A South Asian artist participating in the Kochi Muziris Biennale now stands a chance to win the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation-Kochi-Muziris Biennale (DBF-KMB) Award, which is a new, multi-year exhibition and lecture programme that brings together the Hayward Gallery, the Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation and the Kochi Biennale Foundation.
The DBF-KMB Award will grant an emerging South Asian artist participating in the biennale the opportunity to present their first institutional solo show in the UK at Hayward Gallery’s HENI Project Space. The first recipient will be chosen from the fifth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, curated by artist and writer Shubigo Rao and titled In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire, opening in Kerala, India on December 12, 2022, according to a press note shared by Bose Krishnmachari, president of the Kochi Biennale Foundation.
