Kochi-Muziris Biennale Sixth edition: For the Time Being

Source E-flux
The Kochi Biennale Foundation is delighted to announce the dates and curatorial framework for the sixth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Titled For the Time Being, the edition will open on 12 December 2025 and run for 110 days, until March 31, 2026. The international exhibition, alongside a diverse programme of talks, performances, workshops, and film screenings, as well as key verticals including Students’ Biennale, Invitations, Art By Children and the Residency Programme, will take place across various sites in Kochi, India. Kochi-Muziris Biennale is India’s first and South Asia’s longest-running contemporary art biennale. The sixth edition is curated by Nikhil Chopra with HH Art Spaces, an artist-led organisation based out of Goa. The sixth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an invitation to embrace process as methodology, and to place the friendship economies that have long nurtured artist-led initiatives as the very scaffolding of the exhibition.
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The City Palace in Jaipur to host first gallery-curated show.

Source Artsy by Maxwell Rabb Jaipur’s City Palace has an illustrious history: a royal residence and former administrative headquarters for the Indian region. Now, for the first time, a single gallery—Los Angeles’s Rajiv Menon Contemporary—is curating an entire show in the Palace. “Non-Residency,” a group exhibition at the Jaipur Center of Art, is based in the Palace and will explore what it means to be part of the Indian diaspora. The presentation, which opens August 9th and runs through September 8th, marks the first time the Jaipur Centre for Art (JCA) has partnered with a single gallery on a full exhibition. It is also Rajiv Menon Contemporary’s first project in India and the first show at the palace curated by an American. Menon, who launched the Hollywood location of his gallery earlier this year, focuses on contemporary perspectives from South Asia and the diaspora.
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Indian Modernist Tyeb Mehta’s Market Is Soaring. How High Will It Go?

Source Artnet by Eileen Kinsella
Amid an upsurge in demand for Indian art, Mehta’s market his hot. His two highest prices at auction have come this year, and collectors should be prepared to spend big to acquire a major work, since he was not at all prolific. He produced only around 200 canvases, and prestigious institutions and private collections hold most of the key ones, experts say. In April, the Mumbai-based Saffronart auction house sold Mehta’s Trussed Bull (1956) for $7.2 million, the most ever paid for one of his works on the block. It’s an important work that reflects his lifelong fascination with bulls, depicting in unflinching detail the brutal treatment that he witnessed them receive at slaughterhouses.
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‘Jangarh Kalam from Patangarh Continued’ on exhibit at Triveni Kala Sangam

Source The Statesman
Patangarh — a village in Madhya Pradesh home to many talented Gond artists — was the place where artist-anthropologist J Swaminathan at Bharat Bhavan discovered the late Jangarh Singh Shyam. Now, 30 original artworks (out of a collection of a total of 50 works) created by 18 Gond artists in the stylistic genre pioneered by Jangarh, are on view at the Triveni Kala Sangam from June 30 to July 10. Jangarh’s style, named the “Jangarh Kalam” — in the early eighties, encouraged and inspired Jangarh, a community singer, to paint. The imagination transformed from musical to visual. While the Gonds were not known for their art, Jangarh gave birth to a new art. His work, characterized by meticulous dotting, fine line work, and the use of vivid colors, depicts fantastical beings, deities, flora, and fauna. The landmark group exhibition titled “Jangarh Kalam – Continuing in Patangarh” is organized by the Raza Foundation, in association with Triveni Kala Sangam and supported by Progressive Art Gallery, and is open to all.
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