Curtains will come down on the three-month-long Kochi Muziris Biennale, with the lowering of the festival flag at Aspinwall House, the mother space of the event, at Fort Kochi here at 4 p.m. on Wednesday.
The formal concluding ceremony will take place at Durbar Hall grounds where Culture Minister A.K. Balan will be the chief guest. Tourism Minister Kadakampally Surendran will preside.
The evening will be made celebratory by the popular music band Thaikkudam Bridge with their genre-bending rock stylings after an opening set by Suraj Mani and The Tattva Trip.
The curator for the fourth edition of the KMB, set to start in December 2018, will also be announced at the event.
Six lakh visitors
The 12 venues of the Biennale will remain open to visitors between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on the last day of the festival, which has so far seen six lakh footfalls. Curated by Sudarshan Shetty, the concluding edition featured 97 artists from 31 countries.
Mr. Shetty will explain his experience of curating the show at the closing ceremony at Durbar Hall.
Among the people who visited the show on Tuesday was actor Mammootty, who said the event provoked visitors to seek more from an art work. “The artists have subtly imbued to their works elements of aesthetics that have to be explored, not just by viewing but by knowing it,” he added.
The actor, who was impressed by Kerala artist K.R. Sunil’s photo series on the port city Ponnani, also suggested that the Biennale organisers include artists who follow traditional practices.
