Lokame Tharavadu (The World Is One Family) is a large-scale curated contemporary art exhibition of Malayali artists, organised by the Kochi Biennale Foundation. Over 260 artists will be exhibiting a collection of their works, to foreground each of their practices. Lokame Tharavadu is conceptualised as a congregation of the best of resident and pravasi artists, in consonance with the Loka Kerala Sabha initiative of the government.
The show will open in the second week of April and run till 30th June 2021 and will span across 6 venues in Alappuzha and Ernakulam.
Those interested in volunteering for this show may please visit this page.
CONCEPT
The core idea of this exhibition, the world is one family, is drawn from the verses of a Malayalam poem written by Vallathol Narayana Menon, which appeals to the universal spirit of humanity, especially at this crucial juncture where existence is marked by confinement reeling under the pressure of the global pandemic. The exhibition invokes the transformative potential of art to revive and resurrect the dejected human spirit. It is an outcome of the special interest of the government of Kerala to reach out to the artistic community in these trying times. The exhibition is conceptualised asking certain important questions about our ideas of home, surroundings and the world.
VENUES
Kerala State Coir Corporation Ltd, Alappuzha
New Model Society Building, Alappuzha
Port Museum, Alappuzha
William Goodacre & Sons Pvt Ltd, Alappuzha
The Alleppey Company Ltd, Alappuzha
Durbar Hall, Ernakulam
INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS
Department of Culture, Kerala
Lalita Kala Akademi, Kerala
Muziris Heritage Project
Alappuzha Heritage Project
Coir Corporation (KSCC)
Port Museum, Alappuzha
New Model Society
Karan Group of Companies
Indian Institute of Architects – Kerala (IIA)
Indian Institute of Interior Designers – Kerala (IIID)
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
A Ramachandran
Aami Atmaja
Abdul Gafoor
Abhimanue V G
Abul Hisham
Abul Kalam Azad
Ahalya Rajendran
AJ Joji
Ajayakumar
Aji VN
Ajikumar Adoor
Akhil Mohan
Akkitham Narayanan
Akkitham Vasudevan
Alex Chandy
Alex Davis
Alex Mathew
Alexander D
Ameen Khaleel
Anjum Rizvi
Anil B Krishnan
Anil Dayanand
Anil Janardhanan
Anil P Thambai
Anilash Sukumaran
Anitha TK
Anju Acharya
Annu Palakkunnath Mathew
Anoop Panicker
Anpu Varkey
Anto George
Anu John David
Anup Mathew Thomas
Anupama Alias
Anuradha Nalapat
Arun K S
Aryakrishnan Ramakrishnan
Asha Nandan
Ashok Kumar Gopalan
Ayisha Abraham
Aziz TM
Babu KG
Babu MP
Babu Xavier
Baiju Parthan
Balagopalan Bethur
Balan Nambiar
Bara Bhaskaran
Basanth Peringode
Bhagyanath C
Biju Ibrahim
Biju Joz
Bindhi Rajagopal
Binoy Varghese
Blaise Joseph
Blodsow V S
Boney Keyar
C Douglas
CF John
CS Jayaram
Chitra E G
Damodaran Nambidi
Deepa KP
Dethan BD
Deepthi P Vasu
Devi Seetharam
Dibin Thilakan
Dodsy Antony
E H Pushkin
E P Unni
G Rajendran
G Reghu
Gayatri Gamuz
George Kuruvila
George Martin
Gigi Scaria
Gipin Varghese
Gireesan Bhattathiripad
Gireesh GV
Gopikrishna
Hariharan Subrahmanian
Harindran Chalad
Harisha Chennangod
Helna Merin Joseph
Hemant Sreekumar
Hima Hariharan
Indu Antony
Jagesh Edakkad
Jayamol P S
Jayasree Alapad
Jigesh Kumar
Jiji Ajith
Jitha Karthikeyan
Jithinlal NR
Jitish Kallat
Johns Mathew
Jose Martin
Joseph John Chakola
Joseph M Verghese
Justin Ponmany
Jyothi Kumar
Jyothiraj
Jyothy Basu
KA Benny
Kabita Mukhopadhyay
Kajal Deth
Karthika Murali
Karthikeyan Muringoor
Kattur Narayana Pillai
Kavitha Balakrishnan
KK Muhamed
KK Rajappan
KK Sasi
KR Kumaran
KR Sunil
Krishnaraj Chonat
Kunjikuttan Narayanan
Lakshmi Madhavan
Latheesh Lakshmanan
Leena Raj R
Lekha Narayanan
Leon K L
M J Enas Mullackal
M Sashidharan
Madhu Venugopalan
Madhusudhanan K
Mahesh Baliga
Maneesha Muruvassery
Manoj Vyloor
Mathai KT
Meera George
Merlin Abhimanue
Midhun Mohan
Mithra Kamalam
Mochu
Mona S Mohan
Murali Cheeroth
N Balamurali Krishnan
Namboothiri
Nandakumar
Nandan PV
Navin Thomas
Neelima Nath
Nejeena Neelambaran
Nimmy Melvin
Nishad P
Nityan Unnikrishnan
Nivedita Deshpande
NKP Muthu Koya
OC Martin
Om Soorya
O Sundar
P S Jalaja
P S Josh
Padmini Chettur
Parvati Nayar
PG Dinesh
PK Sadanandan
Ponmani Thomas
Pramod Gopalakrishnan
Prabhavati Meppayil
Pradeep P P
Pradeep Puthoor
Pradeepkumar K P
Prasad Raghavan
Prathapan G
Pravin Kanannur
Prince Dhinakaran
Priti Vadakkath
Radha Gomaty
Radhakrishnan KS
Rajan KP/Silpi Rajan
Rajesh Thachan
Ranjith Raman
Rathi Devi Panicker
Ratheesh T
Reghunadhan K
Rejeesh Sarovar
Reji KP
Retheesh Thampan
Roy Thomas
Sachin George
Sajan Mani
Sajith Puthukalavattam
Sajitha Shankar
Saju Kunjhan
Saju Mannathur
Sam Kulavoor
Sanam Narayanan
Sandip Kuriakose
Santha KV
Santhan Velayudhan
Santhi EN
Sasikumar Kathiroor
Sathish PR
Satyanand Mohan
Satyapal TA
Sebastian Varghese
Shaji Appukuttan
Shanta CM
Sheetal Sivaramakrishnan
Sabin Mudappadathi
Sibi Abhimanue
Shibu Natesan
Shijo Jacob
Shine Shivan
Shinod Akkaraparambil
Shinoj Choran
Sivashankaran P P
Siji R Krishnan
Sijo PG
Sithara Annookkaran
Smitha GS
Sonia Jose
Sooraja KS
Sreeju Radhakrishnan
Sreekumar Sreedharan
Sreeja Pallam
Sruthi S Kumar
Sudevan Peringode
Sudheesh K
Sujil SP
Sujith KS
Sujith S N
Sukesan Kanka
Sumedh Rajendran
Suneeta Kodamana
Sunil Ashokapuram
Sunil Linus De
Sunil Pookode
Sunil Vallarpadam
Sunoj D
Surendran Nair
Suresh K Nair
Supriya Menon Meneghetti
Suresh Koothparambu
Suresh Muthukulam
T Kaladharan
T V Santosh
Tensing Joseph
Thaj Backer
Thulasi Kakkat
Tito Stanley
TK Hareendran
TK Muralidharan
Tom Vattakuzhy
TP Premji
Umesh PK
Unnikrishna M Damodaran
Unnikrishnan C
Usman Pakkath
V Viswanathan
Valsan Koorma Kolleri
Varghese Kalathil
Varsha Nair
Veda Thozhur Kolleri
Venu R
Vinod Balak
Vipin Dhanurdharan
Vishnu Kolleri
Viswathi Chemmanthatta
Vivek Vilasini
VV Vinu
Wilfred KP
Yamini Mohan
Zakkir Hussain