Artist Kader Attia, Curator, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2027. (Photo Credit: Harry Schnitger, Berlinische Galerie, 2024) In a year when the Venice Biennale is witnessing a strong presence from India, including its National Pavilion, it seemed only fitting that the announcement of the curator for the next edition of the country’s own biennale was made in the city of canals. On May 8, Jitish Kallat, president of Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB), announced that the biennale’s seventh edition, which will open in Kochi in December 2027, will be curated by French-Algerian artist Kader Attia. He will be the first international curator of the biennale since it began in 2012. Speaking about Attia in a statement issued, Kallat stated, “Kader Attia brings to the biennale artistic depth, curatorial openness and a strong pedagogic sensibility.…