KOCHI: The sixth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale will be titled ‘For the Time Being’ and will open from December 12, 2025, to March 31, 2026. The 110-day-long grand celebration of art that has become the most happening event in Kochi, attracting people from across the world, will have artist Nikhil Chopra as the curator.
According to the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF), the curator is associated with HH Art Spaces, an artist-led organisation based out of Goa. Chopra is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice interweaves performance, drawing, photography, sculpture, and installation, KBF announced on the digital platform e-flux. Between 2014 and 2017, he performed at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Bienal de la Habana, 12th Sharjah Biennial, and documenta 14 in Athens.
The international exhibition, alongside a diverse programme of talks, performances, workshops, and film screenings, as well as key verticals including Students’ Biennale, Invitations, Art By Children, and the Residency Programme, will take place across various sites in Kochi.
About the curatorial vision behind the sixth edition, KBF said, “It 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. 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.”
According to KBF, many forms of performances, actions, and conversations will be the highlight of the 110 days of the Biennale. The full artist list will be announced in October.