Kader Attia has been announced as the curator of the 7th edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the Kochi Biennale Foundation shared in a post on Instagram today.
Kader Attia, artist, curator, and professor at HfbK-Hamburg, was selected by a committee chaired by Jitish Kallat, whose members include Shilpa Gupta, Amrita Jhaveri, Pooja Sood, Tasneem Zakaria Mehta, Mariam Ram and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
The statement sharing the announcement said: ‘Born in Dugny in 1970, Attia is internationally recognised for a practice that engages deeply with questions of history, memory, repair, and the enduring legacies of colonialism. Working across installation, sculpture, film, and archival research, Attia has developed a body of work that brings together artistic, anthropological, and philosophical inquiry.
‘As the curator of the Seventh Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Attia will begin curatorial research towards developing the framework for the 2027–2028 edition, with Kochi as a vital point of departure within a wider field of artistic, historical, and contemporary inquiry’.
