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Kochi Muziris Biennale 2016 ends, curator for KMB 2018 announced

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March 30, 2017

FWD Life Kochi Muziris Biennale 2016 ends, curator for KMB 2018 announced

Art is you, you are art!

As the Kochi Muziris Biennale 2016 comes to an end, at Durbar Hall Ground on March 29, it is with great sorrow that Kochi bids farewell to one of the world’s best art exhibitions that has helped put the city on the global art map. The event began with Co-Founder Riyas Komu’s speech, who spoke about the foundation and their aims and achievements, and said “Where KMB 2012 marked the birth of a new movement in the history of Indian contemporary art, KMB 2016 reasserted Kochi’s position as a site for insights and a place for multiple concerns and perspectives.”

With the closing ceremony, the curator for the next edition of the Kochi Muziris Biennale was announced by Shri A K Balan. Anita Dube will take over the curatorial functions for the 2018 Kochi Muziris Biennale. The selection is in keeping with the Biennale’s long-standing tradition of being an artist-led exhibition. Anita is an Indian contemporary artist, who completed her BA in History from the University of Delhi. Dube had her training as an art historian in Baroda, which later shifted to Kerala.

Her aesthetic idiom, in many ways, reflects her background as a member of the Indian Radical Painters and Sculptors Association – a short-lived but hugely influential collection of artists and art students who rebelled against what they perceived to be the commodification of art in India. Dube is also a board member at KHOJ, an international artists’ association she co-founded in 1997 in New Delhi. Over two decades, the initiative that began as a modest annual workshop has become one of the most important platforms shining a global spotlight on South Asian art, organising and hosting international ‘itinerant’ workshops, residencies and exhibitions.

With a vote of thanks by Bose Krishnamachari, Co- Founder and President of the Kochi Biennale Foundation, the closing ceremony came to an end. “The KMB is a ‘People’s Biennale – both in terms of its attendance and its engagement with the public. Just as we begin together, we end together.” he said, during his speech. After the ceremony, the audience were in for a royal treat as two famous bands, Suraj Mani and Thaikkudam Bridge performed for the crowd at Durbar Hall.

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