ANNUAL REPORT 2016 -17 ANNUAL REPORT 1st April 2016 to 31st March 2017 AES+F’s video installation Inverso Mundus (2015) at Anand Warehouse CONTENTS

06 INTRODUCTION 08 KOCHI BIENNALE FOUNDATION 10 BOARD OF TRUSTEES 12 KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2016 14 ARTISTS OF KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2016 22 KOCHI BIENNALE FOUNDATION PROGRAMMES 30 AUDIENCE 32 HIGHLIGHTS 46 CSR SUPPORT AND KOCHI BIENNALE FOUNDATION 46 MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 47 CONSTITUTION OF INTERNAL COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE 48 AUDIT & ACCOUNTABILITY 70 KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2016 SPONSORS, PATRONS & SUPPORTERS

Front Cover: Abir Karmakar’s painting Home (2016) at Kashi Art Gallery

4 5 INTRODUCTION The Kochi Biennale Foundation is the statement ‘Forming in the Pupil of an Ours is an effort tethered to the idea of Art By Children was an artistic interven- honoured to present the annual report Eye’, and asking a central question: What learning and growing from experience. tion into public schools in Kerala that of the Foundation for the year 2016-2017. does it mean to be together in time – Every edition teaches us new lessons, as reached out to 100 schools across the Of course, as always, the audited balance to be contemporary? we grapple with new challenges. The state. The team at ABC also created sheet of the Foundation for the year levels of support, trust and faith our on-site workshops at the Biennale, 2016-17 is an integral part of this report. Ninety-seven artists from 31 countries, Patrons, Partners and Supporters provide bringing vast numbers of schoolchildren more than 100 works of installation, us with gives us a great deal of strength to into Aspinwall House every day. The three editions of the Kochi-Muziris painting, sculpture, video, and perfor- keep growing, and getting stronger. Biennale, since 2012, have ensured that mance. It was a mammoth effort, and one We believe in the positive impact and It is the support of artists, art lovers, the Kochi now occupies a prominent position that we couldn’t possibly have importance of the access to art, and that is general public, patrons, our partners, the in the global art calendar. The Biennale accomplished without an outpouring of what keeps our efforts going and growing, Kerala government, and all other support- has exhibited more than 300 artworks by help and support. This year the Kera- creating an interest and participation in ers, that made all of this possible. I am over 250 artists from all over the world, la government was greatly supportive, contemporary art that spans the audience hopeful that we will have your continued and hosted more than a million visitors. providing us with their promised funding spectrum—from experts to amateurs. backing. On behalf of everyone at the The third edition has been a landmark in of Rs. 7.5 crore in three phases, pre-, Kochi Biennale Foundation, thank you. itself, from every point of view: in terms of during, and post-Biennale. We’ve been KBF’s Programmes, run by the Director audience participation, artistic representa- encouraged this year by the greater of Programmes and Biennale co-founder Bose Krishnamachari tion, government support, scale and participation of corporates in our exhibi- Riyas Komu, conducted two exceptional President, Kochi Biennale Foundation intent. Under the curatorship of tion, and we hope to see an increase in editions of marquee education and Sudarshan Shetty, the 2016 edition of that going forward. Sudarshan’s Biennale outreach programmes: the Students’ the Kochi-Muziris Biennnale has been an was supported this year by an exceptional Biennale and Art by Children. The all-round success. This year’s Biennale programming line-up scheduled virtually Students’ Biennale reached out to 55 expanded on the many intentions with every evening at the Biennale Pavilion. institutions across the country, and which KBF set out to create this platform, Talks, folk, classical and contemporary produced over 400 works of art by a new in that it encompassed ever more ideas performances, films, book launches, and generation of art practitioners; the and people into its fold. Sudarshan linked of course a seminar on ‘Why We Need learning of this edition was also together various forms of artistic expres- Art’ inaugurated by the Honourable discussed and noted in an art education sion, explaining his curatorial impulse with President, Pranab Mukherjee. conference to cap the edition. Meanwhile,

6 7 KOCHI BIENNALE FOUNDATION Kochi Biennale Foundation is a non- MISSION STATEMENT posit alternatives to political and cultural people and local traditions, practices and profit charitable trust engaged in promoting discourses emanating from the specif- discourses that are shaping the idea of art & culture and educational activities in The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to ic histories of Europe and America. A India. These share a lot with the artistic India; primary amongst them the hosting invoke the latent cosmopolitan spirit dialogue for a new aesthetics and politics visions emerging from India’s neighbour- of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. KBF works of the modern metropolis of Kochi and rooted in the Indian experience, but hood. The Biennale also seeks to project around the year to promote national its mythical past, Muziris, and create a receptive to the winds blowing in from the new energy of artistic practices in the consensus on investment in contemporary platform that will introduce contemporary other worlds, is possible. subcontinent. art infrastructure and to broaden public international visual art theory and prac- access to art across India.The Foundation tice to India, showcase and debate new The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to was registered on 4-8-2010 under the Indian and international aesthetics and art establish itself as a centre for artistic explore the hidden energies latent in Indian Trusts Act, 1882. experiences and enable a dialogue among engagement in India by drawing from the India’s past and present artistic traditions artists, curators, and the public. rich tradition of public action and public and invent a new language of coexistence Kochi Biennale Foundation seeks: engagement in Kerala, where Kochi is and cosmopolitanism that celebrates the a. To promote art, culture and educational The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to located. The emergence of Kerala as a multiple identities people live with. The activities in India; primary amongst create a new language of cosmopoli- distinct political and social project with dialogue will be with, within, and across them the hosting of Kochi-Muziris tanism and modernity that is rooted in lessons for many developing societies identities fostered by language, religion Biennale on biennial basis the lived and living experience of this owes also to aesthetic interventions that and other ideologies. The Biennale seeks b. To organise national and international old trading port, which, for more than six have subverted notions of social and to resist and interrogate representations of art and culture exhibitions in India centuries, has been a crucible of numer- cultural hierarchies. These interventions cosmopolitanism and modernity that thrive c. To promote and support traditional art ous communal identities. Kochi is among are immanent in the numerous genres and by subsuming differences through co-op- forms the few cities in India where pre-colonial practices of our rich tradition of arts. In a tion and coercion. d. To promote art education through traditions of cultural pluralism continue world of competing power structures, it is schools and colleges to flourish. These traditions pre-date the necessary to balance the interests and The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to be a e. To promote preservation of heritage Enlightenment ideas of cultural pluralism, independence of artists, art institutions, project in appreciation of, and education properties and buildings globalisation and multiculturalism. They and the public. about, artistic expression and its relation- f. To use art for promotion of national can be traced to Muziris, the ancient city ship with society. It seeks to be a new and international brotherhood and that was buried under layers of mud and The Kochi-Muziris Biennale seeks to space and a fresh voice that protects and co-operation mythology after a massive flood in the 14 reflect the new confidence of Indian projects the autonomy of the artist and her g. To promote art for comfort and solace th century. The site was recently identified people who are slowly, but surely, build- pursuit to constantly reinvent the world we of the public in general and the and is currently under excavation. It is ing a new society that aims to be liberal, live in. disadvantaged in particular necessary to explore and, when neces- inclusive, egalitarian and democratic. The h. To conduct national and international sary, retrieve memories of this past, and time has come to tell the story of cultural seminars its present, in the current global context to practices that are distinct to the Indian

8 9 BOARD OF N S Madhavan IAS CURATORIAL ADVISORY Writer, IAS (Retd.) TRUSTEES Trustee COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2016 Bose Krishnamachari Sanjna Kapoor President Theatre Personality, Amar Kanwar Curator \ Artist Co-founder of Junoon Atul Dodiya Trustee Bharti Kher Riyas Komu Jyothi Basu Secretary Ranjit Hoskote Curator \ Artist Kiran Nadar APEX ADVISORY Shireen Gandhy Bonny Thomas COUNCIL Bose Krishnamachari Treasurer Riyas Komu Writer \ Cartoonist K V Thomas Sunil V Chairman, Public Accounts Sunil V Committee, Government of India, Joint Secretary Member of Parliament Executive Director, KOCHI-MUZIRIS Motherland JV Pvt. Ltd BIENNALE 2016 TEAM M A Baby Former Minister of Education & Sudarshan Shetty Tasneem Zakaria Mehta Cultural Affairs, Government of Kerala Trustee Curator and Artistic Director Honourary Director, Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum Bose Krishnamachari HONOURARY Biennale Director Jose Dominic ADVISORS Trustee Riyas Komu Director of Programmes Managing Director, CGH Earth Adoor Gopalakrishnan Auteur Lizzie Jacob Trustee Anish Kapoor KOCHI BIENNALE (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Artist Govt. of Kerala FOUNDATION P K Hormis Tharakan MANAGEMENT Alex Kuruvilla (Former) DGP, Kerala Trustee (Former) Secretary (R), GoI Manju Sara Rajan Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer Condé Nast India Shashi Tharoor Member of Parliament Treessa Jaifer Ruchira Ghose Chief of Finance General Manager - Special Projects Trustee K J Sohan Former Chairperson, Former Mayor of Kochi Crafts Museum, Delhi N P Kurian General Manager

10 11 KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2016 The latest edition of the Biennale was disciplines and sensibilities with writers, curated by Curator Sudarshan Shetty, dancers, poets, musicians and theatre one of the most significant figures of professionals sharing the Biennale space alongside a host of visual artists. contemporary Indian art. Originally trained as a painter at the Sir JJ School of Art in Expanding on his artistic vision, KMB Mumbai, he moved early on to sculpture 2016 curator Sudarshan Shetty said, and installation and more recently into “The eye is the only reflective organ in film. In his recent work, Sudarshan has the body. It reflects as much back into actively engaged with other artistic forms, the world as it takes. Forming in the pupil including poetry and writing, music and of an eye is not an image of one reality, but a reflection of multiple realities and of architecture to consider the distinctions multiple possibilities in time. My curatorial between action on-screen and off-screen, approach was shaped therefore as the real and the imagined, tradition and a conversation between different streams the contemporary. Sudarshan was a and forms of art practice. This Biennale is participating artist in the inaugural edition intended as a dialogue between multiple of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2012. perspectives and possibilities as it evolves within the space and through the duration of the Biennale and beyond.” FORMING IN THE PUPIL OF AN EYE The main exhibition—the largest yet— was spread across 12 venues in Fort On Monday 12/12/16, the third edition of Kochi-Mattancherry and Ernakulam: the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) was Aspinwall House, Cabral Yard, Pepper inaugurated by Chief Minister of Kerala House, David Hall, Durbar Hall, Kashi Shri Pinarayi Vijayan, setting off 108 days Art Café, Kashi Art Gallery, MAP Project of the largest and most anticipated Space, Anand Warehouse, TKM Ware- celebration of contemporary art in South house, Cochin Club, and Kottapuram Fort Asia. Titled Forming in the Pupil of an Eye, in Kodungallur. KMB 2016 features the performances and production of 97 artists from 31 countries. The line-up is a mixture of styles,

12 13 ARTISTS OF KOCHI- MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2016

Abhishek Hazra India > Abir Karmakar India > Achraf Touloub Morocco & France > Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia India > Sirous Namazi Iran/Sweden > AES+F Russia > Ahmet Öğüt Turkey & Germany > Aki Sasamoto Japan & USA > Sophie Dejode and Bertrand Lacombe France > Subrat Behera India > Aleksandra Ska Poland > Aleš Šteger Slovenia > Alex Seton Australia > Sunil Padwal India > T Shanaathanan Sri Lanka > TV Santhosh India > Alicja Kwade Poland & Germany > Anamika Haksar India > Anand India > Takayuki Yamamoto Japan > Tom Burckhardt USA > Tony Joseph India > Avinash Veeraraghavan India > Bara Bhaskaran India > C Bhagyanath India > Valerie Mejer Mexico > Voldemers Johansons Latvia > Wu Tien-Chang Taiwan > Camille Norment USA/Norway > Carl Pruscha and Eva Schlegel Austria > Wura-Natasha Ogunji Nigeria/USA > Yael Efrati Israel > Yang Hongwei China > Caroline Duchatelet France > Charles Avery United Kingdom > Yardena Kurulkar India > Yuko Mohri Japan > Zuleikha Chaudhari India Chittrovanu Mazumdar India > Chris Mann USA/Australia > Dana Awartani Saudi Arabia > Daniele Galliano Italy > Desmond Lazaro India/United Kingdom > Dia Mehta Bhupal India > EP Unny India > Endri Dani Albania > Erik van Lieshout Netherlands > Éva Magyarósi Hungary > Eva Schlegel Austria > François Mazabraud France > Gabriel Lester Netherlands > Gary Hill USA > Gauri Gill India > Hanna Tuulikki United Kingdom > Himmat Shah India > István Csákány Hungary > Javier Pérez Spain > Jonathan Owen United Kingdom > KR Sunil India > Kabir Mohanty India > Kalakshetra Manipur India > Katarina Zdjelar Netherlands > Katrīna Neiburga and Andris Eglītis Latvia > Khaled Sabsabi Australia/Lebanon > Lantian Xie UAE > Leighton Pierce USA > Lisa Reihana New Zealand > Liu Wei China > Lundahl & Seitl Sweden > Mansi Bhatt India > Martin Walde Austria > Mikhail Karikis United Kingdom/Greece > Miller Puckette USA > Naiza Khan Pakistan/United Kingdom > Nicola Durvasula and John Tilbury United Kingdom > Orijit Sen India > Ouyang Jianghe China > PK Sadanandan India > Padmini Chettur India > Pawel Althamer Poland > Pedro Gómez-Egaña Norway/Colombia > Prabhavathi Meppayil India > Praneet Soi India/Netherlands > Rachel Maclean United Kingdom > Rajeev Thakker India > Ravi Agarwal India > Raul Zurita Chile > Remen Chopra India > Salman Toor and Hassan Mujtaba Pakistan/USA > Samooha India > Sergio Chejfec Argentina/USA > Sharmistha Mohanty India >

14 15 Raul Zurita’s installation Sea of Pain (2016) at Aspinwall House Martin Walde’s interactive installation Multiple Choice (2012) at Aspinwall House

16 17 Chittrovanu Mazumdar’s installation River of Ideas (2016) at Aspinwall House Gary Hill’s interactive video installation Dream Stop (2016) at Durbar Hall

18 19 Alex Seton’s sculpture Refuge (2015) at TKM Warehouse Anamika Haksar’s performance piece Composition on Water (2016) at Aspinwall House

20 21 KOCHI BIENNALE FOUNDATION PROGRAMMES

22 23 The 2016 edition included 465 students from 55 art institutions in the programme. The selected 15 curators engaged with students to select artworks, to design, and to organise the Students’ Biennale exhi- Students’ Biennale, as part of the Kochi bition at seven venues in Fort Kochi and Biennale Foundation’s educational Mattancheri. initiatives, seeks to extend and strengthen art education practices and infrastructure Supported by in India. It is an alternative platform for BFA and MFA students from art colleges in India to produce and exhibit work, whilst developing a professional pool of cura- tors. The intention is to expose graduate and post-graduate art students as well as young curators to the processes of contemporary art and exhibition-making. Artworks at the Students’ Biennale in Mattancherry

The project was led by young curators, ABC (Art by Children) is a pioneering who work with students at art schools creative learning initiative designed by the around India. The curators are trained by Kochi Biennale Foundation to evolve the an advisory and mentor group towards current paradigms of arts education in a Students’ Biennale exhibition that runs India. In the long run ABC seeks to parallel to the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. strengthen India’s contemporary art infrastructure, by broadening public This initiative is specifically aimed at understanding and access to art and arts student-artists at government-run fine arts education. colleges in India, creating a platform for young artists and curators to reflect on The debut programme reached out to 100 their practice and exhibit on an internation- schools across 14 districts in Kerala, al stage. It will also be a means to better working with over 5,000 children and understand the pedagogical practices in teachers. In addition to school-based India’s current arts education system. workshops, this programme has spear- Children at an ABC workshop at Aspinwall House

24 25 headed several workshops at the Biennale and other sites, introducing art experts of various genres to children. The Kerala project will serve as a platform for research methodologies, which will inform future models of ABC across India. Keeping with the Kochi Biennale Foundation’s mandate to build a practice- and production-based art project, ABC Outreach Powered by the Pepper House Residency is an inter- national residency programme that oper- ates out of the studios at Pepper House, Fort Kochi. Over the past 15 months, Pepper House has hosted 12 artists for varying durations with infra- structural and other support to create work. The artworks of these 12 artists created during their residency here has been on exhibition in the Pepper House Film screening at the Artists’ Cinema programme at the Biennale Pavilion Residency show parallel to the main Artists’ Cinema showcases narrative, Biennale exhibition. documentary and experimental films, thus providing a platform for alternative Supported by cinematic expressions. The 2016 Artists’ Cinema programme screened around 140 films and videos. The films were exhibited in packages curated by eminent film- makers, scholars and critics, including Bina Paul, Meenakshi Shedde, Rakesh Sharma, and Amrit Gangar.

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Victor Hazra’s painting installation at the Pepper House Residency exhibition

26 27 The Arts & Medicine programme has Kochi Biennale Foundation organises talks taken art to hospitals to ameliorate on subjects ranging from art and history to and enliven the spaces and processes development and economics throughout of healing. This programme has been the year. Artists, cultural leaders, theorists, executed in partnership with the Mehboob architects, scientists, performers and Memorial Orchestra from Fort Kochi. academicians from all over the world have To date, more than 200 performances been a part of the Let’s Talk series. have taken place at Ernakulam General Hospital and Government Medical Supported by College, Ernakulam, and several other hospitals in the state have adopted the programme since it launched in 2013. Madhava Prasad in conversation with CS Venkiteswaran at the Let’s Talk forum at the Biennale Pavilion

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Video Lab is a space at the Kochi Biennale Foundation for archiving, experimentation and research through innovative video projects on contemporary art, artists and art practices.

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Audience at a Let’s Talk event at the Biennale Pavilion

28 29 AUDIENCE In the lead-up to the first edition of the collectors, museum representatives, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the Kochi gallerists, technocrats, writers, film- Biennale Foundation organised education makers, art enthusiasts and students drives in schools and colleges to familiar- from around the world. ise people with contemporary art practices and exhibition formats. Integral to the As a result Kochi has become known as Kochi-Muziris Biennale’s commissioning ‘Biennale City’ and even as the ‘art capital’ process, artists were invited to visit various of South Asia. The Biennale is widely sites in Kochi, and the speculated location covered in local, domestic, international of Muziris. and trade press. Coverage of all editions have appeared in The New York Times, The focus and intent was to give rise to The Financial Times, The Art Newspaper, new artistic possibilities through a Artforum, Art Review, Biennial Foundation, thorough engagement with local Vogue, Architectural Digest, Wallpaper, Visitors at 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale contexts. Because of this dialogue The Times of India, Hindustan Times, The between art-makers and the public, the Hindu, Mint, India Today, Outlook, The Biennale was embraced by the community Week, Indian Express, Malayala around it. For the Kochi Biennale Manorama, Mathrubumi, The Huffing- Foundation, which was built on the ton Post, Scroll.in plus other digital, and premise of democratising the discussion of broadcast media. art, this achievement has proved to be its greatest. The Biennale became a people’s movement, and earned its most important title: ‘People’s Biennale’. Since the begin- ning of the Biennale in 2012, more than a million people have visited this contempo- rary art exhibition, making the Kochi- Muziris Biennale the largest art event in the region and one of the most significant events in the international art calendar.

The Biennale draws to Kochi artists, Visitors at 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale

30 31 HIGHLIGHTS

32 33 Flag-hoisting at the opening of the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale at Aspinwall House Inauguration of the seminar ‘Why We Need Art’ by Pranab Mukherjee, President of India

Inauguration of the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale by Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Minister of Kerala Pranab Mukherjee views the Biennale exhibition

34 35 Kochi Biennale Foundation patron Asha Jadeja Artist Anish Kapoor at the Biennale exhibition

Writer Arundhati Roy at Aspinwall House Film-maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan at the Biennale exhibition

36 37 Architect BV Doshi at the Biennale exhibition BMW Cultural Manager Thomas Girst at the Biennale exhibition

South Indian Bank MD & CEO VG Mathew at the Biennale exhibition Actor Mammootty at the Biennale exhibition

38 39 K Satchidanandan speaking at a Let’s talk event at the Biennale Pavilion Parvathy Baul performing at the Biennale Pavilion

At the Biennale’s tribute event to Laurie Baker Karinthalakkoottam performing at the Biennale Pavilion

40 41 TM Krishna performing at the Biennale Pavilion Kalamandalam Gopi performing at the Biennale Pavilion

Mir Mukhtiar Ali performing at the Biennale Pavilion Chavittunatakam performance at the Biennale Pavilion

42 43 AK Balan, Culture Minister of Kerala, at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale Suraj Mani & the Tattva Trip at the closing ceremony of the Biennale

Anita Dube (third from left) announced as the curator of the 2018 edition at the closing ceremony Thaikkudam Bridge performing at the closing ceremony of the Biennale

44 45 etc. is created exclusively for undertaking CSR SUPPORT AND CSR activities or (b) where the corpus is CONSTITUTION OF KOCHI BIENNALE created exclusively for a purpose directly INTERNAL FOUNDATION relatable to a subject covered in Schedule COMPLAINTS VII of the Act.” Therefore, the Foundation The new Companies Act 2013 and COMMITTEE is also eligible to seek CSR support for Section 135 enshrined within it have under the Sexual Harassment of creating a corpus for the KBF. placed corporate Social Responsibility at Women at Workplace (Prevention, the forefront of corporate business in the Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 country. Schedule VII of the Act identi- As per the Sexual Harassment of Women fy areas/activities/programmes eligible MEETING OF at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and for support under CSR. Items ii and v in THE BOARD OF Redressal) Act 2013 and the rules framed schedule VII have identified the following there under and notified in December eligible for CSR Support. TRUSTEES 2013, any public or private organisation ii) Promoting education, including special Three meetings of the Board of Trustees has to constitute an Internal Complaints education and employment enhancing of KBF were held during the year. The Committee to inquire into any complaint of vocation skills especially among children, first meeting on 22 April 2016 discussed sexual harassment by an aggrieved women, elderly and the differently abled progress of the project being curated woman, whether employed or not, who and livelihood enhancement projects. by Sudarshan Shetty, as well as KBF alleges to having subjected to sexual ha- service and financial regulations. The rassment by a person, in the workplace. v) Protection of national heritage, art and second meeting, on 18 November 2016, The Foundation, therefore, constituted an culture including restoration of welcomed a new Trustee member- “Internal Complaints Committee” for the buildings and sites of historical impor- Alex Kuruvilla, covered the appointment purpose on 19th February 2015. tance and works of art; setting up public of Manju Sara Rajan as CEO of KBF, libraries; promotion and development discussed status of the biennale and The Complaints committee shall address of traditional handcrafts: Therefore, the its associated programmes. The third the complaints in accordance with the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the contempo- meeting, on 24 February 2017, was with provisions of the said act and rules and in rary art exhibition and its parallel / other the attendance of new Trustee member- accordance with the principles of natural programmes are all now eligible for CSR Ruchira Ghose, discussed the success of justice. Support. In June 2014 it has been further the third edition of Kochi-Muziris Bien- clarified that “contribution to corpus of a nale, addressed the appointment of an Trust / society/ section 8 companies etc. Artistic Advisory Committee to select the will qualify as CSR expenditure as long as next curator, as well as the way forward (a) the Trust/Society/Section 8 companies for KBF.

46 47 AUDIT & ACCOUNTABILITY Kochi Biennale Foundation understands the need to maintain proper book-keeping and accounts as the event is being con- ducted with public money. We hold our- selves to the highest level of accountabil- ity. Kochi Biennale Foundation appointed an independent auditor to conduct monthly / quarterly internal audits and submit the reports to the Govt. of Kerala for the CAG Audit.

On behalf of Board of Trustees we also express our sincere thanks to all those who are engaged in the work of the Kochi Biennale Foundation and the Kochi-Muz- iris Biennale. We also express our appre- ciation and gratitude to all our supporters for their support and co-operation.

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70 71 MAIN SUPPORTER The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is an initiative of the Kochi Biennale Foundation CORPORATE PATRONS with support from the Government of Kerala

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74 75 PATRONS PLATINUM ART COUNCILS, EMBASSIES & FOUNDATIONS \ Anju Shah (GP Foundation) \ Artist Project Support 2016 Asha Jadeja Motwani (Motwani Jadeja Family Foundation, DE Ventures IV) \ Poonam Bhagat Shroff (Nirlon Foundation Trust) \ TV Narayanan Kutty (IAL India) \ Vivan Sundaram \ Yusuff Ali MA (Chairman, Lulu Group)

PATRONS GOLD Feroze & Mohit Gujral \ (Gujral Foundation/Outset India) \ Gitanjali Maini \  Kris Gopalakrishnan (Pratiksha Trust) \ Mark Wadhwa (Vinyl Factory) \ Michelle Poonawalla \ PI Foundation \ Priya Paul (Apeejay Surendra Group) \ Rami Farook (Farook International) \ Sangita Jindal (JSW Foundation) \ Sunita & Vijay Choraria (ArtC)

PATRONS SILVER Aarti & Amit Lohia (Lohia Foundation) \ Amrita Jhaveri \ Arjun Menon (Smart Box Industries) \ Atul Dodiya \ Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited \ Czaee and Suketu Shah \ Dayanita Singh \ Edgar Pinto (Kashi Art Gallery) \ Eicher Goodearth Private Limited \ Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke \ Gayatri and Priyam Jhaveri (R. & S. Nanavati Charitable Trust No. 2) \ Geojit BNP Paribas \ Gulf Oil Lubricants India Limited \ Jai Shroff (UPL Ltd.) \ John Abraham \ Kalpana Shah (Tao Art Foundation) \ KHUSHII \ Kurush and Shireen Jungalwala \ P Mohammed Ali (Gulfar) \ KE Moidu (Peekay Steel Castings Pvt Ltd) \ Lakshmi, Amruda and Aishwarya Nair \ Manasi Kirloskar \ Nicoletta Fiorucci (Founder of Fiorucci Art Trust) \ Pheroza Godrej (Godrej Group) \ Pinakin Patel (Pinakin Studio LLP) \ Radhika Chopra & Rajan Anandan \ Raj Rajkumar \ Rasika Kajaria (Kajaria Vision Pvt Ltd) \ Raymond Limited \ Reena and Jitish Kallat \ Rekha and Prshant Lahoti \ Richa Agarwal (Emami Foundation) \ Ritu & Prakash Chhabria \ Ruchira & Navin Agarwal (Sesa Sterlite) \ Saffronart Foundation \ Shanta & Sudhir Patwardhan \ Sharan Apparao (Apparao Galleries) \ Subodh Gupta \ Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi (Barjeel Art Foundation) \ Tarang Jain (Varroc Group) \ Tony Joseph

ARTIST PATRONS Abir Karmarkar \ Aditya Pandey \ Anita Dube \ Anju Dodiya \ Arpita Singh \ Atul Dodiya \ Baiju Parthan \ Dhruvi Acharaya \ Gigi Scaria \ Gulammohammed Sheikh \ NS Harsha \ Hema Upadhyay \ PS Jalaja \ Manish Nai \ Madhvi Parekh \ Manisha Parekh \ Manu Parekh \ Mithu Sen \ Navjot Altaf \ Nikhil Chopra \ Prajakta Palav \ N Pushpamala \ A Ramachandran \ Ranbir Kaleka \ Ratheesh T \ Reena Saini Kallat \ KP Reji \ Rekha Rodwittiya \ Rohini Devasher \ Sahej Rahal \ TV Santhosh \ Siji Krishnan \ Sudhir Patwardhan \ KG Subramanyan \ Surendran Nair \ LN Tallur \ Thukral & Tagra \ Varunika Saraf \ Vivan Sundaram \ Vivek Vilasini

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78 79 CORPORATES \ Artist Project Support 2016 Alembic CSR Foundation \ Lakshmi Precision Tools Ltd \ Makers Development Services Pvt Ltd \ Mahadevan (Travancore Cocotuft Pvt Ltd) \ Reliance Industries Limited \ Sahney Kirkwood Pvt Ltd

INDIVIDUALS \ Artist Project Support 2016 Archana Shastri \ Arun Jothi \ Geeta Mehra \ Marco Giacomelli \ Pooja Singhal \ Radhika Chopra & Rajan Anandan \ Ravi Cavale \ Renu Modi \ Richa Agarwal \ Sunita & Vijay Choraria (ArtC)

VENUE SPONSORS DLF Aspinwall (DLF India / Gujral Foundation) \ Cabral Yard (DLF India / Gujral Foundation) \ Kashi Art Gallery (Edgar Pinto) \ Pepper House (Issac Alexander) \ David Hall (CGH/Jose Dominic) \ Durbar Hall (Kerala Lalithakala Academy) \ Mandalay Hotels & Hospitality \ Cosmopolitan Cult (Majnu NB) \ Heritage Arts (Majnu NB) \ MAP Project Space (Abhishek Poddar)

KMB 2016 SUPPORTERS Chatterjee & Lal \ Experimenter \ Gallery g \ Hena Kapadia \ Rishav & Akshay Kanoria \ Sharmistha Ray \ Sitara & Faaz \ V G N Jewellers Private Limited \ Ayana Fort Kochi \ Trinity \ YPO Bangalore \ Davis A L \ Rangapriya Trust \ Malabar Escapes \ Shoib K \ Dayanita Singh

SPONSOR-A-DAY Raymond \ Rajiv Lall and Bunty Chand \ Anahita Taneja & Shefali Somani (Shrine Empire, New Delhi \ Alserkal Avenue \ Latha & Rajiv Menon \ Madanlal Patodia Charitable Trust \ Padmavathi & Karunakara Panicker \ SCMS School of Technology and Management \ Ravi Sam \ OYO \ Deutsche Bank

CLOSING WEEK PROGRAMME SUPPORTERS Malayala Manorama \ Deutsche Bank \ OYO

CLOSING DAY SUPPORTERS Mathrubhumi.com \ Mathrubhumi News \ Club FM \ Kappa TV \ The Muse Room

CLOSING DAY DINNER SUPPORTER Le Meridien Kochi

Praneet Soi’s sculptural installation Cut-out Archive - Sculptures in Coir (2016) at Pepper House

80 81 82TV Santhosh’s installation History Lab (2016) at TKM Warehouse 83 art needs you need art

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