Tickets from Rs 100 to Rs 200 as Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025 opens across 22 venues

Kochi / December 15, 2025

Kochi, Dec 15: The sixth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB), South Asia’s largest contemporary art festival, has opened to the public with ticketed and free exhibitions spread across 22 venues in the city.

A one-day pass is priced at Rs 200 for visitors aged 18 to 60. Students with a valid ID card and senior citizens above 60 years can enter for Rs 100, while children below 10 years are allowed free entry.

A weekly pass is also available, priced at Rs 500 for students and senior citizens, and Rs 1,000 for other visitors. Tickets can be purchased individually or as group passes. Tickets can be bought through https://www.kochimuzirisbiennale.org/ or from Aspinwall House.

Tickets are mandatory for exhibitions at Aspinwall House (Coir Godown), Anand Warehouse, SMS Hall, 111 Marcus and Café, Pepper House, SPACE (Indian Chamber of Commerce), and the newly added Island Warehouse at Willingdon Island.

Entry to Durbar Hall is currently free. Exhibitions at the remaining venues among the 22 locations are also open to visitors free of charge.

The Biennale brings together 66 artist projects from over 25 countries, alongside the Invitations exhibitions, Students’ Biennale, Art By Children, Edam, and several collateral shows. All major programmes will run till March 31, 2026. This edition marks the Biennale’s expansion to the Island Warehouse at Willingdon Island, which can be accessed by water metro, ferry, or road, adding a new dimension to the festival’s geography.

The Invitations Programme, conceived to show solidarity with artists and collectives nurturing cultural ecosystems across the Global South, is being presented on a large scale across seven venues. Participating international institutions include Alice Yard (Trinidad & Tobago), Bienal das Amazônias (Brazil), Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research (Palestine), Ghetto Biennale (Haiti), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá (Panama),

Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (Kenya), and ruangrupa/OK.Video (Jakarta), among others.

The Students’ Biennale, hosted at VKL Warehouse, Mattancherry, features projects by student-artists from more than 175 art institutions across India, curated by a team of artists and collectives from across the country.

The Edam exhibition, curated by Aishwarya Suresh and K.M. Madhusudhanan, spans three venues along Mattancherry Bazaar Road and features 36 artists and collectives from Kerala and abroad. A special highlight is the late Vivan Sundaram’s photography-based installation Six Stations of a Life Pursued, on view at Cube Art Space, Mattancherry. Alongside exhibitions, the Biennale will host a wide range of performance art events, talks,

discussions, music nights, and public programmes across its main and satellite venues, offering visitors multiple ways to engage with contemporary art over the next three months.

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