India, June 18 -- The Kochi-Muziris Biennale has announced its next curator: the French-Algerian artist Kader Attia will be the first non-Indian to lead India's only such event.

Attia, who curated the Berlin Biennale in 2022, won France's prestigious Marcel Duchamp prize in 2016, and is currently showing at the Venice Biennale for the second time, will curate the seventh edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB), in 2027-28. (The sixth edition recently concluded, having been held from December 2025 through March 2026.)

The announcement was made by Jitish Kallat, on behalf of the Kochi Biennale Foundation, on the sidelines of the Venice Biennale's pre-opening events, on Friday.

Attia, 55, has works in permanent collections at Centre P...