Bengal Biennale 2024-25: Ticket Price, Schedule, Venues, Dates

After a successful run of Kochi Biennale, for the first time Bengal has come up with the idea of Bengal Biennale that's debuting this year in November. 

Bengal Biennale will be held at 20 different venues in Santiniketan and Calcutta with over 100 artists. 

There will be conversations, workshops, musical and theatrical performances and much more. Get ready to experience the two-months long journey filled with art, expression and community spirit. 

The Bengal Biennale will be inaugurated on November 29, 2024 at 11 am. Entry is free for all.

Bengal Biennale Highlights

Particulars	Details
Dates	November 29 Onwards
Venue	Santiniketan & Calcutta
Theme	Multilayered cultural heritage and intellectual history of a liberal Bengal

Bengal Biennale Dates 

Dates	Location
November 29 - December 22, 2024	Santiniketan
December 6 - January 5, 2024	Kolkata

Things to Explore at the Bengal Biennale 

Horse Installations: there will be installations of 60 Bankura horses that will be painted by Art college students thereby displaying the work of young artists at different places. 

Fellowship Program: Youngsters selected under the age of 25 will be given an opportunity to get hands-on experience in exhibition setup, display, etc in the four-month Curatorial fellowship programme with incentives. 

Rare Works: The Bengal Biennale would showcase the works of Gaganendranath Tagore and Abanindranath Tagore. You can also explore the artwork of youngsters. 

Bengal Biennale Santiniketan Schedule

Time	Event	Venue
11:00 AM	Inaugural Ceremony	SSVAD (Santiniketan Society of Visual Art and Design)
11:30 AM	Panel Discussion	SSVAD (Santiniketan Society of Visual Art and Design)
1:00 PM	Tree Planting	SSVAD (Santiniketan Society of Visual Art and Design)
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Walk-through of MYtruTH with Devdutt Pattanaik	Tokaroun
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM	Purpose of Saraswati: Art, Aesthetics, Literature and Myth (Talk by Devdutt Pattanaik)	Tokaroun
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM	Shubhaarambh: Inaugural Concert featuring Shubha Mudgal	SSVAD (Santiniketan Society of Visual Art and Design)

Santiniketan Programme Schedule 

Date	Time	Event & Venue
Thursday, 28th Nov	4:30 pm	Line, Word, Image: Rabindranath's Art, from Doodle to Painting  Nandan Museum, Kala Bhavana, Santiniketan
Friday, 29th Nov	11:30 am	Bengal Biennale: Sukanta Chaudhuri, R. Siva Kumar, Mithu Sen, Nikhil Chopra in conversation with Soumik Nandy Majumdar  SSVAD, Santiniketan
Friday, 29th Nov	4:00 pm	MYTrutH: A Walk-Through with Devdutt Pattanaik  Tokaroun, Santiniketan
Friday, 29th Nov	5:00 pm	Purpose of Saraswati: Art, Aesthetics, Literature and Myth – A Talk by Devdutt Pattanaik  Tokaroun, Santiniketan
Saturday, 30th Nov	3:00 pm	A Star Named Arundhati: A Walk-Through with Mrinalini Vasudevan  Arthshila, Santiniketan
Saturday, 30th Nov	4:30 pm	Flashback, Santiniketan: A Place That Never Left Arundhati – Readings, musical recordings & songs  Arthshila, Santiniketan
Saturday, 30th Nov	5:30 pm	I am Ol Chiki: Mithu Sen, Sanyasi Lohar in conversation with Dheeman Bhattacharyya  Tokaroun, Santiniketan
Sunday, 1st Dec	11:00 am	Drown: A Presentation by Nikhil Chopra  GABAA, Santiniketan
Monday, 2nd Dec	11:00 am	Crossing the Divide: A Walk-Through with Raghav Pasricha and Eva Zanettin  Sanatan Siddhashram, Santiniketan

Programme timings may shift. For updates, follow www.bengalbiennale.com.

Bengal Biennale List of Venues and Exhibitions 

Bengal Biennale Participating Artists

Artist Name	Artist Name
Abanindranath Tagore	Nemai Ghosh
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee	Nikhil Chopra
Adip Dutta	Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay
Aradhana Seth	Ohida Khandakar
Archana Hande	Paresh Maity
Arpan Mukherjee	Paula Bonet
Arundhati Devi	Paula Sengupta
Bappaditya Biswas	Pradip Das
Chandra Bhattacharjee	Pushpamala N.
Chhatrapati Dutta	Rabaul Khan
Dayanita Singh	Rabindranath Tagore
Devdutt Pattanaik	Raghav Pasricha
Dhiraj Rabha	Ritushree Mondal
Eva Zanettin	Samindranath Majumder
Francesca Genna	Samit Das
Gaganendranath Tagore	Sanchayan Ghosh
Helin Boztepe	Sanyasi Lohar
Henri Cartier-Bresson	Sarnath Banerjee
Himangshu Sarma	Satyaki Ghosh
Isabel Cauas	Shanu Lahiri
Jakob Gautel	Sheela Gowda
Jamini Roy	Shuvaprasanna
Jayashree Chakravarty	Sudarshan Shetty
Jyotirmoy De	Sudhir Patwardhan
Kavita Shah	Sujoy Das
Korhan Basaran	Sunayani Devi
Leila Danziger	Surajit Mudi
Louiz Banks	T. K. Padmini
Madhvi Parekh	T.V. Santhosh
Mahesh Baliga	Mahesh K.S.

Bengal Biennale Curatorial Fellowship

Individuals aged 25 and below can now be a part of the Bengal Biennale through the fellowship program and get hands-on experience in art curation. 

The internship will be for 3 months with paid stipends where 12 individuals will be selected by BBCF. 

Particular	Details
Age Criteria	25 Years and below
Internship Duration	3 Months
Internship Dates	October 5, 2024 - January 5, 2025
Stipend	Rs. 10,000 per month
Eligibility Criteria	Must have studied at a recognized art college Must submit a writing sample (up to 1,000 words, including an excerpt with proper context)
Application Link	Apply Here