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The Kochi Biennale Foundation has announced that modern creator and curator Jitish Kallat volition presume the relation of president of the Kochi–Muziris Biennale to seat the enactment of the curator for the adjacent edition.
The announcement was made by Venu V., chairperson of the foundation.
Mr. Kallat, who lives and works successful Mumbai, is simply a subordinate of the Board of Trustees of the Kochi Biennale Foundation. He antecedently served arsenic curator of the 2nd variation of the Kochi–Muziris Biennale (2014-15), titled Whorled Explorations.
He takes connected this work pursuing the determination of Bose Krishnamachari, co-founder of the Biennale, to measurement down earlier this year, according to a communication.
Dr. Venu said that Mr. Kallat’s agelong relation with the Biennale and his planetary acquisition successful the modern creation tract marque him good placed to instrumentality this forward.
Mr. Kallat said that the Kochi–Muziris Biennale has played “an bonzer role” successful shaping conversations astir modern creation successful India and beyond.
One of India’s starring modern artists, Mr. Kallat’s works research the intersections of science, humanities representation and existential inquiry, often reflecting connected humanity’s planetary beingness and spot successful the cosmos. It often juxtaposes the mundane with the cosmic, the contiguous with the historical, and the terrestrial with the celestial.
Solo exhibitions of his enactment person been presented astatine the Art Institute of Chicago; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Frist Art Museum, Nashville; the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne; the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai; the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi presented a mid-career survey of his enactment successful 2017.
Mr. Kallat’s curatorial projects see Whorled Explorations, the 2nd variation of the Kochi–Muziris Biennale (2014–15); I Draw, Therefore I Think for SouthSouth successful 2021; Tangled Hierarchy astatine the John Hansard Gallery successful Southampton; and Tangled Hierarchy 2, presented by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art arsenic portion of the Invitations Programme of the 5th Kochi–Muziris Biennale successful 2022.
The sixth variation of the Kochi–Muziris Biennale, titled For the Time Being, is presently nether way. Curated by Nikhil Chopra with HH Art Spaces, the variation volition reason connected 31 March 2026.
