New Delhi,
May 28: The Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) will choose the curator of the
third edition of India’s only biennale coming up next year-end, by holding this
weekend a top-level meeting that would ensure transparency to the key selection
process.
A
high-powered Artistic Advisory Committee comprising nine members including KBF
trustees, artists, scholars and patrons will meet in the national capital on
May 30 to decide on the person who would be curating the next Kochi-Muziris
Biennale slated to begin on December 12, 2016.
The Saturday deliberations will be attended by top KBF President Bose
Krishnamachari, Secretary Riyas Komu and Trustee Sunil V, besides art critic
Ranjit Hoskote, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art’s Chairperson Kiran Nadar, gallerist Shireen
Gandhy and artists Atul Dodia, Jyothi Basu and Bharati Kher.
The 2010-founded KBF, which is a non-profit organisation headquartered at Kochi
in central Kerala, had formed the panel recently to ensure transparency in the
process of selecting the curator, official sources said today.
“The new artistic advisory board consists of eminent and
respected personalities from the world of art; and not just KBF officials,”
pointed out Krishnamachari.
Added Komu: “That ensures a continuation of the transparent
process to select the new curator. It won’t be a unilateral decision.”
The KBF’s first such committee had met in 2013 and chosen Jitish Kallat as the
curator of the 2014 KMB which lasted for 108 days before concluding on March 29
this year. That body comprised art historian Geeta Kapur, Bhau Daaji Laad
Museum director Tasneem Zackeria Mehta, artists Sheela Gowda and Balan Nambiar,
Gujral Foundation’s Feroze Gujral and curator-gallerist Abhay Maskara, besides
Krishnamachari and Komu.
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