Known and Unknown
Soil becomes shared ground. Harshal Khatri's two-channel video installation with paintings explores the entanglement between visible and invisible forces of nature.
Students Biennale
The Students Biennale, running alongside the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, has always been a space where tomorrow's artistic giants take their first bold leaps. This year's edition brings together young artists from art schools across India—each with stories that demand to be heard.
Land Erosion / Memories of a Land
The red soil of Birbhum, Bankura, and Purulia tells a story of displacement. Tanmoy Dutta creates a charged memorial for the Santal Adivasi community denied agency over their native land.
Earth's Last Stand / Restricted Terrain
The Musi River in Hyderabad, deteriorating under urbanization, becomes a dystopian focus for Dindi Praveen Sagar's paintings and sculptures interrogating capitalism and consumption.
The Panopticon
Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if discontinuous in action. Ten artists from across India transform Foucault's concept into an architecture of co-existence and shared vulnerability.
Dar – Dara – Dariya
The dari (rug) is where we rest after a long day. But what happens when burden and distress seep in, making comfort prickly? Jyoti's commissioned work invites us to enter a protective space between rest and play.
Remains of a home
What remains when a home is taken away? Aadil Farooq Malik, who lost his house to a road expansion project, explores the shifting meanings of belonging through architectural remnants.
Puwali - Play to Plant
Puwali means 'kid'—the start of life in its simplest form. Two NID artists highlight how every seed, every beginning, carries its own future through visual storytelling and hands-on workshops.
Ialong, hakum!
Two artists from India's Northeast explore gender norms and the nurturing essence of nature through wood, bamboo, and rich indigenous traditions. Nature as refuge, difference as beauty.
The River that Remembers
A river rushes through nostalgia, holding memories of childhood, family picnics, sweet water through orchards of the heart. Now it carries thirst and sorrow. Three Kashmiri artists create an elegy.
Uncanny: The Quiet Rusty Sign
Rust stains echo fading memories. Ash and jute speak of war's violence. Two artists transform decay into temporal progression, where the familiar becomes strange.
Where Memories Are Immured
The playground has turned into a battlefield. Five artists from Aligarh Muslim University create a poignant installation asking: did I do something wrong, Mother?
Shifting Landscapes
As the Lepcha language fades and the land erodes, Reppandee Lepcha weaves together paper pulp, rice paper, and hemp wool to ask: how do communities retain relevance in a shifting world?
Labour of the Imagined
Imagination as resistance. Vineetha W explores creative labour beyond political binaries, granting equal significance to humans, animals, and nature in intimate, egalitarian paintings.
Is it Sunset in the himalayas
Is Ladakh facing enlightenment's dawning or fading into endless night? Kundan Gyatso's terracotta work carries the visual language of Thangkas and the weight of melting glaciers.
Capturing Slowness
In Mumbai's frantic pace, women carve brief stillnesses in local train ladies' coaches. Diya Joseph sketches these fleeting moments of rest across two cities, two rhythms.
Through their eyes
From Shimla—once the summer capital of British India—Vikas Kumar examines how being watched shapes who we are, and what it means to return the gaze.
Sacred Scapes
Brick carries the weight of loss and transition. Urgain Zawa's installation from Ladakh links melting glaciers, paper-mache horns, and ancestral rituals against environmental disaster.
Known Bodies, Unknown Futures
Water hyacinth—invasive, resilient weed—becomes the material for Likitha R Jain's sculptures exploring material ecology and post-humanist thinking.
Thangka: Quiet Resistance
In a world of fast-paced urbanization, Yangchen Dolker's Thangka paintings of Dolkar and Jamyang become quiet acts of resistance—art forms that demand slowness.
Bohada
Where Mumbai meets Gujarat, Palghar's Adivasi communities face displacement. Gaurav Tumbada's 'Bohada' celebrates the Waghoba—the tiger guardian—as a figure of resilience.
Milk Distributors
The bicycle—humble two-wheeled 'friend of the poor'—becomes a vehicle of freedom in Abhijit Das's large-scale paintings and sculptural work exploring mobility, care, and nourishment.
The People's Orchestra
From a humble handcart in Satana to processions across Maharashtra—Rutuja Sonawane traces her father's 50-year journey with 'Swar Samrat', a brass band rooted in Ambedkarite ideals.
Residual Marks
Termite damage becomes a way to think through internal conflict. Neelam Saini transforms wood and paper pulp into lattice-like forms where surfaces hold as much as they succumb.
Thinking Threads
Working with discarded clothing, Kerala-based artist Harsha P S cuts, sews, and repurposes textiles into forms of protest. See her work at Kochi Biennale, Kerala