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4a Bienal de Kochi-Muziris 2018/2019

12 diciembre 2018 - 29 marzo 2019

Kochi, Kerala, India

Director: Bose Krishnamachari

Curadora: Anita Dube

Lista de participantes ►
94 artistas de más de 30 países


Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life

La 4a Bienal de Kochi-Muziris está comisariada por la eminente artista Anita Dube, conocida por sus obras conceptualmente ricas y políticamente cargadas. Sobre su visión para esta edición, Anita Dube comentó: "Desde el nivel conceptual, hasta la experiencia real del visitante de la Bienal, Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life [Posibilidades para una vida no alienada] intenta ofrecer una plataforma que opera a través de una apertura radical. La exposición –cuyo modelo didáctico intrincado, liberado por un espacio de colaboración llamado el Pabellón– se dinamiza con las interacciones entre las obras, con el diálogo entre voces y prácticas artísticas. El público está invitado a compartir, a escuchar e incluso a desafiar el espacio".

Concepto curatorial

Participantes y proyectos

De acuerdo con el tema curatorial, Dube ha invitado a 94 profesionales de más de 30 países, formando una gama dinámica de contextos sociales y enfoques artísticos. Esta edición también presenta un nuevo desarrollo en el modelo de la Bienal con respecto a los artistas participantes: Los infra-projects serán curados de forma independiente dentro del marco temático de Dube. Estos incluyen Edible Archives curado por Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar y Prima Kurien, Sister Library por Aqui Thami, Srinagar Biennale por Veer Munshi, y un proyecto por Durgabai Vyam + Subhash Vyam.

Varios proyectos se muestran fuera del espacio de exposición, animando el tejido urbano de Kochi y creando un nuevo tipo de compromiso público. Por ejemplo, los carteles de Andeel + Hassan Khan, comentando contextos socio-políticos específicos de Kerala a través de caricaturas satíricas, son visibles en las densas áreas comerciales de Ernakulam. Las artistas / activistas feministas Guerrilla Girls han traducido por primera vez al Malayalam sus críticas directas a las instituciones de arte. El colectivo musical Oorali comienza su gira a lo largo de la costa de Kerala, haciendo estación en aldeas y pueblos para abrir su autobús convertido en un taller público y un espacio de actuación, un intento de reunir y rendir homenaje a las comunidades pesqueras, que fueron fundamentales para los esfuerzos de socorro y rescate durante las recientes y desastrosas inundaciones. Los llamativos retratos fotográficos de Zanele Muholi de sudafricanos queer y negros velan desde las paredes exteriores de Cabral Yard, el lugar del Pabellón de la Bienal.

Videos de algunos proyectos

Amplio programa y eventos paralelos

Along with being a site for ancillary programming – talks, film screenings, musical and other performances – the Biennale Pavilion takes on a crucial role in this edition. The space hosts a “knowledge laboratory”, an open platform for sharing and learning across media and languages. “There will be no hierarchies of knowledge, or stratifications of content. It is a space for safe disagreement, uncomfortableness, and unease, as much as it is one of pleasure, celebration, and exchange. At its core, the knowledge laboratory is an ever-developing learning experiment that cannot be realised without public participation.”

Kochi Biennale Foundation, in association with Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) and Foundation for Indian Art Education (FIAE) and supported by Tata Trusts, has developed Students’ Biennale, an exhibitory platform across multiple venues that runs parallel to Kochi-Muziris Biennale. This year marks the third edition of Students’ Biennale, which now involves a multilateral approach, featuring, in addition to the exhibition, an expanded education forum, and field-based research on the condition of art education as it stands. The exhibition involves some 200 projects by undergraduate and graduate students of Fine Arts under the broader theme of Making as Thinking. The projects are curated by six eminent artists and educators: Sanchayan Ghosh, Shukla Sawant, KP Reji, Shruti Ramalingaiah, Krishnapriya CP, and Nishad MP.

Running parallel to the Biennale are also the Pepper House Residency Exhibition, which sees the artists-in-residence this year return to Kochi to install their developed work, and a range of independently organised Collateral Projects.

Program overview

Art Rises for Kerala

ARK (Art Rises for Kerala), the first-ever international live contemporary art auction in Kerala, saw proceeds of Rs 3.2 crore (approximately USD 450,000) to be donated to the state government’s rebuilding efforts in the aftermath of the natural calamity five months ago.

The auction, conducted by Mumbai-based Saffronart and the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) on January 19, had no Buyer’s Premium — and comprised 42 artworks generously donated by leading Indian and international artists, gallerists and collectors. Proceeds will be given to the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund, an effort to provide relief to affected communities and rebuild damaged infrastructure all over Kerala.

The sale was led by eminent artist Anish Kapoor’s Untitled, 2018, a vivid blue canvas-and-resin work that sold for Rs 1.3 crore (approximately 182,000 USD).

The Kerala government has been the principal supporter of the Biennale. “We’re proud to have been able to bring together the artist community to rebuild Kerala,” remarked Kochi Biennale Foundation president Bose Krishnamachari. “I’m also happy that along with the important collectors in India, a new generation of art collectors have come forward in Kerala. I hope that this will strengthen the ecosystem for art here.”

Apart from focused efforts to directly aid those affected, Kochi Biennale Foundation has worked to restructure its internal processes to maximise impact with regard to rebuilding the state. One such effort is the promise to recycle material used in the Biennale for relief. In particular, the structure of the Biennale Pavilion, which will play a significant role in the fourth edition and Anita Dube’s curatorial frame, will be repurposed to build homes for displaced families.


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Imagen arriba: Tania Candiani, String Loom, 2018.

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