We are extremely pleased to be able to present Dresden's contributions to contemporary art at this year's Kochi Muziris Biennale in Kerala, India, together with the Netzwerk Medien Kunst! As in 2022/2023, our residency partner Goethe Institut Max Müller Bhavan Bangalore is supporting our Collateral Artspace at the largest festival for contemporary art in Asia.

The art and performance space Forplay Society is a non-commercial, artist-run space and a community-orientated experiment. Forplay Productions was founded in 2016 by Seljuk Rustum. The Society variant is an autonomous extension created by Seljuk Rustum (Forplay/Kochi), Andreas Ullrich (C.Rockefeller Center/Dresden) and Vivek Chockalingam (Walking Studios/Bangalore) - a collaboration based on trust, resource sharing, organisational, cross-border collaboration and common interests within the community. In 2025/26, the Forplay Society is expanding its network through collaborations with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore as one of its key supporters as well as SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), Articultural Society (Berlin), Æther (Sofia/Haga), Local Sustainable Living (Kochi), NetzwerkMedienKunst (Dresden) and other global partners.

The following artists will be presented in the Forplay Society during the nearly 4 months:

Antibodies Collective (JP), Salmanul Farizi (IN), Hartmut Dorschner (DE), Dirk Wachtelaer (BE), Dirk Johan Stromberg (SG), Fabio Rambelli (USA/IT), Jagannathan Sampath / DIN Is Noise (IN), Andreas Ullrich (DE), Sebastian Rietz (DE), Navya Rudrappa (IN), Maximilian Glass (DE), Otto Snoek (NL), Andrea Hoffmann (DE), Alwin Weber (DE), Ibrahim Quraishi (DE), Steffen Koritsch (DE), Jyoti Nisha (IN), Tales Collective (IN/DE), Elom 20ce (TG), Aami Atmaja (IN), Alok Vaid Menon (IN), Joffy Chirayath (IN), Surjith Sumathi Gopinath (IN), Around The Sufrah (IN), Sradha Culture Lab (IN), Yenting Hsu (TW), Voin De Voin (BG), Antje Engelmann (DE), Sarah Burger (CH), Susanne Weisse (DE) Anton Stoianov (DE / BE), Julian Weber (DE), Iv Toshain (AU), Johannah Herr (USA), Eva Meyer/Eran Schaerf (DE), Rosemarie Trockel (DE), Nia Pushkarova (BE), PPKK (DE, GR), Galina Dimitrova (BE), Jeanette Groenendaal (NL), Mariana Tancheva (NL/BG), Sandra Zanetti (USA), knives aka Mihika Bedi (DE/IN), Ajmal Shifaz (IN), Gregor Kasper (DE), Musquiqui Chihying (TW), Sandip Samadhar (IN), Wang Yu Wen & Lin Jui Yu (TW), Ya-Nung Huang (TW), Payal Arya, Aditi Kulkarni (IN), Sourav Brahmachari (IN), Ruchir Diwedi (IN), Ninad (IN), Debanshu Bhaumik (IN), Amyth Venkatramaiah (IN), Kaldi Moss (IN), Vineesh Amin (IN), Elena Pereira (IN), Shah Ifra (IN), Salman Baba (IN), Khursheed Ahmad (IN), Advika (IN), Tina Van de Weyer (BE), Afrane Makof (GH), Banana Apparatus (IN), Anil Dayanand (IN), G. Vignesh (IN), Suresh Banda (IN), Harsha Durugadda (IN), Aparna Ashok (IN), Deborah Geppert & Felix Ermacora (DE), Lucie Freynhagen (DE), Marcel Joseph Victor Kieslich (DE), ZK/U Proxylab (DE), Sofy Yuditskaya (USA), Kitchen Alchemy - A Sensory Archive of Childhood, Memory & Home (IN), RE-ACT Collective (IN), Carlos Velandia, Angélica Restrep (COL), Lars Nagler (DE), Ilaria di Carlo (IT), Bernd Lützeler (DE) Guillermo Garcia López (ESP, FRA)

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