Event venue · Mattancherry
111 Markaz & Cafe
No large sign — glass from Palestine and pepper-route history inside.
111 Markaz & Café is a café and Kochi-Muziris Biennale venue on Bazaar Road in Mattancherry. During the 2025-26 Biennale, hundreds of glass baubles hung from the ceiling of its main room, seen first as glints and shadows.
The work was Air of Firozabad / Air of Palestine (2025) by Dima Srouji and Piero Tomassoni. Most of the baubles were made in Firozabad, the Uttar Pradesh town with generations of glassmaking behind it. One was handblown in Jaba’, Palestine. The artists saw glass as both fragile and enduring: it is formed under great heat and pressure, and it can be reshaped and repaired over generations.
The venue was one of the new venues in the sixth Kochi-Muziris Biennale, which opened to the public on 12 December 2025. It hosted part of the main exhibition, curated by Nikhil Chopra with HH Art Spaces, Goa, which included 66 artists and collectives. The edition closed on 31 March 2026.
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111 Markaz hosted part of the main exhibition of the sixth Kochi-Muziris Biennale, curated by Nikhil Chopra with HH Art Spaces, Goa, featuring works by 66 artists and collectives.
Air of Firozabad / Air of Palestine (2025) by Dima Srouji and Piero Tomassoni hangs hundreds of glass baubles from the ceiling at 111 Markaz; one is handblown in Palestine and the rest are made in Firozabad, India.
111 Markaz and Cafe on Bazaar Road in Mattancherry was one of the new venues for the sixth Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
Glass Baubles from Palestine, a Growing Garden, and Submarine Cables — Inside 111 Markaz at the Kochi Biennale
Walk through glass, soil, cables, nets, and spice at 111 Markaz. A venue guide for one of the Fort Kochi Biennale’s most layered spaces.
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