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The first Biennale in Bengal with 100+ artists, 20+ venues, exhibitions, performances and public art displays spread across Kolkata and Santiniketan

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Artist Announcements:Spanning nearly five decades, Paresh Maity has created and explored various mediums across his exte...
11/10/2026

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Spanning nearly five decades, Paresh Maity has created and explored various mediums across his extensive career, including watercolour, oil and acrylic paintings, mixed media, sculptures and photography to examine themes pertaining to nature, culture, and philosophy.

Prasanta’s multi-dimensional practice includes painting, drawing, installation, sculpture and photography as a method to think about formal aesthetics, ecology, and labour, often influenced by his upbringing and love for his ancestral village of Chaughari (Odisha, India).

Probir Gupta’s decades-long practice emerges from his training in abstract painting, interests in Marxist thinking and subaltern discourse, and also addresses the subjects of human rights, civics, class and communal tensions, or labor relations through extensive multimedia installations.

Artist Announcements:Neel Bhattacharjee is a visual practitioner from West Bengal who operates from the vantage point of...
11/10/2026

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Neel Bhattacharjee is a visual practitioner from West Bengal who operates from the vantage point of catharsis and synthesis, constructing immersive environments by treating photographs, archives, sounds, and projections not as static records, but as active stimuli.

Nilanjan Bhattacharya is an independent filmmaker, artist, writer, creative consultant and a scavenger of knowledge based between Kolkata and Leipzig, working on biodiversity, food cultures, and indigenous knowledge systems in India.

Pankaj Panwar is a Santiniketan-based sculptor and educator whose work fuses traditional and contemporary forms which respond to evolving socio-political contexts while maintaining a dialogue between tradition and modernity, reflecting his deep engagement with Indian and global art.

Santiniketan: 25.11.26 to 02.01.27
Kolkata: 28.11.26 to 02.01.27

Artist Announcements:Lapdiang Artimai Syiem is a performance and visual artist based in Meghalaya whose practice is insp...
10/10/2026

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Lapdiang Artimai Syiem is a performance and visual artist based in Meghalaya whose practice is inspired by Khasi folklore, politics, and oral narratives, reinterpreting and adapting them into a contemporary context.

The Layout Collective, comprising Indian artists M Pravat and Susanta Mandal, Indian architect Sayantan Maitra Boka, and Swiss artist Navid Tschopp, brings together four distinct practices to dissolve conventional architectural logic through site-specific installations.

Maksud Ali Mondal is an interdisciplinary artist working with the disintegrative processes of nature through eco-installations, often with fungi, termites, microbes, soil, insects, plants, which instigate critical and socio-political discourse.

Artist Announcements:Born in Varanasi, Chicago and Santiniketan based artist Janhavi Khemka senses and processes the hea...
10/10/2026

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Born in Varanasi, Chicago and Santiniketan based artist Janhavi Khemka senses and processes the hearing world through woodcut printmaking and experimental installations composed of animation, sound, performance, and vibratory material.

This long-term project to revive the artistic stature and economy of jamdani is a collaboration between economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, illustrator Cheyenne Olivier, filmmaker Ranu Ghosh, and designer Sukit Dhir, with weavers Habibul Mallick and Selina Bibi Mallick for Raghunath Sinha.

One of the most significant contemporary sculptors working in India today, Radhakrishnan articulates deeply personal and philosophical entanglements through his iconic bronze figures which are housed in many sites across the world.

Artist Announcements:Jayasri Burman is a contemporary artist who is an exponent of the mythical, the miniature, and the ...
09/10/2026

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Jayasri Burman is a contemporary artist who is an exponent of the mythical, the miniature, and the modern, especially focusing on female figures in Indian culture as well as natural motifs.

Jogen Chowdhury is an acclaimed artist whose work blends traditional imagery with contemporary painting, urbane sophistication with distinctive Bengali influences.

Jonas Staal is a Dutch visual artist whose work challenges the interrelations among art, democracy, ecology, and propaganda through large-scale installations, performative interventions, and public art.

Artist Announcements:Debasish Mukherjee’s work incorporates his keen observations of personal as well as structural envi...
08/10/2026

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Debasish Mukherjee’s work incorporates his keen observations of personal as well as structural environments, especially interrogating the way an object or memory is preserved, celebrated, or neglected.

IMAGINARY COLLECTIVE is an international network of cultural practitioners, exploring artistic collaboration across geographies, institutions, and political contexts. At the upcoming Bengal Biennale, it will be represented by Danica Dakić, Adhika Ferdinand, Devadeep Gupta, Lea Maria Wittich, and Ina Weise.

Jitish Kallat's works straddle the intersections of science, historical memory, existential inquiry and the rhythms of the natural world — to reframe and comprehend the immediate and the imminent.

Artist Announcements:Britto Arts Trust is a Bangladesh-based sustainable, non-commercial contemporary art environment an...
07/10/2026

Artist Announcements:

Britto Arts Trust is a Bangladesh-based sustainable, non-commercial contemporary art environment and culture that nurtures interdisciplinary practitioners and networks.

Debashish Paul is a multi-disciplinary artist from West Bengal known for his expansive practice that addresses questions of sexuality and identity.

Debnath Basu is an Indian contemporary artist and printmaker from Howrah, West Bengal, known for his dense, monochromatic works in shades of grey. Explores themes of dominance, repression, absurdity, and historical trauma.

Abin Chaudhuri is an architect, innovator, and notable entrepreneur based in Kolkata whose sustainable architectural ins...
06/10/2026

Abin Chaudhuri is an architect, innovator, and notable entrepreneur based in Kolkata whose sustainable architectural installations create spaces for public communing.

Bandu Manamperi is a Sri Lankan artist whose work transcends traditional boundaries to explore socio-political conflict through lived experience and durational performance.

Bimalananda Roy is a contemporary sculptor and visual artist based in Santiniketan known for his site-specific installations and deeply philosophical approach to land-based art in the region.

Venue Announcement: Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC)Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC), a crucial hub for cultural l...
06/10/2026

Venue Announcement: Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC)

Kolkata Centre for Creativity (KCC), a crucial hub for cultural life in Kolkata, will host the exhibition of the Bengal Biennale' s inaugural Emerging Artists Open Call.

Artist Announcements:Arunima Choudhury is a Kolkata-based artist who works with ecological forms and materials, explorin...
05/10/2026

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Arunima Choudhury is a Kolkata-based artist who works with ecological forms and materials, exploring human and non-human coexistence through female figures, flora, and fauna.

Ashfika Rahman’s practice straddles the boundaries between art and documentary, especially in the context of her homeland, Bangladesh.

Seoul-based artist Ayoung Kim’s new media practice interweaves discourses on optical and post-optical media, quantum philosophy, and the narrativity of fiction.

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