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.
Termite traces, sawdust figures, cow dung and plastic—four artists gather what is often discarded, assembling a slow archive of impermanence that refuses disappearance.
Each material carries its own story of erosion and persistence—termite traces, fragments shaped in childhood mills, beadwork that forms images. These marks reveal how histories are erased, sold, or rendered insignificant.
Ambika Shirodkar (Goa College of Art), Reedhvi Hanumant Thanekar (Goa College of Art), Shilpeksh Khalorkar (MSU, Baroda), Unik Ramchandra Chari (Goa College of Art)
Beads; Sawdust; Laser print on cardboard, wooden frame; Cow dung and Plastic
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
The house that remembers begins within the unstable terrain of memory. Termite-marked cardboard, sawdust sculptures, cow dung utensils, the quiet labour of women unfolding from a box-like home—four artists from Goa and Baroda gather what is often overlooked.
Ambika Shirodkar works in beads, forming meticulous images. Reedhvi Hanumant Thanekar sculpts in sawdust. Shilpeksh Khalorkar uses laser prints on cardboard. Unik Ramchandra Chari combines cow dung and plastic—materials that shouldn't coexist, yet do.
Together they assemble a slow archive of impermanence: figures formed from sawdust, unnamed faces salvaged from flea markets, sewn images of women in shifting roles. All refuse disappearance. The work practices quiet disobedience, attending to what lingers, what has been discarded, and what must be re-seen to be remembered.
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 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.
Iced coffee in a former godown on a 600-year-old spice street. Coz Layover Cafe, Mattancherry in Fort Kochi
Rainforests, incense sculptures, insect paintings - all read through a 2,000-year-old Tamil system of landscape and emotion.
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