Events

Our Mission Statement

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to invoke the latent cosmopolitan spirit of the modern metropolis of Kochi and its mythical past, Muziris, to create a platform that will introduce contemporary, global visual art theory and practice to India. It will attempt to showcase and debate new Indian and international aesthetics and experiences and enable a dialogue among artists, curators, cultural practitioners and the public.

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to create a new language of cosmopolitanism and modernity that is rooted in the lived and living experience of this old trading port, which, for more than six centuries, has been a crucible of numerous communal identities. Kochi is among the few cities in India where pre-colonial traditions of cultural pluralism continue to flourish. These traditions pre-date the post-Enlightenment ideas of cultural pluralism, globalisation and multiculturalism.

They can be traced to Muziris, the ancient city that was buried under layers of mud and mythology after a massive flood in the 14 th century. The site was recently identified and is currently under excavation. It is necessary to explore and, when necessary, retrieve memories of this past, and its present, in the current global context to posit alternatives to political and cultural discourses emanating from the specific histories of Europe and America. A dialogue for a new aesthetics and politics rooted in the Indian experience, but receptive to the winds blowing in from other worlds, is possible.The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to establish itself as a centre for artistic engagement in India by drawing from the rich tradition of public action and public engagement in Kerala, where Kochi is located. The emergence of Kerala as a distinct political and social project with lessons for many developing societies owes also to aesthetic interventions that have subverted notions of social and cultural hierarchies. These interventions are immanent in the numerous genres and practices of our rich tradition of arts. In a world of competing power structures, it is necessary to balance the interests and independence of artists, art institutions, and the public.It seeks to reflect the new confidence of Indian people who are slowly, but surely, building a new society that aims to be liberal, inclusive, egalitarian and democratic. The time has come to tell the story of cultural practices that are distinct to the Indian people and local traditions, practices and discourses that are shaping the idea of India. These share a lot with the artistic visions emerging from India’s neighbourhood. The Biennale also seeks to project the new energy of artistic practices in the subcontinent.It seeks to explore the hidden energies latent in India’s past and present artistic traditions and invent a new language of coexistence and cosmopolitanism that celebrates the multiple identities people live with. The dialogue will be with, within, and across identities fostered by language, religion and other ideologies. The Biennale seeks to resist and interrogate representations of cosmopolitanism and modernity that thrive by subsuming differences through co-option and coercion.The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to be a project in appreciation of, and education about, artistic expression and its relationship with society. It seeks to be a new space and a fresh voice that protects and projects the autonomy of the artist and her pursuit to constantly reinvent the world we live in.

February 2023

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11/02

Saturday

7:30 pm

9:30 pm

DIFF On the Road @KMB: A night of knowing nothing by Payal Kapadia

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 11, 2023 19:30

February 11, 2023 21:30

12/02

Sunday

7:30 pm

9:30 pm

DIFF On the Road @KMB: Navalny by Daniel Roher

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 12, 2023 19:30

February 12, 2023 21:30

14/02

Tuesday

3:30 pm

4:15 pm

Launch of ‘Rasikapriya’, Anti Dowry Campaign followed by panel discussion

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 14, 2023 15:30

February 14, 2023 16:15

7:30 pm

9:30 pm

Music of Muziris: Performance by Nimisha Salim

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 14, 2023 19:30

February 14, 2023 21:30

15/02

Wednesday

7:30 pm

9:30 pm

Artists’ Cinema: Beginning of Anything by Maxime Fauconnier

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 15, 2023 19:30

February 15, 2023 21:30

16/02

Thursday

6:00 pm

7:00 pm

Let's Talk! Program: Learning from the Earth - A Talk with Johannes M. Hedinger

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 16, 2023 18:00

February 16, 2023 19:00

7:30 pm

9:30 pm

Artists’ Cinema: Dreaming of Words by Nandan

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 16, 2023 19:30

February 16, 2023 21:30

17/02

Friday

6:00 pm

8:00 pm

National Seminar on ‘Malayalam Cinema at Crossroads: Paradigm Shifts and Cultural Turns’ with Kerala State Chalachitra Academy’ with Anna M M Vetticad, Rajesh Rajamani and C S Venkiteswaran, moderated by Rajesh James

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 17, 2023 18:00

February 17, 2023 20:00

18/02

Saturday

10:00 am

12:00 pm

Invitations Programme: Communities of Choice - Artist Led Tours

TKM Warehouse

February 18, 2023 10:00

February 18, 2023 12:00

5:00 pm

6:00 pm

Communities of Choice Panel Discussion Panel 1: Belonging and Identity: Community Narratives - with Dipanwita Sharma, Palani Kumar, Paribartana Mohanty, (Sebastian Bustamante and Tarun Bhartiya will join online) moderated by Shuchi Kapoor

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 18, 2023 17:00

February 18, 2023 18:00

6:00 pm

7:00 pm

Communities of Choice Panel Discussion Panel 2: Co-existence: Navigating multiplicity in communities - with Gareth Owen, Huw Alden Davies, Kashish Kochhar, Rishi Kochhar, Susan Matthews and Tessa Holly, moderated by Mitul Kajaria.

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 18, 2023 18:00

February 18, 2023 19:00

6:00 pm

8:00 pm

KEKAO x PEPPER HOUSE presents HEATWAVE

Pepper House

February 18, 2023 18:00

February 18, 2023 20:00

19/02

Sunday

7:00 pm

8:00 pm

Communities of Choice: The People’s Voice is Louder - Short Film Screening and Panel Discussion - Lojithan Ram, Nayanahari Abeynayake, Pirainila Krishnarajah and Riyal Riffai in conversation with Dr. Katharina Görgen, Director Goethe Institut Chennai/MMB

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 19, 2023 19:00

February 19, 2023 20:00

20/02

Monday

7:00 pm

7:30 pm

Opening of Malayalam Cinema: A Kaleidscope curated by Shri Ranjith, Chairman of Kerala State Chalachitra Academy

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 20, 2023 19:00

February 20, 2023 19:30

7:30 pm

9:30 pm

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Nishiddho (Forbidden) by Tara Ramanujan

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 20, 2023 19:30

February 20, 2023 21:30

21/02

Tuesday

9:00 am

സുതാര്യലോകം TRANSPARENT WORLD - Watercolour Painting Workshop ( Children Standard 1- 10 )

January 21, 2023 9:00

9:00 am

Looking at Art to Learn - A workshop for Teachers & Parents

January 21, 2023 9:00

9:00 am

Changing the Game! - Reimagining Education

Art Room, Cabral Yard

January 21, 2023 9:00

22/02

Wednesday

6:00 pm

7:30 pm

Giraffe Humming by the AfroAsiaEnsemble

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 7, 2023 18:00

February 7, 2023 19:30

8:30 pm

10:30 pm

DIFF on the Road @KMB: The Earth is Blue as an Orange by Iryna Tsilyk

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 7, 2023 20:30

February 7, 2023 22:30

23/02

Thursday

7:30 pm

9:30 pm

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Chavittu (Stomp) by Sajas Rahman and Shinos Rahman

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 23, 2023 19:30

February 23, 2023 21:30

24/02

Friday

7:30 pm

9:30 pm

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Woman With A Movie Camera by Atal Krishnan

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 24, 2023 19:30

February 24, 2023 21:30

25/02

Saturday

7:30 pm

9:30 pm

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Normal by Pratheesh Prasad

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 25, 2023 19:30

February 25, 2023 21:30

26/02

Sunday

7:30 pm

10:00 pm

Artists’ Cinema: Everything is Cinema by Don Palathara followed by Let’s Talk program with the director

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

February 26, 2023 19:30

February 26, 2023 22:00

Time -

6pm - 8pm

Venue -

Pepper House

KEKAO x PEPPER HOUSE presents HEATWAVE

KEKAO x PEPPER HOUSE presents

HEATWAVE

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Time -

6pm - 7pm

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Communities of Choice Panel Discussion Panel 2: Co-existence: Navigating multiplicity in communities - with Gareth Owen, Huw Alden Davies, Kashish Kochhar, Rishi Kochhar, Susan Matthews and Tessa Holly, moderated by Mitul Kajaria.

Communities of Choice Panel Discussion Panel2: Co-existence: Navigating multiplicity in communities - with Gareth Owen, Huw Alden Davies, Kashish Kochhar, Rishi Kochhar, Susan Matthews and Tessa Holly, moderated by Mitul Kajaria.

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Time -

10am - 12pm

Venue -

TKM Warehouse

Invitations Programme: Communities of Choice - Artist Led Tours

Time -

6 PM - 7 PM

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Let's Talk! Program: Learning from the Earth - A Talk with Johannes M. Hedinger

Let's Talk!
Program: Learning from the Earth - A Talk with Johannes M. Hedinger

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Time -

7:30pm - 10pm

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Artists’ Cinema: Everything is Cinema by Don Palathara followed by Let’s Talk program with the director

Artists’ Cinema: Everything is Cinema

by Don Palathara followed by Let’s Talk

program with the director

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Time -

7:30pm - 9:30pm

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Normal by Pratheesh Prasad

Malayalam Cinema -

A Kaleldscope: Normal

by Pratheesh Prasad

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Time -

7:30pm - 9:30pm

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Woman With A Movie Camera by Atal Krishnan

Malayalam Cinema -

A Kaleldscope: Woman With A Movie

Camera by Atal Krishnan

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Time -

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Chavittu (Stomp) by Sajas Rahman and Shinos Rahman

Malayalam Cinema -

A Kaleldscope: Chavittu (Stomp)

by Sajas Rahman and Shinos Rahman

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Time -

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Prappeda (Hawk’s Muffin) by Krishnendu Kalesh

Malayalam Cinema -

A Kaleldscope: Prappeda (Hawk’s Muffin)

by Krishnendu Kalesh

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Time -

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Uddharani (Allusion) by Vignesh P Sasidharan

Malayalam Cinema -

A Kaleldscope: Uddharani (Allusion)

by Vignesh P Sasidharan

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Time -

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Nishiddho (Forbidden) by Tara Ramanujan

Malayalam Cinema -

A Kaleldscope: Nishiddho (Forbidden)

by Tara Ramanujan

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Time -

7:00pm - 7:30pm

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Opening of Malayalam Cinema: A Kaleidscope curated by Shri Ranjith, Chairman of Kerala State Chalachitra Academy

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Time -

7pm - 8pm

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Communities of Choice: The People’s Voice is Louder - Short Film Screening and Panel Discussion - Lojithan Ram, Nayanahari Abeynayake, Pirainila Krishnarajah and Riyal Riffai in conversation with Dr. Katharina Görgen, Director Goethe Institut Chennai/MMB

Communities of Choice: The People’s Voice is Louder - Short Film Screening and Panel Discussion - Lojithan Ram, Nayanahari Abeynayake, Pirainila Krishnarajah and Riyal Riffai in conversation with Dr. Katharina Görgen, Director Goethe Institute Chennai/MMB

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Time -

5pm - 6pm

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Communities of Choice Panel Discussion Panel 1: Belonging and Identity: Community Narratives - with Dipanwita Sharma, Palani Kumar, Paribartana Mohanty, (Sebastian Bustamante and Tarun Bhartiya will join online) moderated by Shuchi Kapoor

Communities of ChoicePanel Discussion Panel 1: Belonging and Identity: CommunityNarratives - withDipanwita Sharma, Palani Kumar, Paribartana Mohanty, (Sebastian Bustamanteand Tarun Bhartiya willjoin online) moderatedby Shuchi Kapoor

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Time -

6pm - 8pm

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

National Seminar on ‘Malayalam Cinema at Crossroads: Paradigm Shifts and Cultural Turns’ with Kerala State Chalachitra Academy’ with Anna M M Vetticad, Rajesh Rajamani and C S Venkiteswaran, moderated by Rajesh James

National Seminar on ‘Malayalam Cinema at Crossroads: Paradigm Shifts and Cultural Turns’ with Kerala State Chalachitra Academy’ with Anna M M Vetticad, Rajesh Rajamani and C S Venkiteswaran, moderated by Rajesh James

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Time -

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Artists’ Cinema: Dreaming of Words by Nandan

Artists’ Cinema: Dreaming of Words

by Nandan

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Time -

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Artists’ Cinema: Beginning of Anything by Maxime Fauconnier

Artists’ Cinema: Beginning of Anything

by Maxime Fauconnier

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Time -

7:30 PM

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Music of Muziris: Performance by Nimisha Salim

Music of Muziris: Performance

by Nimisha Salim

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Time -

3:30pm - 4:15pm

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Launch of ‘Rasikapriya’, Anti Dowry Campaign followed by panel discussion

Launch of ‘Rasikapriya’, Anti Dowry

Campaign followed by panel discussion

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Time -

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

DIFF On the Road @KMB: Navalny by Daniel Roher

DIFF On the Road @KMB:

Navalny by Daniel Roher

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Time -

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

DIFF On the Road @KMB: A night of knowing nothing by Payal Kapadia

DIFF On the Road @KMB:

A night of knowing nothing

by Payal Kapadia

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Time -

7:30 PM

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

DIFF On the Road @KMB: The Act of Killing Director’s Cut by Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn & Anonymous

DIFF On the Road @KMB:

The Act of Killing Director’s Cut by

Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn & Anonymous

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Time -

7:30pm

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

DIFF on the Road @KMB: Cameraperson by Kirsten Johnson

DIFF on the Road @KMB:

Cameraperson by Kirsten Johnson

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Time -

7:30 PM

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

DIFF on the Road @KMB: Writing with Fire by Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh

DIFF on the Road @KMB:

Writing with Fire by Rintu Thomas &

Sushmit Ghosh

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Time -

8:30 PM

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

DIFF on the Road @KMB: The Earth is Blue as an Orange by Iryna Tsilyk

DIFF on the Road @KMB: The Earth is

Blue as an Orange by Iryna Tsilyk

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Time -

Venue -

TNQ-KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral yard

Giraffe Humming by the AfroAsiaEnsemble

Giraffe Humming by the AfroAsia

Ensemble featuring Sumangala

Damodaran, Tlale Makhene, Pritam Ghosal,

Ahsan Ali, Siti Amina, Sazi Dlamini,

Brydon Bolton, Selamawit Aragaw,

and Reza Khota

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Time -

Venue -

Dhobi Khana, Fort Kochi.

Kappiri Muthappanoppam: Hands-on film curating workshop (Slaves of The Empire Screening)

Curators: Abhishek Nilamber & Rajesh James

Time -

Venue -

Dhobi Khana, Fort Kochi.

Kappiri Muthappanoppam: Hands-on film curating workshop (Public film screening)

Curators: Abhishek Nilamber & Rajesh James

Time -

Venue -

Dhobi Khana, Fort Kochi.

Kappiri Muthappanoppam: Hands-on film curating workshop (Public film screening)

Curators: Abhishek Nilamber & Rajesh James

Time -

Venue -

Dhobi Khana, Fort Kochi.

Kappiri Muthappanoppam: Hands-on film curating workshop

Curated by Abhishek Nilamber & Rajesh James

Queering screen and co-immunities by Gargi Harithakam

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Time -

Venue -

TNQ KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Music of Muziris:Live Performance by Tribe Mama Marykali

Curator: Tribe Mama Marykali
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Tribe Mama Marykali uses music to celebrate her ethnicity, femininity, and culture. Her performances are a powerful, sonically genre-blending experience that is backed by a brilliant team of musicians -

Sreekanth Bhasi on the bass

Tapas Naresh on drums

R.E.T on keys n Synth

Time - 8 PM IST

Venue - TNQ KBF Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

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Time -

Venue -

Art Room, Cabral Yard

Mudra - Eco Prints Copy

Curator: Pooja Jayan

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The Participants will explore different techniques to imprint with plant materials like leaves, roots, flowers, etc. in various mediums (paper, clay, fabric). This is going to be a hands-on session to connect with nature and to improve our understanding of indigenous plant varieties. Let's take a walk into the world of forms, patterns and colours of nature and get creative with these elements. The workshop will be a fun science lab experience where we create art by experimenting with pH shifting, understand the role of heat and pressure, chemical reactions happening on the surface of contact and other possibilities. Most importantly, one will understand how to document the process, learn by exchanging views and sharing feedback.

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Maximum Participants: 20

15 School Students

5 Adults

Time: 10 am – 5 pm

Venue: Art Room, Cabral Yard

Time -

Venue -

Art Room, Cabral Yard

Mudra - Eco Prints

Curator: Pooja Jayan

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Maximum Participants: 20

15 School Students

5 Adults

Time: 10 am – 5 pm

Venue: Art Room, Cabral Yard

Time -

Venue -

Art Room, Cabral Yard

Welding with found objects / Collaborative sculpture

The workshop will start with short exercises on visualizing in 3d (real life)- using everyday objects and talking about aesthetics in the 3d space. Then we will walk around Fort Kochi and find materials from the road, second hand stores and junk yards. Though the materials will be mostly metal, the participants can add other things that complement the sculpture. There will be a basic introduction to welding, where the participants will build the parts of the sculpture using the materials they have procured. The general subject of the sculptures will be about second lives and finding new meanings through these upcycled objects. This workshop will also be about making in collaboration, looking at the idea of ownership and collective creativity.

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In association with Forplay Society

Time: 10 am – 5 pm

Venue: Art Room, Cabral Yard

Time -

Venue -

Art Room, Cabral Yard

Welding with found objects / Collaborative sculpture

Curator: Vivek Chockalingam (Artist and curator)

In association with Forplay Society

Time: 10 am – 5 pm

Venue: Art Room, Cabral Yard

Time -

Venue -

Art Room, Cabral Yard

Welding with found objects / Collaborative sculpture

Curator: Vivek Chockalingam (Artist and curator)

In association with Forplay Society

Time: 10 am – 5 pm

Venue: Art Room, Cabral Yard

Time -

9.30 AM – 5 PM

Venue -

Art Room, Cabral Yard

Soldering and Circuit bending Workshop

Curator: Alwin Weber (Musician and Media Artist)

Soldering electronic instruments and noisemakers "CircuitCircle" - behind this synonym stands Dresden-based musician and media artist Alwin Weber. He has been offering his famous soldering workshops for more than 12 years - both regionally and internationally. Participants in the workshop use soldering techniques to create various electronic instruments and noisemakers. These small devices produce weird sounds and can be taken home. The soldering workshop is suitable for beginners as well as for advanced students. Kits and tools are available.

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Number of participants: 25

Time: 9.30 AM – 5 PM

Venue: Art Room, Cabral Yard

Time -

9.30 AM – 5 PM

Venue -

Art Room, Cabral Yard

Soldering and Circuit bending Workshop

Curator: Alwin Weber (Musician and Media Artist)

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Number of participants: 25

Time: 9.30 AM – 5 PM

Venue: Art Room, Cabral Yard

Time -

9.30 AM – 5 PM

Venue -

Art Room, Cabral Yard

Soldering and Circuit bending Workshop

Curator: Alwin Weber (Musician and Media Artist)

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Number of participants: 25

Time: 9.30 AM – 5 PM

Venue: Art Room, Cabral Yard

Time -

9.30 AM – 5 PM

Venue -

Art Room, Cabral Yard and the neighbourhood

Silk screen printing with Air Ink by Andreas Ullrich

Curator: Andreas Ullrich - Cross media artist/print maker, Germany

An artistic screen printing project, which includes the installation of a temporary screen printing workshop. The aim of the project is to use classical screen printing in combination with contemporary content for a project in public space. Textual as well as photographic models, which above all raise socio-cultural questions about social contexts and critically question them, will be exposed on screens and printed directly in public space. Overprints of poster surfaces, wall or glass surfaces, as well as specially produced canvases, wooden surfaces, etc. can be used. This kind of direct reference to the found underground transforms every public surface into an artistic starting point, inviting critical and aesthetic reflection.

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Number of participants: 15

Time : 9.30 AM– 5 PM

Art Room, Cabral Yard and the neighbourhood

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Time -

9.30 AM – 5 PM

Venue -

Art Room, Cabral Yard and the neighbourhood

Silk screen printing with Air Ink by Andreas Ullrich

Curator: Andreas Ullrich - Cross media artist/print maker, Germany

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Number of participants: 15

Time : 9.30 AM– 5 PM

Art Room, Cabral Yard and the neighbourhood

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Time -

9.30 AM – 5 PM

Venue -

Art Room, Cabral Yard and the neighbourhood

Silk screen printing with Air Ink by Andreas Ullrich

Curator: Andreas Ullrich - Cross media artist/print maker, Germany

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Number of participants: 15

Time : 9.30 AM– 5 PM

Art Room, Cabral Yard and the neighbourhood

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Time -

Venue -

Art Room, Cabral Yard

Changing the Game! - Reimagining Education

Curator: Manish Jain – Co-Founder of Shikshantar, Udaipur and Learning Societies Conference

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Manish Jain is deeply committed to regenerating our diverse local knowledge systems, cultural imaginations and inter-cultural dialogue. Inspired by MK Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Ivan Illich, his illiterate village grandmother, his unschooled daughter, indigenous communities and Jain spiritual philosophy, he is one of the leading planetary voices for reimagining education. He has served for the past 25 years as Chief Beaver-(ecosystems builder) of Shikshantar: The Peoples’ Institute for Rethinking Education and Development based in Udaipur, India and is co-founder of some of the most innovative educational experiments in the world - the Swaraj University, the Jail University, Complexity University, Hunnarshala, Tribal-versity, Farmversity, the Creativity Adda, the Learning Societies Unconference, the Walkouts-Walk-on network, Udaipur as a Learning City, the Families Learning Together network, Berkana Exchange. He co-launched the global Ecoversities Alliance with 400+ members in 40 countries. He is a senior advisor to the Economics of Happiness network for localisation. He and his wife Vidhi have been unschooling themselves with their 20 year old daughter, Kanku, in Udaipur, Rajasthan.

Number of Participants: Open to anyone who is interested in

Time: 5 hrs

Venue: Art Room, Cabral Yard

Time -

Venue -

Art Room, Cabral Yard

Changing the Game! - Reimagining Education

Curator: Manish Jain – Co-Founder of Shikshantar, Udaipur and Learning Societies Conference

Number of Participants: Open to anyone who is interested in

Time: 5 hrs

Venue: Art Room, Cabral Yard

Time -

Venue -

Looking at Art to Learn - A workshop for Teachers & Parents

Curator: Ruchira Das (Founder, Think Arts, Kolkata)
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A workshop that introduces ways in which artworks can be integrated in the curriculum to enhance the learning experience of the student. It will discuss ways of creating art-engagements for children, in different spaces, and different contexts.

Drawing largely from experiences of the participants and challenges faced by them, the workshop will focus on aspects of learning through arts experiences while looking at education in a broader sense - beyond the confines of a school / home.

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Maximum participants: 30

Duration: 3 hours with a 15 minute break

Language of instruction: English

Conducted by: ThinkArts

Time -

Venue -

സുതാര്യലോകം TRANSPARENT WORLD - Watercolour Painting Workshop ( Adults of any age )

Curator: Sunil D’Linus
Number of participants : 20 per day

Time -

Venue -

സുതാര്യലോകം TRANSPARENT WORLD - Watercolour Painting Workshop ( Children Standard 1- 10 )

Curator: Sunil D’Linus
Number of participants : 20 per day

Time -

Venue -

Art Room, Cabral Yard

Choolala വെറും ചൂലല്ല.

Lakshmi Menon

A workshop to create awareness on blindness and cleanliness

Broom Making – all are welcome to be part of this collective process of broom making using midrib of coconut leaves.

Traditional games using eerkkil/midrib of coconut leaf

Number of participants: 20

Category of people All age groups

Time: 10 am – 5 pm‍

Venue: Art Room, Cabral Yard

Time -

8pm - 11pm

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Music of Muziris: Shashwat Bulusu

Time -

7pm to 8pm

Venue -

SB Co-Lab

Workshop & Performance Orlando by Julie Beauvais and Horace Lundd

Time -

6pm - 7pm

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Performance by Alok Vaid-Menon

Time -

8:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Artists' Cinema: 'Ek Jagah Apni' by the Ektara Collective followed by Let's Talk programme

Time -

6pm to 7pm

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Performance: YOUtopia: Seo Jungmin and ensemble

Time -

8:30 - 10:00

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Music of Muziris: Parimal Shais

Time -

6pm - 8pm

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Artists' Cinema: A Night of Knowing Nothing by Payal Kapadia (TBC)

Time -

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Artists' Cinema: Yeh Freedom Life! by Priya Sen followed by a conversation with Sarover Zaidi.

Time -

11:00 AM

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Artist Talk: Gabriela Loeffel with Zian Chen

Time -

6.15pm - 8pm

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Performance: 'URSONATE' by William Kentridge

Time -

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Venue -

Starts at Armaan Building

Students Biennale Walkthroughs led by SB Curators.

Time -

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Let's Talk Programme: Priya Sen and Zarina Muhammed in conversation with Jason Wee and Sandip Kuriakose

Time -

12pm - 1pm

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Musical & Poetry Recital with Orbita

Time -

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Student's Biennale: Unmaking a Format with Amshu Chukki, Saviya Lopes & Yogesh Barve, Afrah Shafiq, Anga Art Collective, Premjish Achari, Suvani Suri and Arushi Vats with Mario D'Souza and Ananthan Suresh

Time -

10:00 AM to 11 AM

Venue -

Kashi Art Cafe and Dutch Warehouse

Opening of the KBF Programmes and Exhibitions: Spectres and the Sea; Muziris and the Indian Ocean by Muziris Heritage Project curated by the Kochi Biennale Foundation

Time -

8pm-10pm

Venue -

Parade Ground

Music of Muziris Sithara’s Project Malabaricus

Time -

6:30pm - 7:30pm

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Book Launch: 'Points of View : Defining Moment of Photography in India' and 'The Archival Gaze : A Timeline of Photography in India 1840s -2020' hosted by KNMA and panel discussion with Roobina Karode and Gayatri Sinha amongst other contributors.

Time -

5:00pm - 6:00pm

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Book Launch 20th Century Indian Art by Art Alive Gallery followed by a panel discussion with Parul Dave Mukherji, Gayatri Sinha, Karin Zitzewitz, Rupika Chawla, Sunaina Anand moderated by Premjish Achari

Time -

4pm - 5pm

Venue -

Durbar Hall

"Opening of KBF Exhibitions Programme IDAM: Where being sprouts into language curated by Gigi Scaria, Jalaja PS, and Radha Gomathy"

Time -

3pm - 6pm

Venue -

Pepper House

Performance: Mujarad by Melati Suryodarmo

Time -

3pm to 4pm

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Issue Launch Take: Memory with Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Zuleikha Chaudhari, Anita Khemka and Imran Kokiloo moderated by Manuela Ciotti

Time -

6:30pm to 8pm

Venue -

TKM, David Hall, Kashi Townhouse, Dutch Warehouse

Opening of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022 'Invitations Programme'

Time -

4:30 to 6:00 PM

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Book Launch: ‘Citizen Gallery: The Gandhys of Chemould and the Birth of Modern Art in Bombay’

Time -

11am - 12pm

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Book Launch ‘Bani Abidi: The Artist Who’ followed by a conversation between Huma Mulji, Omar Kasmani, and Bani Abidi

Time -

8pm - 9pm

Venue -

"Dutch Warehouse, Ground Floor "

KBF Performance Arts Programme curated by HH Art Spaces and Nikhil Chopra

Time -

3:00 to 4:30 PM

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

KBF and White Review presents Dayanita Singh in conversation with Vikramaditya Sahai followed by a Poster launch and Poetry Reading by Shripad Sinnakar

Time -

2pm - 2:30pm

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Musical & Poetry Recital: Johannes Helden

Time -

11am - 1:00pm

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Artist Talk & Film Screening: URAMILI

Time -

7pm - 9pm

Venue -

Parade Ground

Performance: Theyyam

Time -

6pm - 7pm

Venue -

Parade Ground

Inauguration of the Fifth Edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale by the Honourable Chief Minister of Kerala, Shri Pinarayi Vijayan

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4pm - 5pm

Venue -

TNQ KMB Pavilion at DLF Cabral Yard

Let's Talk: Recollections from a Biennale: A conversation between curators of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale from over the years.

Time -

3pm - 6pm

Venue -

Pepper House

Performance: Mujarad by Melati Suryodarmo

Time -

3pm - 4pm

Venue -

DLF Aspinwall House

Inauguration of the TNQ Kochi-Muziris Biennale Pavilion, Independent Publishing Fair and ABC Art Room

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2.30pm - 3pm

Venue -

DLF Aspinwall House

Shubigi Rao Public Introduction

Time -

10am - 11.30am

Venue -

VKL Warehouse, followed by other venues

Opening of the Fifth Edition of Students’ Biennale

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12pm - 1pm

Venue -

DLF Aspinwall House

Our Mission Statement

Events 22-23

December 2022

14/12

Book Launch ‘Bani Abidi: The Artist Who’ followed by a conversation between Huma Mulji, Omar Kasmani, and Bani Abidi

Performance: Mujarad by Melati Suryodarmo

Issue Launch Take: Memory with Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Zuleikha Chaudhari, Anita Khemka and Imran Kokiloo moderated by Manuela Ciotti

"Opening of KBF Exhibitions Programme IDAM: Where being sprouts into language curated by Gigi Scaria, Jalaja PS, and Radha Gomathy"

Book Launch 20th Century Indian Art by Art Alive Gallery followed by a panel discussion with Parul Dave Mukherji, Gayatri Sinha, Karin Zitzewitz, Rupika Chawla, Sunaina Anand moderated by Premjish Achari

Book Launch: 'Points of View : Defining Moment of Photography in India' and 'The Archival Gaze : A Timeline of Photography in India 1840s -2020' hosted by KNMA and panel discussion with Roobina Karode and Gayatri Sinha amongst other contributors.

Music of Muziris Sithara’s Project Malabaricus

15/12

Opening of the KBF Programmes and Exhibitions: Spectres and the Sea; Muziris and the Indian Ocean by Muziris Heritage Project curated by the Kochi Biennale Foundation

Student's Biennale: Unmaking a Format with Amshu Chukki, Saviya Lopes & Yogesh Barve, Afrah Shafiq, Anga Art Collective, Premjish Achari, Suvani Suri and Arushi Vats with Mario D'Souza and Ananthan Suresh

Musical & Poetry Recital with Orbita

Let's Talk Programme: Priya Sen and Zarina Muhammed in conversation with Jason Wee and Sandip Kuriakose

Students Biennale Walkthroughs led by SB Curators.

Performance: 'URSONATE' by William Kentridge

16/12

Artist Talk: Gabriela Loeffel with Zian Chen

Artists' Cinema: Yeh Freedom Life! by Priya Sen followed by a conversation with Sarover Zaidi.

Artists' Cinema: A Night of Knowing Nothing by Payal Kapadia (TBC)

Music of Muziris: Parimal Shais

17/12

Performance: YOUtopia: Seo Jungmin and ensemble

Artists' Cinema: 'Ek Jagah Apni' by the Ektara Collective followed by Let's Talk programme

February 2023

11/02

DIFF On the Road @KMB: A night of knowing nothing by Payal Kapadia

12/02

DIFF On the Road @KMB: Navalny by Daniel Roher

14/02

Launch of ‘Rasikapriya’, Anti Dowry Campaign followed by panel discussion

Music of Muziris: Performance by Nimisha Salim

15/02

Artists’ Cinema: Beginning of Anything by Maxime Fauconnier

16/02

Let's Talk! Program: Learning from the Earth - A Talk with Johannes M. Hedinger

Artists’ Cinema: Dreaming of Words by Nandan

17/02

National Seminar on ‘Malayalam Cinema at Crossroads: Paradigm Shifts and Cultural Turns’ with Kerala State Chalachitra Academy’ with Anna M M Vetticad, Rajesh Rajamani and C S Venkiteswaran, moderated by Rajesh James

18/02

Invitations Programme: Communities of Choice - Artist Led Tours

Communities of Choice Panel Discussion Panel 1: Belonging and Identity: Community Narratives - with Dipanwita Sharma, Palani Kumar, Paribartana Mohanty, (Sebastian Bustamante and Tarun Bhartiya will join online) moderated by Shuchi Kapoor

Communities of Choice Panel Discussion Panel 2: Co-existence: Navigating multiplicity in communities - with Gareth Owen, Huw Alden Davies, Kashish Kochhar, Rishi Kochhar, Susan Matthews and Tessa Holly, moderated by Mitul Kajaria.

KEKAO x PEPPER HOUSE presents HEATWAVE

19/02

Communities of Choice: The People’s Voice is Louder - Short Film Screening and Panel Discussion - Lojithan Ram, Nayanahari Abeynayake, Pirainila Krishnarajah and Riyal Riffai in conversation with Dr. Katharina Görgen, Director Goethe Institut Chennai/MMB

20/02

Opening of Malayalam Cinema: A Kaleidscope curated by Shri Ranjith, Chairman of Kerala State Chalachitra Academy

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Nishiddho (Forbidden) by Tara Ramanujan

21/02

സുതാര്യലോകം TRANSPARENT WORLD - Watercolour Painting Workshop ( Children Standard 1- 10 )

Looking at Art to Learn - A workshop for Teachers & Parents

Changing the Game! - Reimagining Education

22/02

Giraffe Humming by the AfroAsiaEnsemble

DIFF on the Road @KMB: The Earth is Blue as an Orange by Iryna Tsilyk

23/02

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Chavittu (Stomp) by Sajas Rahman and Shinos Rahman

24/02

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Woman With A Movie Camera by Atal Krishnan

25/02

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Normal by Pratheesh Prasad

26/02

Artists’ Cinema: Everything is Cinema by Don Palathara followed by Let’s Talk program with the director

KEKAO x PEPPER HOUSE presents HEATWAVE

Communities of Choice Panel Discussion Panel 2: Co-existence: Navigating multiplicity in communities - with Gareth Owen, Huw Alden Davies, Kashish Kochhar, Rishi Kochhar, Susan Matthews and Tessa Holly, moderated by Mitul Kajaria.

Invitations Programme: Communities of Choice - Artist Led Tours

Let's Talk! Program: Learning from the Earth - A Talk with Johannes M. Hedinger

Artists’ Cinema: Everything is Cinema by Don Palathara followed by Let’s Talk program with the director

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Normal by Pratheesh Prasad

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Woman With A Movie Camera by Atal Krishnan

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Chavittu (Stomp) by Sajas Rahman and Shinos Rahman

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Prappeda (Hawk’s Muffin) by Krishnendu Kalesh

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Uddharani (Allusion) by Vignesh P Sasidharan

Malayalam Cinema - A Kaleldscope: Nishiddho (Forbidden) by Tara Ramanujan

Opening of Malayalam Cinema: A Kaleidscope curated by Shri Ranjith, Chairman of Kerala State Chalachitra Academy

Communities of Choice: The People’s Voice is Louder - Short Film Screening and Panel Discussion - Lojithan Ram, Nayanahari Abeynayake, Pirainila Krishnarajah and Riyal Riffai in conversation with Dr. Katharina Görgen, Director Goethe Institut Chennai/MMB

Communities of Choice Panel Discussion Panel 1: Belonging and Identity: Community Narratives - with Dipanwita Sharma, Palani Kumar, Paribartana Mohanty, (Sebastian Bustamante and Tarun Bhartiya will join online) moderated by Shuchi Kapoor