PRESS

2026

Vivek Gupta & Denis Maksimov | “Facing precarious futures through biennials in 2026” | a-desk critical thinking | 1st June, 2026

Somak Ghoshal | “Art or spectacle? Decoding the viewer at the Kochi Muziris Biennale” | Live Mint | 27th Feb, 2026

Arunima Mazumdar | “Birender Yadav: “Caste is the engine that drives the bonded labour system”” | Hindustan Times | 24th Feb, 2026

Debika Ray | “Inspiration and frustration at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale” | Apollo Magazine | 4th Feb, 2026

Geneva Abdul | ” Monsoons, mould … and a million visitors: welcome to Kerala’s ‘people’s biennale’ ” | The Guardian | 3rd Feb, 2026

“The Weight of Witness: Materiality and Memory in Birender Yadav’s ‘Only the Earth Knows the Labour’” | Abir Pothi | 27st Jan, 2026

“At the Kochi Art Biennale, South Asia Meets Brazil” | The New York Times | 21st Jan, 2026

Akshaya Pillai | “The Kochi-Muziris Biennale made me realise that being a work-in-progress isn’t a bad thing” | Vogue India | 3rd Jan, 2026

Elizabeth John | “Coming home to art: Why the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025 is a must-visit for NRIs” | NRI Focus

Meera Menezes | “6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale” | Art Forum

Meera Menezes | “Within the industrial Coir Godown at Aspinwall House, Birender Yadav” | Art + Australia

“Zameen by Birla Academy of Art and Culture” | Platform | 19th Jan, 2026

Avantika Shankar | “Zameen, curated by Ina Puri at the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata” | Vouge India | 7th Jan, 2026

“‘Zameen’: Group exhibition at Birla Academy to explore socio-political aspects of land, belonging” | The Print | 7th Jan, 2026

Thomas Crowley | “An Art Exhibition to Remember Ambedkar’s Mahad Conference” | The Wire | 16th Jan, 2026

Sohini Dey | “Public art, performance and reflections on land at Birla Academy, Kolkata” | Open magazine | 12th Jan, 2026

2025

Sindhu Nair | “The City as Host: The Return of the Kochi Muziris Biennale” | Scale | 30th Dec, 2025

V Shoba | “Being Amazed by Kochi-Muziris Biennale” | Open The Magazine | 18th Dec, 2025

Vandana Kalra | “At Serendipity Arts Festival and Kochi-Muziris Biennale, artist Birender Yadav’s work gives voice to the migrant self” | The Indian Express | 17th Dec, 2025

Silvia Anna Barrilà | “The moment for Indian art: artists and collectives at the Kochi Biennale” | Sole 24 Ore – An Italian Financial and Cultural newspaper | 21st Dec, 2025

Patrick Langley | “6th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, “For the Time Being”” | e-flux criticism | 12th Dec, 2025

“Birla Academy Marks 59th Annual Celebrations with Landmark Exhibition ‘Zameen’” | Open magazine | 4th Dec, 2025

Christopher Akeem Nixon & Judith Siegmund | “Critical Future Philosophy Temporality (Ies), (Post) Colonial Labour Regimes and Just Image Politics ” | Zurich University of The Arts | 30th Apr, 2025

2024

Hitakshi Nagda | “New shapes of clay Common ground: Indian Ceramics Triennale bends the rules of traditional clay artistry in New Delhi” | Elle Decor | 14th Mar, 2024

“Common Ground, the second edition of Indian Ceramics Triennale is on view through March 31, 2024” | Ceramics Now | 5th Mar, 2024

“Birender Kumar Yadav ✿ Presencing the keepers of the kiln” | Garland Magazine The stories behind what we make | 4th Mar, 2024

“The second edition of Indian Ceramics Triennale puts spotlight on social issues through the lens of creativity” | The Print | 20th Feb, 2024

Alexander Sebastian | “Indian Ceramics Triennale: Down to earth” | The Indian Express | 20th Feb, 204

Hansika Lohani | “Indian Ceramics Triennale” | Platform-mag | 15th Jan, 2024

The Artling team | “Common Ground: the Second Edition of Indian Ceramics Triennale” | The Artling | 13th Feb, 2024

Gautami Reddy | “Into the heart of clay | Indian Ceramics Triennale 2024 gets underway” | The Hindu | 27th Jan, 2024

2022

Maria Adelaide Marchesoni | “Berlin Biennale: Healing the Wounds of the Past to Reinvent the World” | 24 Arteconomy | 17th Sep, 2022

Siddhartha Mitter | ” Berlin Biennale Wrestles With Big Issues (and Itself)” | The New York Times | 22nd July, 2022

Marta Orsola Sironi | “BERLIN – BASEL : A KIND OF A GRAND TOUR” | Made in Mind Magazine | 21st July, 2022

Philippe Dagen | “Twelfth Berlin Biennale confronts wounds from the past” | Le Monde | 20th July, 2022

Caroline Lillelund | “Now the lowest castes are making their mark in Indian contemporary art” | Globalnyt | 12th July, 2022

Ben Davis | “In Pictures: See Practically Every Single Artwork in the Sprawling 2022 Berlin Biennale, Organized by Artist Kader Attia” | Artnet | 14th June, 2022

Fabian Maier-Bode | “12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: Still Present!” | E – Flux | 11th Jun, 2022

Stephanie Bailey | “12th Berlin Biennale: Still Present! ” | Art Papers

“Photos of works, part 1. Berlin Biennale 2022” | Universes in Universe

2019

“Darling Foundry Residency 2019: Birendar Yadav” | Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation Blog | 23rd Jun, 2019

2018

Jyoti Kalsi | “The politics of resources and its consequences” | Gulf News | 1st Nov, 2018