The fifth edition of Kochi Muziris Biennale’s Students’ Biennale in 2025-26 invites proposals from students and student collectives currently in their third or final year of BFA or first/second year of MFA programmes. ⁠Running parallel to the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, the Students’ Biennale works with state-funded art colleges across India, encouraging emerging artists to reflect on their practice and showcase their work on an international stage.⁠

This edition will focus on “other ecosystems” and the “strategies for survival and nourishment” that exist outside of the gallery-museum-market framework. Curated by artist-collectives and movements, both long-term and fleeting, this edition will invoke ideas of informal exhibitions, process, knowledge production and friendship economies, and the ecosystem that includes grants, residencies and not-for-profits.

Application Guidelines

• ⁠This year, we’re accepting applications in all Indian languages.⁠
• Artists of selected projects will receive a production grant and an invitation to travel to Kochi to participate in the Biennale.
• To apply, fill out the Google Form linked here

For more details, check out FAQ’s about the application process here.