Archive · 18 Dec 2025
Kochi Biennale Residency Exhibitions Explore Nature-Human Relationship
The Kochi Biennale has started some special art shows where artists explore how humans and nature are connected.
These shows are in Kochi and feature works by artists from different places.
The artists are looking at how we use nature, sometimes in ways that harm it, and how we can live better with nature.
One artist looks at weeds that some people don't like but others respect.
Another artist thinks about how water, plants, and weather affect us.
There are also works about vanilla and a plant called water hyacinth.
The Biennale is a big art event with many artists from around the world, and it will go on until next year.
Residency exhibitions at Kochi Biennale explore the relationship between nature and humans, opened on December 18, 2024.
Featured artists include Flo Maak, Juliane Tübke, Daniel Godínez Nivón, and Shivay La Multiple.
Exhibitions are held at Devassy Jose and Sons in Mattancherry, presenting the world as a shared space.
Works examine themes like invasive weeds, human-environment relationships, commodification of vanilla, and water hyacinth.
The sixth edition of the Kochi Muziris Biennale features 66 artists and collectives from 25 countries across 22 venues.
- Who
- Artists Flo Maak, Juliane Tübke, Daniel Godínez Nivón, Shivay La Multiple and others
- What
- Residency exhibitions exploring nature-human relationship
- When
- Opened on December 18, 2024, concluding in March 2026
- Where
- Devassy Jose and Sons in Mattancherry, Kochi
- Why
- To present the idea of the world as a shared space and explore the consequences of nature's exploitation
- Event
- Residency exhibitions at Kochi Biennale
- Location
- Devassy Jose and Sons, Mattancherry
- Artists
- Flo Maak, Juliane Tübke, Daniel Godínez Nivón, Shivay La Multiple
- Theme
- Nature-human relationship and exploitation
- Duration
- December 18, 2024 - March 2026
- Biennale Edition
- 6th
- Participating Artists
- 66 artists and collectives from 25 countries
- Venues
- 22 venues across Kochi