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IN THE TIME OF KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE (KMB) 2025-26
INDIA IN STYLE: DAY 26-50
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!
Shilpi Rajan, one of the living legends from Kerala and a self-taught artist hailing from Thrissur, has worked organically in clay, cement, wood, bamboo, iron, laterite, and many more materials, with a spirit of making shapes, enduring life, and humour, layered with tragic marks. His works have been recognised as an ongoing resistance with a remarkable sense of revolting against the established notions of academic art, and that makes him an echoing presence in contemporary art. Now, he is proudly presented in front of a global audience by Aazhi Archive and Uru Art Harbour. Read more >>
SHILPI RAJAN
Aazhi Archive and Uru Art Harbour proudly present the retrospective exhibition of Kerala's legendary artist Shilpi Rajan. Beginning his journey as a mechanic in pursuit of a livelihood, Rajan's natural affinity for art ultimately drew him into sculpting-an evolution shaped by instinct rather than formal training. Rajan has worked with an impressive range of materials, including newspaper, sheet metal, clay, cement, wood, bamboo, coconut and areca nut tree, iron, granite, and laterite. His sculptures often reflect the moods and experiences he lived through at the time of their creation, rather than adhering to fixed expressions or academic conventions. He believes that sculpture, like life itself, cannot bear a permanent mood. The influence of Kerala's folk and tribal traditions is strongly visible in his human figures, which carry echoes of local deities and indigenous art forms
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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 - EXTENDED TO 30 MARCH 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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Founder & Director of Ayurveda Trails, healing collection of (extra)ordinary people and their stories, whose experiences are transferred into various trails shared by travelers.
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.
