{"id":76209,"date":"2026-02-03T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/feb\/03\/monsoons-mould-and-a-million-visitors-welcome-to-keralas-peoples-biennale"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:00:29","slug":"monsoons-mould-and-a-million-visitors-welcome-to-keralas-peoples-biennale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76209","title":{"rendered":"Monsoons, mould \u2026 and a million visitors: welcome to Kerala\u2019s \u2018people\u2019s biennale\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work by almost 70 artists \u2013 including Marina Abramovi\u0107 \u2013 has made an art fair in Kochi one of the hottest tickets in south Asia. This sixth instalment uses farmers\u2019 fields and patched-up buildings to take visitors \u2018back to nature\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Say someone brings you a bouquet of flowers. You get a vase and one by one intuitively place each stem inside, allowing an arrangement to unfold on its own. It was on this level, as lead curator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.galleriacontinua.com\/artists\/nikhil-chopra-17\">Nikhil Chopra<\/a> suggests, that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kochimuzirisbiennale.org\/\">Kochi-Muziris Biennale<\/a> was not curated so much as created.<\/p>\n<p>On a stroll through the largest contemporary art biennale in south Asia, creation takes centre stage. Against the backdrop of the coastal city\u2019s lush strip of backwaters and the historic Fort Kochi, works by 66 artists animate Kerala\u2019s grand colonial warehouses and bungalows where art feels less installed than encountered.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/feb\/03\/monsoons-mould-and-a-million-visitors-welcome-to-keralas-peoples-biennale\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work by almost 70 artists \u2013 including Marina Abramovi\u0107 \u2013 has made an art fair in Kochi one of the hottest tickets in south Asia. This sixth instalment uses farmers\u2019 fields and patched-up buildings to take visitors \u2018back to nature\u2019Say someone brings you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,91,71,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-culture","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76210,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76209\/revisions\/76210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}