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IN THE TIME OF KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE (KMB) 2025-26
INDIA IN STYLE: DAY 01-25
India in Style, created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals, does not want to be anything else but an artistic expression of a healthy lifestyle inspired by ancient healing traditions, creating harmony with the dynamics of contemporary life. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day, which can inspire all of us. Enjoy the journey!
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. 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. Read more >>
KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE
The sixth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an invitation to embrace process as methodology, and to place the friendship economies that have long nurtured artist-led initiatives as the very scaffolding of the exhibition.
KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26
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In a moment when the Anthropocene’s crises feel less like warnings and more like our everyday weather, Ishara House opens its doors in Kochi’s historic Kashi Hallegua House; a site shaped by centuries of migration, refuge, and maritime confluence. The exhibition ‘Amphibian Aesthetics’ asks what it means to think, feel, and imagine in a world built on precarity, fluidity, and entangled histories.
Conceived under the artistic direction of Riyas Komu, the Ishara House emerges as a dynamic space for contemporary art, research, and exchange - one attentive to the urgencies of our time, yet rooted in the lived textures of Kerala’s oceanic pasts. Presented by Aazhi Archives with curatorial advisors CS Venkiteswaran, M.H. Ilias, and Amrith Lal, the exhibition brings together 12 artists and collectives across India, Italy, Palestine, and the UAE. Their works mine the amphibian as metaphor and method: a double life negotiated between land and sea, memory and displacement, body and world. Read more >>
ISHARA ART FOUNDATION, AAZHI ARCHIVES, URU ART HARBOUR
Across installations, performances, talks and conversations at Kashi Hallegua House and Uru Art Harbour, the works chart the residual currents that shape our collective imaginaries, maritime trade routes, exilic journeys, ecological disruptions, and the intricate hydrosocial webs that bind life across species. In doing so, the exhibition will offer not just art objects, but propositions for thinking with porousness, with instability, and with the fragile ecologies we inhabit. .
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Can pre-historic artifacts be art? Come see for yourself at Kara, as we walk through artist Mohamed A’s photographic journey with archaeology, its sites and its practices.
A Mohamed’s photographic images of excavations and the excavated - real, yet mysterious and enigmatic - take us on a journey into Kerala’s prehistoric past. It is the story of how we came to be what we are, told through the archeological sites, architectures, implements and artefacts. They bring into vision sediments and remnants of the great voyages of yore, and also human engagements with life and imaginations about after-life. Read more >>
ARCHEO LOGICAL CAMERA BY MOHAMED A
Kara Gallery, Ridsdale Road on Parade Ground, Fort Kochi
From 6 December 2025 to 30 January 2026
Show in collaboration with Aazhi Archives, URU Art Harbour, Department of Archaeology (Government of Kerala), Sandeep & Gitanjali Maini Foundation, and Muziris Heritage Project.
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A mesmerizing Pulluvan Pattu performance led by Babu Mannur was introduced to the audience during the opening evening of the Archaeological Camera by Mohammed A. Pulluvan Pattu is a ritualistic form of serpent worship. Explore the beauty of this sacred folk music and art tradition from Kerala in the links below.
PULLAVAN PATTU, A PERFORMANCE BY BABU MANNUR & TEAM DURING THE OPENING EVENING OF THE ARCHEO LOGICAL CAMERA BY MOHAMED A
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ARCHEO LOGICAL CAMERA BY MOHAMED A - VIDEO OPENING EVENING >>
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KERALA TOURISM - SARPAM THULLAL - SERPENT DANCE >>
KR SUNIL
KR Sunil was born in Kodungallur in 1975. After receiving his national diploma in sculpture from Fine Arts College, Thrissur, he started actively pursuing art, writing and photography. Sunil picks out extraordinary personalities in the course of his study of the daily lives of common people and presents them in photo features in contemporary media. What marks Sunil’s art exceptional is his involvement in the sustained process of observation and documentation of the people he has come to notice. Environmentally sensitive spaces are another area that becomes the focus of his photographic projects. KR Sunil was one of the Aazhi Archives featured photographers during the International Spice Route Conference 2026. Some of his earlier work can be found on our website.
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BIJU IBRAHIM
Biju Ibrahim's photographic practice involves eight years of rigorous practice in making images, having received no formal education and training in photography — with the weight of the labour, journeys across fractured landscapes, burnt down histories, Biju Ibrahim captures the essence of rustic geographies, the people who are now becoming archive of the earth, the mythic and mystery of spaces and places, broken vessels and torn fabric, alleys of now filled with the density of then or before. He is passionate about capturing the histories and existential praxis of the mystic cultures of Kondotty and Ponnani, the two coastal geographies of Malabar and their linkages with the faraway lands of Arab and the Greek region embedded in the mark of coevalness and multiplicities, of vanishing textures and grains of languages and history’s voice. Biju Ibrahim was one of the Aazhi Archives featured photographers during the International Spice Route Conference 2026. Some of his earlier work can be found on our website.
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RAKESH ANAND
As the Theyyam season approaches, we are featuring one of the Aazhi Archives photographers, Anand Rakesh, and his pictures documenting this ancient tradition. Theyyam is a vibrant and colorful 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. Each Theyyam performance is unique, featuring different deities, stories, and rituals. The performers, who are typically men from specific communities, undergo rigorous training and preparation before they are allowed to participate in the ritual.
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SHANKA TRIBE
Hailing from Kerala, Shanka Tribe is a tribal music band which resonates the inner turbulence of our ancestors and their amazing cultural heritage, which awakens the soul of the listener into seeking the higher cause of their existence. Shanka Tribe derives its inspiration from various styles and genres of music. We try to incorporate human emotions experimentally with chants, sounds and expressions. We also try to melodically amalgamate them with various instruments not normally used, especially the tribal instruments. The result is a music that has no lyrics, but still conveys a deep emotion within. We always begin our performance by blowing the Shankh, which purifies our soul and surroundings.
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SHAHABAZ AMAN
Shahabaz Aman (born 27 December 1969) is an Indian singer and composer. He was born in Malappuram, Kerala, India. He is also a stage performer of Ghazal music. Shahabaz is known for his soulful, romantic voice and unique style of singing. He has released music albums of various genres and performed across India and Persian Gulf countries. He is a two-time winner of Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer.
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RESMI SATEESH
Resmi Sateesh is an Indian singer and actor from Kerala predominantly known for her songs in the Malayalam films.She has also acted in the movie 22 Female Kottayam and worked as location sound recordist for the movie Makaramanju directed by Lenin Rajendran.Born in Parassala, Reshmi studied classical music from the age of six under the tutelage of Muthiah Bhagavathar from Tamil Nadu after her music studies under Alleppey Sreekumar. She has also studied "Audiography" at the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute in Calcutta. She holds B.Sc. in physics masters in Social Work from the University of Calicut. She is also known for her stage performance and has performed at several international events including Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Aazhi Archives and Uru Art Harbour.
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Founder & Director of Ayurveda Trails, healing collection of (extra)ordinary people and their stories, whose experiences are transferred into various trails shared by travelers.
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 days. Let us inspire you!
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
IN OUR VEINS FLOW INK AND FIRE
This edition of the KMB 2022 embodies the joy of experiencing practices of divergent sensibilities, under conditions both joyful and grim. There is optimism even in the darkest absurdity, and this is what leavens the direness of our time.
