‘For the Time Being': Kochi Biennale to reimagine art as living ecosystem
Nikhil Chopra
and will run for 110 days, until 31 March 2026.
The Biennale will feature an international exhibition, alongside a diverse programme of talks, performances, workshops and film screenings. It will also include key verticals such as the Students' Biennale, Invitations, Art By Children and Residency Programme across various sites in Kochi.
According to the curatorial note authored by Chopra, the sixth edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an invitation to embrace process as methodology and to place the friendship economies that long nurtured artist-led initiatives as the very scaffolding of the exhibition.
"We move away from the idea of the Biennale as a singular, central exhibition-event and instead envision it as a living ecosystem; one where each element shares space, time and resources, and grows in dialogue with each other," read the note.
The note further adds that, "In Kochi, a historic port city where trade once connected distant worlds, we begin with our site and region to engage in dialogue with emerging global perspectives. This rootedness allows us to resist the pressures of the conventional biennale model as a finished spectacle, and instead shape something that is evolving, responsive, and alive."
Chopra is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice interweaves performance, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation and is part of HH Art Spaces, an artist-led organisation based in Goa.
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