Opening Week

Programme Guide

Updated on 28-11-22
Kochi Biennale Foundation invites you
to the Fifth Edition of the Kochi-Muziris
Biennale. Please join us on 12-12-2022.
12-12-22 Monday
Flag Hoisting Ceremony to inaugurate
12pm - 1pm DLF Aspinwall House
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022

2.30pm Shubigi Rao Public Introduction DLF Aspinwall House

Inauguration of the TNQ Kochi-Muziris

TNQ KMB Pavilion
3pm - 4pm Biennale Pavilion, Independent Publishing
at DLF Cabral Yard
Fair, and ABC Art Room

3pm - 6pm Performance Mujarad by Melati Suryodarmo Pepper House

Let’s Talk Recollections from a Biennale

TNQ KMB Pavilion
4pm - 5pm A conversation between curators of the
at DLF Cabral Yard
Kochi-Muziris Biennale from over the years

Inauguration of the Fifth Edition

of Kochi-Muziris Biennale by the
6pm - 7pm Parade Ground
Honourable Chief Minister of Kerala,
Shri Pinarayi Vijayan

7pm - 9pm Performance Theyyam Parade Ground

13-12-22 TUESDAY
VKL Warehouse,
Opening of the Fifth Edition
10am - 11.30am followed by other
of the Students’ Biennale
venues

TNQ KMB Pavilion at

11am - 1pm Artist Talk & Film Screening URAMILI
DLF Cabral Yard

TNQ KMB Pavilion at

2pm - 2.30pm Musical & Poetry Recital by Johannes Helden
DLF Cabral Yard

The Museum of Art & Photography:

4pm onwards Zobop, an installation by Jim Lambie Dutch Warehouse
MAP Kochi Project Space

Book Launch ‘Citizen Gallery: The Gandhys

of Chemould and the Birth of Modern Art in
Bombay’ by Jerry Pinto and
‘For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit: Encounters
with Prison’ edited by Shilpa Gupta and
Salil Tripathi
TNQ KMB Pavilion at
4.30pm - 6pm
Discussion Moderated by Anish Gawande DLF Cabral Yard
Session 1: Shireen, Behroze and Rashna
Gandhy, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh
Session 2: Devangana Kalita and Natasha
Narwal, Nilanjana Roy, Shilpa Gupta,
Salil Tripathi

Opening of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022

Invitations Programme
Bhumi by the Gidree Bawlee Foundation of
Arts and the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation
Communities of Choice curated by the
Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation
and Ffotogallery Wales (supported
by the British Council)
Geographies of Imagination:
My Language is a Bedouin Thief curated by
Hajra Haider, for Savvy Contemporary
How to reappear: Through the quivering
leaves of independent publishing curated by
Kayfa Ta (Ala Younis and Maha Maamoun) TKM Warehouse,
Jitish Kallat : Covering Letter presented David Hall,
6.30pm - 8pm
by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art Kashi Townhouse,
‘Memories of Home’ curated by Sujan Chitrakar Dutch Warehouse
presented by Siddhartha Arts Foundation and
Kathmandu Triennale
Shadow Circus: A personal Archive of Tibetan
Resistance (1957-1974) a project by Ritu Sarin
and Tenzing Sonam in collaboration with
Natasha Ginwala
Tangled Hierarchy II curated by Jitish Kallat
presented by Kiran Nadar Museum of Art
Toxicity, curated by The Picha Collective/
Lubumbashi Biennale
William Kentridge: Oh, To Believe in a Better
World, presentated by Office Arts and the
Kochi Biennale Foundation

KBF Performance Arts Programme Dutch Warehouse

8pm - 9pm
curated by HH Art Spaces and Nikhil Chopra Ground Floor
14-12-22 wednesday
Book Launch ‘Bani Abidi: The Artist Who’ TNQ KMB Pavilion at
11am - 12pm
followed by a conversation DLF Cabral Yard

Lunch to celebrate the partnership between

SP Lohia Foundation and the National
12.30pm - 2pm Gallery London. Chief Guests Nalini Malani Brunton Boatyard
and Priyesh Mistry (Hosted By KBF Trustee &
Patron, Aarti Lohia)

KBF and White Review presents

Dayanita Singh in conversation with
TNQ KMB Pavilion
2pm - 3.30pm Vikramaditya Sahai followed by a
at DLF Cabral Yard
Poster Launch and Poetry Reading
by Shripad Sinnakar

Issue Launch Take: Memory with

Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Zuleikha Chaudhari, TNQ KMB Pavilion at
3.30pm - 4.30pm
Anita Khemka and Imran Kokiloo DLF Cabral Yard
moderated by Manuela Ciotti

3pm - 6pm Performance Mujarad by Melati Suryodarmo Pepper House

Opening of KBF Exhibitions Programme

IDAM: Where being sprouts into language
4pm - 5pm Durbar Hall
curated by Gigi Scaria, Jalaja PS, and
Radha Gomathy

Book Launch 20th Century Indian Art by

Art Alive Gallery followed by a panel
TNQ KMB Pavilion at
5pm - 6pm discussion with Parul Dave Mukherji, Gayatri
DLF Cabral Yard
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
TNQ KMB Pavilion at
6.30pm - 7.30pm Photography in India 1840s -2020 hosted
DLF Cabral Yard
by KNMA and panel discussion with
Roobina Karode and Gayatri Sinha
amongst other contributors.

8pm - 10pm Music of Muziris Sithara’s Project Malabaricus Parade Ground

15-12-22 THURSday
Opening of the KBF Exhibitions Programme
Spectres and the Sea: Muziris and the Indian Kashi Art Cafe and
10am - 11am
Ocean by Muziris Heritage Project curated Dutch Warehouse
by the Kochi Biennale Foundation

Students’ Biennale Unmaking a Format

with Amshu Chukki, Saviya Lopes & Yogesh
TNQ KMB Pavilion at
11am - 12pm Barve, Afrah Shafiq, Anga Art Collective,
DLF Cabral Yard
Premjish Achari, Suvani Suri, and Arushi Vats
with Mario D’Souza and Ananthan Suresh

TNQ KMB Pavilion at

12pm - 1pm Music & Poetry Recital with Orbita
DLF Cabral Yard

Let’s Talk Priya Sen and

TNQ KMB Pavilion at
3pm - 4pm Zarina Muhammed in conversation with
DLF Cabral Yard
Jason Wee and Sandip Kuriakose

Armaan & Co. Building,

Students’ Biennale Walkthrough VKL Warehouse,
4pm - 6pm
led by SB Curators KVN Arcade, and
Trivandrum Warehouse

Performance ‘URSONATE’ TNQ KMB Pavilion at

6.15pm - 8pm
by William Kentridge DLF Cabral Yard
16-12-22 FRIday
Artist Talk Gabriela Loeffel TNQ KMB Pavilion
11am
with Zian Chen at DLF Cabral Yard

Artists’ Cinema Yeh Freedom Life TNQ KMB Pavilion at

2pm - 3.30pm
by Priya Sen followed by a conversation DLF Cabral Yard

TNQ KMB Pavilion at

8.30pm - 10pm Music of Muziris Parimal Shais
DLF Cabral Yard

17-12-22 saturday
Performance YOUtopia: TNQ KMB Pavilion at
6pm - 7pm
Seo Jungmin and ensemble DLF Cabral Yard

Artists’ Cinema Ek Jagah Apni

TNQ KMB Pavilion
8pm - 11pm by the Ektara Collective followed by
at DLF Cabral Yard
Let’s Talk programme

18-12-22 sunday
TNQ KMB Pavilion at
6pm - 7pm Performance by Alok Vaid-Menon
DLF Cabral Yard

Workshop & Performance Orlando by SB Co-Lab,

7pm - 8pm
Julie Beauvais and Horace Lundd VKL Warehouse

TNQ KMB Pavilion at

8pm - 9.30pm Music of Muziris Shashwat Bulusu
DLF Cabral Yard