edition 4 began on Friday with its thematic enquiry, ‘Why Photograph?’. Inaugurated by dancer Anita Ratnam at Lalit Kala Akademi, it features works of women artists across India, Germany, Switzerland, France, the U.K. and Palestine. “There are 21 women artists featured in this primary show, which is about positioning women in photography as …

Through the CPB lens: the Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation announces the fourth edition of its photo awards

The Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation believes that photography is not about making the perfect image; it is about telling meaningful stories that represent the times we live in. At the last edition of the CPB Photo Awards — an annual event held since 2019 to recognise excellence in photography and spotlight regional talent in smaller towns across the country — …

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

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 …

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 …

Since its inception in 2012, the Kochi Muziris Biennale has been in search of a permanent venue. The Aspinwall House, a waterfront building in Fort Kochi dating back to 1867, has been the main venue since the first edition and lends itself to an avant-garde show. However, applications under the Right to Information Act filed by Raju Vazhakkala to Ernakulam …

Fish Plane, Heart Clock, a work by Arvo Leo on show. Summer of LOVELOVELOVE, the inaugural edition of the LOVELOVELOVE Biennale of Moving Images — a joint effort by U2 by UCCA and Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève — has opened to the public at U2's venue in Beijing. The exhibition encourages discussions centering love as an absence, an ambition, a …

Community of Parting is a 70-minute film in ‘Maps of Disquiet’, the hybrid exhibition stitched between virtual space and physical venues, part of the third edition of the Chennai Photo Biennale. In ‘Excavating an Imagination’ at Forum Art Gallery, the sequence of large photographs and texts examines the nature of imaging a significant site and the methods of investing it …

Chennai Photo Biennale announces the theme for its third edition in 2021

As with every live event, the pandemic had rained on Chennai Photo Biennale’s plans for its third edition too, which was scheduled to be held this month. At a virtual webinar held on December 9, Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation joined hands with the four-member curatorial team of the third edition to announce the first list of artists and theme. Maps …