This is our Fort Kochi insider guide for you curated experiences, updated regularly by the cats who call this place home. Whether you're here for the Heritage, the food, or just the light on the harbour at dusk, we've got you.
Plan your Fort Kochi visit with day-by-day itineraries for April & May 2026. Morning cafes, heritage walks, sunset times & night plans all in one place.
The Anchal Post Runners ran with postal bags balanced on their heads and carried a two-foot staff with bells attached. When people heard the bells coming down the road, they made way.
Challenging medicalized notions of queer transitioning, anu's sound installation explores transwomanhood through self-made instruments, nail-cutting, and defretted guitars.
Through actions like cutting and shaping my nails and removing the frets of my guitar, I situate myself within a transwomanhood that sounds and lives in worlds otherwise unattainable.
அணு anu (Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore)
Acrylic and charcoal on raw canvas, watercolor and charcoal on paper, fishing nets, found wooden boat, bicycle, fabric
BMS Warehouse, Opposite Holy Cross Church Mattancherry (Kuriachante Nada)
Opposite Holy Cross Church Mattancherry (Kuriachante Nada)
10AM to 6PM (Mon to Sunday)
Till March 31st, 2026
நகவெட்டி [nagavetti] challenges medicalized notions of queer transitioning, shifting the focus to transitions constructed through personal practices and objects.
This installation and sound-activation setup features self-made sound-making instruments that highlight a relationship to transition mediated through technological sound production. The piece unfolds in two parts: first, the installation is experienced with sound generated by moving image work alongside a generative sound program.
Second, the artist performs a 'sonic summoning,' activating sound-instrument components. Through actions like cutting nails and removing guitar frets using those same tools, anu situates herself within a transwomanhood that sounds and lives in worlds otherwise unattainable by a standard fretted guitar or a normatively nailed person.
The Students' Biennale, running alongside the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, has always been a space where tomorrow's artistic giants take their first bold leaps.
Plan your Fort Kochi visit with day-by-day itineraries for April & May 2026. Morning cafes, heritage walks, sunset times & night plans all in one place.
Rainforests, incense sculptures, insect paintings - all read through a 2,000-year-old Tamil system of landscape and emotion.
Chinese tiles, Ethiopian rugs, a Malayalam clock tower. What if I told you that Kochi's oldest synagogue is a world in one room?
Three colonial powers. One wooden church turned stone. And a tombstone that tells 500 years of Fort Kochi's story.
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