Cofounder and president of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Krishnamachari had a lot of wrangling to do this year before he could announce artist Nikhil Chopra and Goa-based collective HH Art Spaces as the curatorial team for the next edition. The biennale, originally set to open in December 2024, was postponed by a year following a period of concern that it might be cancelled completely. This was due to a debt owed to the event’s waterfront venue since its first edition in 2012. These issues have now been resolved, with new private patrons coming to the rescue and a new chair (former director general of the National Museum in Delhi, Venu Vasudevan). This year the biennial, in partnership with Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation, presented the inaugural New Dialogues: Contemporary Art From South Asia conference at London’s Southbank Centre. Meanwhile, Krishnamachari, who also makes art, can now put ‘gallerist’ on his CV: in October he opened a contemporary space inside the new Bangalore store of interior design studio Dtale, showing works by Astha Butail, Harisha Chennangod, Pooja Iranna and Prajakta Potnis.