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Krispin JosephPX

Krispin Joseph PX, a poet and journalist, completed an MFA in art history and visual studies at the University of Hyderabad and an MA in sociology and cultural anthropology from the Central European University, Vienna.

In Conversation with Cop Shiva: ‘Being Gandhi and Marginal Voices’

Interview /
Cop Shiva

Cop Shiva is one of India’s most significant contemporary photographers. In Like Gold, a collateral exhibition at the Kochi Muziris Biennale, he presented ‘Being Gandhi’, which explores the tension between the banal and the formal, between bureaucracy and emotion, and exemplifies his ability to navigate and express the ambivalence of photography and contemporary visual culture. […]

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Asim Waqif’s Ecologies: Fractured Cities and Living Materials

Artist Profile, venice biennale 2026 /
Asim Waqif

Asim Waqif, an Indian artist, traverses architecture, ecology, and the vibrant life of cities to create art, representing India at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Waqif, born in Hyderabad (1978), trained as an architect, has become an artist and created a vocabulary of alluring atmospheres, sculpture, installation, and video. Through artwork, Asim Waqif examines how materials,

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The Art of Sumakshi Singh: Weaving Memory, Space, and Silence

Artist Profile, venice biennale 2026 /

Artist Sumakshi Singh, known for her unique ability to materialise the intangible—memory, perception, fragility, and time—is a leading figure in contemporary Indian art, and represents India at this year’s Venice Biennale. She brings an artistic language composed of thread, translucency, stillness, and the delicate tension between presence and disappearance. Her delicate yet theoretically grounded paintings

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Alwar Balasubramaniam: ‘Tracing the Self’, Body, and Becoming

Artist Profile, venice biennale 2026 /

The creative world of Alwar Balasubramaniam, known as “Bala,” spans decades of exciting practice. His techniques, which began with an intense focus on painting and printmaking, evolved dramatically after 2000, when he turned toward sculpture and immersive installations—an ongoing exploration now culminating in his role as India’s representative at the upcoming Venice Biennale. As we

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Archiving the Vanishing: Kulpreet Singh’s ‘Extinction Archive’ and the Aesthetics of Loss

Artist Profile /

The Extinction Archive project by artist Kulpreet Singh, produced by KNMA on the view of India Art Fair 2026, depicts animals and plants at peril and spans over 900 endangered species, painted on pesticide-dipped rice paper, making the magnitude and accumulation of what is vanishing clear. This show has attracted the attention of art lovers

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Jogen Chowdhury: Memoirs of an Indian Dream and Alchemy of Expression

Artist Profile /

On This Day Jogen Chowdhury (born 16th February 1939 is an eminent Indian artist considered one of the most important and seminal figures in the history of postcolonial Indian Art. Jogen knows his painting bonded to Partition, the landscape, folk tales, and figurative and political injustice-motivated compositions. He was born and brought up in an

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Girjesh Kumar Singh’s Haal Mukaam, or Current Address: Reading the Politics of Demolition vs Constructive Art

India Art Fair 2026 /

“Haal Mukaam: Current Address”, a solo show by Girjesh Kumar Singh, on view at the India Art Fair 2026, profoundly asks questions about home, identity, and what home is. The artist uses bricks and mortar from demolished houses to make these artworks, recasting them into rhetorics of loss, memory, and changed landscapes. Singh’s practice is

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Capturing the Portfolio of the Marginalised: Decoding the Pixel Activism of Palani Kumar

Artist Profile /

“Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like” David Alan Harvey As a medium, photography has always maintained its ‘photojournalistic’ ‘news photography’ nature. But Tamil photojournalist and activist Palani Kumar, who uses photography as a tool to give a voice to the ‘voiceless’, sees it beyond its aesthetic appeal and uses it

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Archives of Resistance: The Panjeri Artists’ Union and the Assemblage of Anti-Caste Art

Kochi Muziris Biennale /

The Panjeri Artists’ Union is an anti-caste art collective based in Banipur, West Bengal, through their project, ‘Assemblies of Hope Amidst the Death-Worlds: A 100-Day Work Proposition’, which is a central highlight of the 6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2025–2026). This project, set up at the front of the main venue, Aspinwall House, is an ‘assemblage’ that

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The Ghosts Who Sing: Melancholy as Resistance in Jompet Kuswidananto’s ‘Ghost Ballad’

Kochi Muziris Biennale /

At the 6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2025–26), Indonesian artist Jompet Kuswidananto presents ‘Ghost Ballad,’ a site-specific installation at Pepper House, marking the journey from dictatorship to democracy and bringing together once-thriving, banned music and performances. The work uses his signature objects of ‘bodiless’ figures to gather the fractured chronology of Indonesia, acting as a bridge between

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