Kochi Muziris Biennale 2025-26

Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB), South Asia’s longest-running continuously organized contemporary art biennale, is set to open its sixth edition, ‘For the Time Being’. Now under the management of the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF), the highly anticipated event will be open for 110 days from December 12, 2025, to March 31, 2026, offering a huge and thrilling experience to art lovers as well as the general public. The new iteration will reinterpret the experience of the biennale, moving beyond the traditional model of an exhibition to provoke a more networked and activated discursive practice among artists. With emphasis on process and mutual “friendship economies,” Kochi-Muziris Biennale ’25 will create a living space where art, artists, and publics interact intensively and deeply. Guests can be assured of an experience that brings together modern art and the Kochi high culture, in a city in which global and indigenous elements coexist in harmony. Curator's Approach This edition of the KMB will be guest-curated by prominent multi-disciplinary artist Nikhil Chopra, with HH Art Spaces, which is an artist group based in Goa. Rather than repetition of the same old biennale routine, something new is being experimented with by Chopra. He is building the concept of collaboration and exchange. His work is founded on the idea that art could grow when individuals share as well as assist one another. The sixth edition is conceived as a “living ecosystem” where each component, ranging from performances to artworks, resides, shares space and time, and resources that increase by being in dialogue with each other. This approach seeks to move away from the idea of a singular, central exhibition event, fostering an evolving, responsive, and alive experience. Why to Join ? The KMB ’25 situates itself to take up the contradictions and weaknesses of our times, assuming that although art in itself cannot alter the world, cultural collisions can perhaps initiate a conversation and shatter tough silences, if only momentarily. Amidst an era overburdened with digital knowledge and marked by global uncertainty, the Biennale longs to confirm the dominance of liveness, being-there, and communion. Numerous live events, gestures, and debates will enliven the 110 days of the Biennale, engaging spectators in bodily, participatory experiences that confound a grid-based system of exhibition. The full list of artists for Kochi-Muziris Biennale’s sixth edition will be announced in October 2025. Things to Know Information Event Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025 – 6th Edition Theme “For the Time Being” Dates December 12, 2025 – March 31, 2026 (110 days) Location Kochi, Kerala, India (Fort Kochi, Kunnumpuram Fort, Aspinwall House, Pepper House, Anand Warehouse) Organizer Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) Tickets Students & Children: ₹50 Adult: ₹150 Senior Citizen: ₹100 Weekly Pass: ₹1,000 Monthly Pass: ₹4,000 Tickets available online & at Aspinwall House Website kochimuzirisbiennale.org