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Kashi Hallegua House, Jew Town, Mattancherry
Mohamed Ali Warehouse, Mattancherry
DECEMBER 13, 2022 - APRIL 30, 2023
It was one of those seafarers - the manjukkars - who used the expression 'Sea, a boiling vessel' while describing the experience of sailing. The image of the boiling vessel is visceral, visual and deeply metaphorical.
AAZHI ARCHIVES
Aazhi Archives is a collective of artists, writers and scholars engaged in education and art projects through research, art-making, writing, curating, and publications. Aazhi Archives intends to bring them into creative conversations with each other to focus on Kerala's cosmopolitan pasts, pluralist cultures and political futures. It is conceived as a physical as well as a digital site of learning, an audio-visual and textual archive of Kerala’s history, culture, politics and society, that links knowledge creation, art making and the public through art and research projects and cultural events.
On the one hand, it evokes the infinite expanse and incessant flux of the ocean, the deep ambivalent feel of floating on the seething sea under the overwhelming sky, on the other, it conjures up the irrepressible urge for navigation and exploring unknown destinations. How else could one convey the enigmatic experience of the boundless sea glimmering and pulsating beneath the fragile boat that is fuelled by hopes and dreams of the future, and holds the seafarers aloft through the anguish and heat of the immediate present?
Such forays into endless expanses, unknown futures and unfamiliar terrains are also never- ending conversations or oscillations between settlers and nomads, land and sea, departures and destinations that in many ways constitute the very stuff of human civilization.
"Sea - A Boiling Vessel" looks at the sea as a constant reminder of histories of migration, lineages of cross-pollination and synthesis: of cultures, livelihoods and religions, settlements and segregations, also of colonial plunder and slave trade that have effectively shaped the long sea coast of what is now called Kerala.
This exhibition acknowledges new scholarship and art making in this area and relooks at long-forgotten maritime links and histories are being freshly excavated. This deep engagement with maritime history interrogates established cultural understandings and in a more profound manner, political imagination. This initiative intends to bring different practices of artmaking and research into creative conversation with each other to transform the sea into a site of learning and intellectual engagement through which new futures may be floated.
Aazhi Archives is a collective of artists, writers and scholars engaged in education and art projects through research, art making, writing, curating, and publications.
SHILPI RAJAN: FIGURE, FIELD & FACT
Aazhi Archives and Uru Art Harbour are proud to present Shilpi Rajan, one of the living legends from Kerala, a self-taught artist hails from Thrissur, create his sculptures from natural materials in spirit of making shapes, enduring life and humour layered with tragic marks.
Theyyam is a vibrant and colourful form of ritualistic worship that is deeply rooted in the culture and traditions of Kerala, India. This living tradition involves elaborate rituals, music, dance, and vibrant costumes that bring to life the divine spirits being invoked.
What if precarity is the condition of our time or, to put it an other way, what if our time is ripe for sensing precarity? What if precarity, indeterminacy, and what we imagine as trivial are the center of the systematicity we seek?
INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART
India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day, Here are the first 25 artworks. Let us inspire you!
Can prehistoric artifacts be art? Come see for yourself at Kara in Fort Cochin! Mohamed A’s photographic images of excavations and the excavated - real, yet mysterious and enigmatic - take us on a journey into Kerala’s prehistoric past.
KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26
The 6th edition of the KMB 2025 is curated by Nikhil Chopra with HH Art Spaces, an artist led organisation based in Goa. Chopra is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice interweaves performance, drawing, photography, sculpture, and installation.
Ganesha is not for the artist a religious figure, it is a very personal almost incomprehensible connection, which has become a relationship that he commonly describes as being a mirror to the soul. Ganesha, in this case, is about portraying the image of a formless energy.
Chilean poet and featuring artist at the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2016 on the possibility of an artistic response to the human crises of our time, including the refugee crisis surrounding the conflict in Syria. The sea, which became a grave for hundreds of people, including children.
INTERNATIONAL SPICE ROUTE CONFERENCE 2026
Welcome to the First Edition of the Spice Routes Conference organized by the Muziris Heritage Project, Government of Kerala January 6-8, 2026 in Bolgatty Palace, Kochi. Step into a world where history, culture, and global connections converge.
A new beginning is always infused with hope. Life is full of moments that we believe to be beginnings only because of the presence of hope. A physical symbol of these moments of hope is the flower. The films attempts to capture the emotion of these beginnings.
Dravidian Catharsis is the fruit of this deep immersion in the culture, the theatre, the traditions, and the soul of this mythological universe of the Tamil people. The powerful presences of spirits and living gods are embodied under masks.
Legend says that somewhere deep in the forest of the Himalayas is a strange bird that lays psychedelic eggs. Eating them will give you highly vivid hallucinations. The indigenous shamans believe that these visions are from your past life.
Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away this year on 28th March leaving behind a legacy of innumerable musical compositions that'll keep him alive in countless hearts across the world. However, I'll always be haunted by the fact that I couldn't let him know that I'm still alive because of his music along with many more.
Search for the questions to the answers written on the skin...and i asked. am i connected to the deep inside you? with the invisible roots from the layered skin of you? all the energy you transfer to the heart of your thoughts?i asked again am i still connected?
01: Ayurveda in Travancore Kingdom
If you expect stories which starts: Once upon a time, there was a princess... stop reading. Her Highness Princess Gouri Parvathi Bayi of the Travancore Royal Family will introduce us very modern and open minded view on today's Kerala society and ayurveda.
Stories of communities about origin, spread and apocalypse being presented through episodic memories, narrative and visual texts, travel writings, murals, divine objects, church paintings, and songs provide a dense and myriad repository of historical and artistic imagination.
