Lisson artists featured at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India

5 December 2025

From 12 December 2025 – 31 March 2026, the sixth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, featuring Otobong Nkanga and Marina Abramović, will take place. The biennale is an invitation to embrace process as methodology, and to place the friendship economies that have long nurtured artist-led initiatives as the very scaffolding of the exhibition.

Otobong Nkanga’s work foregrounds ecological themes of relationality and becoming through a distilled poetics of entanglement. Her multidisciplinary practice examines the complex social, political, and material relationships between bodies, territories, minerals and the earth.

Marina Abramović has pioneered performance as a visual art form. She created some of the most important early works in this practice, including Rhythm 0 (1974), in which she offered herself as an object of experimentation for the audience, as well as Rhythm 5 (1974), where she lay in the centre of a burning five-point star to the point of losing consciousness. These performances married concept with physicality, endurance with empathy, complicity with loss of control, passivity with danger.

Find out more via the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.

Image: © Marina Abramović. Courtesy Lisson Gallery