India In Style

23/03/2026

INDIA IN STYLE 23: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - ALI AKBAR

Ali Akbar PN's multimedia practice examines the built environments, syncretic beliefs, social anxieties, and cultural-economic transmissions within and between coastal Indian states such as Kerala, where he grew up, and Gujarat, his current base. In collages and historical reconstructions that entangle mythology with reality, he sutures fragments from oral histories, site-specific studies, and archival and museum records to present a counter-reportage on the subjugation of marginalised communities and historical distortions.

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

27/02/2026

INDIA IN STYLE 21: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - ABUL HISHAM

Born in Thrissur, Kerala, and now based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Abul Hisham reconstructs personal memory and collective history into tangible and spatial forms. Hisham's engagement with sensory memory began in 2008 with an early project titled Constant Memories, in which he incorporated the scent of sambrani (Gum benzoin) to evoke the sombre mood of Indo-Islamic death rituals and devotional gatherings. At the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, he presents Healing Room (2025), an installation that transforms a ground-floor space in Aspinwall House into a multisensory environment. His composition includes painting, sculpture, fragrance, water, and taste, while orchestrating a ritualistic movement through the space. (Aswathy Gopalakrishnan)

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

26/02/2026

INDIA IN STYLE 20: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - ADRIAN VLLAR ROJAS

At the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Villar Rojas presents untitled sculptures from the series Rinascimento (2015 - ongoing). At the Coir Godown in Aspinwall, visitors will encounter dated, obsolete models of refrigerators, their open freezer compartments transformed into vitrine - like displays of organic matter petrified in various states of decay and entropy. In compositions akin to those of vanitas paintings overwritten by the anaesthesia of ice and the corpulent growth of fungal life, we encounter frozen meat and farm produce, fish, and slices of fruit, beverages with branded caps, and sprigs of roots and leaves. These displays mimic the form of dioramas, condensing the vast and extractive biome of the Anthropocene into the contents of a domestic refrigerator, each material form in this assemblage a signifier of capitalism's reconstitution of the earth-from the mass production of farms to the expansive supply chains that grid the globe. Sourced intentionally from food supply vendors, these tableaux gesture at the toxic hybridity that marks life in the Anthropocene, blending elements of natural and processed food, juxtaposing the skin of fresh produce with the high-patina gloss of packaged bottles, connecting the machinic telos of the freezer with the rabid growth of fungi. The sculptures, dependent on electric supply and machinic efficiency, emanate a marcescent glow and are designed to default, inviting a barely perceptible onset of ruin that underscores the slow violence of ecological decline.. (Arushi Vats)

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

20/02/2026

INDIA IN STYLE 19: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - BIRENDER YADAV

The lives and labour of seasonal migrant workers- particularly those working in brick kilns in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh-inform the fundamental concerns of Birender Kumar Yadav's artistic practice. Currently based in Delhi, he reflects on the living and working conditions of landless bonded labourers caught in a complex socio-economic system of extraction and exploitation. Through works in the mediums of installation, painting, sculpture, and photography, he reinterprets the many layers that shape these experiences, re-framing the materials, tools, and processes to contemplate questions of identity, migration, language, caste violence, and the exploitation of labour. Only the Earth Knows Their Labour (2025) reconstructs the atmosphere and structures of a kiln, without the workers. (Aparna Chivukula)

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

17/02/2026

INDIA IN STYLE 18: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - FAIZA HASAN

The sea, a motif in some of Hasan's earlier works- suggesting travel, togetherness, and vulnerability- returns in Kal (2025), which registers passages of time. Six small self-portraits that Hasan made in charcoal each year since 2020 resist the rigid measurements of passport-size photographs that fix identity, and chronicle the subjective physical and emotive transformations of the self over time. These temporal revisitations and back-and-forths continue in a site-specific floor drawing where Hasan retrieves the fleeting impressions on the porous substrate of memory, as reminiscences wash ashore and are reconstituted when remembered. Hasan renders a wave in thin metal leaves as it touches and retreats from the shore, and emerges from a corner onto the weathered wooden floor of a room overlooking the sea. Encompassing visually frozen rhythms, the work is animated by the subtle interplay of light reflected off the frothy surface, corresponding with the viewers' movements where the body, space, and image merge. Moreover, the proximal view of churnings enabled at the image's edge calls to the bustling activities and exchanges at the sea beyond the room. Between these precepts, Kal invites onlookers to reflect on their associations with water bodies and the coast. (Stuti Bhavsar)

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

16/02/2026

INDIA IN STYLE 17: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - MARINA ABRAMOVIC INSTITUTE - MAI

Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI) presents and supports performance art at a global scale. Through an artist-driven process, the Institute maintains both a multidisciplinary approach to performance and a focus on long, durational work. Fostering an international network of performance artists and public participants, MAI is a part of the legacy of Marina Abramovic. Founded eponymously in 2012, MAI is dedicated to furthering the artist's commitment to time-based and immaterial art, spanning dance, theatre, film, video, opera, music, and other emergent forms of performance. The Institute connects practice with pedagogy and research by hosting workshops, public lectures, residencies, and discussions.

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

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16/02/2026

INDIA IN STYLE 16: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - MARINA ABRAMOVIC

Born and raised in post-war Yugoslavia, Marina Abramovic's prolific, radical body of work that spans five decades continues to shape the field of performance art. Process becomes sculptural in her works, drawing spectatorial attention to its time and materiality, and its political, moral, and ethical dimensions, unravelling the complex relationship between artist and spectator. In her performances, choreographed movement is often replaced with ritualistic repetition and stillness, where transformation and transcendence through acts of endurance challenge a conventional aesthetic experience, while conjuring an uncanny space of introspection and catharsis.

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

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26/01/2026

INDIA IN STYLE 15: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - SHEBA CHHACHHI & JANET PRICE

Narrated in the first person by Janet Price, the three- channel video installation, Beauty/Pain (2025) presents an embodied account, charting the debilitations and potential possibilities that emerge in states of chronic distress; a biography of pain. Against a symptomatic reading of pain as signalling bodily waywardness or error, Chhachhi and Price orient us to view chronic pain as a compass towards the trans/formations underway in our inner worlds and as an unruly friend that can both estrange us from the world or submerge us in its shared precarities. The film interjects Price's conversations with medical professionals, anchored by vivid visualisations of neural networks in her brain through medical imaging technologies, with a choral recounting of the displacement of holistic and humoral traditions, herbal life-worlds, and therapeutic methodologies rooted in principles of balance, nurture, and healing by modern medicine. (Arushi Vats)

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

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22/01/2026

INDIA IN STYLE 14: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - RB SHAJITH

RB Shojith's subliminal paintings of the Malabar region's rural landscapes bear subtle yet acute specificities that transcend realism. Drawing on memories and sensory impressions of the terrain he grew up in, his practice expresses an aesthetic resistance to the homogenising forces that subsume microcultures and functions as a memorial to the landscapes erased by climate change.. (Aswathy Gopalakrishnan)

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

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21/01/2026

INDIA IN STYLE 13: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - DHIRAJ RABHA

At the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Dhiraj Rabha presents The Quiet Weight of Shadows (2025), part documentary, part surreal reflection on the power dynamics between state and community, dissonance between lived experiences and official accounts and the fractures between generations marked by post-traumatic stress and hyper-vigilance. A disconcerting garden of carnivorous flowers with sharp white teeth grows incandescent under blue UV light, buzzing with news reports on the ULFA movement in Assamese. (Aparna Chivukula)

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

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20/01/2026

INDIA IN STYLE 12: KMB 2025-26 - ASPINWALL HOUSE - KIRTIKA KAIN

Based in Sydney, on Dharug land, artist Kirtika Kain applies experimental printmaking processes to materials that have been used for thousands of years in ritual and ceremony, such as tar, copper, gold, and cotton. Kain is attentive to the histories of labour and social relations that each of these ancient materials has witnessed and absorbed. Her process includes a dialogue between her body and the material, drawing out the distinctive qualities and limitations of each to think through complex questions of history, memory, and the inheritance of the Dalit diaspora. At the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kain presents works in tar and gold leaf, as well as a series of suspended copper plates that punctuate the viewing space. (Aparna Chivukula)

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

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17/01/2026

09-11: OPENING OF THE KMB 2025-26 - SHANKA TRIBE & RESMI SATEESH, NEHA NAIR, SHAHABAZ AMAN

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day.

INDIA IN STYLE: 100 DAYS OF ART IN THE TIME OF THE KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2025-26: https://indiainstyle.in/article/india-in-style-100-days-of-art-01

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India in Style, was created as part of Ayurveda Trails & Journals. During the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025-26, our founder Zuzana Zwiebel introduces one artist, event, or organisation every day, Here are the first 25 days. Let us inspire you!