₹5 crore allocation for Kochi-Muziris Biennale in State Budget
The Hindu
The State Budget allocates ₹5 crore for Kochi-Muziris Biennale, showcasing the government's support for the global arts festival.
The State Budget for 2024-25 has allocated ₹5 crore for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB), the biennial festival of contemporary arts.
The allocation has been made as part of the ₹240-crore outlay under the head, ‘Conservation, Preservation and Promotion of Heritage, Environment and Culture’, which envisages promotion of traditional fairs, festivals, and local cultural programmes.
The sixth edition of the event is expected to be held in December this year. The representatives of the Kochi Biennale Foundation welcomed the allocation made in the Budget. It showed the continuing support being extended by the State government for holding the global arts fest, they said.
The government had earmarked ₹7 crore for conducting the fifth edition of the event, which began in December 2022 and concluded on April 10, 2023. The edition cost around ₹23 crore, it was learnt.
The fifth edition saw participation by 87 artists and was held across 14 venues at Fort Kochi and Mattancherry. It had witnessed footfall of over nine lakh, the highest in the KMB’s decade-long history.
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